Wiardgroup

Having seen Gino perform in Miami (at Subtropics 18), I can assure 
you that he occasionally gets a chance to use this stuff, and he 
knows what he's doing with it. :-)  That said, one duet performance 
also involved rolling beer bottles on the concrete floor! I guess 
he's a percussionist, first and foremost. ;-)

He had an interesting little Frac Rack system with Wiard, Blacet, and 
Plan B modules. Maybe some others, too. Feel free to tell us about 
it, Gino, if you don't mind.


Regarding Electronic Musician mag, I've still got the first issue 
(from when it was renamed from Polyphony to EM) but I had stopped 
reading it some time ago. But I'm about to resubscribe because I've 
found myself picking up issue after issue at the bookstore. Sure, it 
covers a things that I don't care about (like Doc, I'm strangely not 
drawn to the modern digital workstations) but EM also reviews 
recording gear, has articles that suit my level of knowledge on 
recording, and so forth. And, it is one of the few mags that actually 
*does* cover analog synthesizers. Keep spreading the word, Gino!


 > (FYI, the term Unobtainium was coined from a friend who works for 
Skunkworks - it refers to exotic composite materials that we haven't 
seen commercially yet...).

Sadly, sunglasses maker Oakley was allowed to trademark the word 
"Unobtainium" many years ago. But I'll save the US PTO rant for 
another time and list.
--
john

P.S. The beer bottles sounded cool.