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Amen by brother. For years I beat my head against a pro music world that didn't want me. The moment I changed my approach, my fun ratio went through the roof. I know I complain that I don't get the time I want to play every week, but the time I have is really great. It used to bother me that I was a tree falling in the woods, but I rarely even care if anyone hears me... now in the new condo I mostly play with headphones. M -----Original Message----- From: RICK WALKER [mailto:looppool@cruzio.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 2:27 PM To: LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting) Subject: Great quote about progress in creativity Yeah, very frequently, I get people who ask me, "why do you put so much effort into the things you do" with the implication that I'm not making much money or getting very famous doing it so why. I should just print this out on a business card and wordlessly hand it out the next time I get annoying queery. Sadly, I get this vibe the most from commercial casuals musicians who are making all of their money from making music and who seem really frustrated and bitter that the commercial music world is changing so rapidly. You gotta talk about something on the break playing smooth jazz for a Humvie convention (lol, that was the last one). I like to talk about looping. It's easy to see, however, why professional musicians are freaking out a bit. The music world is changing so rapidly and all of it points towards it's being untenable for very many musicians to make any money...... ....let alone a decent living. One musician (who is very creative and doesn't at all have this vibe), Bill Pritchard, told me that before musicians were losing all their gigs to DJs at parties. Now, it's the DJs who are starting to lose their gigs to people who are renting p.a. systems to play their own I-pods through. Having been a professional musician for almost 30 years this is soooooo bleak! But then there is pure artistry and creativity and community and innovation: All things we have in incredible abundance in the wonderful community at Loopers Delight (another thankful toast to Kim Flint for making this possible)! Well, the Loopfest is coming up in three months and my work for it has already begun in earnest. It's looking like close to 60 artists are coming from 8 countries (as far away as Turkey, Singapore, Japan, England, Germany, Canada and Italy). It's going to be awesome and it aint gonna make a dime. LOL, how entirely unreasonable, don't you think? Rick "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable." ------ George Bernard Shaw: