Re: looping as a profession

["David" <vze2ncsr@verizon.net>]

well, at the risk of the easy shot, I think I'm in a loop in my
profession...   in fact, as i drive to work each morning, i regularly see
the same people crossing the road in front of me, or waiting at the same 
bus
stops...

joking aside - rick, what you've been able to achieve is amazing.
congratulations!

David


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 5:00 PM
Subject: looping as a profession


>
> I made some money last year producing and playing on a few records and
> teaching,
> but I am happy to say that it was the first year of my life
> that I could have survived entirely on looping or looping related things.
>
> I made about $30,000 in just loop related gigs and selling my CDs at them
>  which sucks as a salary in the hi tech programming world but seems like 
>a
> miracle
> to me.
>
> I have to thank this community for a lot of the contacts that I have made
> professionally
> and for the really wonderful 'lend a hand' and help out mentality of this
> site.
>
> Talking to another professional musician last night he said, "how the 
>hell
> did you book
> a two and a half month tour of Europe and the British Isles for this
coming
> summer?"
>
> I only had a two word answer.............."LOOPERS DELIGHT".
>
> I feel very grateful to you all.
>
> Thanks for embracing me the way you all have and for me being such a
> relative latecomer
> to this community.  Thanks especially to Kim Flint whose work has had a
huge
> impact
> on my life, and who seems to be the only other looper that I've met
besides
> myself and Mark Sottilaro who has wierdly colored hair...............LOL.
>
> yours,  Rick Walker
>
>