Re: INTERNET and LOOPING

[John Mazzarella <jmazzarella@erols.com>]

"Rick Walker/Loop.pooL" wrote:

> I just read an amazing statistic that made me appreciate our chances of
> making a mark in the world
> with this community of ours.
>
> In the year 2000 there were 30 million computers connected to the World 
>Wide
> Web
>
> In the year 2005 it is estimated that there will be an estimated 
>population
> of 1 billion people on line.
>
> It's a wave everyone and even though some of us have been surfing it 
>since
> 1991 when the WWW was first started (although not
> me, as I'm a relative four year old newbie) it's a wave that hasn't even
> begun to crest.
>
> I don't know why, but this made giddily happy tonight.
>
> It's time to reach out to the world!      It's time to start inviting 
>some
> of the wonderful people that we communicate with
> everyday on line here to come from far away and perform in our respective
> communities.
>
> In the beginning, these performances will not pay for
> themselves.............We'll need to be wonderfully generous hosts and 
>put
> people up and get gigs and publicity for them and buy them a beer for 
>there
> efforts and not be paid for ours...............................yet!
> It doesn't matter...............what matters is the
> connection...................what matters is the community that we are
> building.      What matters is the music, first and foremost.
>
> Bless this style-less, instrument non-specific, genre-less, creative and
> generous community.
>
> Let's surf  the international loop.
>
> I'm off to buy a digital wetsuit.
>
> Surf's up!
>
> R.

Rick,
    I'll glady be the New Jersey representative.  Good to have you back 
Rick.

John
www.johnmazzarella.com