looperlative pricing

["loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Dear Paul,   you just wrote:

"You have to admit, there are a LOT of pompous folks on this board. And, 
they
like to shut one up and can be disrespectful as well............In fact, 
you're doing the
exact same thing........You made comments about I don't know anything 
about 
looping."


Again, with all due respect (and I'm not saying that with an ounce of 
sarcasm),

If you are going to take me to task for my criticism of your letter, the 
please be accurate in your
your quoting of me.

I never once said that you don't know anything about looping, nor would I 
ever.

I don't even know you and would never criticize someone's knowledge of 
something without something
to back it up.  In fact I would never criticize you for any aspect of your 
looping.  Ask around.
It's not in my character.

I said this specifically about your letter:

"Dear Paul, with all due respect,  you seem to be uninformed about the 
economics of the looping world."

I even was careful to use the word 'seem' so as not to make an assumption 
about your experience.

Your comments still make me think that you may not understand the 
economics 
of the live looping hardware
business, which of course, has nothing to do with what equipment you've 
owned, how much experience you have as
a musician or a live looper.

 I'd actually love to hear what you are doing in your own looping work and
furthermore, would like to invite you to come play this year's Y2K6 
Festival 
in Santa Cruz in October if that's something
that you can swing (and also something that sounds fun to you).

What I did intend to convey is that I think it is important in a small 
community like ours to try to take the high road
and try to show the respect that we wish to recieve from other people.    
To 
be openly disdainful of people on this
list in public and not even to mention them specifically is just not 
productive and worse, can be hurtful, in my opinion.

I know the people you were criticizing very well (and I assume,  more 
intimately than you do) and I know that they
are not pompous and arrogant elitists.

I felt like you were making assumptions about both the economics of the 
live 
looping business and the attitudes of
the people you were criticizing that I believe to be false.

We can talk about it if we dont' agree and we don't have to get personal 
about it at all.

There's room for all kinds of opinions in this 
community..................afterall we are high tech loopers,  low tech 
loopers,  wealthy loopers and poor loopers playing every concievable style 
of music so we're going to have a lot of disagreements.

I meant no disrespect to you at all and I look forward to your reactions 
to 
this continuing discussion.

yours,  in friendship and in the spirit of looping,   Rick