To respect the music within the context of a *jam* is to let it be whatever the *collective* process determines it to be in the here and now, without presumptuously imposing one's own ego-driven, subjective value judgements upon it.

Offering the use of equipment as an enticement (for what turns out to be exploitation and abuse) could only be a service to those who wouldn't have their own equipment anyway, if theirs wasn't in the way. This is an issue right out of Marxist theory, where a small number of greedy, capitalistic musicians sieze "control of the means of production" in order to exploit what might otherwise be the sacred, spiritual communion of the "jam," for purely selfish, pecuniary and egoistic gratification - - - at the expense of the overwhelming majority. Most of the individuals with psychological profiles that lead them to engage in this type of activity would also attempt to order you around entirely unplugged in an otherwise empty room, where there could be absolutely no conceivable rationale for doing so, so abjectly compulsive is this behavior in them.

AM -- *************************************************** "Oneness is not achieved through conformity or subordination, but through the full expression of everyone's unique piece of the puzzle." --AM, the Synthesist