Science & Tech Quote by Johnny Rivers

“The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game” lands with the plainspoken awe of someone who’s watched a few media revolutions roll through and recognizes this one isn’t just another format change. Coming from Johnny Rivers, a musician whose career was built in an era of radio gatekeepers, label muscle, and physical distribution, the phrase “whole new ball game” isn’t tech hype so much as an admission: the rules that made you successful before may not even apply now.

The intent is pragmatic, almost survivalist. Rivers isn’t marveling at sleek design or faster modems; he’s pointing to a power shift. A “web site” suggests an artist-controlled home base, while “the Internet” signals the larger ecosystem: direct-to-fan communication, global reach, and an attention economy where discovery happens outside the old funnels. The subtext is both liberating and threatening. You can bypass middlemen, but you also inherit their workload - marketing, storytelling, constant presence - and you compete with everyone, everywhere, all at once.

The context matters: a legacy performer speaking in the early web era (or at least from a pre-social media mindset) often confronted a culture that treated digital as either a novelty or a menace. Rivers threads the needle. He doesn’t moralize; he recalibrates. That’s why the sports metaphor works: it implies strategy, adaptation, and winners who learn the new rules faster than the nostalgists clinging to the old stadium.