Originally Posted By: Lawrie

Many great artists of the past were never recognised in their lifetime.


Wait! What?? You mean all I have to do to have a shot at being famous is DIE???

I KNEW there was a step I was missing!!!

Thank you for the kind words about my stuff. A lot of painful heartbreak went into a lot of those songs.

I once had a singer here in town tell me "I listened all the way through the demos CD. When I finished I was glad I don't have a barn because some of those songs are so sad I might have gone out there and tossed a rope over a beam and hung myself. WHAT HAPPENED to you to make you write such sad songs?"

And my reply to her was "Sad things."

Songs are just stories set to music, right? And teh best place to get stories is your own life's experiences. When a girl breaks my heart, it ends up in a sad song. If I ever write a song about adopting a basket of puppies, it will be happy.

I'll even take "predictable"! laugh

What I can't seem to get the hang of is that "radio songs must be exactly 3:34 and no longer!!" edict that the blue blazer wearing songwriters in the writing farms rigidly adhere to. I grew up with Pink Floyd and Yes and ELP who wrote 20 minute anthems and themed albums. It's hard to not write what my roots are.

Last edited by eddie1261; 12/30/14 08:53 PM.
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