Originally Posted by Martin Lide
I wrote that song story from my core. It's not my story but it was what my soul wanted to tell for reasons I can't explain. I didn't worry about song length or genre or anything else. I wasnt trying to capture any trends. With Mike's help I just let it happen.

Now I have it and it is nice to have.



Well I felt a real vibe from Marfa Plain, and Im guessing if you played it for regular listeners as opposed to us folks who see and hear way too much amateur music, they'd tell you that was the best one you did.

I just get a kick out of the sentiment we have come to adapt. Make music for yourself..... Nawww really? Ive been doing that willingly or not since I was 14 lol. I actually got to play in front of my school. I was part of the band that played the music for the school play, but in turn, got to play two songs that i wrote with one of the bands I was in at the time.

It was the greatest moment i had as a songwriter or musician, because the reaction was real. "you wrote that"? They had never ran into somebody who wrote their own song before lol. A great time before the internet.

But i think the one thing we lack is a real audience. Most people are bsin if they say they dont want to be appreciated. Everybody does.

I could do without the money, and fame, and have done a great job of writing for myself for a long time, not by choice.... but, id be lying if i said I wouldnt want an audience.

My second goal would be to have a song in a big movie. That's like branding your initials in a not yet dried concrete walkway.

If truly wanting to write from your core, no songwriting rules would apply. in other words, were trying to be appreciated, and alot of times it shows!



Last edited by Fdemetrio; 11/05/19 12:41 PM.