Pam,

It is always about the joy of creation. If you are in it for anything else, you are probably wasting your time. There are no guarantees. I have a theme, "the more you know about the music business, the less you WANT TO know about the music business." But I will tell you this, that everyone you hear on the radio, every song, every artist, at one time or another was ready to give up, had been shot down so many times, they thought it was all a waste too.

As creative entities we all go through an interesting metamorphisis. We start out for the love of creation. We get a little better, start learning then it gets infectious. We spend most of the rest of our time trying to figure out how to get to more people, from live gigs, the Internet, radio, whatever. Many find our ways to sites like these and see how enormous it is. We all waste time and money. At some point, either when you achieve some success, go through ups and downs (mostly downs) or reach a level of knowledge, then we go BACK to the love of creation. Funny world.

The point of all these subjects, PRO's, radio, publishers, etc. are things we can do nothing about. We never should get too caught up in the minutia of those things. But we should have some understanding of how they work if for nothing else, to limit our dissapointments.

Radio reshuffles constantly. The Internet changed how everything in all aspects of life relates to everything else. Radio among them.

I suggest writers NEVER write for the radio. I suggest to write where it COULD be on the radio. That is when it resonates with the general public. And that is everything. Build fan base, and you will always have a career. Depend on radio, publishers, producers, the record industry, etc. you will always be dissapointed.

MAB

Last edited by Marc Barnette; 10/04/09 03:30 PM.