Bill,

There is another way to look at it. I don't want to say it is right,because it isn't, but it is another way. You know the mind set of a lot of writers out there. Some have been on these pages.

"I am so great, and everyone is so stupid that they just don't see my incredible talent and I AM going to Make it and THEY ARE ALL GOING TO SEE. Wait'll the get a load of ME!!!!!"

They swagger on everything they do. They talk about how much they know, who they know, who they can get songs to, etc. They do things like buy tour buses in expectation of their ship coming in any day. They have the clothes, the looks
(They think), they do every workshop, every convention, every songwriter's event. They enter every songwriting contest 20 times. They JUST KNOW that they have it ALL! Just have to get it to the right people.

Those people you couldn't convince if you told them how bad they suck.They are going to do what they are going to do regardless of what any one says. I would venture to say that one out of ten writers are like this. Delusional.

I have sat down with them that before they have played one song they go through a twenty minute discription of how their tour is going to be and how they are going to get to the top. They usually have at least one overblown project going on, some song to "save the world' that they are getting to radio and promoting to the world (That usually sounds like WE ARE THE DUMB! WE ARE THE USELESS) they almost always have a screen play or a book they are working on at the same time, and they met a "guy who is the third cousin of the valet from the Beverly Hills hotel who will "hand deliver" this to Gary Coleman's former manager".

THESE are often the people that find their way to the people you are talking about. A constant source of money (they always seem to own companies, and are very sensible in everything else)they just think they can throw money at something and it will sell. Or they are the good looking wife of someone who owns companies. Think that money will sell anything. What do you know, some of the people on these threads think the same thing.

I had one guy that had sold his defense contracting business for $110 million dollars. He had bought an airplane to fly back and forth to Nashville(a one hour driving trip for him) he was building a huge studio in his basement, was taking guitar lessons, voice lessons, and recording a CD. And NOT ONE of his songs were even passible.
At the end of the day I told him, "I can tell you how to make $55 million overnight in the music business." "How?" he asked.
"Start with that $110 million."

People like that find their way to studios, publishers, producers, song pluggers. They set themselves up for it.
Like you, I could probably make a lot more money stringing those people along, (actually several of my people started like that, but I can help them actually write songs and see things for what they are,(Reality) thereby slowing them down)but that is a fact of life of how some people do business.

So I think that some of the people you are talking about may be taking advantage. But the people being taken often set themselves up for it. Goes both ways.

MAB


Last edited by Marc Barnette; 01/28/10 01:48 PM.