I'll tell you exactly why, Bill. Because now that the song has a lyric and melody...it needs performers. Even a guitar/vocal (as you stated, in Nashville is $150) is SEPERATE from the song. Haze performs the instrumentation, sometimes part of the vox, hires me to do vox, fires up his studio and records, edits, and mixes it, often adds other instruments to it, and has CONTACTS to get the song to. So, in reality, in a NASHVILLE setting, someone would pay upwards of $400 or more. Haze is asking $150 for his time (and his added time is his investment). It's like asking Eddie Van Halen to play lead on your rock song and then going, "God, Eddie! You wrote the lead. What MORE do you want???" (Assuming Eddie also did the vocals, the recording, the mixing, and delivered a quality studio version one could take to a publisher for $150).

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