No. But for some reason you must have some type of issues.
I personally believe that you are not a musician.

Rain

offnote

 Deep in side I'd like to write something meaningful someday, don't you? 


I like to think I did, a few times in the last 20 or so years. Not many times, mind you, even though I'm relatively satisfied w/ other songs I've written too. But these few songs I know they are good ones - I feel lucky to have written them and I can still enjoy listening to them 10 or 15 years later, almost as if they weren't mine. That's as much as I want.


What if someone "stole" them? Honestly, I don't think this is likely to happen and I don't know how much I'd care. I didn't write any of these to make money or become someone, I wrote them because that's what I do - I write music. When one's done, it's on to the next one. 


Of course I could do w/ the money of success, but all the rest just isn't for me. I already have to deal w/ some of it via my wife, and honestly, I don't envy any of it. As long as I have a roof over my head, 3 meals a day, a couple of beers every now and then and the occasional plug-in, I'm happy sitting here and writing.


Plus, I met my wife because of my music, because she dug it. It doesn't get any better than this on the quest for meaning. ;)

Rain
This is an excellent take on this. I admire you for having the insight to understand what this means to you and having your priorities in the correct place........very cool....
 
Would I like to?......"Make it"........maybe in some very far fetched dream world....sure......but in reality......not going to happen.....and I think that if it really did.....I think I would truely like it to be in the flim music end of things....
 
But then again my envisionment of "Making it" is just being able to stay home and write music all day long, not having to go to a nine to five hack institution and just being able to afford a simple living....I could find happiness there...
 
I find lately that I am really keeping to my self more and more......Music is a real personal thing for me and it's getting more so everyday........not that I do not like to share but the reason I am doing this is for myself in the end.....
 
I've never really put it into words like you have here and you know.......I like it!
 
 
Clifford

nope... I'm not worried. As hard as it is to get someone to listen to the music, I don't think I need to fear someone thinking what I write is worth stealing. Kinda wish they would.... 

If you fear this... copyright your music with the LOC and sleep soundly at night. It's only $45 and can be done on line in a few minutes. 

we all hear about the big lawsuits .... George Harrison and My Sweet Lord, for example..... but more recently in country music.... Lady A did a song called Need You Now.... it's almost a dead ringer for Alan Parsons Eye In The Sky..... but no lawsuits have been filed. 

At some point..... with the Western scale, and 7 chords.... plus minors and variations..... with as many song writers and songs that have been written.... the odds are pretty good that someone, somewhere, will hit the exact, or almost exact progression and melody that someone else has come up with...and will have never heard the other version. 

This happened to me. It was a gospel song on a radio station, and the song was musically, a near perfect match to one I had written. My jaw dropped when I heard it. BUT.... there was no way that writer had heard my song, nor me his..... so it was a simple coincidence. BTW: the song was not a hit.... it just got some local airplay on a back woods gospel station. Things like that do happen. Unless there is a connection between the writers, a case like that would likely be thrown out of court. 

This is the reason publishers and artists do not accept un-solicited material. 

"nope... I'm not worried. As hard as it is to get someone to listen to the music"- Herb

Man that was good to me!
Herb, Jeff called me quite some time back and asked, "you listening to our songs?"...
no I replied. He said well somebody is...and my side was hurting from laughing so hard.

When we posted the tunes he wanted to do at Mix I noticed that it wasn't nothing
but a bunch of musicians trying to get other musicians to listen to their music...seemed
very strange to me and that hasn't changed a bit. The song forums took on the same
outlook to me. I know....it's suppose to be a place to get help mixing...just didn't work
that way for me so it's musicians trying to get somebody to listen to their music in my eyes.

Times have changed. Just very glad that my music has been for me first. Fine if it always
stays that way.

Karyn

Old55
 
 lots of people don't know that "Black Magic Woman" is composed by Peter Green and originally performed by Fleetwood Mac and not written by Santana.  

You're kidding roight?  That's one of FMs best songs...
Next you'll be telling me Status Quo know more than 3 chords.

   and don't get me started on Quiet Riot.  They were practically a Slade tribute band.  

mike_mccue

Karyn

Old55

lots of people don't know that "Black Magic Woman" is composed by Peter Green and originally performed by Fleetwood Mac and not written by Santana.  

You're kidding roight?  That's one of FMs best songs...
Next you'll be telling me Status Quo know more than 3 chords.

Peter Green played the Supernatural on John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers' lp titled Hard Road a few months before he formed Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac featuring Jeremy Spencer and in the grand tradition of the borrowing blues tunes from other guys, He borrowed the Supernatural from himself and the band turned it in to Black Magic Woman.

The Supernatural is my favorite version. :-)


best regards,
mike

Even more to the story than I knew about.  Thanks, Mike.  

spacey


"nope... I'm not worried. As hard as it is to get someone to listen to the music"- Herb

Man that was good to me!
Herb, Jeff called me quite some time back and asked, "you listening to our songs?"...
no I replied. He said well somebody is...and my side was hurting from laughing so hard.

Yeah... I post new tunes here on the songs and on Facebook too.... but.... looking at the numbers, more people here actually listen.... FB is a bust for getting people to the music. 


as far as getting the people who "really" matter (ie: industry insiders with artist contacts) .... yeah, your chances of that are pretty slim.... nobody in the biz with good contacts accepts unsolicited material. They only take "recommended" material and just try getting someone to recommend your songs....... 

joakes


Karen, they don't.

Even so they still managed to massacre Rockin' All Over the World (original by Mr John Fogerty.

Cheers,
Jerry

Then there was Straumpu & The CHC

Guitarhacker

spacey


"nope... I'm not worried. As hard as it is to get someone to listen to the music"- Herb

Man that was good to me!
Herb, Jeff called me quite some time back and asked, "you listening to our songs?"...
no I replied. He said well somebody is...and my side was hurting from laughing so hard.

Yeah... I post new tunes here on the songs and on Facebook too.... but.... looking at the numbers, more people here actually listen.... FB is a bust for getting people to the music. 


as far as getting the people who "really" matter (ie: industry insiders with artist contacts) .... yeah, your chances of that are pretty slim.... nobody in the biz with good contacts accepts unsolicited material. They only take "recommended" material and just try getting someone to recommend your songs....... 

"People that really matter"....LOL you're a funny guy today Herb!

spacey

Guitarhacker

spacey


"nope... I'm not worried. As hard as it is to get someone to listen to the music"- Herb

Man that was good to me!
Herb, Jeff called me quite some time back and asked, "you listening to our songs?"...
no I replied. He said well somebody is...and my side was hurting from laughing so hard.

Yeah... I post new tunes here on the songs and on Facebook too.... but.... looking at the numbers, more people here actually listen.... FB is a bust for getting people to the music. 


as far as getting the people who "really" matter (ie: industry insiders with artist contacts) .... yeah, your chances of that are pretty slim.... nobody in the biz with good contacts accepts unsolicited material. They only take "recommended" material and just try getting someone to recommend your songs....... 

"People that really matter"....LOL you're a funny guy today Herb!

I sincerely appreciate every person here who takes the time out of their day to listen to my music and comment on it.... no doubt about that....everyone here matters and everyone here is important and a member of this family.


I was referring to the music industry movers and shakers.... the ones who can take the song and get it to the big artists...... 


No one here that I know of has the connections to walk into the office of the president of Sony records Nashville and tell him this song needs to be Trace Adkins next #1 release...... and have it happen..... that's what I meant when I said that.... but you knew that....