From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017071111541217464-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > more ....   
      
   > I was also told ( and this is in regards pop music ) that there isn't   
   > anything " new ".  It's all plagarized from earlier songs.  Everybody "   
   > steals ". Ideas, chord progressions, guitar presets, whatever :-)   
      
   Fortunately, being an engineer, I make it a point to analyze to a level that   
   precludes such things, resulting in even greater Original Uniqueness.   
      
   I take Originality very seriously and thus avoid plagiarism like the Plague   
   that it is!   
      
   > Ok, that sounds kinda harsh, but the record producer / artist who told me   
   > that was a big deal.  He never broke any new ground tho. Didn't want to.   
   > He wanted the fame and the money, and the women, as far as I could tell.   
   > Purity of the " art " didn't matter to him one tiny drop.  No, I'm not   
   > gonna say who that was. He's dead now, and let him rest.   
      
   Impure motives again - might as well be a stuck-in-a-rut CopyCat.   
   Purity of the Art is EVERYTHING...*if* it's Important not to let it DIE!!!   
      
   > Here's the deal. There are only so many things you can write about in   
   > modern a pop tune. They all basically revolve around boy meets girl, sex   
   > ensues, she dumps him.  So, there ya go, get to writting kids.   
      
   I write songs about struggling to be Free, about getting somewhere in Music,   
   surviving, virtue, persevering, enduring, and succeeding, and Love songs   
   that really are about Love, not sex.   
      
   > Sure there are other kinds of songs, songs with substance that might   
   > reveal some universal truth.   
      
   I've got those too.   
      
   > Don't look for that on a pop recording. They are all about screwing on the   
   > tailgate of a pickup, or the girl felling all sad either before she meets   
   > mr perfect, or after she dumps him and keys his truck ....   
      
   That's okay that I wouldn't waste my time with those, but then I wouldn't do   
   any other lowlife puke either, like hip hop cRap.   
      
   > These songs, as all popular songs do, reflect the state of our society.   
      
   And that's why I keep the protest song tradition alive!   
      
   > We're in decline. It's broken. It's coming apart.  Don't look for songs   
   > about a stable culture.   
      
   I've got at least one, "Smooth Sailing" off the first album....and "It's   
   Gonna Get Better" off the  second album, and "Paradigm Return" off the third   
   album to name a few ;)   
   They're idealistic because I'm an idealist and write idealistic   
   songs...songs that dare to hold out HOPE, which we all Need!   
      
   > Our's is at best transitioning to something else, or it's just flat   
   > collapsing.  No songs about a sustainable system. No songs about man meets   
   > women, they have kids, the kids grow up, the parents live long lives and   
   > die, cycle repeats.   
      
   The OVERbreeding is what got us into this mess in the first place!!!   
      
   Perhaps I might write a song about that in the possibly near future, maybe   
   with a title like "How Many More"? Or "Enough Is Enough"!   
      
   > During the " war " years we had patriot songs.   
      
   I'll NEVER support any NWO Dialectic wars - because they're NOT patriotic!   
      
   > In the 60's we had doper songs. Now we have songs about women who some   
   > might call  " bitches "   
      
   I'm into hippie rock & roll!   
   And it's the kind I write.   
      
   > hey, I'm getting a little too honest here, ...time to take a breath ..   
      
   Jim   
      
   I think you might be giving me some ideas for the 5th song on the 4th album,   
   I hope ;)   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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