From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018030223145174732-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Someone on the Logic forum posted an old MacIntosh ( apple ) promo video   
   > about using macs in music. From 1988. It was very early, but had a few   
   > name artists on there talking about using computers and connectings   
   > synths.   
      
   And their overpriced computer were still a rip-off back then, and before -   
   always have been.   
   It was the ability to obtain parts and build my own computer from those   
   parts to make a PC that enabled me to have a computer...while CRAPple,   
   thanks to their GREEEEEEEED, NEVER enabled me to do anything but not be able   
   to afford a computer!   
      
   > What I see is they were all into original music.   
      
   If they're going to be called artists, they Better be into Originals!   
      
   > So, is that the only path a musician can take ?   Does one have to be   
   > doing all original material to be worthy of sucking air ?   
      
   Either that or be a PARASITE of Music - one who Takes Away from it rather   
   than one who Gives To it!!!   
      
   Writing Originals is what makes the art of Music worthy in the first   
   place!!!   
      
   > Do symphony players deserve to live if they play mostly music by classical   
   > composers ?   
      
   NO, THEY DON'T!!!   
   Even though I'm not much into classical, it makes me sick to hear   
   Practically Nothing but Same Old, Stale Boring material over and over ad   
   infinitum ad nauseam...which is primarily why I'm not into classical. It's   
   great for learning, but it gets real BORING real fast - and SHAME ON ALL   
   THOSE WHO LET IT  STAY THAT WAY!!!   
      
   DAMNED IF I'M GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN TO ROCK & ROLL!!!   
      
   And you shouldn't let it happen to country either!!!   
      
   It's the big debate here, for the last few years.  Originals or covers.   
      
   > I'll think about this some.  Sure, I, we, my group, could go all original.   
      
   Could do won't cut it, WILL DO WILL...DO IT!!!   
      
   > Of course, that's about like jumping off a ship in the middle of an ocean   
   > with no life vest.   
      
   You can start by throwing that lack of confidence attitude overboard!!!   
   Then start writing some Awesome Brand New FRESH material...I suggest an   
   entire album of it...because it's the Music that's been Thrown overboard by   
   Parasites, and needs to be saved, RESCUED...and after Decades of LAZY   
   COPYCATFISH PARASITES GUTTING the Art, there can Never be too much Original   
   material to help get caught up IN TIME!!!   
      
   > Ok, maybe a small rubber raft to make it a gaming possibility.   
      
   How about instead a Nice, Hugh Brand New Original Ship to Replace the   
   SINKING one?   
      
   > You can do it. And maybe you can survive a few thousand mile trip to shore   
   > in a tiny open boat.  Maybe.  Long odds, but, who knows. Probably about   
   > the same odds as being a big music star.   
      
   So take the  plunge! DIVE IN and find out! Because if that  doesn't happen,   
   the ship Will SINK and the Art of Music will DROWN!!!   
      
   > That's the thing. I don't have any desire to make some huge all or nothing   
   > bet on music.   
      
   Why? Because of lack of confidence? RESOLVE to write Awesome FRESH Original   
   material and  DO IT!!!   
      
   WHY for heaven's sake would you believe that ANYone who wouldn't want to   
   heat Old, STALE food would prefer Old STALE Music???   
      
   > Did that, years ago when I was young and carefree. It's doable, if it   
   > doesn't kill you first.  But these days, I'm not that big a risk taker.   
      
   Don't rationalize, or cop out - you're a big risk takes just for not being   
   dead, literally living from one heartbeat to the next!!!   
      
   I wrote song about that, off the 4th and yet untitled album:   
      
   4. I Wanna Know Why   
      
   verse1a   
   coming together for a much needed cause   
   knowing it's right with no reason for pause   
   ever so mindful it wasn't just by accident   
      
   verse1b   
   all set and ready for an overdue change   
   yet something's wrong and it just seems so strange   
   what ever happened to all the precious time we spent   
      
   chorus1a   
   cause each time when everything's about to get started   
   the fire goes out and the passion's departed   
   just look at all the wasted years that meaninglessly drifted by   
      
   chorus1b   
   when everything dreamed of starts evaporating   
   for foot dragging stalling and procrastinating   
   like a crash on the ground without even the chance to fly   
      
   I WANNA KNOW WHY   
      
   verse2a   
   we knew that it's awesome to do what we planned   
   to help make the difference for taking a stand   
   and spearhead an effort to fix a problem right a wrong   
      
   verse2b   
   yet despite everything we agreed on and said   
   something's preventing our moving ahead   
   how is it that everything so far is taking far too long   
      
   chorus2a   
   when every day matters in the race to the prize   
   and it's only more destructive to rationalize   
   til the direction of our purpose just totally goes awry   
      
   chorus2b   
   and disaster replaces where we should be bound   
   til we're flat on our faces and dead on the ground   
   instead of where we should be soaring free high up in the sky   
      
   and I WANNA KNOW WHY   
      
   bridge   
   why it's always the same thing another wasteful needless funk   
   I WANNA KNOW WHY when there's so many reasons   
   to exchange it for some serious SPUNK!!!   
   I WANNA KNOW WHY!!!   
      
   instrumental verse   
      
   chorus3a   
   there's nothing to fear except not going through   
   with doing what we know it's time we must do   
   and not copping out lest we'd be kissing our future goodbye   
      
   chorus3b   
   never knowing the difference we'd be sure to make   
   through the diligent effort that it's gonna take   
   such a grim tragic prospect is more than a reason to cry   
   and so I WANNA KNOW WHY!!!   
      
      
   > I guess there might be some middle ground.  Do a few originals, blend them   
   > into our gigs. Then we can say we do originals. Then people will think,   
   > yeah, so what. They aren't on the radio. So, they are nothing,   
      
   Your confidence needs a boost! That's the problem.   
      
   Write Awesome Originals and when your audience hears them, they'll be   
   amazed, and Refreshed, and Encouraged, and they'll LOVE it!!!   
      
   > no good. If they were good, they'd be on the radio.   
      
   When I play my Original demos, I'm always being told that they Know they'll   
   be on the radio.   
      
   >  So, big deal, you play a few not so good songs you wrote.  Then, they   
   > might just have another drink and yell " Freebird ......."   
      
   Do you suppose Lynyrd Skynyrd ever thought "Freebird" would be a not so good   
   song? Ask yourself that one!   
      
   DON'T write ANY not-so-good songs, write AWESOME ones instead!!!   
      
   > I enjoy what we do.  I've no desire to go for the big time. I wouldn't "   
   > go " if someone offered me the job.  I'm not traveling anymore. Too old.   
   > Too comfy.   
      
   It's your Duty to Give Back to what you Love, and that means Writing Awesome   
   Brand New FRESH Originals!!!   
      
   > I do enjoy making music tho.  And so that's what I'll do.   
      
   So make your Own Music, and take that enjoyment to the stars!!!:   
      
   5. Ignite The Sky   
   verse1   
      
   it's cold   
      
      
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