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Posted: 10/6/2009 10:34:32 AM | | Hi Purplelillie, how's the music scene in Nashville these days? I was living there about 10 years ago, trying to break into the music biz. I actually loved the town and might have gotten somewhere with my songs there but my wife hated it. Well, she didn't actually hate it but all of her family were living in Missourri and she was homesick. So, we ended up moving before I got anywhere with my music. My impression of Nashville is that the people that run Music Row are very traditional. They have never been very open-minded to alternate musical styles and mostly stick with what sells. Which basically means if you aren't ready to conform to the Nashville mold, you're on your own. (Don't forget that Elvis was booed off stage at The Grand Ole Opry for speeding up a Bill Monroe song and the audience didn't like drummers that used drumsticks.) This isn't to say the musicians there won't dig what you play. There is such an abundance of music people in Nashville nearly ever bar, tavern, night club and honky-tonk holds an open mike night or a songwriters showcase at least once a week. Even if you never get rich with your songs, you can still give them a good airing whenever you want to and hang out with some great people. I was younger then and a little overly protective of my songs in those days. They were like my children, so I probably didn't let them run out and play as much as I should have. The thing to do if you really want to make it in Nashville is to be as much like Garth Brooks as you can. That is, be real friendly, write traditional country music, and rub shoulders with as many of the right people as you can. Oh, and never forget, the same people you mis-use on the way up, you might need `em on the way down. (Or so I've heard.) That's about the best advice that I have in me. Nevertheless, I had some great times and have never regretted living there. I don't know if it's still there but there was a bar called The Boardwalk Cafe off Nolensville Blvd. that I used to spend a lot of time at. If it's still there, the Michigan license plate I hung up on the wall might still be hanging there. Anyway, good luck to all you songwriters. | |
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Posted: 10/6/2009 11:24:58 AM | It sounds as if I.H mechanic 1 may have hit some of the same road blocks that I did in Nashville. Ya know what else I remember about old Music City, you had to travel for miles to buy a bottle of booze! This is odd considering there are bars all over the place. The thing is, Nashville is in the bible belt, so they don't allow liquor stores to be within so many feet of a church. This is pretty funny because there are churchs all over the place too. Nashville was the only city that I've lived in that have more pages in the phone book for churchs than doctors or lawyers. Is it still like that?
Like I.H mechanic 1 said, it's an eye-opening experience. | |
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Posted: 10/9/2009 8:48:54 PM | If you would like to party with other songwriters and listen and comment to freshly written stuff, check out these sites:
February Album Writing Month - you can write an album in a month. Specifically, you can write 14 songs during the 28 days of february. The party starts in january at FAWM.ORG and the song posting opens as soon as it's february everywhere in the world. Post songs, comment on them, talk on forums, listen to the jukebox, bs about gear.
Sister site for the marathon, writing 50 songs in 90 days (4 july to 1 oct): 5090.fawm.org.
Or, go to songfight.org and fight! They post a title and a deadline, usually ten days. You write to the title, mail in an mp3, vote and go on the boards and fight! | |
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Posted: 11/2/2009 6:09:55 PM | I've Written 57 Gospel Songs With Music "Yee-Haa"  | |
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Posted: 11/3/2009 12:16:15 PM | *stands up*
Hello, my name is Stu and I'm a musician, I've been a musician since I was 8.
*sits down*
AA scenario'd puns aside, I've been doing this crap to the point where its no longer a choice, onstage is one of the few places I feel truely comfortable, I'm a firm follower of a lot of the ethics set down by people like Joe Strummer (one of my heros, along with John Peel, Tom Morello, Slash and Andy Cairns) and I wholly believe that Moby hit the nail on the head when he said "Never trust a musician who doesn't sweat onstage." I play mainly in a band called Godbomber (best descriptions we've had so far are Nick Cave fronting a jazz punk band and the onstage equivalent of a John Peel playlist) and I collaberate with quite a few local musicians in generally making a nusience of ourselves. I'm one of those pain in the arse musicians who you generally don't let loose without a chain around his ankle, broken equipment, broken bones, broken audience members, bannings from venues, leaving bloodstains on stages and gear, blowing up pa's, taking chunks out of stages, clearing rooms and scaring the crap out of punters, admittedly I've stil got a lot to do though.
I think I'm wittering now, but yes, I'm a musician and fecking proud of the fact, music or deaf. | |
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Posted: 11/12/2009 12:23:05 PM | hi
you can hear my music at www.myspace.com/michaelchaneyuk | |
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Posted: 11/12/2009 12:53:55 PM | | I write songs on almost any instrument. I will write one on the piano, the guitar, the bass, and the drums. Yes, drums... I have been a songwriter since the late seventies and have recorded in Minneapolis and over in LA. | |
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