Beechnut,

If I may ask, what do you think that $2000 is going to buy? Your competition is spending around $1200 per song on the demos, and demo a lot of songs, although now they are almost exclusively promoting artists they are involved with, so they pitch the songs and the artists. I don't know of anyone just doing "demos' anymore.

Also the writers you are competing with spend around $1500 per month on song pluggers. Often on songs that earn nothing. So if you want to go borrow money, it would be a good idea to think past the song itself.

Working with artists in the development IS having your songs recorded, and for the most part aside from what some people claim, that is really about the only way now. Again, I hear about a lot of outside cuts. I keep them in the file with Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and UFO's. Someone ELSE always seems to have them.

Good luck in whatever you do.

MAB