JPF Home Page Forums General Messages Songwriter Message Forum Why are there so many lyric-only folks?

You're back!! JPF must've quit taking the antibiotics a couple of days too early.

Anyone who wants proof of my statement need look no further than FD/Bugsy's lyric and song posts. They're really bad. And what bears deeper study is that his more recent posts as FD are just as bad as his older ones as Mugsy. He never improved, demonstrating talent can't be learned or aquired.

It's no wonder he prefers anonymity. He wears a cyber-bag over his head because he's awful...like the Unknown Comic.

Jeff Beck's a great player...songwriter is different. That's why he needed Stevie Wonder's Superstition. His albums are kinda bad.

Clapton. Pretty much the same. A handful of songs in over 50 years.

Stevie Ray. The same.

Jack White? Lol.

Clapton, Beck and Page illustrate my point. Page is a great composer in addition to being a player. Result? Six classic Led Zep albums.

Keith Richards makes the point about not all players being composers in his 71 interview with Rolling Stone.

Neither Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts or Mick Taylor ever learned to write songs.

Springsteen makes my point as well...the rest of his band can't get knocked up with a song to save themselves, despite mid-wifing Bruce's classics. Southside Johnny, either. Hearts of Stone was forty years ago.

Go home, little man, buy a 3D printer and make yourself a woman.