This post is sure getting the thinking cap going.
Above and beyond, and sometimes amid the personality clashes waging in the doing, a lot of good points for consideration are emerging.
Bob and I are on opposite ends in this issue, but most of his comments have been enlightening and thought provoking.
Toward the point of being or not being a pro member, I say, anybody who has ever written a song should belong to a pro.
yeah to do so it takes that song being sung in public or recorded commercially.
Now that isn't hard to do even if you aren't a performer.
Do what I did. Get up at an open mike, or even at the local karaoke bar and do it.
If you sing real bad tell a good joke first though.
Preferably about a bad singer who wrote pretty and wanted to join a prom so had to sing the song in public.
Buying drinks for the house would maybe help too.
If yo are a member of a pro, you have a better chance to lobby that pro for a bettre deal for all.
One voice does make a differance provided it speaks out in the right places.
In the reading down, I see the comment by Brian that it may be Bob's time on the forum.
If this was to hapen, I for one would be very dissapointed as Bob is a real giving bloke to this community.
Even before he started his Looee looee theory lessons on the education and theory forum, he has guided a lot of us along the way.
Is a really great critic. Straight off the shoulder, and for life ofm me I can't figure.
We have had way messier barneys in this formum and survived.
It is quite common in debate that voices get raised and sometimes thought gets sidetracked and even degenerates to name calling.
That is why in most effective debates there is always an adudicator, and that adudicator takes no part in the debate other than to tell folks when they are out of line and to button up or leave the room.
We don't have that facility here, so let's all ride over that and try to keep it where it is about.
I see this post has possabilities of accieveing something, and maybe without some of the "Get the dander up' stuff, that achivement would be less.
Graham



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