JPF Home Page Forums Week 37 MP3/Lyric Pick: "The Grind"

Hi Kev

It's always gone sound bad (don't get insulted) lol,,, your right but if you know me which I believe everyone here on a regular basis does then you know where I'm coming from. So you won't get that insulted. I hope Joe don't but he has said things to me in posts before that I could have been very insulted by. Of course I remember them but I know in my heart it was not his intention.

Kev - I come from a different perspective on many things. I don't mind someone telling me what they think is wrong with my work or what have you. But I'm a hands on kinda guy. "You gotta show me" I never drill someone on something I know nothing about. From all his work I can see where he's at just like if I took a written test and handed it to him at his university. I would fail cause I wasn't trained or educated on this subject. Music is my university! And I pound myself over it tough every single day.

The blues not being my thing has nothing to with it.. How could I be a good musician and not know about the blues?

It's about learning this thread, Joe will probably never "get it" and that's okay, the snag is that he probably won't accept that. I appreciate his honesty and opinions but they have no barring in my world at all. I know how people think very very quickly I understand them. Some one here once posted a thread what is your talent?

My gift/talent is reading people So if it's musically related it's even easier for me.

I thought at first to let his review comments kinda go more or less. If you feel my lyrics make you groan & are embarrassing then that's how you feel. But that wouldn't be me to ignore & not try to explain, that's the easy way. I usually always take the hard way!

You didn't think that verse was tired or dull, that's fine. I was only making a point.
I would rather have someone say to me "hey what are you talking about or Why did you say that" or sing that way? Then to take the approach of those particular lyrics and that melody personally.

When I get back to that MP3 board I'm gonna straighten out a few people LOL
I used to say as a reminder there " Folks we are sending each other too many flowers & candy "

And I notice we have been doing that alot again lately.. Were all friends and we pat each other on the back and that is VERY cool. Support! is #1 But we all know that's not always the best way to improve. I love you guys and I'm not gonna go the easy way out.
NIce song take care!

I like to learn & do things the NICE way. But I'm old school to and do not mind having my ass kicked all over the place musically to learn something.
Have always learned the hard way.
I would have loved it also if Harriet kicked it all over this thread, cause I would have came back every week for the rest of my life to show her how hard I work and good I could be. I've been doing that 30 years before I even got here. with no one's push but my own.

Hey Clive - is gonna kick my ass again in about 5 days or so.... Has been doing it for 28 years lol.. I LOVE it! That guy has no idea how much better he has made me become.

So in conclusion I can listen to these certain suggestions but can't give them any kind of real consideration as in my heart & mind I know they are way off. What can I say "alright your right my lyrics are an embarrassment" lol So I'm trying to explain why I felt certain suggestions are way off. And the best way sometimes is to go right into some ones catalog and show them. We are not speaking the same language.

It's like if Joe was reviewing a rap song here. Same Thing! They would perhaps go to Joe's music and say, where's he coming from? The rappers would eat it up And wouldn't listen to a word.