Magne,

Glad you like it. Denmark huh? My girlfriend's Mother is from Sweden. Not that that has anything to do with anything.

The things I am talking about relate to every business, every activity, every form of human endevor. But there are similarities and differences and they go like this:

Similarities:
We are all developing, producing, promoting a product. We are doing our best to get that product into the hands (ears) of as many customers as humanly possible.

Differences:
In the music business, everybody, publishers, other writers, pluggers, producers, record industry people, stores, venues, Internet sites, everybody is your direct competition.

If you think of songwriters as little bedouins. We are all out in the middle of the sahara desert. Millions of us. And we are carrying buckets of sand. We are trying to get our sand into places ahead of everybody else's sand. And we are trying to get to the publishers, pluggers, record people, who have dump trunks full of sand. They take the big sand to the people who use sand. People who use concrete, building supplies, glass, medicine, bridges, construction, walls, roofs, etc.
There are different types of sand. Dark sand, light sand, fine, course, colors, textures, lumpy, smooth.etc. But we all have sand. We have to make our sand as appealing as we can make it and get a lot of other people involved in helping us get it from us to others.
The dump trucks get it to the most listeners and consumers.

That is my view.

MAB