JPF Home Page Forums General Messages New Member Introductions & Helping Hands Some things I've learned here

Great points Brian

I don't feel that a writer has to "be it" live it" or anything.
Sure it helps, but then who would write Sci Fi? Nobody has ever met an alien yet they sure can write about them..

lol But even with songs, you don't have to live it or be it, you do have to "Feel It" for one thing. That means letting it in deeply, or at least deep enough. Then follows "knowing" simply knowing alot of material and alot about what goes into it.
Then there's the craft, straight up! Your a writer you must use your imagination and skill. A man wrote "Like A Virgin" and a man & woman co-wrote "Material Girl" just flat out clever writers.

I write songs in a wide array of styles, mainly ones that I have a feel for,which again is many. As a producer I'm experienced enough to know what to do with them.
When I sent 4 songs to a movie director taking submissions, he called and asked, are you the manager or agent for those bands you submitted? "I want to use all four of them in my movie"
I said, "Oh no, there are no bands, that's all me with different friends" he was happy to hear that..

With music you are going to have to let ALOT in to put alot out. I know Bill and he hasn't let alot in, he says it himself and he's only been to one concert ever okay granted it was "Elvis" very cool.. but! I've seen EVERYBODY!

With anyone really who hasn't heard and got into so so so many things, it's really hard to just start doing it yourself.
Then there's years of being in cover bands and a broad album collection, and all the rest.

I have friends who can only write and play there age, I luckily do not have that situation, I call it a problem.
Even when I talk with them it starts with how much they hate everything that they didn't grow up on, and how they are locked into one style of music, listening,playing,seeing and FEELING! I can sense that the second they start... I also scratch my head and think "Why would you shut the faucet off musically and not let it in" When you love music you basically love ALL music to some degree.

All The Best
Mike

I posted the Alanis lyrics and I was shocked at how many didn't know it, or get how effective and skillful it really is.
That is no obscure album it's a HUGE one..