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    Songstuff Writer and Artist Development Challenges

    By john

    Independent writers and artists face several large disadvantages when they are compared to signed, mainstream writers and artists.  Disadvantages that add up to making it a competition that indies can’t win. Hell they can’t even compete.   Lack of budget and poor contacts are fairly obvious disadvantages. Lack of experience and a lack of knowledge restricts songwriters and artists alike. Lack of an overall strategy, and a limited set of incomplete tactics, makes for a critical problem
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And The Album...

I am really procrastinating, avoiding filling out yet another job application—this one, to go to work for the big (and financially troubled) state retirement system. I shouldn’t say that hiring me—in any position—would probably raise the general financial competence of the organization, so I won’t. I do have a job interview in two weeks, 250 miles away, and a lot of little things to do to get ready for it, but I don’t dare—and am not going to—wait to see what happens with it. I have been burn
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The More Things Change...

The more things change… well, the more they change, I think. I had an issue of the blog already written, and just the past 24 hours has rendered nearly all of it irrelevant. Instead, here’s what’s going on: I have a job interview (in Myrtle Point, in southern Oregon, to be their city manager) Saturday, 27 June. They want me all day, and maybe part of the day before. That’s the day of the Garibaldi Museum gig, so the gig is going to have to be postponed (my preference) or cancelled—I can
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Graham Coxon 14/05/2009

Graham Coxon 14/05/2009 OK, sorry about the huge gaps here, and the missing gigs, but I am poor, and assuming there's no-one as really cares anyways I'm afraid this one is also a bit of an album review as well as gig, for a fairly obvious reason... This gig was too big a chance for me to pass on - probably my favourite famous person, and indeed musician, playing at an awesome (small) venue, playing his entire new album "The Spinning Top". The venue was the Thekla, which I'm sure I wax
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thelevellers

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Thirsty Lion Post-mortem...

Well, I won’t say the paranoia about the Thirsty Lion performance was unjustified—butterflies definitely make you perform better—but it did go okay. Big crowd—most seats in the place were filled, because there’d been a Lakers-vs.-Orlando basketball game and most of the crowd stuck around for the music afterwards. They listened (good), and some of them stopped me afterwards to tell me they’d liked the material (and nobody else got that that I could see). I was on first (of four acts, not count
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Hit And Run Lyrics

Posted Hit and Run for critique If you get a chance drop by and tell me what you think of it
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john

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Of Lead Players And Chickens...

How do you find a lead player on short notice? Wayne’s not sure he can do it (I’m not sure whether that means he just doesn’t want to do it), and the gig—a paying gig—is only three weeks away. The rest of the band will be tight—John (bass) and Chris (drums) are good, and we’ve been practicing—but I can’t do both rhythm and lead, and sing. (I’m not sure I can do any of those things separately, much less together.) So I stopped by the local (Tillamook) music store en route to playing music
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*it's Really Over*

-while editing my blog, some entries got posted out of order so I'm re-posting this in the order it should be We settled via mediation yesterday, 6 days before trial. I am stunned. Exhausted. Am now permanently a homeowner and single custodial parent. Cannot express graditude enough. May be laying low for awhile here, don't worry if I'm not around or am silent. This was a merciful outcome, a just outcome. Gratefully, Donna... Dahl (my name now legal) + (((Seven Dwa
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It's Over

We settled via mediation yesterday, 6 days before trial. I am stunned. Exhausted. Am now permanently a homeowner and single custodial parent. Cannot express graditude enough. May be laying low for awhile here, don't worry if I'm not around or am silent. This was a merciful outcome, a just outcome. Gratefully, Donna... Dahl (my name now legal) + (((Seven Dwarves))) PS: edit
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Band Practice (and Recording)...

At band practice tonight, we recorded the base tracks (rhythm guitar, bass and drums) for the two Dylan contest songs, “No Good Songs About the War” and “For Their own Ends.” Both came out good. The war song was just about perfect; guitar, drums, bass, even the scratch vocal were all about as perfect as one could get—on just the second take, no less. All recorded live, using only two microphones: a carefully-positioned instrument mike picking up the guitar (amplified), bass (ditto), and
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Visiting The Thirsty Lion...

Well, the Thirsty Lion IS a big place—and a nice one. Big stage (emcee Eric said they have bands on the weekends), decent PA system (not much different from the one Sharma bought for the Portland band’s Red Room show). Stayed for three acts—Eric himself, and two others. There will be good competition for that paying gig. The guys and gals I heard are not amateurs. (Well, I guess they are amateurs by definition, but some of them have been around the block a few times, are comfortable in
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Enlightment

last friday, i was with my friends at out regular meet place..me and other friend had arrived, we were waiting for others to come..as usual i bought a smoke and started withering away my lungs ! and a rickshaw driver was by side.. he was poor, but he made me feel poorer ! he : why you smoke ? me : its a stress remover he : have you seen the stress ? me : its a feeling, its up right in here ! *me pointing my head* he : no, you are wrong. he : and even if its so, there are othe
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neoism

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The "virtual Pc" Dies...

“Alice” the computer’s “virtual PC” program—which I dubbed “Old Alice” since it’s running Windows 98—is no longer working, and I don’t know why. I’d set it up over a year ago to do the conversions from PageMaker to Acrobat. (Almost everybody has the Acrobat Reader program, because it’s free, but nobody except professional graphic designers like me has or uses the several-hundred-dollar PageMaker program.) I have the Windows 98 version of both programs and have refused to upgrade; I can m
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Concert Season...

Thirsty Lion setlist looks like: Eatin’ Cornflakes from a Hubcap Blues (slow and sleazy) Bluebird on My Windshield (fast bluegrass) Can I Have your Car When the Rapture Comes? (slow Gospel) The Termite Song (fast bluegrass) Hey. Little Chicken (a osrt-of blues) I’m Giving Mom a Dead Dog for Christmas (mod. slow country) Just about exactly 25 minutes (I’ve practiced it four times now). Still waiting for confirmation that I can be on first (like, at 8:30) if I show up first; t
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Basic Info

Hi, just some basic info about me and who I am. ~ My name is Ash. ~ Location: Smyrna, TN. ~ Sophomore at BHS. ~ Music is my life! ~ JROTC is....fun? ~ My boyfriend Taylor is AWESOME! ~ We've been dating Sept. 24, 2008. ~ I love writing stories and songs. ~ Drawing is a passion. ~ I do have slight OCD and ADD. ~ My room never stays clean. ~ My parents are AMAZING and all my friends love them. ~ Favorite colors are Black and Red. ~ I can't text. =( ~ I'm very rando
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Doing Dylan...

Finish one blog, start another. Sometimes life is like that. I’m waiting for an answer to a phone call (which I may not get), for calls for job interviews (which I’m sure I’m not going to get), avoiding cleaning house, and holding off on applying for another of those jobs I’m not qualified for. An exhaustive search for songwriting contests on line uncovered one potential gem—a competition in England, of all places, for original Dylan-type songs. They’re calling it “Doing Dylan.” They
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Contests...

It’s almost June—and almost time to take a mid-year look at those goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year. It won’t be a pleasant look; I have, I think, accomplished virtually nothing on the list. It’s easy—too easy—to point to outside factors (no job, no money) as reasons for not getting anything done. They are really just excuses. The operative question (as Richard Nixon would say) is what I’m doing with what I have. I have a habit of freezing up when confronted with disap
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I Sold My Soul For An All Day Ticket

Jugglers, Actors, musicians of every conceivable gandre and all on or around the Glasgow subway that was the order of the day yesterday we played a little jam session with Patrick Bullen, Vivian Scotson, Mary K Burke and Rachel Dawick some nice tunes played songs like, Set in stone by Patrick and Vivian to a cover of James sit down …………..even a wee rendition of the Police's Roxanne so good fun had by all and some new friends made too........................................ oh and yes MR KL
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musicthom

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Dear Diary

i m sick of this things happening..neither i study nor do i enjoy the things that i do on daily basis..surfing over internet for like 6 hours everyday..talking to girls..doesnt really make life worth ! playing guitar but i m betraying myself..i neither give my 100% into it either..i feel like reading something but too lazy to go to library..hang out with friends..talking about shit..no fruitful conversations..i really dont remember when i had been into a debate or the conversation which was no
neoism

neoism

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One Week Left...

ONE WEEK left of unemployment benefits, and then it’s all over. I can get a cheap job (if there are any to be had), see if I can squeeze out enough to pay for school… Yes, it’s time to go back to school. After 14 months out of work, I’m pretty unemployable as a city manager. I do have five applications still pending, but I’m not expecting anything out of them. My old job as city planner in Phoenix is being advertised again (after a 14-month hiatus), but they’re requiring a college degree in
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Getting Played (and Vice Versa)...

UPDATES, first: I sent a draft first column to the “American Blues” people, and am waiting to hear back from them. (It’s been a couple of days.) I’ve questioned their insistence on the correspondents having to come from Nashville, New York, L.A. and a couple of other big cities. These days, the Internet makes such distinctions meaningless—and I’d submit a place like Portland, 90 miles from me, with a fairly vibrant live music scene, probably has more and better blues being performed than, sa
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The Failed Economy Show Video...

Got the video of the Failed Economy Show, and alas, it’s probably not marketable. I don’t know if it was the microphones we recorded with or the awful acoustics of the hall, but the sound isn’t very good. The vocal is too faint, and so is the harmonica—sometimes the harmonica isn’t audible at all—or maybe it’s that the rhythm guitar (me) is too loud. I am not doing anything particularly interesting on the guitar, and it definitely shows. Some of the songs come off too slow, too—partly be
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Lynzee Release Date January 1St, 2010 From Retrospect Records

LYNZEE Release date January 1st 2010 from RETROSPECT RECORDS ORDER your copies of LYNZEE's three new albums available at Retrospect Records January 1st 2010: 1. Victim of Nirvana 2. Man of the People 3. Lost in America *Check for the special offer on the purchase of ALL three Lynzee titles.* Click on the LINK below to visit the Retrospect Records site and order your copies...NOW! LYNZEE COMBO PACK RETROSPECT RECORDS Thanks for the support more news to fo
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