O.K. MAB! Sounds like it's settled! PARTY AT OD AND PHILBOY'S AFTER THE SHOWS!! SPREAD THE WORD!!
I guess I had forgotten about the youth show on Saturday. Since I don't watch college football, I was able to take in the show last year. Were about 12-14 kids, only about 2 of which were guys, which I thought was interesting. And out of all those kids, there may have been 1 or 2 that almost impressed me. I'm not sure if they wanted to be entertainers or just writers, but most of them had a loooonnnnng way to go.
Speaking of kids, or anyone, wanting to "break into the music business"; I'm not sure how it works these days, but my gut tells me, that if that is your goal, you really should be trying to be an entertainer. I think you also need to be writing a lot of your own material. IF you only want to be a writer, I think you should start out right away hitching your proverbial wagon to an entertainer wannbe. In other words, start EARLY investing in RELATIONSHIPS. I really don't know how the top writers I've met got started, "back in the day". Or even today. How DO they, and/or their songs, "get heard" by the big dog publishers and labels anyway? I'm pretty sure that at a minimum, they had/have to GET OUT OF THE LIVING ROOM. Just my thoughts. Oh, and of course, THEIR SONGS HAVE TO REALLY STAND OUT!
phil g.