I had a 68 year old guy come to me once. He handed me a sheet of paper with 168 song titles on it. There were three collumns of these things. I looked it over for about two minutes, didn't say a word. Then I handed it back to him and said "Okay, now show me ONE title on here that is NOT NEGATIVE!". He looked at it and suddenly his eyes got the size of saucers. EVERY SINGLE ONE WAS ABOUT BEING DUMPED, BROKEN HEARTS, PAIN, SUFFERING, ANGER, BITTERNESS, ANGST, CRYING, WRIST SLITTING. Every single ONE. He never realized it. And when we went through his catalogue, yep, every single song.
When we went out that night, he heard an entire writers night with about 98% of the songs and writers doing the exact same thing. He was doing three days with me and came back the second day like the light bulb had come on.He had to start looking at all his music totally differently. He never wrote another negative song.
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Gerald will at least come to understand that on the first day. How he processes it and moves forward is a different deal. But he has already shown common sense by coming here and participating. Going to give him a big leg up wouldn't you say?
MAB
the first part could have almost been written about me but after a few minutes with mab , I basically got the message, the light bulb went off and I went no further with what I had written . I put my song book down and We went on to write 1 song then and later another 2 then a cowrite with Christine Parri.. all different and positively up beat and more "modern".
Gerald has nothing to lose by touring with MAB and everything to gain.
Here is one https://www.songramp.net/music/496/beautiful-simplicity/
John