General Music Chat

Ive been playing a lot of gigs and now iam tired and would just like to be behind the scenes so Ive been writing songs for people so if any one needs some lyrics and would like to collaborate and can play well enough to create that hit lets get together and do it thats were the money is really at production pumlishing deals yep so lets do it the road has really made me tired Ive done over ten thousand shows enough already

Playing a gig a day, every single day of the year, it would take you over 27 years, continuously, without stopping, to play 10,000 shows. Or did you do it in 13 1/2 years by playing "two" shows a day, 365 days per year?

Just curious.

yeh well i really have been around trust me

yeh well i really have been around trust me

It's hard to trust you when you don't capitalize your I's, or use any, and I mean ANY punctuation whatsoever in your posts.


Think of it as a 12 step program for grammar and punctuation!

Start with a single period. Just one at first. Then maybe an apostrophe! Baby steps, always baby steps at first!

yeh I did most of them with harrahs ent group and all so the imperial palace legends inconcert two shows a day your right iam not writeing a poem here lol

yeh I did most of them with harrahs ent group and allso the imperial place legonds inconcert two shows a day your right

Which would have taken you almost 14 years. And your profile says you have only been playing for 14 years. So you have been gigging twice a day, 365 days a year, for 14 years, since you first touched an instrument? Non stop?

Wow!

You don't need a songwriting partner, you need a ghost writer, so you can write a manual on how to get gigs, twice a day, every day of your life for 14 years, non stop!

I think we could all use that kind of gig schedule! LOL

....plus.... who the hell is going to trust someone to write songs for them when he can't even write one complete sentence without a freakin' mistake?

.... I am looking for a roadie though if I'm ever out your way!

well kurtis...

You spelled the name of the topic wrong. It's "Song writing".

You have no audio posted, so we're left to take you at your word, which on the internet, someone's word has about the same value as a $500k mortgage held by a part time McDonalds employee...

Anyways, this statement from your profile:

iam a song writer looking for some one who can help create the music to my lyrics for taxi and some international contest I believe we can win its a lot lets of money out there these days so I can write can you play lets get a hit together.

Let's really dig in here and use some deductive logic:

1. Your grammar is so poor that I cannot possibly believe you can write valid lyrics.

2. You clearly don't write music.

3. You are 23 years old and claim to have played 10k gigs, but that would have you touring at age 7. You would have to be a prodigy, yet, you need to play an instrument, or have more vocal octaves than Mariah Carey, and have perfect pitch on top of it, to qualify. I think the majority of the country would have heard of you if that was the case, and you would have an endless stream of people begging to collaborate if that was the case.

4. You are too focused on the money. The sad truth is that most career musicians live VERY meager lives, and I'm only talking about the few who make enough to support themselves (by playing music as a job). Most of us do it because we love it, but still rely on a day job and normal career, and the extra money we make barely pays for gear upgrades and replacements.

Wake up. Go to college. Get a job.

....plus.... who the hell is going to trust someone to write songs for them when he can't even write one complete sentence without a freakin' mistake?

.... I am looking for a roadie though if I'm ever out your way!

THAT'S THE FUNNIEST DAMN CRAP I EVER READ IN MY LIFE!!!! GUY MUST BE A SUBMORON!!!! I THOUGHT I WAS FUNNY!!! DUDE, YOU GOTTA GIVE US SOME MORE POSTS!!! I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!!!! YOU'RE GIVING ME A CEREBRAL HEMMHOROID!!! LATER...!!!!

Man, I can't get any posts over in the US forum (plug) and this Kurtis guy is getting killed here!! Perhaps the 10k shows comment was just an exaggeration? Perhaps everyone realizes that and I'm just horrendously tired? Haha I don't know... By the way, Craig Maxim, I noticed you spelled a lot as alot in another post - way to contradict your own grammar observation haha... Oh well, that's a common mistake and who notices anyway?

Take it easy!

By the way, Craig Maxim, I noticed you spelled a lot as alot in another post - way to contradict your own grammar observation haha... Oh well, that's a common mistake and who notices anyway?

Take it easy!

I do it intentionally. In modern use, it is spoken that way, used that way and understood that way. In formal writing, even the usage as two words would be avoided in favor of the term "many". i. e. "I have many things to say" rather than "I have a lot of things to say". But someone may also say "I've seen that a lot." How does that makes sense? Instead it should be something like "I've seen that BY THE LOT". Or something similar. But we don't say that in conversation. We say "I've seen that a lot". Which makes no sense. It makes sense to us, only because it is in common usage, and is spoken and understood, in reality, as a single word, since, in some instances, the phrase really makes no sense. Making it a single word, solves the problem, in my mind.

So I think it should be a single word, and accepted as such, and put in dictionaries and reference sources, to reflect the change in modern usage. In using it as a single word, I am encouraging this to occur and be accepted eventually.

However, even though this particular word is a personal choice, and even a cause, there is plenty of room for derision, because my grammar is atrocious. I tried improving, years ago, but it was unnatural. Few people use absolutely correct grammar, and even among those who do, I find that they still have room for argument at times. That is taking the English language to extreme, when the basis of language is communication. So I prefer to communicate naturally and with the masses. I gave up the pursuit of perfect grammar a long time ago.

this Kurtis guy is getting killed here!! Perhaps the 10k shows comment was just an exaggeration? Perhaps everyone realizes that and I'm just horrendously tired?

Nope. He actually believes he has done that many shows, as evidenced by his confirmation, a few responses later, that he accomplished it by doing two shows a day. Of course, the math still doesn't add up. LOL

haha good try, Craig, but it is "a lot." There's no way around it.
But yea, this Kurtis user is out of their mind. He/she/it sounds like a 12 year old to me.

haha good try, Craig, but it is "a lot." There's no way around it.
But yea, this Kurtis user is out of their mind. He/she/it sounds like a 12 year old to me.

Hey, I'm not makin' this up to get out of something.

Think of the phrase...

"I get that a lot"

"a lot" could have several definitions, but in this case, it would mean a group of something. A "LOT" of something. It would not therefore, reasonably fit at the END of a sentence. But we use it that way all the time.

For example, substitute the word "gross", in this instance, meaning the number 144.

Could you then say...

"I get that A GROSS"?

No, but you could say "I get that IN A GROSS" or... "I get that BY THE GROSS"

In the same way...

"I get that a lot."

Makes NO SENSE. It would have to be... "I get that in LOTS". But we don't say that. We say... "I get that A LOT".

The "A" and the "Lot" are being used in conjunction, inseperable, in the context of how they are being used, yet they make NO SENSE like that.

"A lot" is a noun. But we use it like an adjective.

My solution...

ALOT

A single word, an adjective, which is how we use it. In usage and meaning, the phrase "A lot" is really a substitution for the word "often".

Word meanings change all the time, and reference works reflect the changes. This one needs to be updated.