General Music Chat

Just ask yourself the question "who am I"?
Do you get a resounding answer?

Who are you? That's easy.

You're a frustrated asshole who has nothing better to do but criticize someone who is living in the real world.

Besides you can't play an instrument with one hand, so you'd have to move that other hand from between your legs. Playing with your sex organ doesn't count.

I still think the worst slap life can give a musician is for it to be a lifetime endeavor and not to be recognized in the least.

I don't judge anyone's value by what some insecure and insignificant loser doesn't know.

But if that's how you feel, why haven't you taken a bottle of sleeping pills yet?




I'm not sure why you want to be such a jerk but it hasn't hurt my feelings yet. This is how we have fun at bandmix!

If you want to continue a pissing contest, I'm yer huckleberry.







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It's introspective as in you ask yourself, not me you twit. (whoops you lose, but thanks for playing...let's give him a hand, folks, a human hand.) lol But thanks for giving me as much credit as to think what I think makes a difference, it doesn't.

YOD methinks I hit a nerve in your tiny little head. (and hit it hard as well)

And as far as the lifetime endeavor remark, YOU are the one that has been playing since biblical times and yet you are about as recognizable as Lady Gaga out of her meat suit. And I did not mean recognizable by myself, I mean ANYONE at all.

Need some sleeping pills? Firearm? Poison>?

You really missed that bus, you poor YOB or is that SLOB? lol

Better find something to produce because it's isn't going to be YOU.
(You had your chance when Moses was playing with the burning bush, but you don't like the acoustic harp.. LMAO)

Next time either bring me your "A game" or go back to beating your wife, as that's about as rough and tough as you get, verbally or otherwise.

It's introspective as in you ask yourself, not me you twit. (whoops you lose, but thanks for playing...let's give him a hand, folks, a human hand.) lol But thanks for giving me as much credit as to think what I think makes a difference, it doesn't.

YOD methinks I hit a nerve in your tiny little head. (and hit it hard as well)

And as far as the lifetime endeavor remark, YOU are the one that has been playing since biblical times and yet you are about as recognizable as Lady Gaga out of her meat suit. And I did not mean recognizable by myself, I mean ANYONE at all.

Need some sleeping pills? Firearm? Poison>?

You really missed that bus, you poor YOB or is that SLOB? lol

Better find something to produce because it's isn't going to be YOU.
(You had your chance when Moses was playing with the burning bush, but you don't like the acoustic harp.. LMAO)

Next time either bring me your "A game" or go back to beating your wife, as that's about as rough and tough as you get, verbally or otherwise.

Methinks you don't know sarcasm when it slaps you in the face.

If I wanted fame over integrity, I could have had it in the late 80s. I chose a different path but there is no reason to brag about myself to a jerk.

But I regularly get invited to tour nations all over the world. I am still being distributed INTERNATIONALLY by the world's largest distributor, Sony/BMG, for 10+ years now. I've paid the bills on a very nice house, have a hot wife, and raised 6 great kids on the money I've made as a musician...and have turned down more legitimate record deals than you will ever see.

How about you?

Apparently somebody knows who I am, but again, that isn't what matters to me.

Another musicians opinions frankly don't matter to me. I'm not out to please them.

See, you're right? Who are you again? lol

The Karaoke is calling you back to it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQNE0QTIItE

"His sign is Sagittarius, he's in to Spanish cheese. His hairline is receding, but he's getting a weave".

"Who wants some Ronald to-night"? lol

You know the line about excuses, Yod.

Never tell me about what you could have done, only what you have done because that's what matters. If you deny this idea, you are delusional but that's ok, plenty of people spend their life this way.

"Who am I to disagree..
Travel the world and the 7 seas..
Everybody's looking for something.." ...A.Lennox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg

PS: Sarcasm is tough to pull off via the internet..sardonic or otherwise.
Oh and Val Kilmer sux.

Never tell me about what you could have done, only what you have done because that's what matters. If you deny this idea, you are delusional but that's ok, plenty of people spend their life this way..

The thing is...I'm not out to promote "myself" since the late 80s so I could care less if you know who I am. I prefer it actually.


But since that is your pitiful philosophy, I'm still waiting to hear about all that you have done, Mr Cheeseweave.


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Oh nooooes, Ronald.. I am just gaining momentum considering this is a fairly new endeavor to me. lol

But I'll never delude myself by saying that I chose something else to supplicate what I really wanted.

I am getting more offers to produce other artists music of late, the reality is I am a lousy producer of any work other than my own and my material has it's ups and downs like everything else.

Moral of the story is that if I am to kill myself in the violent maelstrom of music creation, I will do it working on my own material(s). No need to dilute the little that I have at hand working on other work(s) good, bad or indiscriminate.

I walk the line like everyone else..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHF9itPLUo4

But I'll never delude myself by saying that I chose something else to supplicate what I really wanted.

Don't know who "ronald" is, but if you are referring to what I said about choosing a different path in the late 80s, it wasn't to "supplicate what I really wanted" at all...and it wasn't settling for less than the best either.

Quite a few of my friends went on to be successful in the secular music world, and none of them are around anymore.

I have no regrets about that decision. What looked like death to a music career turned out to be the best "career decision" I ever made.



Luke 9:24
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Ronald is the guy from the Geico commercial singing karaoke, but you knew this.

And I am not going to slam you for making a choice.
The minute this became about religion and not music, it got personal to me.

I do question the use of this last line.."What looked like death to a music career turned out to be the best career decision I ever made".

It would be better put as, " I have no regrets about the decision to go the direction I went. I'm happy and fulfilled, spiritually and mentally. I wouldn't change a thing, given the chance".

It would be better put as, " I have no regrets about the decision to go the direction I went. I'm happy and fulfilled, spiritually and mentally. I wouldn't change a thing, given the chance".

That isn't as accurate in my case as my previous statement was. No need to correct it. The Lord gave me a music career, when I had quit trying, that is much greater than anything I had ever hoped for before. It's certainly doesn't look as glamorous to most people as what some of my friends who went on to stardom in the secular world did, but again, it was my choice and I don't regret it even for a second. I live abundantly blessed.

No, I have no idea what commercial you're talking about. Who has time to watch TV? I'm always driving or setting up, or singing. I've missed my beloved Dallas Cowboys for the last 10 years. I get to go home only a few days per month and try to spend that with the family (or taking care of "honey-dos")

Of course, there are "other" ways to make a living as a musician than to do kareoke nights. I just think the guy's answer to the economic situation of not having gigs (because kareoke has become more popular than live bands) should be at least respected, if not embraced by some who are trying to make a living.

And speaking of friends who are doing well as musicians from my last post, I went to see this guy in concert in Kalisz Poland last Saturday night, and then he came to hear me sing at a church the next morning. We have become very good friends quickly.

Hung out with him in Warsaw my last night there. Wherever we went people's eyes got big when they saw him, but he gave no indication he was impressed with himself.

I don't really keep up with who is who these days, so I starting checking him out with Lufthansa wifi about 33,000 feet over Iceland on the way home yesterday.

Miatek is really much greater than I already thought he was.

Check a couple of these videos out. Especially this first one

Miatek Szczesniak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aszGDDakrkQ "Mamma"




He sings these next 2 in english. Here is one he wrote that is typical of his "Message from God" lyrical style

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIj-H7Mh ... r_embedded "Signs"




And here he does a familiar American song in english at a festival in Poland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y-EJQYhO3Q "San Francisco"

Well if you were smart enough to provide a link to the polish gentleman, I am quite sure you know who Ronald is.
(the link was right below it)

Whack yourself in the head a few times, get those brains working again. lol

BTW nice redirect but it's seems to me you're just trying to wriggle and squirm. "To each their own". I won't put the iron to you. I can see that you're on your heels.

(The ref calls illegal motion in the backfield, penalty is 5 yards and replay of down.) (And you can avoid TV for another decade, Dallas will be a non entity for another 10 years yet.)

Hey Yod, I'd like some info on the 501c3 status. I already have some info, but I'm open to hearing from everyone that knows about it. I just finished my business plan last week, and I'd like to work with schools mentoring young musicians on showmanship, vocal techniques, and image. I've already spoken to a couple of schools and they like the idea.

I'm chaeya on the yahoo through the e-mail. Thanks!

Chaeya

Hey Yod, I'd like some info on the 501c3 status. I already have some info, but I'm open to hearing from everyone that knows about it. I just finished my business plan last week, and I'd like to work with schools mentoring young musicians on showmanship, vocal techniques, and image. I've already spoken to a couple of schools and they like the idea.

I'm chaeya on the yahoo through the e-mail. Thanks!

Chaeya

WHy 501 3c? (More Gubment paper work) If its a dba Proprietorship, you can write off losses against your current salary.

I'm doing this with my contest. Since everything (Cash awards, trophies, etc , come out of my pocket and go through a legitimate business account, if I cant break even at the events, (Via t-shirts sales) I can write that off of my personal income tax. Basically I have created a charity to which I donate my own sums of money. If I recover that donation through t-shirts sales for example, its a wash, but I'll have cash flow for the next charitable event...and so on.

One might argue that government doesn't fund or subsidize DBAs . That may be true, but the government is then forced to kiss my ass and they cant tell me how to run my operation. Long as I pay my taxes that can go suck an egg. If people believe in my cause, I'll get all the funding I would ever need to make that event happen...

Its always a loss when you start up...but if its a solid cause, you will build the momentum very rapidly. The beauty... Someday, you might then make inroads to profitable tasks associated with the initial effort...

As i see it, A 501 3c is a death sentence to any innovation you might want to engage, cause you';ll be inundated with rules galore... Just saying..
Then again, I could be wrong...

It's a lot of paperwork and bullshit in the beginning, but honestly, it isn't like owning a franchise - there's no one who visits you and tell you what you can and can't do. Most people get deterred from the paperwork alone. If it were easy, everyone would want one. I'm a writer, I work for lawyers, and I know how to bullshit very well on paper.

I'd just like to know what my options are and frankly, corporations won't donate if you don't have that status. And it isn't the big corporations I'm going for anyway. It's what the people with the pursestrings want to see, plus they can legitimately write it off since I'd be a nonprofit.

I've looked into angel networks, but unless you have a legitimate business of some tech sh*t that can turn a big profit someday, they don't want anything to do with you. This is why calling them "angel networks" leaves a bad taste in my mouth. They should just call it "corporate funding."

I could be wrong and I'm still in my research stage. I'm going to start off by teaching some evening classes just to get my feet wet.

Chaeya

It's a lot of paperwork and bullshit in the beginning, but honestly, it isn't like owning a franchise - there's no one who visits you and tell you what you can and can't do. Most people get deterred from the paperwork alone. If it were easy, everyone would want one. I'm a writer, I work for lawyers, and I know how to bullshit very well on paper.

I'd just like to know what my options are and frankly, corporations won't donate if you don't have that status. And it isn't the big corporations I'm going for anyway. It's what the people with the pursestrings want to see, plus they can legitimately write it off since I'd be a nonprofit.

I've looked into angel networks, but unless you have a legitimate business of some tech sh*t that can turn a big profit someday, they don't want anything to do with you. This is why calling them "angel networks" leaves a bad taste in my mouth. They should just call it "corporate funding."

I could be wrong and I'm still in my research stage. I'm going to start off by teaching some evening classes just to get my feet wet.

Chaeya

Well I hope it works out for you...and good luck!

Thanks. We'll see. I want to test this thing out first before I get myself in too deep. Heck, by the time I would get all the paperwork done, I could have saved the money and bought everything myself, which I'll probably do anyway.

Chaeya