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I couldn't find it, so I did the monthly for $8. Now I'm feeling like a cheapskate.

For me...I'd like something easy like $99 for the year or whatever will make the numbers work for you. Can I pay a one time C note to Patreon? I'm sooo 14.95'd. 19.99'd 29.99'd a month as it is. I'd like to just pay the band and enjoy the site.

Thanks. That reel just is what it is. That was almost 15 years ago. Honestly, you have maybe 6 hours to do the entire thing. Write it, play it, record it, mix it. Those vocal sessions are 20 minutes tops. It’s nutty. A bit of trivia:

I still talk to Mike Sciuto pretty often. He and Tony are such great musicians. I still talk to Michael Taylor, too. The Mad Producer! Serious player. You gotta know Bill DeLoach, too.

I use to play with a bunch of guys from Baltimore. Michael Taylor (bass) Steve Carter (sax) Anthony Blount (drums) Michael Sciuto (Bass) Eddie DiMarino (bass). Any of those names ring a bell?

I was hired by Andy Mark to do jing. Andy started the PMA and the Mark Award is given in his honor every year for production music. Worked with him for 15+ years and would do 3 or 4 every week. Every single week. It was cool because $ worked like clockwork. 1st and the 15th...cha ching. These were for all the clear channel stations where he was a vp. So an endless supply and needs for jing and ad music. It does seem like a lot when you know what a pain 100 is and you know first hand the gig. The music is the easy part. Of course you can do that. It's all the other stuff that's difficult and takes time to learn. Like how to close, for example. When I was coasting and not really feeling like I had any pressure at all on me I'd have 35 on my desk. That was constant for all of those years. And you know that's 35 clients, 35 AE's, and 35 Ad Agencies who all have concerns and wishes/wants and they all need to speak with you on the phone. I remember it going up in the 70's when I was also doing another radio group in the mid west on top of CC. After a few years of doing it myself, my wife quit her job and took over all the phone duties so I could actually write all the stuff. She also wrote all the lyrics for me so I no longer had to do that. 3k is a lot, but I'll tell...when I first started with Andy his main guy, Jim....I asked him how many had he done because at that time I about where you are. he told me he'd done over 7k. HAHAHA. The guy could write so fast and good and his vocal arranging was killer. He worked in house and had access to singers. On my end, I wasn't given money for production. So they got a one man band and 1 singer. Here's the typical stuff I did....this is old so bear with it. Pretty goofy, but as you know....that's the gig!! All this stuff was done before 2010. I got out of it then. I still do a few a year, but I don't go after them. I must of had to put this demo together for some victim several years ago.

They didn't find my career in the survey.

You know what's bad about that biz is trying to get the royalties. It's so hard to get even if they land on tv and radio. Out of all of them, only a few do I get any real mileage out of. Goofy one..."Get your title back with Title Max" That was all over the place....did it 20 years ago at least and still see action.

Lemme hear you write 1. Then maybe 5. Then maybe 20. 100. Then when you hit 3000, get back to me.

Every time I hear it I wish I'd written

I wrote around 3000 of them and they're on instant recall. Don't even get me started.

James Brown was killin'! He was my first concert. James Brown in 1967. Imagine that. Playing the B3 with go go girls in cages before he came out front, the cape when he walked off. Man oh man...surprised my parents let me go. They had to drop me off there. lol

I saw her in 1970 with Ike and Springsteen opened. Tix @ $5. Both of those folks leave it all on the stage every night. She was something to witness.

$800 wouldn't bug me if it played nice. Like other have said....grab a Leslie, too. Like same day.

Anyone else do this contest? Kind of fun. You get 2 acoustic guitar tracks and vocals. The rest is up to you.

This... WIH.mp3

I haven’t done Cory’s yet, but I should. I do have an Open Studio subscription though. I love it. Tons of solid info there and it presented in a clear and understandable way. It’s great for any level of player and you can move at your own pace. I go through spurts where I might hit it every day for a week or two and then I might not do I for a couple weeks. It depends on what’s going on at the moment. Bottom line though…totally worth it at their price and at any skill set. Peter and Adam make it fun, too. You can see their excitement when they’re doing something like showing you a Herbie or Chick transcription and analyzing it for you. They’re so into it and it kind of rubs off on you. It’s a good hang.

Thanks for the link!

Bill's hittin' that C12 pretty nice. Still got it. https://youtu.be/cwaXmLHQitQ

I've been doing a bunch of library tracks the past couple weeks. Last week I was doing piano or piano/strings heartfelt sad tracks. After 4 or 5 of them I felt drained/bored. So yesterday I thought I'd jump on a few drone beds. So this is maybe 9 tracks of Matriarch, 2 Omega 8, 1 Omnisphere, and a boom. Hit Me

Hands off the chick singer. Hold your beer with your left hand.

I saw him around 72/73 and he had the Yamaha organ out front coming through a vocal master. Distorted and edgy. Small club. I think it was The Etcetera in D.C. He'd hit a cluster and then the band would take off. It was wild and good.

Here's an old board tape I still have of the Bruce Springsteen Band....couple years before Greetings.

Condolences to his Family and friends. He was legendary. Damn....this week was a monster. Wears me out.