writing credits/Imaginos

[Ted O. Jackson]

> I guess my observation is that it's a package deal.  If Al did
> all the music, SP most of the lyrics, Dharma some vocal, some
> guitar, Bloom something else.  Then, the deal is a package.  If
> the thing wasn't meant as a package then they should have been
> kept from involvement.  Or did they just muscle in on the deal?

Not just for playing on a song, though.  If you write a song, both
music and lyrics, then go out and hire studio musicians to play them,
the song still belongs to you.  Unless, you're so impressed with the
studio performance that you feel their contirbutions were essential
to the final outcome.  THEN, you might give tham credit for
songwriting.  But you'd be one big-hearted dude given the music biz...

 > > If they did, I dno't know if it
wasn't for the best.  The end > product was perfect.
>
Right!

> It looked to me that it was probably some middle ground and that
> the marketing people thought it would sell best if BOC marketed
> the thing as a group.  Hence, Eric/Buck/Allen/JOe had to put
> a hand in it somewhere to make Imaginos a BOC effort en total.
>
> RR
Ross,
You've hit it right on the head.  I'm not the guy to comment [John
would know] but I imagine [ouch] that Columbia wouldn't have had the
guts to fly with an Al solo project, but were very agreeable to try
to wring a little more blood out of the BOC name.  Pretend it's a BOC
album, and maybe all the radio-heads who liked 'Reaper' and 'Burnin'
[two BD songs, no less!] will run out and buy it.  Yeah, and the
check's in the mail, and I love you, and I promise not to come in
your mouth!
theo