The Wheel/Embarrassed

[BREVARD Adrian R.]

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>> Does anyone else find it as disheartening as I that the band can only
>> scrape together ten songs after this many years?
>
>JS>"Well, their two most prolific songwriters are gone.  To 3OC's credit
>though, many have been impressed with the songs that they have managed to
scrape together.  Now, if they can just release them . . ."

Agreed.  Always liked Harvest Moon, See You in Black.  Now,Live 4 Me is
classic Buck and X-rays Eyes sounded crunchy when I heard it.  In the
end does it matter if its 10 songs or 15?  As long as they are quality
>productions I don't think I'll care much.
>
>
>Theo notes:
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>>How 'bout Buck?  Maybe Al and Sandy And Meltzer wrote a lot of
>lyrics, but BD wrote all those killer riffs [or most of them
>anyway]...
>
JS>"Well, no offense meant to Buck -- I like many of his contributions.
>My point was that Al and Joe were the most prolific song-writers -- and
>BTW, I believe that Al wrote many of BOC's killer riffs (not trying to
>debate as to who wrote more).  Also, Buck has written a lot of material
>that is more pop-oriented and less in the BOC vein (again, I think he's
>written some great stuff, don't get me wrong).  But, perhaps when it
>comes to crafting words and lyrics into a song, BOC's current line-up
is not as prolific without the Bouchards."

That point is a given JS.   The team effort left when the brothers left.
 I wonder if Danny had a hand in crafting or perhaps finisihing the
songs.  Don't know much about Danny before joining BOC but he seems to
be a pretty complete player.  Not a bad singer either when they let him
>near a mike.
>
>
>>Thats how professionals handle these situations.  Its Syracuse's loss.
>>Maybe a less experienced band does what you describe but I can't
>>imagine a veteran act doing this.  Do you get paid if you don't play?
>
>From:    Ian R Fines >"Veteran band or not, my band is paid more when there
>are more people. This is because we usually get a cut from the cover charge.
>So, to put it bluntly, my band wouldn't play in front of five people, because
>we'd make about a dollar."
>
Sounds like a tough way to make a living. I imagine name bands like BOC
get a guarunteed minimumsto perform.  In that case you either play the
gig or don't get paid.


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