Thanks for the feedback. It's venue specific, but I am just thinking of "value per hour" sort of guidance. I might make $100 an hour as an IT guy, but that ain't reality in the real music world! Thanks! TD
2 2008-09-28 16:56:26
Topic: "Adios My Love" (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
This is on my youtube site if you want to hear (a variation) of it. Thanks TD
Adios My Love
Words and Music – Tom Donoghue 2006/2008
A E
Why did you always want everything that I got?
A E
Why did you get the have and I got the have not?
D A
I never wanted anything from you
E A
But you broke my heart and left me blue
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I thought we always had everything we need
But it wasn’t enough to satisfy your greed
So you moved on like a locust in flight
Adios my love, adios and goodnight
Chorus
A E
So adios my love, adios and farewell
A El
That’s Spanish for see you at the gates of Hell
D
You can’t take my heart with you
A
Gotta leave it here
E A
Adios my love, adios my dear
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A
They say payback’s a bitch
E
Well today she was queen
A
I saw you waddle out of Denny’s
E
Pushing 215
D
I said it’s been two years
A
And girl you look like Hell
E A
So adios my love, adios and farewell!
Chorus
3 2008-09-28 15:48:02
Topic: What To Charge? (3 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
I played out this past Friday, and contracted for $75 an hour. I only took $50 an hour since I didn't draw as well as I'd hoped and want to be invited back when there isn't a presidential debate or pre-playoff baseball to compete with!!!!!!
I was wondering what other people seek to charge when they are pitching a new venue. I'm open to any feedback. I am a solo artist, mix of cover and originals, good crowd engager (when there is a crowd!). I welcome any comments or experiences.
4 2008-09-28 15:20:34
Re: "Working At the Rumor Mill" (8 replies, posted in Songwriting)
James,
Let me guess, you work in the news biz???!??!?!?!?!?! Very good song and lyrics! Thanks for sharing it. TD
5 2008-09-28 15:07:37
Topic: I Miss America (21 replies, posted in Songwriting)
(Start singing to the tune of "Here she is, Miss America...")
I Miss America - Words and Music by Tom Donoghue, 2008
A Here she is
D Miss America
A This is what
D This is what we’ve become
G We’ve set the bar so low
A We’re watching a beauty show
D Here she is
G A gun toting hockey mom
D Heartbeat from
G Her finger on the bomb
A We’ve set the bar so low G….
G And down we go D (strum same chords 2 bars)
D What happened to
G The country we once knew
D Shining bright
G We could all look up to
A We let it slip away
G Now we’re a bad cliche
A I want my country back
G I Miss America (strum)
D They scream like kids
G On the convention floor
D Christian words
G But no mention of the poor
A The hungry babies
G The unemployed
A Our soldiers under fire
NC And they seem D overjoyed
(Same chords as above)
Reality
Is harder than fantasy
8 years of lies
Destroyed our democracy
I want my country back
Don’t need your angry hate
Let’s be the USA that
Used to be great.
DGDGAGAGD
6 2007-08-13 14:24:03
Re: "Lefty" electric guitars (6 replies, posted in Electric)
I'm a leftie, and I would encourage your son to play whatever way he is most comfortable. A test I use with kids who want to play is to ask them to "air guitar" for me. If they air guitar lefite, they're are most likely to see a left handed instrument as natural. There are lefite guitars out there, this site allows you to reconfigure any chord to leftie, and there are ample left handed instruction guides available. Lastly, teachers don't care. A note is a note! Let him rip and see what happens!!!!