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edslunch · 08-18-2019, 10:24 PM

Musicians of CP, I have a question. I’ve been writing songs for a few years in a variety of genres, and some of them are pretty good according to friends in the music business. I want to have some recorded but I don’t have the time, energy, performance talent or demographic appeal (I’m old [emoji4]) to market them myself.

Suppose you really liked a couple of my songs, they fit your sound and style, I offered to pay for a session for you to record them, you can do whatever you want with the songs and recordings for performances and marketing, but I keep the song-writing credits. Would you do it? Why or why not? Should I do it, why or why not?

This would be a vanity project for me - an opportunity to have a professional recording of my music, a chance to have it performed regularly in public by a band, and an infinitesimally small chance of it actually becoming popular. Worst case I’m a sad old guy paying to get his ego stroked [emoji53]

I’m thinking this would be a more direct approach than trying to sell my music through a publisher where I have no credibility.

08-18-2019, 10:24 PM	#1
edslunch Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2009 Exp:	Recording my songs, a proposition Musicians of CP, I have a question. I’ve been writing songs for a few years in a variety of genres, and some of them are pretty good according to friends in the music business. I want to have some recorded but I don’t have the time, energy, performance talent or demographic appeal (I’m old [emoji4]) to market them myself. Suppose you really liked a couple of my songs, they fit your sound and style, I offered to pay for a session for you to record them, you can do whatever you want with the songs and recordings for performances and marketing, but I keep the song-writing credits. Would you do it? Why or why not? Should I do it, why or why not? This would be a vanity project for me - an opportunity to have a professional recording of my music, a chance to have it performed regularly in public by a band, and an infinitesimally small chance of it actually becoming popular. Worst case I’m a sad old guy paying to get his ego stroked [emoji53] I’m thinking this would be a more direct approach than trying to sell my music through a publisher where I have no credibility.