Monkeyshyne giving a speech, just doesn't sound right

Oz and I gave a speech last night at the Dallas Song Writers Association (you can tell I really don't care a lot about VD day). When we were first ask it seemed a little strange. Why would you want a rock band to talk to a bunch of songwriters. And then when we sat down to write our speech it did make some sense. We used to really suck as songwriters, don't get me wrong we still suck now, but at least now we know that we suck. Years ago we were wondering why we weren't rich and famous and hadn't had 3 videos on MTV. Over time we really have learned a lot. It was kind of kewl actually getting to share a lot of what we have figured out with a group or people willing and wanting to listen. And because we gave the speech we now get a year's free membership to the DSA.

Ok, for any young bands that might happen to read my blog, you need to come out to the DSA. All to often we think because we can play an A chord and sing a note that we are songwriters, true, but usually not GOOD songwriters and no where near GREAT. This is a good place to let people listen and critique and for you to listen and critique. Swallow your pride or spend the next 5 years wondering "why aren't we famous yet"...of course we are still asking that question too...