Ralph,You are entitled to your opinion, and I respect that, but I am also entitled to mine as well and therefore, I would ask *you* to respect that.
To be honest,I'm fair fed up with you telling me what to do and to dampen my enthusiasm etc.etc. I would rather die than give up an ounce of my enthusiasm or love for this music that I have found! So....I'd suggest we agree to differ. You enthuse your way and I'll enthuse mine! And PLEASE stop being so patronising as to suggest that I've not heard of Bonnie or Billy!
Sheesh!!!!
AND.....It strikes me that nearly all the criticism that comes on these threads is from people who don't have a Myspace page in the first place, and who are therefore totally unaware of the power that this site has to promote music and support musicians, in a way that's never happened before.
SO...could someone 'legal' out there please tell me what the problem is with people just putting 'long snippets' on there then? Are you actually thinking that even if you so much as put *one line* of your song/s on Myspace, then Rupie will grab 100% of the rights to your song/s for evermore?
Or is it that he is saying, a bit like an estate agent would, "Hey, without my site people may never have discovered your music in the first place, so therefore I want a bit of the action?"
I'd appreciate it if the reply to this could be printed in easy to understand language, as I am of course a *complete and total idiot* as those of you who have watched the BBC board have no doubt obviously realised, if you've not already been over there and told me to so or to er..."Go away and leave you all alone" that is.
And have you all written to Myspace to get this sorted, as Billy has suggested? If not...I'd suggest you spend less time in here moaning and far more time over there helping to get it worked out properly.
I've already written to them. No doubt Rupert Murdoch has signed a contract of a very different sort for me, for doing that, but hey..I'm an ex Radio 2 Folk & Acousticer and I love to live dangerously! ;0)
Billy has asked as many people as possible to help him on this, so get out there and do just that!