Need input - demos direct to artist?

[TLuerding]

Something unusual happened to me last night.

While working overnights in a major convenience store chain, one customer
mentioned casually that he was "glad to have a little break from driving".
Said he drove in the "entertainment transportation" area....

While talking it came out that he was the tour bus driver for Travis Tritt.
Reeled off names 's driven for in the last 30 years...Going back to Conway,
Loretta....etc.

I casually mentioned that I had written some country stuff and (half-jokingly)
suggested that he might be able to get Travis to take a listen. He replied
(seriously) that "sure, he'd be glad to pass them along to Travis" for me.

Is this a good way to get your songs "lifted" by somebody else? (Assuming they
ae any good - though I'm rather fond of them and would only send my best one or
two)

Or is this a "dream-come-true"? - a chance to get your best stuff in the hands
of a major artist.

I'd appreciate any thoughts.

Thanks.

Todd.

[Steve Guidos]

>TLuerding wrote:
> While working overnights in a major convenience store chain, one customer

>mentioned casually that he was ... the tour bus driver for Travis Tritt.

>I casually mentioned that I had written some country stuff and
(half-jokingly)
>suggested that he might be able to get Travis to take a listen. He replied
>(seriously) that "sure, he'd be glad to pass them along to Travis" for me.
>Is this a good way to get your songs "lifted" by somebody else?

>Or is this a "dream-come-true"? - a chance to get your best stuff in the
hands
>of a major artist.

Only you know if you are dreaming. Just how good are your songs?

Have you been toiling away in your closet, following your 'heart' and damn
the radio, never letting anyone else hear your songs because the few people
who've heard them in the distant past were so very negative? Or have you
been attending workshops and critique sessions, listening to the pros and
absorbing their experience, changing and perhaps even improving your
songwriting skills over the years, getting better and more positive feedback
by competant writers and publishers in the business and whose opinions you
respect?

Luck is simply Preparation meeting Opportunity. Here's an opportunity, how
good is your preparation? Dive in and find out......

Steve Guidos

[Watson Davis]

>
> Something unusual happened to me last night.
>

> While working overnights in a major convenience store chain, one customer

> mentioned casually that he was "glad to have a little break from driving".
> Said he drove in the "entertainment transportation" area....
>

> While talking it came out that he was the tour bus driver for Travis Tritt.

> Reeled off names 's driven for in the last 30 years...Going back to Conway,
> Loretta....etc.
>

> I casually mentioned that I had written some country stuff and (half-jokingly)
> suggested that he might be able to get Travis to take a listen. He replied
> (seriously) that "sure, he'd be glad to pass them along to Travis" for me.
>

> Is this a good way to get your songs "lifted" by somebody else? (Assuming they
> ae any good - though I'm rather fond of them and would only send my best one or
> two)
>

> Or is this a "dream-come-true"? - a chance to get your best stuff in the hands
> of a major artist.
>

> I'd appreciate any thoughts.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Todd.

Any chance to start a relationship with a major artist is an
opportunity. Personally, I think the odds of someone major ripping you
off is pretty slim. A Travis Tritt has plenty of great songs to pick
and choose from. If one of your songs is better than the stuff he's
been seeing and he wants to make money from it, he'll change a word or
two and ask for half the songwriting credit. A person I know passed up
an opportunity like this with Madonna and ended up making nothing with
her song. If it had been recorded by Madonna and put on an album, even
50% would have been a mint.