Hi guys, I'm tired.............

[johnnydean1]

Quote:Rules.4. You agree, through your use of these boards, that you will not use these boards to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, obscene, threatening, invasive Johnnydean wrote:That more or less takes care of it.What we need now is an interpretation of these word, abusive, vulgar, obscene. The man is right on. I think I can offer an interpretation. Oh wait........Johnny interpreted the rule in this post. If one person among hundreds is offended, it is a breach of the rules. It doesn't matter that I was the one he chose to say enough is enough. The gentleman said enough is enough, and I respect that. Toward that end, Johnny, I truly apologize for offending you. I can't apologize for anyone else, but I hope my apology stands as an indication that it is not my intent to offend one soul. That goes for these boards as in life. Please accept my apology as heartfelt and sincere.Wanna know the true definition of democracy? It is three wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.I think we will all agree that there are no sheep here.Again, my sincere apology. It takes a strong voice to put things right, and your voice is strong.IBANEZ, the wheelbarrow thing was great. Not musically orientated, but classic.Let's all move on. Heinsite has some idea for restructure of the BIOTM work. He's a good writer, I'm sure we'll come to an agreement.Me and the Jeepster got something on TLPF going on, having fun with that.Tom Aragon has the coolest icons going, and if Alanis Morrissette didn't lay down the vocals for "BREATHE" I'll eat my hat. (In the words of Bullwinkle, "I wear a 9 and a 1/2.")Hello lopc,firstly I would like to apologize to you because you were having a difficult time and I didn't help you.Under normal circumstances I would have PM'd you empathized with how you were feeling and offer any help and support I could.The problem started when I read the jokes and the bad language on a day of considerable importance in the Christian calender and thought it was totally inappropriate.I am no angel as a large proportion of the people here would be quick to agree with.I love jokes of all kinds,when I am in the right company every fifth maybe sixth word is a swear word and I have no doubt if we were in a van or a plane together going to a gig we would have a lot of fun.However, ;This is the Taxi message board populated in the main by fine,decent,kind,considerate and helpful people with music being the common denominator.I think musician jokes are fun and Ibanez has been coming up with some hilarious stuff lately that wouldn't hurt anybody.Your analogy about the sheep and the wolves is fine but they are animals and I would like to think the human race has a bit more moral sophistication than that.If you are saying because somebody is stronger than somebody else that gives the the right to rule.I don't agree!In Europe,one man convinced the majority of his people that an ethnic minority didn't have the right to live.He was stronger then them and the world will have to live with the result of that forever.So,somebody has to draw a line in the sand,I drew it and made myself even more unpopular than usual.The majority will go with the flow.I was surprised by the apathy shown by some of the other Taxi members who I would have previously thought had very high moral standards but when they saw the wolves circling they joined the pack and attacked.Have I any respect for these people now.None whatsoever! Do they care? I very much doubt it.I done justice to my conscience.Here endeth this lesson.

[sgs4u]

JD: Apathy, would be sitting here reading what you wrote, and NOT responding...However, I will continue to defend your right to speak your mind, about anything. That'll be 3 camels please.

[matto]

Hey Barney,no time to argue about four letter words, but I did take a listen to your song.In my humble but honest opinion this is a good song, but not a great one. Sometimes we love our songs for something other than their pure quality...for something they may makes us feel or remind us of...and I think this may be one of those songs for you.As somebody else has said before I don't think the "Blame it on the moonlight" title ties strongly enough into the first (and second) verse, it's quite a stretch. It works better in the end of the song, but it's really not a very strong and unique use of that phrase and hook.I also think the chorus changes far too much lyrically in order to accomodate the different verses, which to me is always a sign that the concept of the song is not as strong and well thought out as it should be.It's interesting that you're trying to cut the song down in length. You may think it's a commercial necessity only, but I think it's actually something that the lyric itself demands, because as it is it's not "tight" but peppered with lines that are cool but don't go to the heart of the story and thus are just "filler" to fit the melody and musical structure of the song. That's never a good thing, and really the root cause of the song's excessive length.The melody is good, but just a bit too ordinary and "by the numbers" for me, particularly in the chorus. I like the "Blame it on the moonlight" part, but the rest of the melody wanders too aimlessly and thus makes the chorus too long.To me, this is one of those songs that probably can't be fixed. I think you'd have to completely start from scratch, with just the title line and make it into a more compelling concept. That may be impossible because you've probably fallen in love with too many lines and parts.I would just put this aside and maybe try to market it to film and tv as is. It's possible it could find a use there.Move forward and incorporate what you've leared into writing new, and better, songs.Best of luck!matto

[milfus]

I cant be vulgar, ah screw this, i quit*snicker*