Hugh McDonald and Alec John Such

a bit off topic but I just now understood why Huey's website is called bassically Huey.
It's because he plays bass and it's called bassically, I thought bassically was just a way to add more chik to the site.
Duh!!
sorry carry on.

Carry On My Sons Forever
Carry On When I Am Gone
Carry On For When Day Is Long
Forever Carry On
For As Long As We’re Together Then
Forever Carry On


Sorry, just bored somehow, I'm off to bed now

Alec had a ton of charisma.. definately a stage presents in the 80s

he'll always be the bassist of BJ even tho Huey is way better technically

huey has been in one pic with Bon Jovi on the single of Real Life, the song they did for the movie ED TV... umm Davie wasnt their so he filled in lol

AWESOME, AWESOME SONG... shouldve been on an album.

Check it out here:
http://www.cdmusicsongs.com/hardrock...B00000IP0D.jpg

http://aintnocureforlove-bj.tripod.c...oundtracks.htm

There are 2 kinds of credits with regards to songs.

the song writing credit and the performance credit.

The songwriting obviously goes to stuff like chords, melody etc...

performance goes towards who's played ont he reocrds. If keys are a big partof a song say like Piano man by billy joel and he wrote that then it's a song writing credit, Drums are much harder to get to be a song writing credit. MAYBE and at a very stretch, a tiny writing credit could be given to whoever came up withthe intro drums to It's My life but that would probably go to the guitar anyways.


Now when a song is recorded and published the bandsmanager will fill out a form from the respective royalty agencies (ascap, BPI etc...) which says who had a part in the songwriting and what percentage of the song they wrote. Ifd it's 2 people it will probably be 50/50 but if there's a collaboration then they;'ll have to decide how much each contributed and what it's worth to the full song.

Performance credits are just the same really and YOU can actually lay down a track playing the triangle and make a fair bit of money off of it if you go down on record as playign the triangle in the performance credits. You will get paid alot less for the performance credits though which would explain why Noel Gallagher is worth 4 times more than Liam and why richie and Jon make more money than dave and Tico.

What one must remember is that anything can be written on this form. Jon may not even have touched a song but get a 50 or 33% song writing cut on it just like artists like madonna etc.... do.

and what is on this form isn't necesarilly what's on the booklets credits so hugh may very well indeed be getting paid some songwriting credits without it being widely known.

Being a session muso though chances are he was just paid to be there and in their contracts most sessioners sign a clause saying anything they come up with that ends up in the song wether it be a riff melody or arrangement will not gain them a song writing credit.

Some of the greatest hooks and riffs ever have been thought up by session guys in the studio but they've got no writting credit for it.