Found a music publisher. It’s Bobbie Gallup, co-writer of “Dead Things in the Shower”; she and her late husband had Gallup ‘n’ Dawg Music in Nashville. We’ll do the “Dirty Deeds” album street legal here (for a change), and see if we can’t use the new-found legitimacy to get some radio play.
I should say a word or two about the computer. “Alice” is a big, fast machine built for me three years ago, that’s set up primarily for graphic design work. Because the graphic-design software I use is old (it was expensive), Alice has Windows 98. When her printer quit this weekend (after 3 years), I found it about impossible to find a replacement. Nobody makes anything that works with Windows 98 any more.
Local computer geek showed me a trick for making the Windows 98 software work on Windows XP, so that’s probably how I’ll go. I can quadruple Alice’s RAM (and she’s already fast), so I’ll do that first. Looks like that’s where this paycheck’s gonna go.
Current to-do’s: Talk to Johnny B. about recording the “Dirty Deeds Done to Sheep” album with his band—and find out if I can rope other musicians (from the Songwriters’ Association, say) in for some of the tracks—I really want dual “whiny” and “non-whiny” leads where I can get ‘em. Talk to Dan Doshier about playing opportunities this and next weekend, when I’ll be in town. Now that I have dependable Internet again, re-establish contact with other writers’ sites that got lost in the cracks with Alice’s stay in the ‘puter hospital and the Dang Wireless that didn’t work half the time. And record “Dirty Deeds We Done to Sheep.” It’s time.
Joe
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