Drugs. Uh, oh, here it comes. At some point everybody in the music business comes into contact with them, either by doing them ("Oh, it makes me s-o-o creative!") or by having to work with someone who has done them ("Could somebody please pick Joey up off the floor so we can get started"). The process of making music come to life is such a precarious one that songwriters will do almost anything to help them create. When they get stuck and their brain is devoid of song, the idea of artificially kick starting the cerebrum with a nice fat joint doesn't seem so bad. The only problem is that the "high" is selective - you get blasted but everyone else around you is straight. You think you've just sung the doo doo squat out of a song while everybody in the control room is opening their phone books to try and round up another singer. You stank. But to your ears it was gold. "Oh well, fuck 'em. When I'm famous they'll eat dog food off the floor to get me to sing their piece of shit tune". Not a good session. One...

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Most songwriters tend to think the world revolves around such global-impacting issues as: 1. Will Ms. Big-Big-Big Star record one of my songs on her next album? 2. Will Mr. Big-Big-Bigger Star record one of my songs on his next album? These questions are with them, morning, noon and night. The President resigned. Who cares? "Did you know that my song is on hold over at CBS?" We had a small atomic war with Lithuania this morning. "So what - I got the next Janet Jackson single". Not the most caring about everyone else group of people. So, keeping this in mind, a small earthquake should have little impact on songwriters, right? Think again. Scared the piss right out of every writer I know. Come to think of it, not only the piss but just about every thing else they had ingested over the previous 24 hours came out. Kind of like Mother Nature don't care diddly about music. The nerve of her. The night of the "not quite Big One" I was working on a song for two of my up and coming clients. These...

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