The Songwriting of Live Options

[SJN1279]

In Ed's head, he is talking about how he has changed from rock and roll excess to finding god/family. Many of us here twist it into him singing about how he has changed to become a guy who backstabs his friends CC&P. This is probably the clearest way I can explain it here for someone who is new to the board

CCP had no problem taking 75 percent song writing credit and money for songs that Ed basically wrote 100 percent himself. I think that is a pretty crummy thing to do to a friend.

[themaestro]

To answer the question, I believe that Ed wrote the bulk of the music and melody for the majority of Live's songs. If Pat or Chad added anything extra, it was credited on the album. A person can write a complete song and have others perform it. Not every person who contributes to a band musically receives songwriting credit or royalty.

Fuuuuuuck, Fuck, FUCK! You are painting everything with such a broad stroke. Look, the liner notes say what they say. I doubt that is their full legal agreement between band members on songwriting credits and royalties. Funky spelled it out before and you were proven to be way off base in your assessment of who got credit for what. Bottom line is, we get that you think Ed deserves more. More credit, more money, more notoriety, more of everything. Great. That's why he went solo. But guess what, now he's getting more of less. Yeah, 100% of very little will not equate to what he could have earned as 25% of Live. He fucked that up. So who gives a shit if he gets full credit. Full credit for what he is doing now or what he did with SFBM doesn't mean squat.