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.

[World Dreamer]

It just shows that CCP took advantage of the agreement, let Ed do the bulk of the work, and still took the same cut of the money. If they were true friends, they would have reworked the initial agreement to make the percentages reflect the workload of each member. Instead, they sat back and collected.

What do you want them to do? Sit down with a calculator and count up each word and/or note each one of them thought of for each song?

"Well, Ed, on this song you came up with 78 of the 100 words, CT, you had 12, PD, you had 10 and CAG, you had 10....divide by the bass line...square root of the drums....and multiply by the guitar solo...let's see here...oh, right, Railo...you passed out but you still played 15 notes on the keyboard soooo...that comes to a split of....oh, right, Adam, let's see...what's that Ed? Oh, you are taking his cut? Oh, ok...."

Nick, you are an insane person.