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obidie t1_itcj28r wrote

Reply to comment by thequicknessinc in The Modern Music industry sounds like a shit-show by coolguysteve21

Why do you just assume that bassists, drummers and keyboardists aren't songwriters? In all the bands that I was in, the best songwriter out of everyone was a bass player. Come to think of it, isn't that bass player that used to be in the Beatles a pretty decent songwriter? Or Brian Wilson, Larry Graham, Dee Dee Ramone, Stanley Clarke or Lemmy? For songwriting drummers, Don Henley, Phil Collins and Levon Helm, Dave Grohl and Jim Capaldi immediately come to mind and for keyboardists, Christine McVie, Michael McDonald, Elton John, Billy Joel, Warren Zevon, Keith Emerson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bruce Hornsby, Edgar Winter and Gregg Allman got the songwriting taken care of. They got a little bit more than just the proceeds from touring and merch sales.

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thequicknessinc t1_itcqwze wrote

Appreciate you adding these. These are great examples of those that are. You may have misread what I wrote. Frequently, many aren’t given writing credits and so they don’t make any money from record sales. No assumptions made on the nature of their contribution at all.

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FrivolousPositioning t1_itcvdmp wrote

Pearl Jam is a good example too since OP mentioned them in their post. Every member with multiple writing creds or entire songs they wrote themselves.

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