Songs in THE RAW!!! July 28...revisited

The long wait is over. The song from last week is finally in the system. It took my SNOCAP people a long time to get my new song into the SNOCAP store. In the mean time, I just look like an ass. I promised to write and record a new song every week. I did it last week and uploaded it to SNOCAP. It has just arrived there. You have no idea how frustrating that is for me....or maybe you do. I do my part and leave the technical stuff up to the techs. That's where my knowledge ends. So I'm sitting here with my hands tied waiting for the modern miracle to happen. How does that work anyway? The song starts in my computer, travels through that air like the kid in the white suit in "Charlie and The Chocolate Factory", then it ends up on the Internet(s). How does it know? I'm on wireless.....is it like a cloud floating in a blue sky towards it's new home on the web? Well, my cloud didn't get there for a while!

I've totally digressed. What I am here to talk about, besides the weekend's debacle, is this weeks song. I am really exited about this one. It's up-tempo and has a hooky little melody. I think that i stumbled on to a bridge yesterday and a cool lyrical theme, which I will now share with you!

I was doing an imaginary interview in my head yesterday as walked through Golden Gate Park. One of the questions the interviewer asked was, "Do you consider yourself yo be successful?" My response was, "If you consider loosing thousands of dollars every year, driving around the country playing songs to no one in the middle of nowhere, leaving my wife for extended periods of time and beating my head against a wall in the name of creativity for little or no recognition, then YES, I do consider myself to be successful."

This interview has spawned this week's song topic. It seems that no matter how hard I work at this thing, I never get any closer to my goal. What is my goal you ask? Well, I would like to be able to pay the rent, eat, feed my children and put outrageously over priced gas in my car all with money that has been earned through my music. Is that too much for me to ask? Am I dreaming? Have I lost my marbles? I'd say...YES....I have definitely gone off the deep end.

But, I am the perpetual optimist. I'm a dreamer! I play golf.....poorly! I only see the tarnished bright side of the coin! I'd rather die trying to live my dream then dream about a life that could have been (I smell a song in that).

OK.....enough of my yackin'. Due to last week's technical mayhem, I created another MySpace page where the songs will be posted every week. You can download them onto your MySpace profile, listen to them in their entirety and purchase from the SNOCAP store all from the SONGS IN THE RAW MySpace page. So, now you're got links out of the ying yang to look into for your weekly SONGS IN THE RAW fix.

And here they are;
Songs in the Raw (SitRaw) MySpace;
www.myspace.com/songsintheraw

Jon Roniger MySpace;
www.myspace.com/jonronigermusic

Jon Roniger website;
www.jonroniger.com

I'd love to hear from you.

Peace,
Jon