obidie

obidie t1_itcj28r wrote

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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