Monday, March 12, 2007

Marty Stuart wants to Add me as a friend?????

Not sure if anyone reading this has seen it, but I have a small "Myspace" site

its at http://www.myspace.com/bongwatermusic

theres a little bio, some pics.. and you can "add friends"

I started out adding real buddies.. then I saw one of my buddies had a "famous buddy" and thought, thats cool.... so I clicked their profile, and clicked "add as friend" and they accepted...

turns out.... its just a decent marketing scheme... So artists, and even politicians actually hire people to create, promote and maintain their "my space" profiles

anyway.. tonight I come home and I get a message that Marty Stuart wants to add me to his friends list..

Now, to put things in perspective... I have a whoping total of "80" friends on myspace..(81 now that I can include Marty) Mr Stuart has 11,831 So the odds of him surfing the net, stumbling around my site, and thinking? "hey, that guy seems cool" are pretty f--king slim. But i'll admit.. the dreamer in me who still hopes for hope of a career even somewhat related in the music biz thought.. "maybe" but who am I kidding...

So I thought about it... and thought about it... and then I had a Eureka Moment worthy of a Veronic Mars episode.... here goes:

My best guess is that a lot of these people might use the same "professional" my space marketing firms... Not long after seeing Willie Nelson in concert, I found his page and clicked "add" Now, I went on Martys site, and low and behold, one of the first names on Marty's list of 11,831 is Willie... so My little CSI investigation lead me to the conclusion that maybe Willies people and Marty's people are either the same people, or they sold Marty his list, with the intent to maybe increase his fan base....

While I wish that were not the case, its the only answer that makes sense... I mean really?? oh well.. either way.. I accepted the add... come on, its Marty F--king Stuart? am I really gonna say no??? he's also listed in my list of "People I'd like to meet" so what-a-ya gonna do???

anyway.. just to be sure.. I emailed him via myspace...
I'll interpret a "no response" as affirmation of my little detective work...
but if he actually does reply... I'll likely shit my pants.....

oh shit... I just thought of something, we covered one of his tunes back in the early 90's on the Jack Harbour Lookout Cassette... We gave full credit on that to the writers/publishers in so far as Radio is concerned, but we never asked for the publishers permission or paid that 7.7 cents per cassette your spose to pay.. Maybe hes looking for the 77 bucks we owe him (we only had 1,000 made, sold mostly door to door... hey, it was Newfoundland in the late 80's and early 90's thats how it got done)

Marty, if your reading this.. Sorry Man.. I'll gladly pay the 77 bucks man... just give me your address, and I'll deliver it in person.!

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