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Were you emptying your pockets or flushing
anything?
Oh, I'm like freaking out now. We go back into
the recording studio and I said, "Sir, did I do
anything?" And he says, "Do you know Charles

"Don't write a song about something
you think you know about, or something you wish you knew about,
because it's not gonna resonate."
Manson?" And I said, "What? The Charles Manson? No. What?" And he showed me this piece
of paper and my name was on a list of about 40
songwriters, producers, notable people in the
music business. And he said, "This is a list that
we recovered from wherever." This was after he
was already in custody and in jail, might have
been even a year after the fact.
Apparently, he had a list of people he had sent
cassettes to, because I guess Charlie was a songwriter. They said, "Do you recall getting a song
from Charles Manson?" I said, "No, I don't."
And I explained that anything unsolicited
would be put in a big box and just thrown out
by the people that worked in my office. But,
yeah, that was Charlie.
Frankly I'm surprised he's never been a TAXI
member. [laughter]
He might have been, under a different name.
I remember the first time I asked Michael Lloyd to
join us for a Road Rally, he turned white-I mean,
just blanched white. And he broke out into a cold
sweat. I said, "Are you okay?" I was worried that he
was having a heart attack or something. And he
said, "I can't sit on a panel and judge people's
music." And I said, "Why not?" And he said it was
because he was one of the people that Charlie
Manson had given songs to, and he had turned
him down.
Well, Terry Melcher who was the target of the
murders, it was his house where Sharon
Tate...Terry just wasn't there at the time. He had
just leased it out to Roman Polanski, and
Roman wasn't there, he was off shooting a film,
and there were about three or four people there.
And they were the targets.
So you are Mr. Right Place at the Right Time, and
they were Mr. Wrong Place at the Wrong Time,
sadly.
Let's talk about these folks in the audience for a
minute. What are the most common questions you
get from aspiring songwriters, artists, people who
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want to enjoy success in
the music industry in
one way or another.
Not unlike myself and
other people in the
industry, we all have
friends who've got a
daughter or a son who
is a virtuoso violin
player. What advice do
you give to either the
kids or the parents-
anybody that wants to
be in the industry?
Well, on a broader
scale, being in any
industry is knowing
how to accept rejection and be prepared
for it, and don't let it
blow your mind and
fill you with so much Steve Dorff tells the audience why two FBI agents visited him in the studio.
self-doubt that you
That's a big deal. So we'll see. It's competitive,
want to give up. On a songwriter level, which I
but to be on the ballot is a dream. Believe it or
can speak to easier, I always tell people to write
not, one of my things on my musical bucket list
what you know, because the question I get is,
is to score a James Bond movie. I love James
"What inspired you to write through the years?" Bond, and I watch every movie. Every night, if I
or "How do you get your ideas to write about?"
scroll through and there's a James Bond movie
In thinking about that over the years, it's write
on, I'll watch it. And I would love to do the
what you know. Don't write a song about some- music to one of those.
thing you think you know about, or something
you wish you knew about, because it's not gonna Who's your favorite James Bond, actor-wise?
resonate. But if you write what you know-if
I like the new guy, but I like Pierce Brosnan. I
your heart's been broken or whatever it is that
do like Daniel Craig.
you're experiencing, that's what I write about.
Yeah, he's so moody and intense.
How do you keep it fresh and current and not fall
Yeah, he's dark... he's darker. Brosnan was fun.
into the trap of chasing trends, while being true to Roger Moore was a little too light-hearted, a
who you are?
little too comical. I didn't believe he would be
Yeah, I never listen to the radio, so I'm not chas- the tough guy. I thought Pierce was the guy.
ing any trends. I write what I hear and what I
Saturday Night Live totally ruined Sean Connery for
"I'm not chasing any trends. I write
me when they did all the spoofs on him. It was
what I hear and what I feel, and trust like, ah man, you're breaking my heart, because I
used to think he was like the coolest guy in the
and hope that someone relates."
world when I was a kid.
feel, and trust and hope that someone relates...
It's just being true to what you do. You know,
OK, one last piece of advice. You and I have many
when disco came in, I just went "Bang, I'm outta good friends in common, but one that really sticks
here," because that's not what I do. I'm not
out is Paul Williams, who, by the way, makes me
gonna write... As much as I like, and my daugh- look good on a golf course, which is really hard to
ters listen to rap music and hip-hop, but you're
do. Paul gave you some really great advice early in
not gonna see me doing that, or hear me doing
your career about who the best publisher is. Can
that; it's just not what I do. So I've stayed pretty you give that to the audience?
true to what I know I do best.
Yeah, Pauly and I were having lunch one day,
and... I mean, he is one of the most brilliant
What dreams do you have that are still on your
songwriters ever, and I was a huge fan, and I got
bucket list from a musical perspective? What have
to meet him and we became friends. And he is
you always wanted to do? Now you've even done
one of the few guys who is shorter than me.
Broadway, which I know is...
[laughter] But we were having lunch one day,
Well, the big dreams I had... I'm not inducted
talking about the frustrations of getting songs
yet, but I did get nominated to the Songwriters
recorded and how tough it is. Paul said that
Hall of Fame.
there is the frustration of having a publisher
That's a big deal. That's a small club.

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