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Thanks you guys for checking it out and for the comments. In this day and age, getting anyone at all to type anything about songs is seeming next to impossible.

I don't say this out of music frustration because I know no other way to live my life than to do songs, I feel it's the best of me and my stupid income-earning career is nothing to me. but I do remember when I was in my 20s and thought to myself I'm pretty good at this songwriting thing, maybe I could be rich and famous someday. and that was waay before I hooked up with this ultimately badassed band. Now Neg Ten is pushing like close to 100 quality melodic/lyrical songs but we're going nowhere, we're obscenely treading water. It doesn't feel right. Obvious as Brian Wilson wrote, I Just Wasn't Made For These Times but people are so goddamned buried in their smartphones with their tiny screens that I know my lifeblood is just taking up cyberspace, wtf?

Ever since college, my theme song has been Neil Young's On The Beach, the world is turning, I hope it don't turn away. I went to the radio interview and I ended up along at the microphone. As of today I'm changing my theme song, it's been this since 1979. Starting today it's Springsteen's Reason To Believe.

I'm the man standing over a dead dog down the highway in a ditch, man's lookin' kinda puzzled, pokin' that dog with a stick.

Ever since college, my life's theme song has been Neil Young's On The Beach. I'm changing it now to Springsteen's Reason To Believe cause I could've written that. I'm the guy standing over a dead dog by the highway in a ditch, lookin' down kinda puzzled, pokin' that dog with a stick. Got his cardoor swung open, he's standin' out on Hiway 31, like if he stood there long enough, that dog'd get up and run.

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Bryon Tosoff

9/2/2024 9:32:52 AM

cool negten, and dig the name

Always love the father time takes on life, music and hope for getting your music going and growing,

so as I see it, not only is it the hooks in the song and the lyrical content that catches ones ear, it is a lot of being young, looks and sex appeal too,and getting ones message out there, so that means, playing live, loving the process and building ones craft.

Those are some of the formula for success, although not just being be good but being exceptional, at what you do in music cause there is so much of a glut of it out there, the other thing, its youthful enthusiasm, drive ,determination and a powerful desire to improve and sprinkled with positive attitude

As one successful fellow said to me, you gotta "press the flesh", in real life situations,in other words you have to be out there hanging around people and exude a positive attitude and love others more then yourself, "kinda"

timing is everything, and as my mom said to me many times "you make your own world" and "be nice" no one likes being around a crank , lol

okay, wishing your band much happenings and grooving songs FT

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Chris Hance

9/2/2024 12:46:56 PM

Sounds quite lively and poppy, but I must say I do prefer the more "social comment" side of Neg Ten, I'll give it a like on YT for you though :)

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Richard Scotti

9/2/2024 3:25:04 PM ---- Updated 9/2/2024 6:11:11 PM

I made peace with failure a long time ago by not viewing it as failure. I never wanted fame and fortune but I do wish I had made more money over the years. Everything costs so much now, especially housing. Success in the music business is very elusive and no one should beat themselves up for not reaching the top of the ladder. As Dylan sang: “it’s just a shadow that you see that he is chasing.”
I count my blessings and I’m grateful that me and mine have a roof over our heads and most of the simple necessities of life and that I have always stayed true to my music and will do so as long as I can.

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Bryon Tosoff

9/3/2024 8:23:27 AM

What I said above, I stand by, yet there are exceptions.

I will say that if someone wants to get out in the real world and do something NOW it can be done, you DON'T have to be young and full of piss and vinegar like my Dad used to say, it is not always about youth, good looks and sex lol.

John Pippus has a project and it is doing well, he is a couple years younger then me and as you all know I am older then that fake old guy that shows up here telling us how old he is and he is not real ahaha.

Here is his latest exploit

John Pippus Tour
Day 1. Fall Tour begins! Driving 10 hours today to Cranbrook BC. First show tomorrow in Cranbrook. Then 37 more shows after that. Fifteen of us in two vehicles. Eight singers, five piece band, sound guy, and lighting tech.

John Pippus Facebook page and current tour
here is Johns IMPNATION page JOHN PIPPUS page here at IMP

My Brother Ted has a project doing covers of BTO Bachman Turner Overdrive and will be performing at a theatre that holds 500 people , my Bro is 64, his current band have been doing shows of late elsewhere too.

Blue Collar Overdrive
Blue Collar Overdrive

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Bryon Tosoff

9/3/2024 8:27:16 AM

My Brothers current project
Blue Collar Overdrive
Blue Collar Overdrive

So I am right and I am wrong or something.

Keep living your dreams, right now

well done to FT neg ten project, great sound!

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Steve April

9/3/2024 2:51:16 PM

Well, look on the bright side...

We're alive & kickin', and making music...

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Bruce Sticky

9/4/2024 3:34:50 PM ---- Updated 9/4/2024 4:59:15 PM

This troll was banned.

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Bryon Tosoff

9/11/2024 6:52:11 PM

This is a great song, awesome beat, rollicking rocking vibe, singing stellar, guitars wicked cool, killer bass and percussion, too cooollllio

added to the eYe

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Bryon Tosoff

9/11/2024 7:39:49 PM

Girls with bangs rox to the eYe eyeyeyeye

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