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March 7, 2020
Drhill
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What if, writing, I always seem to leave

Some better thing, or better way, behind, Why should I therefore fret at all, or grieve! The worse I drop, that I the better find; The best is only in thy perfect mind. Fallen threads I will not search for–I will weave. Who makes the mill-wheel backward strike to grind! GM

June 26, 2019
Drhill
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Et tu?

When I was young I wrote a lot of little poems, mostly about the beauty and necessity of Wonder; which was a genuine feeling with me, as it is still. The power of seeing plain things and landscapes in a kind of sunlight of surprise; the power of jumping at the sight of a bird

March 6, 2019
Drhill
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Music Streaming – what do they pay?

1 million views on Youtube = $740.00 1 million streams on Spotify = $3,970.00 RIAA reports digital revenues now account for 90% of all music consumed, with streaming taking up about 80%, downloads about 20%. The music business is now the streaming business. The top 10 streamers account for 97% of all streaming dollars. Fun

October 20, 2017
Drhill
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Criminal?

I don’t post a lot about the music business for different reasons. Even though I have a lot of experience, and even have done things many people would consider having “made it” I still don’t feel like I have it figured out. I have a similar thing about advice in general. No doubt people like

May 24, 2017
Drhill
music production,new gear,screenwriting and movies,van gogh,
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quick update >

soooo lots going on…but you wouldn’t know by my posts! I was recently brought on-board to write a screenplay for a movie contest…how did that come about – you ask? Basically I wrote a short piece of fiction in a comment section of a blog, and it was believable enough for a local movie dude

August 10, 2016
Drhill
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thoughts on creativity

… so I am fixing a water connection to the front of my house, and I look down and see a folded paper on the ground… I pick it up and unfold it, and find this; well, well, well… a song idea. from when? I had no idea. I have piles of

December 30, 2015
Drhill
christianity and fire and burning,david hill,everything burns,m initiative benchmark,music production,new music,new song,
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new song > everything burns

sooo – that was 2015 eh? Was it me or did this year whistle right on by? This next song, “everything burns” came about a while back as I had a huge bonfire in my back yard. I did some footage with my iphone in slo-motion and was suitably interested in the dancing very orange

September 12, 2015
Drhill
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on the outside looking in >

I recently watched the movie Standing In The Shadow Of Motown. The entire movie was good, though I was a little less into the guest spot cameos of people covering the hits (Bootsy on bass > oh yeah – singing classic Motown? not so much). There was a lot of talk in the movie how

September 1, 2015
Drhill
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Standing in the Shadows of Motown

Do you know the Funk Brothers? This movie is a great documentary on Detroits version of the Wrecking Crew!

August 9, 2015
Drhill
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new song > You’re The One

up next is a song with some difficulties inherent on multiple levels…let me start from the beginning… a few months ago I ordered this Rogue combo pack on a whim, got it – tuned the guitar to open G, grabbed a glass slide, and slid into this song almost on the first few strums. I

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