Bowman Arrow (too many genes in the pool)
I'm a musician from the Pensacola, Fl. area, actually to be
more accurate, I'm a 47 year old electronic technician by
day, a web crawler by night, and former working
musician/current songwriter. Last year you might say I went
a little bit 'Middle-Age Crazy' and recorded my first solo
CD, called 'r.e.b.'. My band name or entity is Bowman
Arrow. This was basically a labor of love, however aside
from a few mixing flaws I'm quite proud of it. As hard as I
tried to divorce myself from the rock'n'roll frame of mind,
I couldn't shake off the songwriting end. They just kept
popping out. Considering I have no kids, the CD will have
to do for 'posterity'. The subject I'd like to briefly
address now is music's 'category/genre' dilemma. I really
can't say it's been a big problem for me because my main
intent and purpose of my CD and
web page
is to showcase my
songwriting for publishers, producers etc., and diversity
is actually an asset in that respect. But try & find a
market for it!?! The CD contains Rock'n'Roll (hard,medium,&
soft),blues,ballads, and Country(traditional,modern &
folk). That means the Rock stations won't play it because
it's too 'country',the country stations say it's too rock
oriented, actually I think (not to mention it not being on a
major label) it's just that I'm too old. Ironically I used
to think when I got too old for R&R there'd always be
country. This business of categorizing everything has been
around a long time and as an old trouper I was well aware
of 'spreading myself too thin', but I doubt I'll be doing
this every year and wanted to put my best 'feet' forward.
"To me there are two types of music, good and bad"--Paul
McCartney. And each of those is in the ear of the beholder.
To further confuse the matter my web page also features a
classical sounding rather haunting melody,"Annalee",
intended for a romantic movie coming to a theater near you,
and a Devo-influenced techno-rock song called "Information
Overload" about the interNET, news media glut, Heaven's
Gate and general frantic pace we seem to be approaching the
new century. I wish to thank Music Unbound for providing a
Forum to vent my love and dread of this business we call
Music. Please stop by sometime and visit my web site and
feel free to Email me ronbowman@gulf.net
-- Ron E. Bowman
posted 08/16/97