Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!UNTVAX!GRUTZ From: GRUTZ@UNTVAX.BITNET (crawl into another head) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic Subject: RE: N*i'ls Schooling Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 90 17:39:00 GMT Sender: Discussions on all forms of Music Reply-To: Discussions on all forms of Music Lines: 21 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway Original_To: JNET%"allmusic@auvm" Original_cc: GRUTZ Drummer person, Lots of people write songs before they have a high school diploma. I had a friend who could write lyrics when he was only in 7th grade. (and they were social lyrics about the world, no "girlfriend left me" bullcrud) True, grouping Gibson, Tiffany, my friend, and P*art into the same category because they wrote lyrics without a high school diploma is correct, but of course, that is a very one-sided view and whomever made that view doesn't take into concideration the content of each lyricist. I have this vision of Drummer sitting at a terminal, laughing his head off... dunno, just a vision. Hey, while we're all talking about lyricists - does anyone know if such great lyricists as Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Edie Brickel, et al graduated from a "big named lyric" college or wrote lyrics in High school? I'm sure Edie Brickel wrote lyrics in High School, so this means she's also in the same group as Tiffany... okay... I see your point... nothing left to do but :-) :-) :-) grutz