fixxxer
Senior Member
I am in a three piece band- singer/ lead guitar, bassist and drummer (me). We work as a "democracy" where there is no defined leader and everyone has equal say in how things go with the band.
All of our original material is usually born from jam sessions where we come up with songs that we like, and together, we start forming a song structure out of them. I will say that our singer/ lead guitarist writes all of the lyrics for the songs.
My question is, in a situation like this, who actually can take credit for writing the songs?
I ask this because recently the singer is getting somewhat of a big head and taking full credit for writing all of our originals to the extent that he announces (on stage to the audience) that he wrote them, which the bassist and I find a bit offensive because we feel we played a part in developing these songs.
Before we confront him (in an attempt to bring him back down to reality) I just want to make sure I understand how credit is given for song writing in this type of situation.
Thanks ahead for your responses!
All of our original material is usually born from jam sessions where we come up with songs that we like, and together, we start forming a song structure out of them. I will say that our singer/ lead guitarist writes all of the lyrics for the songs.
My question is, in a situation like this, who actually can take credit for writing the songs?
I ask this because recently the singer is getting somewhat of a big head and taking full credit for writing all of our originals to the extent that he announces (on stage to the audience) that he wrote them, which the bassist and I find a bit offensive because we feel we played a part in developing these songs.
Before we confront him (in an attempt to bring him back down to reality) I just want to make sure I understand how credit is given for song writing in this type of situation.
Thanks ahead for your responses!
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