The Illusion of Credit and Creation...

integrity

[in-teg-ri-tee]

noun 

1. adherence to moral and ethical principles; 
soundness of moral character; honesty.

Number one reason to maintain silence.

Fear of losing the Illusion of Integrity.

Number one reason to lie.

Loss of Integrity.

These words don't just apply to the Music Industry... The lack of integrity has become an ever-present force within our World.  It surrounds us and draws us in... even the best of us are challenged daily to compromise what is right.

It reins in our governments, the world's financial systems, and even the religions so many consider the moral compass of their souls.

I will find a way to deal with those elements in the world around me... What bothers me most is the lack of integrity we allow in recorded History.  Here we are at what many would call the most technologically advanced stage of human civilization. Yet history is put to shame by pictures on a cave wall, and even some of those early historians exaggerated the truth.  The future depends in part on the History we leave behind; will truth not matter to our descendants?

The PC age of computers has allowed us to record & scan massive amounts of information. Now, a document that was once known only to one individual, buried among boxes in their attic, can be scanned and reunited with other hidden pieces of the event.  Even if this doesn't paint a precise picture of the past, it might give us a clearer understanding of what took place.

Without fail... the overwhelming power that keeps the truth away seems to always have an underlying reason.

In the Music Industry, this reason is ROYALTIES.  If acknowledging the real truth could lead to the loss of current-day royalties for individuals & music publishers... they have either copied, burned, buried, or locked that truth up in Fort Knox.  Even if they were told they could keep all the money & rights, they still wouldn't share the truth.  For then the illusion of integrity is gone.  So... the code of silence is the Industry motto... 

After hundreds of inquiries to individuals & corporations within the music industry over the last seven years regarding John Bartee, I have gotten the message loud & clear.  CASH trumps Truth.

Old lovable Buddy in The Dick Van Dyke Show went to his grave under a similar code: denial.  Right or Wrong...even in this case, the truth is somewhere in there.  Are we prepared, as individuals, for future generations to write the Wikipedia article on who we were based on the information they have available?  But then do we really care?


Lord Invader -  Rum & Coca-Cola

Andrew Sisters - Rum & Coca-Cola

At least this makes the rules of the game easier to understand.  I now only believe the illusion that there were 9 laws on those stone tablets, and even those are debatable.   Play Ball...