A View From Here. A few years ago there was a writers conference held in the central Oregon coast town of Yachats, where I lived. I listened to the late Ken Kesey, a frequent visitor to the area, tell a writer that this could be a hard place to write. “If you think you can sit there staring at the ocean for inspiration you’re wrong, it’s not out there, it’s in your head!”
He was right. It is beautiful here in Lincoln County. It’s the kind of beauty that makes concentrating on anything else tough. And since hearing that insight, I’ve written at a desk facing a wall no windows opening onto a ocean view, although I have one, but it’s worked.
I’ve done, and do, different kinds of writing. As a freelance writer I’ve been a observational columnist, a humor columnist, a book and music reviewer for newspapers, magazines, and online.
However, as a creative writer, my heart belongs to fiction. In that genre I do short stories, road adventure stories, musical adventure tales, and in current production, are three small novels.
So really the purpose of this web site is to give you a glance of some of the things I’ve done, a preview of what’s coming, and hopefully, a view of what it’s like to be a writer living in a small town on the Oregon coast! – Rick Schultze
JC Management took the recording we’d done at Kaye West studio and turned it into a album. That was just a small part of the process JC Management started. We had to pose for photo shoots for the album, do bios on each member and do a few interviews with Read more…
Once we signed with Jackson and Coker management our world changed. From the garage to this was mind blowing for our band. I guess we’d been living in a daze; playing and getting by, and surviving. Now suddenly we were being told what to do, where to go, and what Read more…
It felt like a bomb exploded. Nate Jackson and is boss Keith Coker showed up at Duffys and told us they had a plan and wanted to sign us to a new label they were starting. Warner Brothers was still the main record company but the new label was a Read more…
Going into a recording studio was a whole new ballgame for us! We’d started as five buddies rocking out in a garage, now were entering a professional recording studio paid for by a record label. It was getting serious. Solomon Studios in Portland was a top notch Northwest stop for Read more…
The record Representative, Nate Jackson, from Warner Brothers Records arrived and introduced himself to all of us at Duffys to get the audition started. He’d checked in to a hotel downtown and after auditioning us was flying back to Los Angeles in the morning. It was much different dealing with Read more…
We Rocked the Molly Brown Tavern and Bozeman, Montana and every other rock club on the GMA circuit for the next few months while working on our own original songs. Our goal was to work our way West and hit the bigger markets in Portland and Seattle. We knew if Read more…
Molly Browns was the name of the club we were booked to play in Bozeman, Montana. Another great club in a college town, Bozeman is the home of Montana State and it rocks! After our first set we could feel it, it was going to be a good job! As Read more…
Our first stop playing on the GMA circuit after Missoula was The Red Barn in Great Falls, Montana. The Barn, as it was affectionately called was a big wide open club, It was a great place to play and the owners were easy to work with. Great Falls also had Read more…
A blast from the past in these crazy days. I usually write about current events but this week I’m going back to a more innocent time, hope you get a kick out of it! Back before cell phones and the internet I was in a rock and roll band. I’d Read more…
So you’ve got your band of friends together to start a band. To test the waters with your talent you have to play somewhere besides in the garage. You know, get a job. The first bands I was a member in played teen dances and local small parties. We went Read more…
The Agent He or she that facilitates a deal that benefits both the seller and the buyers. Here we are talking about the band that is for sale and the club owner or promoter that is buying the band. Done correctly both parties make some money. That is in theory Read more…
So our band had progressed to working now and then in small bars. We had secured an agent who was trying to push us into what we thought was the “big time”. To us that was steady work in one of the several bars that used bands five nights a Read more…