Music Town presents "Cover Wars"

Just a reminder, tommorrow at 6:00 P.M. Pacific Standard time, the first edition of "Cover Wars" Let's Rock Meet at 6:00 and we will get started.

Not sure if I can join in, I'll stand back and watch the first session, see if I can fit in.
Later
Albert

I'm there! Is there a way to communicate? I see you are there and guitarhacker.

Nutty

Sorry--I had company last night and couldn't join in. How did it go?

That could be a good game as well. It takes away from the idea of all working at the same time, but hey schedules are hard. So let's hear some suggestions.

Ironic that I should be answering this because I didn't understand what "covers" were either a couple of years ago. When you "cover" a song is when you play someone else's song. Doing a cover would be playing/recording "Freebird" or "Sweet Home Alabama" or "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" (Boy George - Culture Club ). So Robo's contest was creating recordings of other people's songs and picking the best one created within his hour time limit.


Rob - I, too, am constrained by schedule and like Herb's idea. That is, if I get time to do it at all anyway.

That's the beauty of a cover, some try to duplicate the original, some, you can't even tell what the original sounded like.
Later
Albert

I donno bout youss guyz (that's yankee talk) but at times...especially on weekends, I don't have 90 minutes (very often) to sit down and work on a tune..... My thought was to record a cover....anytime I have the time.....20 minutes here 30 there....max out at 90 total....then post it to the other forum site when finished....

Have 2 threads set up.....one thread set up for the specific contest....no jabber jawing...just post the link to the song. Have another thread for chewing the rag about the tunes. set a deadline...when all songs have to be posted. Then judge by what ever criteria and everybody votes. Announce the winner.

I was a member of another forum community some time back that did something like that on a monthly basis.

(((It was all original songs but I like this format..."cover tunes" as well....I'd like to see originals in the mix too....but the rule is you have to record a previously unrecorded, unposted song...no pulling out old sound click songs. I'd also like to see..."best effort" contests....in other words...no recording time limits...do the best you can do and post it.)))

All songs were submitted by a date & time....people listened & voted...... the results were posted and the winner announced a day later.

Lets do this, we each have two weeks to create a Cover tune the time line will be like this: we each get 90 minutes to record the song, and 45 minutes to mix and master, then 30 minutes to upload the tune to a site. Then sunday night two weeks from now between 4:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M. Pacific standard time you post that song in a thread on Music town. I will setup the thread it will be called something like "music games" and there will be a new thread under lounge where we talk about it.

In the mean time I will do the game setup and post the complete rules for that game. Then each time we play we will incorporate more of these suggestions, maybe the next time it will be a new original tune, following that maybe a contest where we do a three track accoustic song, then a duo contest, maybe an allstar band contest where two or three band of three or more battle it out for top honors. We might do a contest where we do a song and each exchange individual tracks, and do a remix. There is no end to the possibilities.