I don't know if this was ever a post before but...I wonder if Ben will approve of the members on the org that are singers and musicians" put together a "Prince.org Cover Song CD"??? with Prince songs only,,, I know this may sound dum! cuz a lot of legal Matters will have to be dealt with,,,soo this was just something I was thinking about" ...also they may be Mad!!! musicians on the site so it might not work,,, "to many" !!

i would do it...i'm a singer...calling dibs on "do Me Baby" right now

AprilMichelle said:

Check you out! Callin dibs haaa hey Maybe Prince can veiw the songs and pick the one to go on the CD!! just more dum thoughts haaa

Now THAT would be a cool idea for the NPG Music Club. Let members put together a cover CD of Prince songs, and post the MP3s on the NPG Music Club Site to download for free. Prince could choose the best ones.It would be fun and encourage some interaction on an otherwise generally stagnant site.

God...sorry but I think it´s a really stupid idea. I hate all covered Prince songs. Everybody should leave Prince songs for what they are cause they are masterpieces.

I would definitely be inspired to do my best possible work and represent my love for P's music to the fullest!

Hmm.. haven't decided what song to call dibs on yet.

What would the legalities of this be? I've never done an all-out cover, just dealt with sample publishing.

I think org members should compose there own song, that would be funny and maybe I would listen to it.

Actually, I realize I'm not much of a vocalist. I'll stick to production.

Any singers wanna collaborate? I usually have hiphop or 80s drum machine (oh yes, the handclap) influenced sort of tracks. [You could refer to my mp3.com site, but there's only like 3 joints on there, and it doesn't include any of my non-rap or synth work.]

Orgnote me.

Man I don't think I could even come close to duplicating Maceo Parker, Rene Renato or Eric Leeds. Those guys are masters...

I'm a amateur compared to them...

Blue
Drink Blue Kool-aid

TheBluePrince said:

Doesn't matter, do your best, inject the blue prince's flava.

I think this a great idea!

I got "Strange Relationship"

feltbluish said:

well what do you do sing?

Tom said:

Prince did that one song thing-gy with the NPGMclub remember? HE put some music he produce on the site and told people to go for it!! write sum lyrics and a melody and send it back to the club,,, to be picked and 3 was picked out of maybe a 100 but 2 of the songs I really liked!

I think we'd be OK legally doing covers, as long as mechanical royalties were paid or something (will research it). I think that is a great idea, actually!

I'd love to have an org CD compilation of original songs, as well...

http://www.ascap.com/lice...ngfaq.html

Read item 5 in particular.

what an absolutely fantastic idea! i love it!!

i like to noodle around musically. i don't know that i'd be able to get something together for such a project, but whether i'm on the disc or off it i LOVE this idea!!!

this is exciting, creative, genuinely inspiring!! way to go!

An Uninvited Bassist Takes to expounding on White Stripes...on the internet.

August 25, 2002 By NEIL STRAUSS

A muso, according to one definition, is slang for someone, usually a musician, who is obsessed with the minutiae and technical details of music-making. Musos don't listen to music the way you and I do. When they hear the Detroit duo the White Stripes - with Jack White on guitar and his former wife, Meg White, on drums - they don't hear raw, bluesy stomps that announce the return of quality rock to mainstream ears. No, they hear a band that is missing a bass player. And they find this incredibly irritating and aesthetically wrongheaded.

Though Steven McDonald has been a bassist in bands since he was 11, he is more than a muso. Best known for playing with his brother, Jeff, in the Los Angeles punk and pop band Redd Kross, he is a clever pop-culture savant who has been playing for so long (he's now 35) that he has been unable to repress the muso growing inside him.

So several months ago he began taking songs from the White Stripes' latest record, "White Blood Cells," adding his own bass playing, and posting the results, two tracks at a time, on his Web site (www.reddkross.com ). In the wrong hands, the result, "Redd Blood Cells," would be a misguided attempt to fix the White Stripes' music, but he knows there is nothing about the band to be corrected, only to be explored.

In many ways, this online-only album lives up to the dream that music fans originally had for the Internet. It is an example not just of a musician delivering work directly to his fans, but also of performers bending the rules for the sake of art. Mr. McDonald began putting these copyrighted songs online without permission from the White Stripes or their record label; during the project, he bumped into Jack White, who gave him spoken assent to continue. It can be that easy when you skip the intermediaries.

What is most interesting about this project is to listen to Mr. McDonald grow more comfortable with each installment in his role as the White Stripes' uninvited bassist. In the first few songs, he tries to fit in and not detract from the original appeal and integrity of the music. As a result, the songs sound very natural, almost as if they were originally recorded with bass, but at the same time a lot of the rawness and power that came from the sparseness of the music is lost.

About midway through the process, however, Mr. McDonald begins to loosen up and take chances. The transformation begins with "We're Going to Be Friends," on which he adds harmony vocals from his wife, the singer-songwriter Anna Waronker. From there on, he sounds like a creative, functioning member of the White Stripes, and "Redd Blood Cells" turns into a new and engaging work. A highlight is "I Think I Smell a Rat," on which Mr. McDonald adds a bass line (borrowed from "Paint It Black" by the Rolling Stones), which, instead of blending into the song, stands in glorious counterpoint, adding to rather than subtracting from the White Stripes' vision. On the next two tracks, "Aluminum" and "I Can't Wait," he adds his own California alternative-pop backing vocals, and it soon becomes clear that the less true to the White Stripes - and the more true to himself - Mr. McDonald is, the more worthy the collaboration becomes.

The entire album is available online through tomorrow (there are currently no plans to make the music available afterward) free of charge and complete with a CD cover of "White Blood Cells," altered to include Mr. McDonald.

Can't quite decide if this idea is Prince's worst nightmare or it is so bad it's good.
I think its one of those unintentionally hilarious ideas. Like The Brady Bunch or The Gong Show.

ben said:[quote]I think we'd be OK legally doing covers, as long as mechanical royalties were paid or something (will research it). I think that is a great idea, actually!
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This idea was done on a Breeders fan site a couple of years ago. They put up mp3s of fan versions of Breeders songs and they also had fans come up with Cd insert artwork for the final track list. Some people did amazingly well on the songs.


I dibs "The Cross" by the way.

Now if only I can scrape up enough cash for that White Cloud Guitar that the NPGMC has for sale...