Word of advice: If you're gonna brand your website after a Prince term and say its 20% Prince (lol stop) then that would mean you can cover more than Prince's proteges. There are starving artists in MPLS just like anywhere else and I expect you all to hold true to this proclamation. If not, then call the website what it is, which is Prince.org with associated artist articles posted on the front page in tandem with his articles.

Thus far, not terribly interesting. I wouldn't go back to this website until I knew it paid attention to real artists in MPLS rather than stale holdovers from the 80s synth pop Prince made famous and labeled 2 dozen of his friends with. Ernest namechecked a few artists from MN, but there's no mention of Dylan here. Nothing of the sort. Are you OK Player but for Prince fans? Be legit in your aim and do it to it. There's probably a humongous fucking wealth of information, articles, interviews, pictorials to be culled from the artists of various genres that bud from Minneapolis.

If you ain't in Minneapolis and you're doing a website vaguely described as tributing to Minneapolis music, then I suggest you get hip with Myspace and Facebook. If all we see on MoQuake is Prince and Prince proteges (Zzzzzzz...) then it's no different than any other site.

No disrespect, just casual critique.

Spinlight said:

Word of advice: If you're gonna brand your website after a Prince term and say its 20% Prince (lol stop) then that would mean you can cover more than Prince's proteges. There are starving artists in MPLS just like anywhere else and I expect you all to hold true to this proclamation. If not, then call the website what it is, which is Prince.org with associated artist articles posted on the front page in tandem with his articles.

Thus far, not terribly interesting. I wouldn't go back to this website until I knew it paid attention to real artists in MPLS rather than stale holdovers from the 80s synth pop Prince made famous and labeled 2 dozen of his friends with. Ernest namechecked a few artists from MN, but there's no mention of Dylan here. Nothing of the sort. Are you OK Player but for Prince fans? Be legit in your aim and do it to it. There's probably a humongous fucking wealth of information, articles, interviews, pictorials to be culled from the artists of various genres that bud from Minneapolis.

If you ain't in Minneapolis and you're doing a website vaguely described as tributing to Minneapolis music, then I suggest you get hip with Myspace and Facebook. If all we see on MoQuake is Prince and Prince proteges (Zzzzzzz...) then it's no different than any other site.

No disrespect, just casual critique.

I take your point, good thread...

Spinlight said:

Word of advice: If you're gonna brand your website after a Prince term and say its 20% Prince (lol stop) then that would mean you can cover more than Prince's proteges. There are starving artists in MPLS just like anywhere else and I expect you all to hold true to this proclamation. If not, then call the website what it is, which is Prince.org with associated artist articles posted on the front page in tandem with his articles.

Thus far, not terribly interesting. I wouldn't go back to this website until I knew it paid attention to real artists in MPLS rather than stale holdovers from the 80s synth pop Prince made famous and labeled 2 dozen of his friends with. Ernest namechecked a few artists from MN, but there's no mention of Dylan here. Nothing of the sort. Are you OK Player but for Prince fans? Be legit in your aim and do it to it. There's probably a humongous fucking wealth of information, articles, interviews, pictorials to be culled from the artists of various genres that bud from Minneapolis.

If you ain't in Minneapolis and you're doing a website vaguely described as tributing to Minneapolis music, then I suggest you get hip with Myspace and Facebook. If all we see on MoQuake is Prince and Prince proteges (Zzzzzzz...) then it's no different than any other site.

No disrespect, just casual critique.

but it's a prince and associated artists forum and that's fairly clear if you read the main post on the first page or the about page. it's intended as an updated replacement of sorts for housequake which was a prince and related artists site

dylan didn't even come from minneapolis, so thus would be excluded if the site was set to your rules. his name wasn't even dylan. it was zimmerframe

Dreamer2 said:

Gav said:

The countdown has begun.

Remember, this isn't a prince.org replacement so please don't compare the two !

Had a look at the site, very nice well done, but it's a Prince fan site right?

All the popular posts are talking about Prince?

Is their a chance the website could be more global ...i mean Prince.org is very US-centric in it's view and users, i think it would be good gav if your site gave a more global perspective of Prince.

the point is that it's not in competition with the org, it's a different thing, like twitter and facebook can co-exist and most people are probably be on both. just like how most fans were members of both the org and hq

and gav is in the uk, most of the mods are from the uk or europe and one from MPLS, so it would only be US-centric if most participating members were from the states. with most fan sites and forums in english you will get either a uk, us or european perspective mainly due to the language barrier, so less people in other countries to report and give opinions. and prince spends by far most of his time in the states, likewise related artists, and if not the states then europe/uk next, thus little input from asian countries etc. if something of note happened in other places then we would usually hear about it

unique said:

Dreamer2 said:

Had a look at the site, very nice well done, but it's a Prince fan site right?

All the popular posts are talking about Prince?

Is their a chance the website could be more global ...i mean Prince.org is very US-centric in it's view and users, i think it would be good gav if your site gave a more global perspective of Prince.

the point is that it's not in competition with the org, it's a different thing, like twitter and facebook can co-exist and most people are probably be on both. just like how most fans were members of both the org and hq

and gav is in the uk, most of the mods are from the uk or europe and one from MPLS, so it would only be US-centric if most participating members were from the states. with most fan sites and forums in english you will get either a uk, us or european perspective mainly due to the language barrier, so less people in other countries to report and give opinions. and prince spends by far most of his time in the states, likewise related artists, and if not the states then europe/uk next, thus little input from asian countries etc. if something of note happened in other places then we would usually hear about it

Ok, good news gav is based in the UK, but i would like him to reach out to Prince fans around the world actively tying to get people from to sign in, so the site has some balance, maybe add translation services to the website to make it easy for those who don't have english as a first language.

unique said:

Spinlight said:

Word of advice: If you're gonna brand your website after a Prince term and say its 20% Prince (lol stop) then that would mean you can cover more than Prince's proteges. There are starving artists in MPLS just like anywhere else and I expect you all to hold true to this proclamation. If not, then call the website what it is, which is Prince.org with associated artist articles posted on the front page in tandem with his articles.

Thus far, not terribly interesting. I wouldn't go back to this website until I knew it paid attention to real artists in MPLS rather than stale holdovers from the 80s synth pop Prince made famous and labeled 2 dozen of his friends with. Ernest namechecked a few artists from MN, but there's no mention of Dylan here. Nothing of the sort. Are you OK Player but for Prince fans? Be legit in your aim and do it to it. There's probably a humongous fucking wealth of information, articles, interviews, pictorials to be culled from the artists of various genres that bud from Minneapolis.

If you ain't in Minneapolis and you're doing a website vaguely described as tributing to Minneapolis music, then I suggest you get hip with Myspace and Facebook. If all we see on MoQuake is Prince and Prince proteges (Zzzzzzz...) then it's no different than any other site.

No disrespect, just casual critique.

but it's a prince and associated artists forum and that's fairly clear if you read the main post on the first page or the about page. it's intended as an updated replacement of sorts for housequake which was a prince and related artists site

dylan didn't even come from minneapolis, so thus would be excluded if the site was set to your rules. his name wasn't even dylan. it was zimmerframe

Not my rules, the rules stated in this thread by the developers of the website. And Dylan came from Duluth. He's still a Minnesotan artist and Minneapolis is the best-known metropolitan district, so it wouldn't be that far of a stretch to acknowledge him. I think that might've been part of Ernest's point with the Dylan reference. His real last name being something other than Dylan is irrelevant.

Spinlight said:

unique said:

but it's a prince and associated artists forum and that's fairly clear if you read the main post on the first page or the about page. it's intended as an updated replacement of sorts for housequake which was a prince and related artists site

dylan didn't even come from minneapolis, so thus would be excluded if the site was set to your rules. his name wasn't even dylan. it was zimmerframe

Not my rules, the rules stated in this thread by the developers of the website. And Dylan came from Duluth. He's still a Minnesotan artist and Minneapolis is the best-known metropolitan district, so it wouldn't be that far of a stretch to acknowledge him. I think that might've been part of Ernest's point with the Dylan reference. His real last name being something other than Dylan is irrelevant.

so you want a prince site run by a guy in the uk to be about all musicians in minnesota?

you must have read into something different from everyone else, as everyone else is pretty clear it's a website run by prince fans to discuss prince and related music and stuff, which is mainly rnb/soul/funk/jazz based music. dylans sound isn't typical of the minneapolis sound that's referred to, which is essentially a prince influenced funk/pop sound. you could play prince and alexander o neal in the same club and people would dance, but few would dance to a prince record followed by a dylan one, and most would sit down when an unknown minnesotan artist was played

unique said:

Spinlight said:

Not my rules, the rules stated in this thread by the developers of the website. And Dylan came from Duluth. He's still a Minnesotan artist and Minneapolis is the best-known metropolitan district, so it wouldn't be that far of a stretch to acknowledge him. I think that might've been part of Ernest's point with the Dylan reference. His real last name being something other than Dylan is irrelevant.

so you want a prince site run by a guy in the uk to be about all musicians in minnesota?

you must have read into something different from everyone else, as everyone else is pretty clear it's a website run by prince fans to discuss prince and related music and stuff, which is mainly rnb/soul/funk/jazz based music. dylans sound isn't typical of the minneapolis sound that's referred to, which is essentially a prince influenced funk/pop sound. you could play prince and alexander o neal in the same club and people would dance, but few would dance to a prince record followed by a dylan one, and most would sit down when an unknown minnesotan artist was played

Exactly.

MoQuake isn't about the wider music scene in Minneapolis/Minnesota. It's about Prince and all the

associated artsits, like The Time, Wendy & Lisa, Jill Jones etc. This is quite clear from the blurb

on the intro page and Gav's welcoming post.

Spinlight said:

Word of advice: If you're gonna brand your website after a Prince term and say its 20% Prince (lol stop) then that would mean you can cover more than Prince's proteges. There are starving artists in MPLS just like anywhere else and I expect you all to hold true to this proclamation. If not, then call the website what it is, which is Prince.org with associated artist articles posted on the front page in tandem with his articles.

Thus far, not terribly interesting. I wouldn't go back to this website until I knew it paid attention to real artists in MPLS rather than stale holdovers from the 80s synth pop Prince made famous and labeled 2 dozen of his friends with. Ernest namechecked a few artists from MN, but there's no mention of Dylan here. Nothing of the sort. Are you OK Player but for Prince fans? Be legit in your aim and do it to it. There's probably a humongous fucking wealth of information, articles, interviews, pictorials to be culled from the artists of various genres that bud from Minneapolis.

If you ain't in Minneapolis and you're doing a website vaguely described as tributing to Minneapolis music, then I suggest you get hip with Myspace and Facebook. If all we see on MoQuake is Prince and Prince proteges (Zzzzzzz...) then it's no different than any other site.

No disrespect, just casual critique.

Thanks for the feedback

Feel free to start some threads that introduce the members to the wider MPLS music scene - that's what the site is all about - members introducing other members to new music.

As I stated in the intro, the site's still "work in progress" as we wanted to give people the chance to contribute whilst we work on some more direct material, however in the meantime, please stick some of that "humongous fucking wealth of information, artciles, interviews and pictorials" online and share - we can't do all the work alone you know

BorisFishpaw said:

unique said:

so you want a prince site run by a guy in the uk to be about all musicians in minnesota?

you must have read into something different from everyone else, as everyone else is pretty clear it's a website run by prince fans to discuss prince and related music and stuff, which is mainly rnb/soul/funk/jazz based music. dylans sound isn't typical of the minneapolis sound that's referred to, which is essentially a prince influenced funk/pop sound. you could play prince and alexander o neal in the same club and people would dance, but few would dance to a prince record followed by a dylan one, and most would sit down when an unknown minnesotan artist was played

Exactly.

MoQuake isn't about the wider music scene in Minneapolis/Minnesota. It's about Prince and all the

associated artsits, like The Time, Wendy & Lisa, Jill Jones etc. This is quite clear from the blurb

on the intro page and Gav's welcoming post.

Well, it wasn't really very clear way up there toward the beginning of the thread when I made a similar point in a question.

But I'm looking forward to checking out the site.

[Edited 6/22/10 8:42am]

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Is this just me?....

Nope - we're just switching servers.

Be back in a bit - shouldn't take long.

errant said:

BorisFishpaw said:

Exactly.

MoQuake isn't about the wider music scene in Minneapolis/Minnesota. It's about Prince and all the

associated artsits, like The Time, Wendy & Lisa, Jill Jones etc. This is quite clear from the blurb

on the intro page and Gav's welcoming post.

Well, it wasn't really very clear way up there toward the beginning of the thread when I made a similar point in a question.

But I'm looking forward to checking out the site.

[Edited 6/22/10 8:42am]

Joyinrepatition said:

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Is this just me?....

OK - back online now - thanks for your patience.

Still not up on my side....deleted cookies ...same as

Taken back offline for a few mins whilst we double check something

Gav said:

Taken back offline for a few mins whilst we double check something

It seems that Moquake will be offline more than few mins (Hours?/Days?) ?

Thanx Gav

It should be all OK now.

In short, our hosting firm f***d up and despite reassurances that DNS would redirect to the new server, it didn't.

Some reached the new server in minutes but for some, they could only see the new database this morning.

A large pointed stick is about to be inserted somewhere

Loving the site

@ someone begging to be a moderator

Nice design

Well reading through a few of the threads over there, I have to say well done, it feels just like HQ.

And I don't mean that in a good way. The Mod/user clashes have begun already. I am seeing a lot of "to protect the fans" talk and "insider" BS. Lalalaheeheehee...

Each to their own I guess.

Peace.