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I still think it's messed up

Tattoomom	Date: May 20, 2009 @ 9:49 PM That on this indie site...people can be on the \"top 20\" list with a cover of something like Fade To Black.... Shouldn\'t we be promoting ORIGINAL music? I\'m just saying....
mudshadow	Date: May 20, 2009 @ 10:18 PM the worlds biggest offender...Gary Tucker
GeneHilbert	Date: May 20, 2009 @ 10:29 PM LOL
victorsskull	Date: May 20, 2009 @ 10:29 PM nothing wrong with showing off an artist skills
TameasDust	Date: May 21, 2009 @ 8:49 AM well it does seem that people can only do covers as of late. must be the lazy artist summer blues.
zedsalt	Date: May 21, 2009 @ 10:28 AM You can't fool me! I'd recognize The Commish anywhere, even with the shaved dome. I, too, think of second hand as second class, but hey, the charts are determined strictly by what folks are listening to, right? Changing that seems kind of drastic. And T.D., I'll have you know I've written and recorded more original material in the past week* than all of the finished solo material I've ever posted here put together. I might move some of the old stuff over to Archive and post the new, but hardly anyone has listened to anything I have posted here now. *-That's a pretty slow week for me, now that I stop and think about it. Maybe there's something to this "nice weather promotes laziness" thing...
TameasDust	Date: May 21, 2009 @ 12:55 PM I am waiting for the contest ... your noted
zedsalt	Date: May 22, 2009 @ 9:15 AM I've always thought of you as pretty darn supportive. And according to another thread, it looks like I could very well be getting many more listens here than I am aware of.
TameasDust	Date: May 22, 2009 @ 12:23 PM having multiple personalities helps
GTOriginal	Date: May 22, 2009 @ 1:40 PM WOW I was thinking about getting some of my teeth replaced, but now there's no F'n way...
ChillinBuzz	Date: May 22, 2009 @ 1:57 PM
TheDreadPirate	Date: May 29, 2009 @ 3:08 AM i've only done one cover, and even if i ever thought about doing a cover its usually due to writers block which also disallows me to accually do a very creative cover...so i dont even do a cover lol.
zedsalt	Date: May 29, 2009 @ 9:48 AM I've done very few, and practically all of them have started with my goofing around on an acoustic guitar in some "alternate" tuning, then I trip across something that sounds vaguely familiar, and I pursue that. It makes for a pretty ecclectic mix when I lump them together.
GTOriginal	Date: May 29, 2009 @ 11:03 AM Of the 13 chromatic notes, I have never played a sequence that has not been played before. Sometimes I go for the less common sequences, but then the music sounds odd due to tonal conditioning. I like my stuff to be comforting and familiar, so I follow previously established rules all the time.
zedsalt	Date: May 30, 2009 @ 9:28 AM That's one of the joys of working the way I do: having folks who actually know a thing or two about theory tell me which previously established rules I appear to be following. Practically every time I've set out to play something that's comfortingly familiar, stylistically, I've failed miserably, but just poking around, I get responses like, "Oh yeah, jazzheads call that the 'How High the Les Turnaround', because it's most closely identified with Les Paul's interpretation of 'How High the Moon'." Whereas if I would've made a conscious effort to sound like that, it'd probably come out sounding more like Mrs. Paul's Fishsticks than Les Paul the Wizard of Waukesha.
Tattoomom	Date: June 29, 2009 @ 10:58 PM
victorsskull	Date: June 29, 2009 @ 10:59 PM thats pretty
cptracks	Date: February 12, 2010 @ 12:49 PM I totally agree
pog	Date: June 1, 2010 @ 6:29 AM Where I hear what you are saying, I feel that just because an artist is Independent, does not mean they cannot play commercial. That's just a stereotypical concept, and in my humble opinion is a little restricting. I don't think there is anything wrong with playing covers to get people interested in your style of playing. I do agree that original tracks should be played a bit more by the listeners here, but again that can be a double edged sword in that you need to get people listening to your music in the first place which is often where covers are useful.
zedsalt	Date: June 1, 2010 @ 10:27 AM Hmm, yeah, I can see how that could work for getting the attention of some very different sorts of listeners. On one end of the spectrum, you have people who consider covers which are closest to the original as being "best", folks who might consider a barely-even-a-cover cover an abomination...but be intrigued enough by the unique stylings that they want to check out the cover artist's originals, and people who abhor cookie-cutter covers who are directed to wildly interpretive covers by other listeners. All of this assuming, of course, that we're talking about covers wherein the artist(s) really "makes it his/her/their own". The cookie-cutter variety of covers pull in listeners of the first type I mentioned just by having the title come up in a search engine.
ShadowMom	Date: June 1, 2010 @ 1:11 PM "Track 0" was always MY favorite cover. She said with a grin. The idea is -- if I don't know an artist, and I see one cover and ten tracks I DON'T know-- I'll go for the cover first. If it's good, I most definitely continue on with the other tracks, but if it's not good? It's like a brief test. That's why we have a "Featured Track" function in the file manager. I know who our artists are, you all know who they are, but visitors to the site? Don't know who's good and who uploaded their belching contest with their frat brothers. That was a page, btw, and yes OF COURSE I made it up. The point is, all introductions are good. To listeners who have been hooked an commercial radio and MTV all their lives, indie music is a jungle. Anything familiar is like a neon sign to bring them to the rest of your music. So what's bad?
Distilled1	Date: June 1, 2010 @ 3:27 PM " The point is, all introductions are good. To listeners who have been hooked an commercial radio and MTV all their lives, indie music is a jungle. Anything familiar is like a neon sign to bring them to the rest of your music. So what's bad?" yep you said it all
zedsalt	Date: June 2, 2010 @ 10:13 AM The belching contest was good, but the dance remix was better.

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