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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: Parameters for SubT VII?
by old_dan | 02/12/01 at 12:23:49
How about a time limit? I would say all submission have to be in a month after the winner of the song contest is announced.
And is collaboration required or just encouraged?
And what else am I leaving out?
Hooper, you are the head honcho on this one, what are your thoughts?
Take care,
Dan
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by Hooper (Guest) | 02/12/01 at 12:28:04
Actually, Aaron Seymour is the honcho on this one. I emailed with Aaron a couple of weeks ago and volunteered to facilitate getting the SubT 7 concept and songwriting contest kicked off and then promised to get the h*ll out of the way.
I agree that it would be good to establish a deadline that helps keep up some SubT momentum. 4-6 weeks with a drop-dead deadline might be reasonable.
I like the collaboration requirement. The song contest and a collaboration requirement causes the little networking branches to grow. I like that.
What do you think Aaron?
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by Kevin (Guest) | 02/12/01 at 12:30:36
My experiance with SubT has been that deadlines are more like "guidelines". You need to have them but folks have difficulty meeting them particularly when collaborating.
Hooper are you talking 4-6 weeks to compose and record? That may be a little slim. All we will have is lyrics to work with in the beginning. I am all for momentum but we need to be accomodating enought to get particpation.
Now I've said that you may ask, "So then Kevin whats a good time frame?" Heck I don't know. Like you, I think Aaron should weigh in, he is the honcho on this one!
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by Seymour (Guest) | 02/12/01 at 12:33:01
I think the guideline thing is the best idea. Maybe send between now and then thing. A month would be a far time limit give a week or so for procrastinators. As far a collaborations go it should be encouraged by not mandatory. The reason is it will be difficult to write a song musically from long distance without taking awhile (i.e. mailing the stuff back and forth to write together).
On another note, how about calling it SubTVII: DE JA VU. What do you think?
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by Percy (Guest) | 02/12/01 at 12:34:17
I like the De Ja Vu thing. Great name. As far as deadlines go,I dont think one has ever stood up in all 8 previous cds..Wow, eight of em. I think playing it by ear is good with abit of "submit it or lose it!!" after abit to get stragglers(usually me) in gear.
In a way, every song on this new cd will be a collaboration already...with the winner of the songwriting contest. My opinion is to not make collaboration manditory. Sub 3 had somewhat less submissions because of the requirments. I dont think that will be a problem on this one and if the response is huge,Aaron, you may have to impose a collaboration requirement or give virgins(never been on a sub cd before) preference or a double cd(cool). I been yappin this one up to some internet songwriting folks so hopefully there will be some new blood.
Anyhow, what ever you decide, Seymour, Is fine with me. I think this cd will be most unique.
Later
Percy
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by DanG | 02/12/01 at 12:35:29
I am the first one to love collaboration, I think it should be encouraged this time around, not required. Here's my reasoning. There are lots of folks who are doing their own "band" thing who might actually use this song on their own projects (and or CD's) aside from the compilation, which of course is the ultimate high for the lyricist(s).
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Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by Steve S | 02/12/01 at 12:37:02
...about not requiring collaboration, that's what kept us out of SubT 3. I would definitely be in a band that would perform the song at live shows after the fact. Collectively, we do not add a lot of new songs from year to year and we would probably want to keep playing this one.
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by old_dan | 02/12/01 at 13:29:52
sorry, I must be old or slow or both. But what's the sig of DE JA VU?
good points about the collaboration. So then we're agreed it should be encouraged but not mandatory. And the deadline should be fairly soon after the song contest. That way when we go over it still won't be too long. I suggest 2 months to have the song in to Seymour.
Dan
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by Steve S | 02/12/01 at 13:34:24
I'm assuming that the reason De Ja Vu was picked, is that we're repeating the same lyric on all the songs. This instills a feeling of 'De Ja Vu', the impression that we have been through an event before, in this case another song with the same lyrics.....
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by Seymour (Guest) | 02/12/01 at 13:35:34
Thanks for the explaination of De Ja Vu Steve. It has nothing to do with the song title. So it will be collaboration encouraged but not mandatory and a loosed deadline to be determined after we get going.
Hey DanG, how many lyric submissions have you had?
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by DanG | 02/22/01 at 02:14:35
There have been over 25 submissions so far. The contest deadline is Feb 5th, and the voting will go on for about 3 days thereafter. I think maybe a week would be better, but we'll see. I'll be posting them all for review and voting on the 6th at my board. :) Pretty good turnout so far.
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by Seymour | 02/22/01 at 02:26:58
25! Holy crap! I thought maybe 10 or so! That's cool! Dan, how do you feel about posting at RW that voting at your site in going on or do you want to keep it to your regulars there?
Subject: Re: Parameters for SubT VII?
by DanG | 02/22/01 at 02:28:20
you got it! I expect a dozen or so more, so when the voting starts, it will be VERY important for the regulars at recordingwebsite.com to vote. I'll post it all over here. :)
love yuze guyz
Dan