Free: Honor Thy Drummer: A Tribute to Mike Portnoy

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The placement of albums in Various Artists is not done a voting basis - the final say on whether an album remains is with the Admin Team.

Edited by Dean - December 28 2010 at 11:20

Dean wrote: The VA: Tributes section is for albums that are tributes to PA artists and would consist of tracks originally recorded by said artists. Since Michael has already kicked up a fuss over this thread being placed in "Prog Tribute Bands" then the album being placed in "VA: Tributes" is equally as incongruous.

I don't see it like that at all. It's definitely a tribute to a PA artist by various other artists, no doubt about that. Not sure where this idea that a tribute always has to be presented in the form of cover songs and nothing else came from. It's certainly not that way in jazz circles where people often pay tribute to their heroes by emulating certain musical approaches - regardless of who was the composer of a piece and very often including original compositions clearly influenced by the artist to whom the tribute is dedicated.

For example, there's the famous "Directions in Music" album by Herbie Hancock with Michael Brecker and Roy Hargrove. The subtitle for that one is "Celebrating Miles Davis and John Coltrane", and yet it features tunes written by Hargrove and Brecker as well as tunes that Miles Davis recorded but didn't write himself. In fact, of the eight tracks, just one half of a two-song medley was actually written by Davis.

I like the simple term "cover albums" for those,  but that's probably too straightforward. I was already told that this board is infamous for its "is it prog? should it be added? and what genre is it, really?" discussions. Guess it's very important that no "false prog" gets past quality control.  

I am frequently amused by the importance placed on labels and categories. Our own album's style isn't really captured correctly by any single one of those and that seems to be true for a lot of music that I listen to these days. Really makes you wonder if these categories really matter. Anyway, don't let me disturb your discussion of where this 4-star compilation (as per AtomicCrimsonRush's rating) might fit. 

Edited by Kyo - December 28 2010 at 13:46

Kyo wrote: I like the simple term "cover albums" for those,  but that's probably too straightforward. I was already told that this board is infamous for its "is it prog? should it be added? and what genre is it, really?" discussions. Guess it's very important that no "false prog" gets past quality control.

Edited by Dean - December 28 2010 at 14:27

Dean wrote: Blackbeard wrote: Can't find the news, so i will spread the message of a free download. I have just started to listen, and it sounds promising. Hope you like it: http://www.spaceprog.com It was mentioned about four times in the OP, I'm surprised you missed it.

Maybe he's referring to the album information in your database, it doesn't mention the official source for this compilation anywhere.

Since it's probably not a website you'll be revisiting too often once you have the mp3s, let me point
out that we have now added Anthony's "A few words from the producer" to www.spaceprog.com



Edited by Kyo - December 29 2010 at 12:53

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