Compilation Album

each person could render their own instrument's track as an mp3 so software incompatibilities would be avoided.

for instance: the drummer lays down the drum track on his software, renders the result as an mp3 and sends it on the bassist, who is able to load the mp3 track onto his software.  he then records his part and renders either the individual bass track or a combined bass/drum track as mp3 and sends it on to the guitarist....

so on and so forth.  it's quite possible.  we have the technology... we can rebuild him!

We wouldn't all have to use the same recording software - since I doubt everyone has the same software it'd be entirely possible although a bit more time consuming to export to an audio format. 2112 would be a good one although I seem to remember Cygnus X-2 plays bass too

Nope.

Yeah that's what Ive been saying. All I have left to do on a couple of songs I could submit is bass and guitar solos, so Ill have some ready soon, anyone else?!

Yes, a compilation of originals would be really awesome, Ive already got one song done that I think would go well on it possibly. Anyone have links to some originals they could post and we'll see if we can make this happen?!

I think an album full of our own songs would be cool though I think I'd scare the hell out of everyone (remember, my main influences are Patton,Beefheart, and Zappa) But I'd be all for it

Soulman wrote: Here's a good idea, it goes off track about what we're talking about here. What if we had solo competitions? People could vote to see which is better...I dunno

What do you mean by solo? Do you mean that we each do solo tracks, or solos on the instrument we play?

We should get started on something, meaning someone lays down the drums first, I can somewhat sing, play guitar well, lay down bass if needed and easy keyboards, mellotrons, moogs etc.

Cygnus X-2 wrote: I just had the craziest idea, and I don't know how anyone could make it work. My idea was that we get the musicians on the forums to make an album of their favorite songs. Anyone could be on it, and we could do any song. For example: We could play Cygnus X-1 with a drummer on the forums playing the skins, a bassist playing the bass, and a guitarist playing guitar. Or for example Script for a Jester's Tear with a keyboardist, a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, and a vocalist. How we could do this is each person records his/her part using computer recording programs, then we could have one person combine all the different parts into one mix that could be a song.

There are better songs to play, with regards to how much effort it would take to carry out your plan. Let's do The Gates of Delirium!!

I like your idea, but I think you should also leave it open to one person doing as much as they can (done well).  That way the track stays somewhat consistent with the use of same mics or recording techniques and tones etc. And then whatever turns out is just turned into the compilation.  I could certainly cover many various prog songs, the only problem is the drums would be sequenced unless there is a drummer on these forums that would be willing to play on some tracks and has great means of recording the drums.