Round 7 Discussion

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  1. Hank Marquardt

    I’m not a serious musician and I think this will be fun!

    The story does seem like you took Operation Mindcrime, threw all the characters and premise into a tub, rearranged them and threw in a Kingdom ;) Which is fine by me, that was a really great album.

  2. MadRabbit

    umm… who’s Caleb the killer?

    Zed Shaw

    I made it up. It’s a story. Write music based on it.

  3. Ricardo

    But… I want to do them all :$

    concept albums are my predilection.

    Ricardo

    and looking at my track record I won’t have time/chops to do any submission, so I won’t claim any chapter in particular.

    This is going to be very interesting though :)

    Zed Shaw

    Yeah, I kinda wanna do them all too, but doubt I’ll have time or the skill to pull off some.

  4. Chris

    Cool idea Zed - ambitious but cool. I’ll tackle chapter 2 if I get a chance - trying to get the house packed up for a move but I’m a sucker for concept music.

  5. Chad Woolley

    Great idea. I’ve already got a rough cut for the first one and want to try the others too. This is an ambitious round though, I think you should extend the deadline to include next weekend. Prolly a good idea to always have them end on Monday morning anyway…

    Chad Woolley

    Ok I have a rough cut for all 4 now ;)

    Zed Shaw

    Oh, I didn’t bump it up enough, yeah I intended it to be a 2 week one. I’ll do that shortly.

    Also, can you help me test out the “audition” forum? Shoot a track or two to forum-audition@fretwar.com and let me see how it comes out.

    Hank Marquardt

    Ok, I posted to the audition forum … seemed to work ok

  6. Chad Woolley

    Hmm, 5 hours left and no submissions. 4PM PST Sunday is a strange deadline. I was always planning to do mine today (Sunday), but it’ll be cutting it close. This is why I suggested having Monday morning as the normal deadline (so you can fiddle with it all weekend up through late Sunday night). However, since there’s nothing yet, and several people said they wanted to do submissions, I’d suggest extending this another week - i.e. 1/18/10 8:00 AM PST.

    Zed Shaw

    Ah, yeah the date was off by one. I really gotta automate that.

    Also, I found the bad link. It’s in the notifications for rounds. Thanks.

    Hank Marquardt

    I’m kinda with Chad here — unless we get a bunch of last minute submissions that cover all 4 parts, I think we could probably extend at least part of this round, maybe at least break off part 4 and group it with part 5 from the unseen round 8 and then keep 6, 7 and 8 from round 8 to make round 9?

    Seems like there are at least a few of us that will write/play these things, but production is about 1/week for most of us …

    Or just say screw it, acknowledge it was too ambitious, learn from it and scale back future stuff …

    Zed Shaw

    Yeah, I’ve got a forum-announce up asking how long to extend it. Go there and throw your 0.02 in. I think we’ll take what we can get and then I’ll break it into 2 at a time for round 8.

    (P.S. Let me know if the link you get is still wrong. Should be right this time, but it’s an early morning pre-work hack.:-)