Matthew Good Tribute Album

[Guest Prosis]

Oh good! :angry:

 

Oh Geoff! ;)

[the old guy]

Just don't plan on selling copies.

I don't own the rights so I'm not the guy to talk to anyway.

[Guest Prosis]

Well I don't want to participate if anyone plans to sell anything.

 

Wade?

[daniel_v]

the theme is set and i have done a website to promote this, i will link all of you to the site tomorrow and officially launch this project. the minimum amount of covers for my idea to work is 18, the maximum is 23

It's your project idea so whatever, but do you mind me asking why we're not aiming for a number that might be a little bit easier to achieve? There are lots of cds out there with only ten tracks anyways and I think it would be too bad if this was put on the back burner again just because we didn't get 18 tracks.

[Crusader]

i don't think you guys can legally sell an actual cd or any downloads but you can post them up here to download for free

[Guest Prosis]

i don't think you guys can legally sell an actual cd or any downloads but you can post them up here to download for free

Which is what I originally thought it was, like Shiri's original idea.

[Champion Of Nothing]

ya, thats the plan, i was gonna look into if u guys wanted to sell it and have proceeds go to a charity of matt's choice, but that'd take arranging and agreement. 18 is the number because of the theme but i won't cancel it if we dont get exactly that number

[Ravenous megin-sane]

there'd have to be a lot of interest for that to work, and i'm not sure we could get it

[Champion Of Nothing]

ok, site is http://mgt.cityaftersix.ca

I think this'll work cause a guy was sayin he could probably get another couple people in on this and we have 4 tracks so far and then there will be others

[decomposinglight]

Wow, he's actually doing this. How determined. And the page looks kinda snazzy.

[eclipticmisery]

I most definitely would be up for this. I used to open for some bands in Washington and play acoustic covers of Matt. I would love to be part of this ;)

[Champion Of Nothing]

great! just send an email through the site and you're good to go

[Shiri]

Looks good. I don't think we should charge anything for it, just offer it for download for free.

[Guest Prosis]

Well if you wanna sell it and send the money to a charity, we'd need Matt's permission before. Other than that, no selling ;)

 

The website's looking good!...One mistake though: Comfortable Criminal was for Avalanche not Audio of Being.

[lyuan]

I have a recording that I did a while back of a piano/violin arrangement of 'Strange Days' that I did, and would hapilly donate.

[marx marvelous]

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Edited May 1, 2008 by marx marvelous

[Shiri]

I'm doing Can't Get Shot ;)

[Crusader]

charity or not, you might have some problems if this involves making money off of the band's songs. the label specifically

 

e: might be best to do it for free

[Monochrome Rainbow]

I have a friend's cover of Near Fantastica I can likely contribute. I just have to ask her first.

[Champion Of Nothing]

awesome monochrome, and ya if we can't get permission for the charity thing then money won't be involved

[the old guy]

You probably won't. The legal is too complex.

[marx marvelous]

Right. You're dealing with Universal, the biggest record label in the world. It's best for all parties just to do this for free.

[Champion Of Nothing]

ya probably

[uglyredhonda]

Just playing Devil's Advocate:

 

It really wouldn't be that difficult to set it up to make it available for sale. All you'd have to do is obtain mechanical licenses from CMRRA. It costs about $40.50 per song to obtain a license to release 500 copies, paid up front. You wouldn't need Matt's permission or Universal's - CMRRA is already arranged to handle mechanical licensing for the MG/B catalog.

 

I didn't see anything on the CMRRA's website about digital distribution, though. The Harry Fox Agency (a similar US organization) offers a digital distribution license for songs, but that only applies to US releases.

 

Having said that, I think you can do the math on what it would cost to put together an entire album of cover songs. Reality: not worth it.

 

Regardless - once this gets rolling, somebody should still give Matt the head's up to make sure he doesn't mind. Technically, you're supposed to pay the licenses even if you don't sell the songs. (I really doubt he'd mind - I organized one of these some years ago for another band, and they had no objection so long as no money changed hands.)

Edited May 2, 2008 by uglyredhonda

[Champion Of Nothing]

ya, its definately not worth it, thanks for the info