MMJ tribute album

[Oz]

And Corey, I wouldn't change a word of your 'personal notes'. They're hilarious this way! :)

[lfish]

Hey,

It's just amazing!  Thx very much to all folks who contributed to make this thing happen, especially Wiggum, Megan,magnix and all others.

It was a lot of fun!

Oh and the songs are amazing!

[SMc55]

This is getting really exciting. Can't wait to hear the songs  :D

[CC]

just listened to it and really enjoyed it.
everything sounds really cool!
GREAT job!

when's the big tour?

[Oz]

Hey EC,

In the current webdesign, it is not possible to save the art cover as a picture file to print it. Could you change that or, if you don't want that for copyright reasons, perhaps mail it to me? I'd like to have this on an actual CD. I'm a bit old fashioned in those things.

:)

[corey]

Could someone with a highspeed connection please see about uploading them to archive.org? I thought about that this morning. The bandwidth is free and it would ease the hits to EC's site so that all of her bandwidth isn't used up.
Any help would be appreciated.

[hellaciousc]

holy crap EC!
incredible job!

thanks EC and Wiggum for organizing this.

tremendous.

[EC]

I can look into that today, 'wiggum.  :)

Hey EC,

In the current webdesign, it is not possible to save the art cover as a picture file to print it. Could you change that or, if you don't want that for copyright reasons, perhaps mail it to me? I'd like to have this on an actual CD. I'm a bit old fashioned in those things.

Ha ha, even if I DID care about copyright (which I don't, not for this little project anyhow), I wouldn't know how to make the picture unsaveable.  HA HA.  I wonder what I did?

I'm just about finished a printable album cover layout.  In order to make the file nice enough, it would be pretty big to send ...  wait.  I keep forgetting that everybody has a lot of memory in their accounts, now. ... If you want me to send you a file that you can print out to make your own album cover, let me know.

Anyhow, the answer is sure, I can send you the album cover, but I can also send you an actual physical album cover in the mail (not the email, the actual real letter mail) if you'd like, as well.  (I just need a couple of days to get it done.)

Which reminds me that if anyone doesn't have high speed, or if they just want a plain old cd in their hands, let me or 'wiggum know.  (I think I'm covering Canada and "abroad", and 'wiggum's doing the US, and I can help him out if he gets too swamped.)

(p.s.  the picture with the big "word" on it is for greggy.  well, it's for everybody, but especially for greggy.)

(p.p.s.  thanks hc)

[corey]

Yeah, I'm more than willing to do B&Ps for people that want the CD. I am terribly broke right now or else I'd offer to send them out for free.

I'm already lookin' forward to putting another one together. :)

Maybe more people will submit next time. I had a bunch of people contact me initially, but I never heard back from them.

I also still need to e-mail everyone that contributed (that doesn't post here). Actually, I think the only other person that doesn't post here is Buddy.

[EC]

Yeah.  I don't know if he checks that email address - although, I've never had anything sent back...

How did he find out about this if he doesn't post here?

[SMc55]

Just listening to olwiggum's At Dawn. Love it! Well done man. Does anybody know what the band think of this by the way?

[corey]

Thanks doc!
I haven't sent the link to JJ yet, but I sent him a message last week saying that it was almost done. He said that he is very excited about hearing it.

I think the group listed as Buddy may have found out about it from the Yahoo list. I posted over there when I first posted here about it.

[SMc55]

Oh my God! This is fantastic! Covers, but not copies. I am so proud of you guys. You should be proud of yourselves.

[corey]

heh.
Mine were more or less copies b/c I couldn't think of anything clever to do with them. Well... also, I recorded "At Dawn" pretty quickly so we'd have 10 songs so I didn't have much time to think of anything.  :)

[EC]

[size=24]YEAH![/size]

I've just updated the web stuff so that you can see the album images.  And I think you can save them, now.  They're just jpegs, but if anyone want the pdf images, I can send them.  They might be better quality.  I'll try and print them as is and see how they look.

(here's the link again:  http://www.medusaproductions.ca/mmj/home.html)

I can't stop listening to these songs.  

I just want to say that this has been really fucking fun.

[utonynashm]

I wish I was here sooner...I took part in a project just like this for the black crowes...

I just got into MMJ and it would be very hard for me to throw something together now but this seems awesome...

I would also have to play everything on my own...I play guitar but taught myself everything else....thats how I record my stuff.... its hard to find a good band...

[EC]

I would also have to play everything on my own...I play guitar but taught myself everything else....thats how I record my stuff.... its hard to find a good band...

Well, I think that 'wiggum said he might be into doing another one soon, so you could aim for that!

I did most of my recording on my own, too.  It can be kind of fun that way.

[corey]

I do want to do another tribute CD sometime in the next few months. I'll start another thread when the time comes.

EC, the artwork looks great. I think it fits well with the album concept...

[EC]

(thanks!)

I have the inside liner notes in a Word file (ha ha, I can't even open "word" anymore without thinking of this forum)

The sizes are 12cm x 12cm, which is a cd case size.  So my thought is to organize the two album covers back to back (back cover on the left, front cover on the right) and print them, and cut them out attached, and fold them.  Then print the liner notes, and cut them out, and glue them to the back of the album covers, and presto!  You've got your front bit.  Then, print the insert, and cut it out, leaving a bit of white on either side to hold it in place, and then pop it into the little place behind where the cd sits in the case.

Word?

And I can also make them for people who want cds burned, and I will send some to 'wiggum for the US folks who want cds burned.

Just a quick note on bandwidth - it's waaaay better for me if you save the file and listen to it, as opposed to listening to it from the site.  It's a bandwidth thing, and I have (I think) 5 or 7 gigs of transfer a month.  (I'm on a low-end plan)  So the more transfers that happen, the more it gets used up.

(But wiggum I'm about to check out that link you just sent me.)

[wordawg]

WOW!!

Just checked out the site and downloaded the music.  Will listen to it tomorrow.
Just wanted to say how fucking proud I am to know each and everyone of you involved with this!
You did it.

Far fucking out man.

Deep respect.



Word, indeed.