Martian

Okay, then. So far for instrumentation we have:

My sweet self: Guitar, bass, vocals
freeload: Drums
healer: Drums
ratbastid: Guitar, bass, piano, vocals
vanblah: Keyboard
Manic_Skafe: Guitar
Baraka_Guru: Guitar
roachboy: Piano/keyboard (maybe), creepy prepared piano metamusic stuff
Fly: Guitar, bass, drums, vocals
grumpyolddude: Bass, guitar, vocals and miscellaneous other noises
little_tippler: Vocals

With vanblah, Fly, roachboy and me all capable of doing arranging or mixing/producing. Does that look about right to everyone?

Note to those musicians who are doubting their own ability: we will find something you can do. To the guitarists, if you can strum, we can stick you on a rhythm part if nothing else. I want this to be an inclusive exercise; if we can't give you a guitar part, you can play the spoons or something.

Given what we have available, I may decide to scrap Stand By Me in favour of something else. I'd still rather start with a cover, just because it does make life easier, but maybe we can go with something that allows us to fit things together a bit differently. Something early Beatles, maybe. A twelve bar blues could work nicely.

If this thing goes relatively smoothly and works out, we may end up making it a semi-permanent part of the forums. A sort of TFP house band, I guess. Tilted band project. Tilted Parsons project? I don't know, it's too early for me to get creative with the whole wordplay thing.

We've definitely got enough interest to pull something together. I'm going to say that I'll get something started on Monday. If there's anyone else out there who wants in on this, make sure you say so at some point this weekend, to be sure that we'll have something for you to do.

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