The Official SuggestFest suggestions topic

[dasilvasings]

What if the suggestfest (which is clearly a winner!) linked with the normal festivals (suggestfest deadrockstar III / suggestfest songs about buildings/ whatever...)?

It opens some nasty opportunities like "I suggest X makes an original about the Talking Heads"...

[fenderbender]

Sorry all - I have been away on and off all month
so I playing catch up reading  this topic
what a great idea.


Tommy

[henwrench]

I had an idea that revolves around the idea of a 'SuggestQuest'. Instead of a festival 'per-se', what if there was a board of suggestions that members could dip in and out of when the mood strikes or when another fellow member suggests 'a must do'. We all have periods when originals are blocked up in our calculation flowings, or we can't think of a cover to tackle and then an idea of a cover tickles us silly. EG. Nick/odh has suggested an Eels song for me to do, but through holiday/family commitments I'm gonna find it almost impossible to fit in although I really wanna do it. Sort of a rolling 'Fest, but substituting the 'Fest element with the 'Quest element. Or maybe just extending the SuggestFest is a simpler and better idea. Forgive the rambling, incoherent nature of this post, but I've just dropped 30mg of Valium..... and time is against me...

                                                                 henwrench

[Hilary]

I had an idea that revolves around the idea of a 'SuggestQuest'. Instead of a festival 'per-se', what if there was a board of suggestions that members could dip in and out of when the mood strikes or when another fellow member suggests 'a must do'. We all have periods when originals are blocked up in our calculation flowings, or we can't think of a cover to tackle and then an idea of a cover tickles us silly. EG. Nick/odh has suggested an Eels song for me to do, but through holiday/family commitments I'm gonna find it almost impossible to fit in although I really wanna do it. Sort of a rolling 'Fest, but substituting the 'Fest element with the 'Quest element. Or maybe just extending the SuggestFest is a simpler and better idea. Forgive the rambling, incoherent nature of this post, but I've just dropped 30mg of Valium..... and time is against me...

                                                                 henwrench

I think that's a great idea - the SuggestFest has breathed a lot of life into the site in what can be a 'slow' period over the summer, captured members' imagination and created new/potentially collabs. It would be great if we could continue it in some way.

[64Guitars]

I had an idea that revolves around the idea of a 'SuggestQuest'. Instead of a festival 'per-se', what if there was a board of suggestions that members could dip in and out of when the mood strikes or when another fellow member suggests 'a must do'. We all have periods when originals are blocked up in our calculation flowings, or we can't think of a cover to tackle and then an idea of a cover tickles us silly. EG. Nick/odh has suggested an Eels song for me to do, but through holiday/family commitments I'm gonna find it almost impossible to fit in although I really wanna do it. Sort of a rolling 'Fest, but substituting the 'Fest element with the 'Quest element. Or maybe just extending the SuggestFest is a simpler and better idea.

We have something like that already. It's a topic started by Greeny back on November 4, 2008, where people listed the names of songs that they'd like to cover but, presumably, weren't able to because there were certain parts that they didn't know how to play or they didn't have the needed instruments. This topic is a great opportunity for people who want to collaborate with other members. Just browse through the topic to find a song that interests you, then contact the person who suggested it and propose a collaboration. Maybe I should move that topic to the Collaborations board and make it a sticky.

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=939.0

We could do something similar for suggestions. We'll just create a new topic for it in the General Discussion board and I'll make it a sticky topic so it's easy to find. Then people can post their suggestions in that topic.

One problem is that, as the topic grows to many pages in length, it will become time-consuming and confusing to browse through all of the suggestions. I'm finding that already with this topic for SuggestFest. It would be even worse if we created a new board for this purpose as there would be many topics in that board to browse through. So I think it's best to just have the one topic. The admin team could maintain a more concise listing of all of the suggestions in the first message of that topic. It would also be good if we could mark which suggestions have been done already.

But let's not start this new topic until SuggestFest ends, which could be the end of October if enough people vote for that. Until then, we should post our suggestions here in the official SuggestFest suggestions topic.

[cuthbert]

Would it be improper of me to be tickled pink if dasilvasings covered Head On by Jesus and Mary Chain?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGp47YwDZ48

Well, I would be... 

[FuzzFace]

D'you know what I'd like - Trevor / Fuzzface to cover this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OqP1fXKOPE

Actually I'd just like to hear any new stuff from Trevor.  Are you out there?

Hey thanks for the nomination... I am around but have had enough going on that it feels like a year since I touched a musical instrument.

I would not have chosen this song but I'm already getting some ideas...

I remember cuthbert did a great rendition way back at Punkfest:
https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=7223.0

[henwrench]

But let's not start this new topic until SuggestFest ends, which could be the end of October if enough people vote for that. Until then, we should post our suggestions here in the official SuggestFest suggestions topic.

         Yep, that's for the best...

                                                                     henwrench

[Ted]

Ted does: Ohio by CSN&Y

Well damn! I just saw this. I'm honored to be remembered, in spite of my slackerishness on this site. I'll try.

[64Guitars]

Ted does: Ohio by CSN&Y

Well damn! I just saw this. I'm honored to be remembered, in spite of my slackerishness on this site. I'll try.

Your assistance has also been requested by Geir and Haylie on "Valley Girl". Not sure if you saw it.

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=18828.msg233054#msg233054