Vote for the Nov/Dec 2013 "Artists/Covers" festival

[64Guitars]

It's time to vote for our next two festivals which will run from November 1 to December 31. Voting starts now and runs for 4 days. You can change your vote any time until the closing of the poll on November 2. To do so, click "Remove vote" to cancel your previous vote, then vote again.

The "Theme/Genre" festival was decided last time by our tie-breaker poll:

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=19356.0

So, the Theme/Genre festival for Nov/Dec 2013 is:

Alternate Tunings - Songs played on a guitar or other stringed instrument with an alternate tuning.


"Off the Beaten Track" is covers of obscure songs that never charted or are not so well known. Hopefully, the rest of the choices are pretty obvious. If not, ask for clarification here.

[danieldesete]

This has to be a Lou Reed Tribute festival.

[ODH]

This has to be a Lou Reed Tribute festival.

No-brainer

[steelguitar]

This has to be a Lou Reed Tribute festival.

It has to be. Obviously. Naturally.

Jean-Sébastien

[64Guitars]

Lou Reed Fest is well in the lead, though there are still two days of voting left and things could change.

I noticed an interesting connection between the two festivals. While looking at the Wikipedia page for "The Velvet Underground & Nico", I noticed that Lou Reed is credited with playing Ostrich Guitar on "Venus in Furs" and "All Tomorrow's Parties". I didn't know what that was so I clicked on the link and learned that it's an alternate tuning where all of the strings are tuned to one note ('D' in the case of "Venus in Furs"). Reed coined the term when he first used that tuning on a song called "The Ostrich" by his pre-Velvet Underground band The Primitives. So there are at least three opportunities for double fest submissions if anyone wants to cover those songs in ostrich tuning.

[Oldrottenhead]

i am assuming we can also delve into john cale and nico's back catolouge.

[Flash Harry]

i am assuming we can also delve into john cale and nico's back catolouge.

Catalounge, now there's a theme....