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Thread #107588   Message #2235228
Posted By: stallion
13-Jan-08 - 04:56 AM
Thread Name: PRS Performing Rights Gestapo
Subject: RE: PRS Performing Rights Gestapo
To take up what Jim was saying about arrangements being different, for the cd "Sing the Sun into the Sky" we recorded 20 songs, we dropped 2 because we felt they needed more voices the other 4 were dropped because the arrangements had changed so much (for the better)that it wsn't a true "snapshot" of what we were doing. Some stuff we do is tight and rigid but for the most part, if you have a big chorus, like The Press room in Portsmouth NH, it's great to busk the harmonies and fly all over the place to make new sounds and I remember Martin once whispering in my ear "I bet you couldn't sing that again", he was right! It also keeps the songs fresh to us by constantly working them. So I think the arrangement thing is baloney, except, if we had written on MCPRS licence form arr 2BS&S we would have only had to pay half the licence fee, we didn't.

Peter