On 10/12/06, Joan Whittaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Travelling Wilbury's is a classic example, although if Roy Orbison had not died and the band folded, might not have qualified..
This is where I am with Don, and didn't like this proposal to start with. We're talking about going from something almost entirely objective, (there's either one person, or there's more than one) to something entirely subjective. Project means something entirely different to different people. I can't see any way that Travelling Wilbury's doesn't qualify as a band, indeed you even use the word in the description. That only one album was released doesn't magically turn it into a project. Artists use the terms band, group, and project almost interchangeably themselves sometimes; I've seen articles and interviews with Trent Reznor or other participants describing NiN as all the above, over the years. We've already had edit wars over collaboration vs member of edits, people already can not agree on whether some artist entities are a band or a collaboration. This whole project thing just seems deeply flawed and unthought out to me.
The Alan Parsons Project, although it might have started off with the intention of being so, is definitely not a project within the above definition. Another one that comes to mind as not qualifying is Enigma, which started off as a project, but now with six albums or so behind them and four compilations cannot claim any type of exclusivity, which to my mind marks a project.
Why do you think exclusivity is what marks a project? As mentioned, folks like Ayreon have released many many albums, but are very clear that they have a project, not a band. Ayreon can legitimately be called a 'group' though, because there are always multiple musicians involved, the distinction between group and person is very clear cut.
Group & Orchestra in 1969.. This, I think, is a definite project but it breaks the rules whereby he did involve the members of the band of which he was a member at the time, namely Deep Purple. Following up on this in 1970
Practically every electronic project that could possibly be called one (a project that is) involves musicians who are currently also members of another band (or project) together. By that rule, the one genre that consistently uses project to describe work outside their main band, would actually not qualify as a project on MB. Good luck explaining that to electronica afficionados. It's usually easy to tell if things are groups or solo though. I just can't like this idea, no matter how hard I try, so I'm going to shut up about it now, y'all know where I stand. Regards, -- Lauri Watts _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
