Originally Posted by Mark Kaufman
I'm a little confused...from the start we wanted to put this in everyone's hands, from voluntarily offering up songs to do, to putting them all up for vote...lyrics, compositions, songs...to anonymous, blind voting for which one to do. I'm not sure where favoritism comes in...not even sure who the favorites are supposed to be. Truth is, I think the songs with the best chance of getting selected would be the ones that are easiest for people of various experience levels to cover.

Why did I decide to have three choices? So that people would vote for more than just themselves...I figured that would give more advantage to more people, and less chance of a 17-way tie.

But yes, fun is the name of the game here. One thing that is pretty much impossible is to come up with a challenge that everyone agrees upon...that thread we were on a couple weeks ago got so convoluted and full of second guessing that I finally told Big Jim let's stop looking for consensus and just make a choice. grin Sorry, that's the General Manager side of me...I can't stand waiting around for a group decision. Sorry!


Thanks Mark...yes we decided to crack on and get it underway before interest dropped....there will, I hope, be an operchancity (Scottish word.... speaks for itself)to try out other challenges with different formats in the future and hopefully all suggestions will be taken on board...We cannot please evryone all the time.....heck if we could do that we would be in politics instead of music...we will try to please most and keep these challenges interesting....remember though it is a bit of fun and a challenge to test yourselves not a popularity contest or a serious competition for the best song or cover. Only a few hours left so please if you have not already voted get voting for the song you think will prove to be the best test for all to cover......

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=687727&songID=5238055