JoCo Day 2009
(Wow, it's been a while since I've started a thread.)
December 1, 2009, will be JoCo's 39th birthday, which we in the Forums traditionally celebrate by declaring it JoCo Day and then having some vague clatter towards trying to orchestrate some kind of publicity push around that day. (To be fair, we've been pretty good about getting projects finished and turned in by then.)
Anyone have any ideas? Anyone working on anything?
December 1, 2009, will be JoCo's 39th birthday, which we in the Forums traditionally celebrate by declaring it JoCo Day and then having some vague clatter towards trying to orchestrate some kind of publicity push around that day. (To be fair, we've been pretty good about getting projects finished and turned in by then.)
Anyone have any ideas? Anyone working on anything?
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Really, I am VERY impressed!
I'm also very impressed with JadeSnake's project. Also, several people at the London concert were very impressed with the half-pony half-monkey monster she made to please me.
Along similar lines, a weighted companion music box would be fun.
The video idea I mentioned in my previous post still hasn't been fully typed up, since I've been busy and also having more trouble queuing things up to put them on YouTube than I should. But I'm even more sure that couldn't be done by JoCo day.
Im on a caribbean cruise {/brag]
I think I'l just wear my JoCo T-shirt and quote songs all day. (so basically a normal day for me)
We just redid the bass line, stomps and all
We're all invited, [mtgordon solo]even Mark T. Gordon[/mtgordon solo]
...rest of song as normal (wait, we want JoCo to share our sleeping bag?)
Do we want this to be audio-only, or might we be interested in a collaborative video?
Well, heck, if those who have webcams sing into them, and somebody can be bothered picking five seconds from each of the video streams and sticking them together, keeping them synched with the combined audio [ETA: and the occasional picture-in-picture to show there are many of us?], I guess that wouldn't be difficult at all.
EATA: If whoever has JoCo CDs could wave them about a bit when they sing 'we'll put on records', and somebody stays conspicuously still during 'and noone will dance' it would be a bit cooler.
Is anyone able to produce an actual Fudgie the Whale? I *might* be able to produce one. Along similar lines, can anyone provide Champales?
actually, I was thinking about my last post and maybe some of the verses could be solo singers with webcams, but the choruses and the words 'we're all invited' should definitely be everyone, even those who can't carry tunes.
ETA: Should we relyric? We're having a party? Time to celebrate your birthday?
Yeah, um, the sleeping bag line, uh... Who wants that one? Maybe awryone could get away with that...
We need a way to let him know that day
Of the happiness he always brings!
We need a JoCo birthday song,
We'll work both night and day-
We'll make our own JoCo birthday song
To celebrate his special day!
(and lets thank his mom, too...)
In C major
In A major
The form is exactly what it is on the record, with 4 clicks before the 4-bar intro. Singers, remember the harmonica solo (it sounds like just more piano banging!)
For the parts where it's everyone singing, we could tile all the videos, if we do use webcams.
I am *so* in - audio and video. I vote for the key of C and will happily record a guide track ASAP. (Thanks for the awesome accompaniment, Borba!) As I was singing through for practice, it occurred to me that something should be done with the line, "My brother says he won't come down and punch me." "Our bother" and "punch us" doesn't really work. It seems to me that "someone" should say they won't come down and do something to JC (punch him or otherwise), but I can't think of anything clever. Paul and Storm doesn't fit, but Neil Gaiman does. (Neil Gaiman says he won't come down and hex you?) Any ideas?
So, are we *all* singing "even Mark T. Gordon," and then he'll sing the pants-wetting line solo? Also, I happen to think that "You can share our sleeping bag" is pretty funny as-is. And may I make the onion dip and Fritos, please? :-) As for flipping through his CDs, I have everything (including Areas of my Expertise - I could go get a copy of More Information, too) except OBOOCA, which no one has, of course. ;-)
Has anyone volunteered to mix and edit? That person should probably decide on a deadline for submissions. (I can't do it - way too busy. The Yale application is due on JoCo Day, and I'm moving that week, just to name a couple of things.) Last question, does it matter if I use my webcam or my mini video recorder?
Real last question, should we ask Paul and Storm to contribute?
If we are doing video of us singing might we all want to take our own few seconds of screen time to hold up a sign or card or something. Or do several things and the editor can choose the best moments to highlite.
Also if someone doesn't want to sing they can just wave and display their sign.
ETA: To elaborate on the harmony part reference - if we go with A major for example, the three main melody notes in the chorus are A,B and C# (the first exception is "head" of "headache"). If you simply layer thirds on top of those, i.e. one voice starts on C# and another on E, it's quite easy to sing in tune, and gives a nice soul/gospel effect. Just gotta adapt a bit when "headache" comes around.
We should ask Paul and Storm, although they might be pissed off that we didn't do anything like this for their birthdays. It's their fault for having birthdays on two different days. Them or awryone should be asked to do the sleeping bag part. ('A time for lovers' might be an opportunity to hold up panties, do you think? Hmm, now who has a big collection of panties...)
For the 'it's gonna be funny when Mark wets his pants' do we want Mark in the middle looking ashamed and four of us in the corners pointing and laughing? This bit is up to Mark, of course.
Oh, and I agree about needing a vocal track to sing along to; I only know the song as it is in whichever key it is in and I can't infer very well how to sing it in C major or A major. Not that it matters because I expect to be pretty quiet in the mix. ETA: Especially if you're doing harmony parts, because I would only sing if there was a whole cacophony of other people singing the same and it wasn't supposed to sound pretty.