Back in 2004 when the Spock's Beard message board was my primary hangout online, that huge Tsunami hit in Indonesia and I had an idea. There were a lot of musicians on that board, just like this place. I posted a thread with the same title as this one: What If...? And the question was simple. What if all of the musicians here donated a song and we put them together on a CD and we sold the CD and then donated the proceeds to the Red Cross to help with Tsunami relief?
Well, the project really kind of took off from there. Read here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tsunami_ProjektAt the time I was hooked up with a dude and we called ourselves "Split Personality" and we came up with the song that I ended up calling..."What If..." You can listen to that track here:
https://soundcloud.com/kirksnosehair/what-ifI'm not crazy about the fake drums, but the point was to quickly come up with some tunes that could be put on a CD and sold. And the project did quite well. We made $10k in profit and sent it off to the Red Cross.
It was during that time that I made some pretty decent connections with the guys in Spock's Beard, and Neal Morse, and Mark McCrite and the guys and gals from Izz, and IQ etc. So we ended up with a double CD that was quite an eclectic mix of music and we all got to rub elbows with and appear on the same album with some semi-notable musicians from the prog community. All in all it was a pretty fun time.
So, today, I was thinking.....What If...? What if THIS community did something similar for the victims of the massacre in Connecticut? We've got a bunch of talented people here, and I'm pretty sure I could use my contacts to get some of the people who were down with The Tsunami Projekt to get on board with this thing.
So, before I get ahead of myself here, let's just see if there's genuine interest in getting something going.
So, what do you think, DTF?