Ok first of all I know that the USA is a big freakin country and that most of the community is young with no money saved for traveling, but the fun and sheer camaraderie of this cover contest got me thinking....we're a community of Pillows fans, and we should be getting together and play for our own enjoyment and for those who have followed the band for many years.

What can we do? I'm sure the easiest idea is to do an IM themed cover record, comprised of our covers...even additional covers since this contest has got us all creative! I would be willing to assist in collecting MP3s and other organizational duties! I would be more than willing to also look into venues, festivals, anime conventions etc. that would be interested in featuring us Pillows cover artists similar to what MAGfest, PAX, and ComicCon has become to video game/tv/anime/comic book/etc. nerds worldwide so we could all play live together. I'm not familiar with how far anime conventions stretch in terms of showcasting other artforms (like bands covering music from animes...again, similar to what MAGfest has become with featuring video game cover bands), but if we had enough people interested its worth the investigation.

I'd love to get something going once a year to celebrate the band and expand on what this cover contest has brought out in the online community. I am aware of travel difficulties, age differences, our shallow (hahaha!) online friendships relative to other social forums, but consider the idea of this live concert and tell me what you think. Maybe we can get something going and have our own showcase at an appropriate event. At the very least, lets discuss an album. Thoughts...

[quote="ladybirdgirl"]I know it would be impossible to do this, but wouldn't it be cool if...[/quote]

Yes, but unfortunately the internet has a way of bringing us together, and then keeping us apart.

Yeah but hell, you're in New Jersey and I'm in New Jersey...case in point, get up to NYC and we'll start a cover band!! Its gotta start somewhere!

Seriously, it'd all be great, but I doubt most people here have the money, and we all live mostly apart. I'm in San Diego california, so if we could get a gig in Comic Con, I'd definitely sign up.

The money is surely a factor, but more importantly is the time. My bandmates and I hardly had enough time to get competent and we were only 20 minutes apart.

Furthermore, I have no idea how going to the city will solve anything.

This idea would be great if we lived close to each other,
like minutes away rather than hundreds of miles away.
If you have friends who live near you, by all means go for it.
But a lot of IM'rs here are from distant parts of the world,
take Keitaro and Raid, they live down in South America.

Me, Taffy and Konno are very close to eachother and have decided to
for a band, since we live close to each other, and we like the same music.
We want to be serious and play live shows so we're practicing and getting to
know lives by taking classes on the logistics of having a band, getting into venues, etc...

Good idea, just the wrong time and people to start out with. We have our own lives,
we just can't spend everything on something that won't really help us.

There's also the problem that we have 20 guitarists, 12 vocalists, 3 bassists, and 1 drummer. We can't have an "IM Band," but we can surely collaborate on various musical projects, as we intend to.

[quote="sheerheartattack"]There's also the problem that we have 20 guitarists, 12 vocalists, 3 bassists, and 1 drummer. We can't have an "IM Band," but we can surely collaborate on various musical projects, as we intend to.[/quote]

LOL on the 20 guitarists and 1 drummer

[quote][quote="Brye916"] Raid... South America.[/quote]
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There's been anime cons here where bands play J-Rock, not necessarily from Anime.

Also, I think it should be taken one step at a time, this seems like a pretty good step, if we finish that IM Cover CD, we could make split cover videos, but thinking of playing gigs together sounds like jumping the gun.

But it sounds like a cool idea, I would help out if I didn't live in the middle of the ocean.

[quote="ladybirdgirl"]Yeah but hell, you're in New Jersey and I'm in New Jersey...case in point, get up to NYC and we'll start a cover band!! Its gotta start somewhere![/quote]

Mare's also from New Jersey and I'm from NYC. Too bad I can't play anything on guitar yet.

[quote="Brye916"][quote="sheerheartattack"]There's also the problem that we have 20 guitarists, 12 vocalists, 3 bassists, and 1 drummer. We can't have an "IM Band," but we can surely collaborate on various musical projects, as we intend to.[/quote]

LOL on the 20 guitarists and 1 drummer[/quote]

I'm sure that the 20 guitarists could double as bassists.

[quote="Konno"][quote="Brye916"][quote="sheerheartattack"]There's also the problem that we have 20 guitarists, 12 vocalists, 3 bassists, and 1 drummer. We can't have an "IM Band," but we can surely collaborate on various musical projects, as we intend to.[/quote]

LOL on the 20 guitarists and 1 drummer[/quote]

I'm sure that the 20 guitarists could double as bassists.[/quote]

Lol nobody wants to be the bassist. I don't wanna be around when 20 guitarists have to decide who gets to use a B and e string and who doesn't.

No.