Live Cover Submission Clarification

[mavstar]

Hey everybody,

I am planning to start a band this summer that covers video game songs. I am planning on focusing mostly on individual songs, except for possibly a Double Dragon montage and a Zelda montage.

1- Would a Zelda montage be considered a single song rather than a compilation for submission purposes? I'm thinking something along the lines of Mike Tyson's Punchout! by the Minibosses. Would it also have to be music from only a single game? (could I tap into both Zelda I and ALttP for example)

2- Is it alright if the only changes from the original are instrumentation (live, most likely clarinet, keyboard, guitar, bass drums) and semi-original drum parts (live), with the exception of adding appropriate parts to songs that are (originally) sparse/minimalistic?

Thanks in advance. I am new here so let me know if I am posting this in the wrong place.

[zircon]

1. We always pick one game to be the 'primary' game being remixed, but we're OK with medleys. We're also OK with using multiple games. However, generally speaking, there is a massive tendency to be 'coverish' and fall well below our arrangement standards when you remix many sources in a single song.

2. We'd have to hear it, but what you're describing sounds generally like a cover to me, and we definitely prefer more arrangement than that. For an example of about where our tolerance is for arrangement, check out Sukotto42's Mega Man 3 mix, "Blue Balls". Anything more conservative than that and it would very likely NOT pass.