I live in New York.
My band plays mashed up cover songs with original instrumentations. For example, we do Sweet Child O' Mine (by guns and roses) on guitar, accordion, theremin, and drums, with the theremin playing most of the guitar parts. Then we sing a section "Since You've Been Gone" by kelly clarkson on top of it. Or, in one song the guitar plays the riff from "Sweet Home Alabama", half of the band plays a sings "Feel Like Making Love" and the other half plays and sings "Black Water".
We would like to record a demo EP, but I'm not sure what sort of permissions we need. I am not sure we are close enough to the original works to require any sort of licensing - everything I have found online is either about straight covers or sampling.
Thanks for any advice you can offer!
My band plays mashed up cover songs with original instrumentations. For example, we do Sweet Child O' Mine (by guns and roses) on guitar, accordion, theremin, and drums, with the theremin playing most of the guitar parts. Then we sing a section "Since You've Been Gone" by kelly clarkson on top of it. Or, in one song the guitar plays the riff from "Sweet Home Alabama", half of the band plays a sings "Feel Like Making Love" and the other half plays and sings "Black Water".
We would like to record a demo EP, but I'm not sure what sort of permissions we need. I am not sure we are close enough to the original works to require any sort of licensing - everything I have found online is either about straight covers or sampling.
Thanks for any advice you can offer!