About Dean Gray Tuesday

Only 10 days after its release, the mash-up album American Edit, which pays tribute to the acclaimed Green Day album American Idiot through some of the best mash-up productions of 2005, was shut down reportedly after received a cease & desist order from Green Day's label, Warner records, despite the fact that it was released as an internet only release with no commercial gain for the team of mash-up artists involved. In fact, the only possible profit to be made from the release was a plea from the creators of the album (known only by the shared alias Dean Gray) for fans who enjoyed the creation to donate to one of three possible charities that Green Day have been known to support. Furthermore, the mash-up versions were such fantastic productions that they were truly a departure from the standard Green Day performances and would not compete for consumptive dollars.

We hope to mobilize the online Mash-Up community by organizing a simple one-day organized event. Participants would be asked to post the American Edit album online for 24 hours only starting on Tuesday, December 13, at 12:00AM. Doing so is not intended to be a mass organization of music piracy but, rather, one single display of the consumptive power of the mash-up and home remix community in the hopes of encouraging the labels, publishers and artists who are curious about the mash-up community to consider giving the high quality productions of "illegitimate" music a legitimate consideration as a promotional avenue for all music.

We also hope to encourage club DJs and radio DJs to air portions of the American Edit release on "Gray" Tuesday and refer to this site by reporting their planned airplay in advance.
Billie Joe on the "Boulevard of Broken Songs" Mash-Up:

"Actually, I was driving in my car, and I heard a Green Day mashup, with, um, Oasis and Aerosmith. It sounded cool! There's been a little bit of talk about doing a mashup, but I'm not sure who would be the appropriate hip-hop guy yet."
Make Your Own CD

Make a CD and hand it out to friends on Dec. 13th. Below are templates to print for creating your own CDs for yourself or to hand out in support of Dean Gray's American Edit. if you have other artwork you have created, feel free to submit it for posting here.

(Click the link above for graphics and etc.)

american edit was produced as a tribute / parody and an act of self-expressive art
american edit is not to be sold or distributed for commercial purposes or personal gain
if you wish to support the music featured, purchase a copy of american idiot by green day on dec 13 2005 through itunes
or donate to the non-profit causes sited in the links page of green day's official site @ greenday.com
if you wish to support dean gray, consider registering and participating on dec 13 2005.
if you wish to support dean gray without posting material on dec 13 2005, please sign our dec 13 guestbook.
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My band does a couple Green Day covers. Wonder if we shoulda participated?

...Nah. A "mash-up" is not the same thing as simply covering a song.

(But hmm. Our version of "Longview" sorta ends with a musical homage to "No-Rain" by Blind Melon. Does that count as a "mash-up"? lol.)

"despite the fact that it was released as an internet only release with no commercial gain" a mashup uses the original recording as a source, which is why it is copyright infringement.

If you actually play the music you're mashing, the record label has no control over the recording. Of course, if you could actually play music, you wouldn't spend your time remixing RIAA tracks.

"purchase a copy of american idiot by green day on dec 13 2005 through itunes"

So what we have is a backhanded promotion for Green Day end-of-the-year sales, who evidently knows how many American Idiots there are that will "stick it" to Warner by giving them money. That'll punish them, all right.

Shit... I wish I would'a known about this sooner. I would'a posted that baby up on sUG (and even let boycott-riaa leach off of sUG's server it if you guys needed to) Yo, Shmoo, the next time something like this grabs your attention, try PMin' me on sUG on things that supportUG should be involved in. (I already do the same, but you guys never seam to miss anything, hehe...) ThanX (Too bad, I wanted to be in on this.)

Mixer Jaëxx ( http://www.supportUG.com )

Thanks for the info, shmoo.

"So what we have is a backhanded promotion for Green Day end-of-the-year sales, who evidently knows how many American Idiots there are that will "stick it" to Warner by giving them money. That'll punish them, all right."

Unfortunately, it was the same sorta thing with the Dangermouse Grey Album too.

I'll try to remember Mixer J

Right on baby... SUPPORT THE UNDERGROUND