[mb-users] Fake Collaborations. WAS: Legal names and performance names

[Olivier]

2007/7/6, drsaunde <drsaunde at hotmail.com>:
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> artysmokes wrote:
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> > It's not a Rod Stewart album, or a Faces album, but mixture of the two.
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> This is where your reasoning falters, I am speaking specifially of The Faces
> releases which were originally released as "The Faces" and "Rod Stewart &
> The Faces" was a marketing creation based on Stewart's popularity, and none
> of the tracks on the releases in question are Stewart solo tracks.   To put
> it another way, I have seen a Zeppelin bootleg released as "Jimmy Page & Led
> Zeppelin".  Do you really think we should add an artist called "Jimmy Page &
> Led Zeppelin" because a label that has nothing to do with the artist decided
> to highlight a famous member of a band?
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FYI this topic (actually, a slightly different view of it) was brought
to the style list earlier:
http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-style/2007-May/004863.html

- Olivier