RE: FRIGGIN' COVER BANDS AND COVERING SONGS ?

Raleigh NC

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Even nationally known bands "cover" other people's songs. Not many artists that have hits, actually wrote and performed the song originally. Look at rock, pop, country....not many wrote the hits. Look at Elvis...never wrote a song (or at least one that made it). Eric Clapton plays covers like Cocaine, I Shot the Sherriff etc but he also wrote/co-wrote some pretty bit hits as well. So people who cover bands are not one sided. We write songs too. I play in a cover band because the audience loves it. We play ever changing hits that are tried and true crowd pleasers which draws a crowd. Bar owners, event organizers love a band who can draw a crowd to spend money. In my opinion, you have to be pretty good players to cover another's person's hits cause people know the songs note for note! Else you better play it in your own style and make it work. Good covers gets people up and moving, they sing along, especially when a cover band plays songs that most don't cover. Also really good cover bands like Zoso plays stuff everyone has heard a million times, but packs the Lincoln two nights in a row. So I guess a better question would be what are friggin original bands? Does that mean the band must write all the material from scratch and only play that material? Are you going to play out? If so, can you keep an audience and owners happy with all originals? Been there and done that: We couldn't.