Members Sleef Posted September 1, 2005 Members Share Posted September 1, 2005 I play in an all original band, and find that it's really exciting, but sometimes I would like to be in a cover band or tribute band as well. How many of you play in multiple bands like this and which do find more fun? Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cherri Posted September 2, 2005 Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 Original. When we play four hour shows, we add covers. We generally do 20-25 originals per show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratTone Posted September 2, 2005 Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 All original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DonaldDemon Posted September 2, 2005 Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 Originally posted by cherri Original. When we play four hour shows, we add covers. We generally do 20-25 originals per show. Same as above. We never add popular covers and always do it our own way though so we continue to be against the grain:D The most popular cover we do is "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris1256 Posted September 2, 2005 Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 We do a mix. Unless people know the songs, they are not as keen to get up and dance.Covers are pretty much guaranteed to please the crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted September 2, 2005 Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 I play in a bunch of bands. NONE are rock bands so the cover/originals thing is not a big issue for me. Some do ONLY covers and some include original material with covers (none do 100% our own stuff). All I care about is that the material is GOOD (and the playing likewise). Then I'll have fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members srsfallriver Posted September 2, 2005 Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 Cover - (we do mostly weddings and private parties with a sprinling of clubs and public events). Though we do so many VanMorrison tunes that we may be considered a Tribute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lee Flier Posted September 2, 2005 Members Share Posted September 2, 2005 We're an original band but know lots of covers and can do cover gigs, and sometimes do. We don't play very many "big hits" though, we like to find more obscure covers like lesser known Beatles album cuts and stuff from the Nuggets box sets, things like that. I think it makes a band better to be able to play lots of songs together, rather than just your own stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dughaze Posted September 4, 2005 Members Share Posted September 4, 2005 70's and 80's covers for now. Eventually we'll mix in some originals after we find some better/creative/ reliable musicians. Our bass player had to relocate for his job so we're looking for another one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Greazygeo Posted September 5, 2005 Members Share Posted September 5, 2005 Ive done all three and had fun in each. The original projects ranged from 80's power metal to instrumental rock fusion. Playing in an Iron Maiden tribute band was great fun. We had the big stage show with pyro, 10 foot Eddie etc...very cool! Now I am doing a modern rock cover band, its fun too and makes some decent cash! George Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flatout Posted September 5, 2005 Members Share Posted September 5, 2005 I'm doing purely covers, with no ambitions to do anything else. I have no talent for songwriting, and neither does anyone else in my band. Some guys I know who are great songwriters are gigging 80% original with a sprinkling of covers, and are going down fantastically as a result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AJ6stringsting Posted September 7, 2005 Members Share Posted September 7, 2005 My last band we did 12 originals and the rest covers.Many "Original Music" guys tend to slag cover bands alot for not being original.Many Cover bands slag original for not being to open minded.Cover bands do tend to land more gigs than "Original material" bands.I think that argument is kind of lame and a double edged sword.But I found usually that some "Cover musicians" get a creative block easier,others draw on their influences and write great music.Some of the "Original musicians" sometimes have poor melodic reference and have poorer ear targeting techniques. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Singin' Dave Posted September 7, 2005 Members Share Posted September 7, 2005 I'm in two bands - one cover band w/ a few originals and one all original "jam" band original band gigs once every other month if that cover band is booked every weekend through mid-October. It's actually the best of both worlds. Love to gig and "own" the crowd so the cover band provides that outlet. And I'm a songwriter too so the original band is a creative source and a great time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted September 7, 2005 Members Share Posted September 7, 2005 We do a mixture of about 25% originals/75% select covers, but we do the covers pretty much in our own fashion. We get away with it, so it's all good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted September 7, 2005 Moderators Share Posted September 7, 2005 A mix of covers and originals....I have done that most of my career as a musician.Tribute bands, IMHO, are an abomination and should be banned from the planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jazzguru Posted September 8, 2005 Members Share Posted September 8, 2005 I play in a jazz group - we do lots of "covers" but as you may or may not know jazz bands play the head however the solos (improvs) are all you own and never the same twice. Keeps things interesting and fresh, esp when trading fours and some one does something unique - have to do a lot of listenen to each member of the group. We do lots of arraignments of the tunes as well. We also do smattering of original stuff mostly blues based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rowka Posted October 5, 2005 Members Share Posted October 5, 2005 Cover or Tribute? Interesting question. One is the other, but not so the other way around. My last band and my current band are both highly-themed. I was the bassist for a Disco band ( www.boogiefreaks.com ) where all we played was 70's funk and disco. Wearing the Las Vegas Show style costumes and afro wigs and all. Cover? Sure. Tribute? Tribute to an era, if not a band. My current band ( www.rockstarinfo.com ) is basically the same thing, but a decade more recent. We play 80's hair metal. We dress and act the part. Again, a tribute to an era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members archiemax Posted October 6, 2005 Members Share Posted October 6, 2005 Elvis tribute. It's been a while since we played Laughlin, but when we did it was cover set/break/Elvis show/break/cover set/break/Elvis show/break/cover set; six nights a week 8PM to 2:30 AM. Elvis sets were 60 minutes, breaks were 30. A long night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scheming Demon Posted October 7, 2005 Members Share Posted October 7, 2005 I have both. An original progressive rock/metal band and a Rush Tribute. The original band did both for a time but it became too difficult to maintain. Concentrate on originals and the covers suffer, concentrate on the covers and the originals suffer. We didn't have that much time to basically operate as 2 bands in one. Since we are a signed band we decided to hell with the covers. The only reason we did covers was so we could play a full night by ourselves and play an hours worth of our originals mixed in. This was more than if we played a one set all original set somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zeberifo Posted October 9, 2005 Members Share Posted October 9, 2005 Pink Floyd tribute www.thesurrogateband.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members noisewave Posted October 9, 2005 Members Share Posted October 9, 2005 18-20 originals and 4 or 5 covers per night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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