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Cover Bands Are Killing Original Music

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MyOwnFlag, on 7/6/2008 8:09:02 AM
Total Posts: 1281, Joined: 7/30/2006

well where im from we have a good mix of cover bands and original local bands. Im not a big fan of cover bands but they certainly arent killing original music.

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seahawks76, on 7/6/2008 9:19:38 AM
Total Posts: 1370, Joined: 6/14/2006

I think what this article is saying isn't so much that cover bands are "ruining" music but rather suffocating the local scene. I completely agree with this. People love to go out and dance or bob their heads to the tunes they know. It's so easy to make money that way. Even in the jazz scene people tend to want to hear "standards", commonly known jazz tunes. You start laying out some Pat Metheney, Roy Hargrove or Charlie Hunter, much more contemporary material, and you can lose much of your audience. Too bad, really.

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shoot, on 7/6/2008 9:21:32 AM
Total Posts: 273, Joined: 12/29/2007

the uk charts are full of bands who cover other bands songs..cunts like westlife and boyzone have made themselves multi-millionaires by cover any song that has reached no.1 and stayed there for at least 4 weeks....fuck i hate them...lol

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SadisticMind, on 7/6/2008 9:23:27 AM
Total Posts: 109, Joined: 9/10/2007

cover bands arnt killing good music, if anything, its supporting it. Led Zeppelin hasnt been on tour in 30 years! but you know what, i can still say i saw Communication Breakdown live, it may have not been Zeppelin but it sounded just like i thought it would.

original music is everywhere, you just gotta know how to look for it.

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killstheweak, on 7/6/2008 9:31:50 AM
Total Posts: 12, Joined: 4/19/2007

Ya cover bands suck, the hardest part in a band, is writing the music, all they do is download tabs and play them live :P Now bands that do a few covers but make them sound different i like, like taking a 80's song and making it death metal.

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Immaculate1, on 7/6/2008 9:33:30 AM
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I don't think cover bands are killing original music. Most bands are perfectly capable of killing themselves, by writing bad, uninteresting music.

Don't know about America, but I am appalled by the musical skills of local bands over here.

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gmc360, on 7/6/2008 9:35:19 AM
Total Posts: 342, Joined: 11/23/2007

There is a place for covered songs and cover bands, for sure. And there is no dearth of original music due to cover bands. Sometimes they are better than original.

I'm not a heavy metal guy, but confess to having a soft spot for Sabbath. During the Napster days, I made a collection of Black Sabbath cover songs that kicked some serious ass. Steel Pole Bathtub's rendition of Paranoid puts Ozzy to shame.

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ThisisJeff, on 7/6/2008 10:00:03 AM
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Immaculate1 wrote:
I don't think cover bands are killing original music. Most bands are perfectly capable of killing themselves, by writing bad, uninteresting music.

Don't know about America, but I am appalled by the musical skills of local bands over here.

A lot of the local bands here are kick ass.

Go to Austin and get owned by the local live music scene.

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jackanape, on 7/6/2008 2:55:56 PM
Total Posts: 2465, Joined: 3/27/2006

Austin has a great underground scene from what I've been told.
Cover bands suck just because it's laziness if they aren't making their own materials.

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Fido, on 7/6/2008 5:42:22 PM
Total Posts: 3462, Joined: 1/3/2007

I've seen cover bands I'd rank as better than the original, but then, they should be writing their own stuff instead.

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