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08-05-2010, 03:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Washington, DC | | | Cover bands
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Who is in a cover band? What band do you cover? If you have a YouTube video of your band, please provide. I've seen some good dmb, rhcp, tool cover bands on YouTube. |
08-05-2010, 08:22 PM
| | | I think you're mistaking cover bands with tribute bands. Cover bands generally play material from various artists, while tribute bands play material exlcusively from one artist or one niche genre (e.g., an 80s hair metal tribute).
...and now you know, and knowing is half of the battle. 
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08-06-2010, 11:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Olympia WA | | I play in a tool trubute here in olympia wa.
We have the same freekin name as another tool tribute on the east coast.  http://46and2oly.com/
plenty of vids in the vid section link to youtube.
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Jamie |
08-06-2010, 11:03 AM
|  | Corevalay.com | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: New Jersey | | I play in a hard rock cover band. We try to do some "different" tunes from what everyone else does. I'm not crazy about playing covers, but it's fun for now I guess  http://www.smackwaterjack.com/videos.html
I've actually gotta change my strings for tonights gig... good thing I just thought of that!
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08-06-2010, 11:04 AM
| | Corevalay.com | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: New Jersey | | Pretty good stuff!! Do you guys do Jerk-Off or Hook With A Penis? Quote:
Originally Posted by Chowowbus I play in a tool trubute here in olympia wa.
We have the same freekin name as another tool tribute on the east coast. http://46and2oly.com/
plenty of vids in the vid section link to youtube.
Later
Jamie |
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08-06-2010, 11:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Oregon | | | I recently clarified my views on cover bands vs tributes.
What did it was seeing a Tribute band that I'd really enjoyed previously. Instead, this night they were doing covers. They played well enough, by which I mean this wasn't one of those horrible teenage bands where people are clearly still learning their instruments. But the act felt tired boring seen-it-before.
Covering Bryan Adams didn't help, but mostly the problem was with the set list. And this IMO is where cover bands fall down. It's like the songs are selected just by choosing songs that were hits and then playing them in a seemingly random order. The result is it sounds like iTunes on shuffle.
Contrast that to a tribute band, which does more like what an original act does, where they're choosing a set list to build momentum, follow a theme. If nothing else, you're waiting for Enter Sandman or whatever, but then when they play it you're bittersweet cuz it means the show's almost over. |
08-06-2010, 11:17 AM
|  | Bababooey to y'all | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Central Florida | | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGB5wiSurSc
Here is the band I currently play with...it is a promo video so it gives you an idea of the stuff we play...
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08-06-2010, 11:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Olympia WA | | thanks!
No hooker or jerk off yet...hooker is on the list tho!
Jamie |
08-06-2010, 11:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Olympia WA | | | good line up essentre!
Jamie |
08-06-2010, 11:34 AM
| | | Static Age...Misfits cover (whoa whoa whoa...Tribute!!) band....Danzig era! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64zjU-vbmmA
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08-06-2010, 11:38 AM
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Endorsing Artist: HCAF | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: The Woodlands, TX | | Used to, and we'd do them correctly too. 
Majority of bands, do not. |
08-06-2010, 01:00 PM
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08-06-2010, 01:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Madison, WI | | | I play in an acoustic cover band with an ABG. Generally we go and play in front of bars until we have enough money to drink in said bars -- it actually works quite well.
Pop covers get us the most cash, but we know the entirety of Radiohead's OK Computer. |
08-06-2010, 07:16 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Puretone Bass strings | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Central Coast NSW Australia | | I play in a cover's band called Superjam.
I live in Australia, and gig 2-3 times a week around Sydney, The Central Coast & Newcastle. I play in an originals band too, but i must say i love cranking out covers in Superjam to a packed, alcohol-fuelled room full of lunatics.
Here is Superjam covering 'I Feel Good' by James Brown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBqZocyEuns |
08-06-2010, 07:25 PM
|  | Livin' it up at the Hotel California | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | | Zeppelin, Yes, and The Eagles trib bands
I played in a Zeppelin tribute band back in the late 70's and early 80's in Southern California. It rocked.
About ten years ago I put together a YES tribute band in the Sacramento area. We had alot of fun. The keyboard player was Tim Morse, the author of Yes Stories (a book about Yes). Thanks to Tim, I was able to meet Yes and talk with them for a while. It was cool. Jon Anderson is very short! And Chris has HUGE hands! Steve Howe's hands are very fragile (no pun intended).
I am now in the process of trying to put together an Eagles tribute band in the Sacramento area.
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08-06-2010, 07:37 PM
|  | Lone Wolf and Renagade Miner | | | | | Cover band is my main one and loving it!
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08-06-2010, 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Danzig | If you guys ever want to come to Nashville, we can put a show together at a good venue. We do We Are 138 or Braineaters at most of our shows. Going to add Astro Zombies at our next show.
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08-07-2010, 06:15 AM
| | | | "If you guys ever want to come to Nashville, we can put a show together at a good venue. We do We Are 138 or Braineaters at most of our shows. Going to add Astro Zombies at our next show."
HailCorduroy - If we ever make it down that far Ill let you know for sure, and the same extends to you if your ever in New England, we could throw a show together real easy!
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08-16-2010, 11:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Washington, DC | | | sorry liquidmidnight, i was talking about tribute bands. the tool one is great, I also really enjoy toolmybass' tribute band. |
08-16-2010, 12:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Olympia WA | | Toolmybass is the reason I even play in a tool trib. If it was not for his vids I would have never been able to learn half the songs we do. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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