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View Poll Results: Do your band play mostly covers or original songs? | |
Covers
|    | 38 | 31.93% | |
Original songs
|    | 60 | 50.42% | |
I play in both cover band and original band
|    | 21 | 17.65% |
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09-09-2009, 02:02 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Czech | | | Do your band play mostly covers or original songs?
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Hi guys, we have had a discussion on our local Czech bass forum about original bands and cover bands.
From long years of reading TB I got the impression that the majority of TB'ers (especially in US) play in cover bands and only minority play original songs exclusively.
In Czech it is the opposite, most bands play original music and you almost can not see a club with resident band playing covers (pop/rock) - which is a very common practice in US, as I understand.
So lets see the poll results.. thanks.
Last edited by nemo : 09-09-2009 at 02:24 AM.
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09-10-2009, 03:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Portugal | | | 100% original. Cover bands are rare here in Portugal too. |
09-10-2009, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: North Texas | | | We only play 1 cover song. I'd like to add one more, but I prefer originals.
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09-10-2009, 03:19 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | I do covers almost exclusively. I used to be in an all original project, but it was a lot of work and very hard to sell.
I dig being in a cover band. My intention was never to get famous. I'm just gigging for the free beer!!! 
Well, that and as a means to be able to justify buying a new piece of gear from time to time........
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09-10-2009, 03:26 PM
| | | | Covers, although almost everyone in the band has an original or two that we do from time to time, and of the originals we do on a regular basis, our youngest member, the keyboard/co-lead vocalist writes most of them and they are good! But still only make up about 15% of what we do. Lets face it, in a club situation, most people want to hear something familiar or at least very good and after 50 plus years of rock n roll, there are a lot of good song writers out there that are better than our 5-6 times a month band.
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09-10-2009, 03:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Buffalo, NY | | | Here's what I do:
DISCO DUCK (Dance/Party/Corporate Band) - 100% covers
wünderland (Classic/Prog Rock) - both, at one time, 50/50
CODA (Led Zeppelin Tribute) - Only covers, only Zep
INITIATION (Original Prog) - 1-2 set shows all original, longer we add in some covers
Lenny Revell Band (Piano Pop Artist) - have 3 albums of original, but throw covers in too |
09-10-2009, 03:46 PM
|  | Beware the "intense intentional venom" of my posts | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Hacienda Heights (LA), SoCal | | | I play in an original Improv band. Though this weekend we're throwing in a cover of Erotic City for the hell of it.
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09-10-2009, 03:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Northern California | | | I play in two cover bands here in the US. One band does only covers, and the other does mostly covers. Although we have three originals so far. Our hope is to have 1/2 covers and 1/2 originals. Some venues, like bars or casinos, pretty much only want covers. Songs that everyone knows and can sing along to. However other venues, usually ones for the door, do better with originals; different audience. So, we'd like to get a piece of both markets.
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09-10-2009, 03:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Blimp City | | 99% originals. We throw a cover in here and their at some shows, OCMS, Wagon wheel, Michael Jackson's Billy Jean at a show the night after he died as a tribute...done bluegrassy 
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09-10-2009, 03:55 PM
|  | Blah blah blah | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tuscola | | | all original here
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09-10-2009, 04:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Dunbar, West Virginia | | | When I played as a full time professional we very successfully played 95% original material. Now I do not depend upon music for my living and I play 95% covers. To me it really is a time factor limitation. It takes a great deal of time to write and arrange good original material; especially if you have four part vocal harmony as we did.
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09-10-2009, 04:54 PM
| | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Holy CRAP!!!
This thread is still civil. Bravo!!!
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09-10-2009, 04:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Czech | | Yep, no opinionated b.s..
Thanks all who voted, still need more statistics..  |
09-10-2009, 04:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: SoCal/Chicago | | | 95% original. One or two cover right now to fill out the set. |
09-10-2009, 05:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Houston | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phalex Holy CRAP!!!
This thread is still civil. Bravo!!! | Originals suck.  
Honestly, I love doing both, but I'm doing covers so I can afford to buy more gear. |
09-10-2009, 05:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Fredericksburg | | | maybe 4 covers out of 20 songs. We're original
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09-10-2009, 05:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: New Mexico | | | I'm surprised by the results so far. I thought covers people would be at least 5 to 1. Right now originals have more by almost 2 to 1.
I bet this will change. |
09-10-2009, 07:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: South Florida, in the U.S.A. | | | IMO the operative in the O.P. is " MOSTLY"
I play in 3 different projects, 3 different genres.
All 3 play MOSTLY, which as I understand it is 51% or above, covers.
We also play originals, but MOSTLY covers.
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09-10-2009, 07:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Victoria BC, Canada | | | all originals for my band...we've done a cover or two here and there but they were mostly for a laugh. |
09-10-2009, 09:47 PM
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Endorsing Artist Mike Lull T Bass pickups | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Seattle Washington | | | All covers........
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