there should be a stipulation here: Your cover band gets PAID to play, not just keggers and garage parties. Sneaking in a real oddball cover to a paid gig is *cool*; not so much at a kegger.
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Most obscure covers your band plays
- Thread starter Jimmy4string
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Actually no one mentioned in the other thread "most overplayed covers" the tune Layla as played by Derek and the Dominoes. It's very well known but rarely played (but apprecieated by the audience) because musicians thinks it not simple enough. They get stumped with the half step key change between the chorus and verse all of the time. Then we'll do the part II of it too, with the piano thing going on, and harmony guitars, works a charm. People are dancing to it.
Cult of luna - Passing thru
Nine inch Nails - The great below
Deftones - Digital bath
Acoustic covers of this, you imagine how fast you can depress... ;-)
Nine inch Nails - The great below
Deftones - Digital bath
Acoustic covers of this, you imagine how fast you can depress... ;-)
There's plenty of truth to that. But occasionally we run across songs with unique appeal that may have been popular a long enough way back to be unfamiliar to many of the younger audience. Examples: Bette Davis Eyes, Son of a Preacher Man. Obscure due to their age but not B sides either.
Whitesnake's "Girl" and Zeppelin's Your Time is Gonna Come. And the Whitesnake version of the classic R&B song Ain't No Love in the Heart of the City
A few of our rare ones:
Banditos - The Refreshments
Escape - Rupert Holmes
It's All Been Done - Barenaked Ladies
New Girl Now - Honeymoon Suite
Burning in Love - Honeymoon Suite
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Does Your Mother Know - ABBA
The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car - Trooper
Animal - Def Leppard
Bear in mind that these are rare for my "countryfied" area of the globe, some of you may have covered them in various bands but in 25 years, this is the first band I'm part of that does them.
Also, I'd like to give an honourable mention to a band I saw a few years ago who covered De Do Do Do De Da Da Da by The Police. And a fine cover they did too! Unfortunately, their name escapes me at present.
Banditos - The Refreshments
Escape - Rupert Holmes
It's All Been Done - Barenaked Ladies
New Girl Now - Honeymoon Suite
Burning in Love - Honeymoon Suite
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Does Your Mother Know - ABBA
The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car - Trooper
Animal - Def Leppard
Bear in mind that these are rare for my "countryfied" area of the globe, some of you may have covered them in various bands but in 25 years, this is the first band I'm part of that does them.
Also, I'd like to give an honourable mention to a band I saw a few years ago who covered De Do Do Do De Da Da Da by The Police. And a fine cover they did too! Unfortunately, their name escapes me at present.
We did that with my high school band back in the 70s. The main riff/choruse alternates between 4/4 and 7/8 every other measure. After the dance (yes, they had real bands at high school dances in the 70s), someone came up and told me "you played some song that was impossible to dance to". I immediately know which one it was.
I thought that's what you meant. Was genuinely curious to ask what you guys play that's less obscure, but I didn't want seem to be belaboring the point.
And you're right about the Clash, what I should've said was the Clash covered a tune that was itself a reinterpretation of the original Stagger Lee.
