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[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1469627618' post='3099844'] You found the song or our version of it on YT? The only one of us playing it seems to be several years old, in fact from our first gig, 3 weeks after the band was formed. [/quote] Elvin Bishop version. I'll look for you, what are you called?

[quote name='FinnDave' timestamp='1469622262' post='3099770'] Agreed, one of our most popular songs is a version of Elvin Bishop's 'My Dog', which few people know. Especially as we play it in a different style and have re-written some of the words to suit a British audience. But it's definitely a cover. [/quote] I didn't know that one either. Just checked it out on YouTube. Very good. I often find it quite shocking the way blues/rock bands (for want of a better term) draw on such a limited range of songs that have been done to death when there is a massive catalogue of uncovered music to be, well, uncovered ... and in my experience audiences are receptive.

[quote name='RockfordStone' timestamp='1469616170' post='3099707'] you can but you can't make a set out of songs like that. no bar/club/venue is going to hire a band that only plays b-sides and demo's that no one has heard of. unless you are doing it for a bit of fun (where you can cover anything and should probably keep it in the basement ) the whole point IMO of being in a "covers" band is to entertain people, most likely for money. on the whole, that type of venue or crowd wants to hear what they know, not be educated about a demo that madonna recorded in her bathroom on a tape recorder. [/quote] I'll just stick to my previous comments.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1469493602' post='3098808'] I felt bushes in Holland, but it was quite a while ago now. [/quote] Yes, but were they some nice soft white ones?

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1469613670' post='3099692'] The whole idea of a cover band is to play tunes that the audience knows. [/quote] No. That's maybe one kind of so-called cover band but it's by no means the nature or point of all such so-called cover bands or all such so-called covers. It's completely feasible and reasonable to cover a song whether or not the audience will know it. You can actually have an audience going 'That's a good song, who did you say wrote that?'. Or more likely, they won't care who wrote it as long as it's got a proper tune, a hook or two, and maybe it makes you want to dance or at least tap a foot.

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1469565076' post='3099466'] Yes. He was in the band the first time I saw them live, in 1984. [/quote] He also co-wrote [i]Torn[/i] and was producer and bassist on Natalie Imbruglia's version of that song - as discussed in another thread.

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1469524401' post='3098938'] Think Billy Fury wrote most of his own stuff too but it's true they were more the exceptions than the norm. It was mostly pop stars having songs picked for them by management and producers that thought they suited the act. Often worked very successfully but you can see the potential frustration for those acts that were convinced they could write as well as perform. For some it worked in reverse such as already mentioned Carole King, Neil Sedaka etc who started out primarily as writers for other people before getting out there and performing their own material themselves. [/quote] BIlly Fury wrote the whole of his first album [i]The Sound of Fury[/i]. But, as you say, the exception.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1469519869' post='3098886'] Phil Jones has the right idea. [url="http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/h4ppyjack/media/Just%20Stuff/Music%20and%20Musicians/PJWeb-PhilAirPulse.png.html"][/url] [/quote] Phil Jones other idea ..

[quote name='TimR' timestamp='1469518831' post='3098872'] Whatever happened to beat combos? [/quote] Still going ...

[quote name='skankdelvar' timestamp='1469481790' post='3098756'] ... When I first started out all bands were called bands ... [color=#faebd7][i].[/i][/color] [/quote] When I first started out all bands were called groups.

[quote name='Phil Starr' timestamp='1469516003' post='3098852'] I remember reading an interview with Paul Bushnell, bassist with Ednaswap. Finding out their song they'd been gigging for years was a hit without them being involved broke up the band. Paul Bushnell did allright out of it having seen who he's played with since, here's the article. [url="http://www.performing-musician.com/pm/nov09/articles/paulbushnell.htm"]http://www.performin...aulbushnell.htm[/url] [/quote] The song actually predates Ednaswap though doesn't it and was given to Imbruglia by one of the original writers? Is that not right? And Preven and Cutler must have done quite well financially from the Imbruglia version? And here's another version by one of the original writers ... http://youtu.be/Z6E2whjUOcY

I forgot to mention that I can see the music stand more easily if I sit down.

My strap is adjusted so that the bass hangs in roughly the same place sitting as standing. Then, most learning and practising is done sitting down or, if I get the urge, I stand up.

[b]BBC Radio 2 - Greatest Cover Versions: Top 50[/b] [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/playlists/zzzzcm"]http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/playlists/zzzzcm[/url]

[url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_version"]https://en.wikipedia...i/Cover_version[/url] [url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_band"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_band[/url]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1469467904' post='3098571'] If you make some method of returning to something it's a record, the black circular thing came much later than the word didn't it? [/quote] Exactly.

Dave [s]Edmunds[/s] Mackay demands Billy Bremner play fewer mad guitar solos.

[quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1469451540' post='3098360'] It could well be. Still, suggestions for getting a sound close to this with an electric would still be welcome. [/quote] Fender Precision, possibly fretless, flatwound La Bellas, play fingerstyle over the end of the fingerboard, treble rolled off.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1469451432' post='3098358'] Another disappointing thread title... [/quote] Yes, I too was expecting the tonewood discussion all over again.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1469450423' post='3098351'] The person who wrote it must have made some kind of recording to be able to have it covered, even Tab would be sufficient as a 'record' of the song's existence? [/quote] Often, in the old days, the composer would have written out the dots above the lyricist's words. No recording, unless we are going to call the dots a recording method which, of course, it was.

Is it producer Phil Thornalley on double bass?

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1469449964' post='3098347'] I've never been in an originals band that hauled sound and lights and I've never been in a covers band that didn't. Non of said bands performed in Milwaukee. [/quote] How about Wigan? Ever play there?

[quote name='JonesTheCat' timestamp='1468880058' post='3094071'] On a similar note I just re-discovered what a cracking pop album Left of the Middle by Natalie Imbruglia is, purely from hearing Torn on the radio and actually listening to the bass line. ... [/quote] [url="http://www.soundonsound.com/people/phil-thornalley-torn"]http://www.soundonsound.com/people/phil-thornalley-torn[/url]

[quote name='Grahambythesea' timestamp='1469448282' post='3098329'] I agree, didn't realise it until I saw the film of Mama Mia on which I am told Rutger played. If he didn't someone did an awfully good impression of his sound. [/quote] I believe Gunnarson is credited as bass and bouzouki on the film soundtrack.

[quote name='Sammers' timestamp='1469439863' post='3098222'] I'm not so sure that'd be classed as trying to pass it off as an original, it was still credited to the original writers so was all above board... unlike Led Zep with dazed & confused when that was released! [/quote] ... and one of the original writers produced it and played on it.