[quote name='bilbo230763' post='212988' date='Jun 5 2008, 09:49 AM']Live music should excite. Watching most covers bands just doesn't. I find it to be an increasingly tired concept and I think it has the potential to undermine itself in the longer term.[/quote]
But good covers bands manage to do this by doing interesting arrangements, medleys, having good shows. We do a really cool version of Superstition (well, I like it), we do something interesting with Play That Funky Music, we do our own take on I Saw Her Standing There. All "bubblegum" probably by your standards (fair point or not??), but we invigorate them by doing them in our own way, and the audience loves it.