pietruszka Posted October 10, 2012 Author Share Posted October 10, 2012 [quote name='thisnameistaken' timestamp='1349896820' post='1832024'] A dub cover of Sabbath's 'Iron Man' with the vocal melody played on trumpet and trombone. [/quote] :0 Do you have a recording of this?! I'd love to hear it! Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteb Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1349876875' post='1831639'] I can't ever get past the fact that a great cover is only a cover. There is a simple buzz to be got from a job well done but it has always remained a shallow victory for me. [/quote] I appreciate that it might not be the same as creating your own material but surely you must admit that it is great fun to get to grips with the music that your favourite bands made. Even players of the caliber of Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan & Mike Portnoy (along with various singers) get together to play tribute gigs of their heroes (Led Zep, The Who & Rush, etc) just for fun! Some of the best moments of my recent musical life have been in a rehearsal room playing in a band with a s*** hot guitarist jamming Highway Star or working out Led Zep, Van Halen & Randy Rhodes era Ozzy material note for note, seeing how it was put together and knowing that you are doing these great pieces of music justice. Almost gives you an idea of what it was like to have been in that rehearsal studio when the songs that made you want to play in the first place were put together! Sometimes it is satisfying enough to simply know that you are standing in the footsteps of giants….. Edited October 10, 2012 by peteb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) My last band: bass, drums, singer, keyboards (no gtr, mind) I fondly remember: Mother's Finest: Baby Love Sting: Set Them Free best, bert Edited October 10, 2012 by BassTractor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 (edited) There's a huge difference between playing the instrument well (whatever the instrument may be...) and writing/creating great music (especially lyrics, I find...). Take our (modest...) band, for example. None of us have any inspiration for writing genuine good stuff. No 'big statement' to make about the Human Condition (at least, not in song to a crowd of folks...). What do we play..? Other folk's stuff that we enjoy playing and others enjoy hearing. There's a touch of 'barge-pole' attitude, I feel, in the perceived distain for 'covers'. I get a thrill when we get 'Grace' (Jeff Buckley...) right, and 'Killing in the name of' (Rage etc...) bring up wells of emotion. There are others. Good music is good music. Most orchestral music is 'covers' (Tchaikovsky, anyone, or Schubert..?). Edited October 10, 2012 by Dad3353 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 If the guys can play then they are going to be able to take a whole load of bog standards and run with them..... and when they get hold of a track and go through the gears then you know you have a fun band and any gig has the potential to be excellent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrenochrome Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 [quote name='pietruszka' timestamp='1349881508' post='1831743'] Have you looked at any B52's material then? Dan [/quote] Not really metal enough for us. Some good songs on the first album though (which I have). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phatkat Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 [quote name='thumperbob 2002' timestamp='1349876330' post='1831627'] Got a few good musicians in my band- but still as I am a grumpy old man I am never satisfied- never happy with the sound- cant stand our audience- or indeed other band members. Love playing my bass though- [/quote] Could we be related? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisnameistaken Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 [quote name='pietruszka' timestamp='1349897446' post='1832037'] :0 Do you have a recording of this?! I'd love to hear it! [/quote] Sorry no we only played it live once I think. It was something that sprung up in a rehearsal one day and bizarrely it got a round of applause from some other bands in the rehearsal studios when we finished, so we snuck it in live later that week when our guitarist was tuning up. It did sound immense though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul torch Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Joe Public - The Rutles The Right Stuff - Robert Calvert. Both a joy to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vsmith1 Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 I get goosebumps when our covers band play Chasing Cars - yes it is simple to play but complex is not always great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 [quote name='peteb' timestamp='1349898161' post='1832055'] I appreciate that it might not be the same as creating your own material but surely you must admit that it is great fun to get to grips with the music that your favourite bands made. Even players of the caliber of Paul Gilbert, Billy Sheehan & Mike Portnoy (along with various singers) get together to play tribute gigs of their heroes (Led Zep, The Who & Rush, etc) just for fun! [/quote] I guess its easier to enjoy playing this stuff for fun when you are generally satisfied with the stuff you do all of the time. If I did 200 great gigs a year, doing 2 tribute gigs or whetever may float my boat. It is the idea of doing the 200 gigs of this stuff that puts me off (mind you, doing ANY of the gigs by the three people you named would not really work for me either! ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musophilr Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 I'm very pleased with the present band's versions of [i]Hot Stuff[/i] and [i]Someone like you[/i]. They're totally different to the originals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Interesting point. I play with Brazilian guy and enjoy the Brazilian covers he does but hate all of the English language covers. The problem is, the English ones are, to him, 'exotic' and the Brazilian tunes are cheesy. I guess its all about context or familiarity breeding contempt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Probably the best covers I've played; deeply dippy right said Fred,tainted love, mamma Mia , Pork and beans/ hash pipe , buddy holly .. Weezer,echo beach. Song that all band members refused.. Rivers of Babylon . Really wanted to do that(; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteb Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1349946837' post='1832484'] I guess its easier to enjoy playing this stuff for fun when you are generally satisfied with the stuff you do all of the time. If I did 200 great gigs a year, doing 2 tribute gigs or whetever may float my boat. It is the idea of doing the 200 gigs of this stuff that puts me off (mind you, doing ANY of the gigs by the three people you named would not really work for me either! ). [/quote] Different things for different people - playing Van Halen songs with Paul Gilbert would be my idea of heaven...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LemonCello Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Songs we all love in my band: Born to Be Wild - Smoke on the Water and especially... Jumpin Jack Flash! I always find myself gurning like Mick Jagger on acid when I play it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pietruszka Posted October 11, 2012 Author Share Posted October 11, 2012 The same line up I mentioned in the opening post did a little bit of Cosmic Debris in a rehearsal once, that felt rather good! Our drummer was absolutely on the ball. Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamPodmore Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 (edited) Another 2 i'd like to add are when me and my friend Jess were messing around after a live lounge. The first time we'd ever played guitar together (It's normally me on guitar and her on vocals, then she takes the guitar and i f*ck off to take pictures), threw out Your Call by Secondhand Serenade and up to the second solo of Sweet Child of Mine whilst just stood in the kitchen doorway with 2 acoustics. Both came out of nowhere, and i really wish they'd been caught on camera (Except my singing, get rid of that) Liam Edited October 11, 2012 by LiamPodmore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Having got into 2 originals bands recently I just don't find covers appealing. That said, a band I depped for a while back did a metal cover of the Cure's Lullaby which was the closest to good fun playing a cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 [quote name='pietruszka' timestamp='1349875397' post='1831619'] ....That band was so satisfying, even though we played just covers.... [/quote] This is the point for me. With very few exceptions I don't mind what I'm playing as long as the other musicians are good players, nice people and the band is working well as a unit. All the bands do a few "toe curlers" but I can live with that when I see the audience reaction, singing and dancing, and then when the band gets re-booked for the next year (I had to buy the 2013 diary in August!) I know were doing something right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanbrook Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Laura izabor if tonight is the last .. Had to learn it as a first dance and what a tune, love it played it amazingly well when our singer sang it hairs stood up on my head ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merello Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Pull up to the Bumper - Grace Jones I Could Never Take the place of Your Man - Prince Soul Man - Sam n Dave Sledgehammer - Gabriel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lojo Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Did a bee gees song the other night at a run through, thought it would be awful when I saw it on the list, but it was one of those moments where you just smile cause it just sounds so right Re the op , madness songs and the like are real fun, and hats off if you pulled of that blockheads line well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pietruszka Posted October 11, 2012 Author Share Posted October 11, 2012 [quote name='lojo' timestamp='1349989932' post='1833355'] Did a bee gees song the other night at a run through, thought it would be awful when I saw it on the list, but it was one of those moments where you just smile cause it just sounds so right Re the op , madness songs and the like are real fun, and hats off if you pulled of that blockheads line well [/quote] Yeah, we got hit me nailed, the sax player did all that odd blow your nose Payne type stuff, I'm sure he did the 2 saxes at the same time on occasion to. We did Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll to, which was also really good. Man that line up made everything sound good! Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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