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[littlefallsmets]

I have never seen a cover band and... just for my taste... I don't know what I would get out of seeing just a straight-up cover band.

I mean, I dunno, if I like a group that isn't touring anymore, I'll probably get the most I'd ever get out of them by just buying their live album or concert film, yeah?

But recontextualization sounds more fun. An all-girl cover of an all-dude band, for example, I'd go see that.

It has long been my dream to see Neil Young front a Johnny Cash cover band.

[Drygioni]

I have never seen a cover band and... just for my taste... I don't know what I would get out of seeing just a straight-up cover band.

I mean, I dunno, if I like a group that isn't touring anymore, I'll probably get the most I'd ever get out of them by just buying their live album or concert film, yeah?

Nonsense

It's brilliant hearing your band's music just as how it should be played in a live setting, live music with instruments etc. is infinitely superior to even the best concert film. Apart from Stop Making Sense. Try it!

Also enough with the many many many... y'know... ellipseseseseses

[wombat]

I can never decide what to think about this. On the one hand, a cover band seems like a lame idea. On the other hand, we don't think it's not worth hearing a live performance of, say, Mozart just because it's not performed by Mozart himself, right?

[miles]

Right, but a Mozart "tribute act" could be kind of weird. Also it's different because there are no recordings of Mozart. But you're right, even a composer recent enough to have been recorded performing his own work, and for people still alive today to have seen him, like Stravinsky, will have his work performed live by others long after we're all dead.

[Drygioni]

The only people disliking cover bands here are the ones who haven't been.

If you go to a decent one that is covering a band you love I GA RON TEE you will enjoy it.


If you have a soul.

[theinevitable]

I cannot imagine enjoying a cover band.

A band doing a cover of a song I like? yeah. I like that.
But a band where the whole thing is that they try really hard to be just like a different band? no way.

my friends and I occasionally get together and play Pixies songs, and it is always fun for like... an hour or two.

[CortJstr]

I can enjoy genre cover bands especially when they get totally into with with costume and stuff. Like The Legwamers in DC or Wonder Boogie in Vegas.

[Choop]

or mini kiss

[lprkn]

or Elviss

[Carlos del Vaca]

I can enjoy a cover band, but the key is to not take it too seriously.  Inev.  No one is pretending that The Machine or Physical Graffiti are somehow geniuses.  But if you can let yourself go and say "Let's rock out to _________ for a bit," then yeah, WTFN.

[Drygioni]

I cannot imagine enjoying a cover band.

THEN TRY IT FOR FUCK SAKE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO IMAGINE

If we went through life not doing things because we couldn't imagine enjoying them what's even the fuck*ng point

If you still don't like cover bands, fair enough

Sometimes it's just NICE to hear your favourite songs played as they originally were by people who are musically competent in a live setting. I could listen to The Queen Is Dead all day long and enjoy it but would I rather do that or go see The Smyths (yes really) the once, where I can dance like crazy with like minded people to brilliant songs that are played with energy and feeling I would never get out of even the best CD recording without any self-indulgent 'let's make this song OURS' crap thrown it, it's played just as I love it. Smiths-y.

LIVE MUSIC IS BETTER I REFUSE TO ACCEPT I WILL NEVER ENJOY A BAND'S MUSIC IN A LIVE SETTING BECAUSE THEY ARE DEAD/SPLIT UP

[theinevitable]

there are also not any cover bands I have ever heard of that cover bands I like enough to want to see. probably because the fans of the bands I like are people who say, cover bands are lame.
I feel like you are going to say I am a dick and find some cover band of a band I like, but I cannot think of what band it would be. Nirvana maybe? I guess a Nirvana cover band would exist. I have not heard of such a thing playing here, though. Only Led Zeppelin cover bands, which I do not really want to see.

Once I saw my friends play in a band where they did covers of different songs, and that was cool. They did War Pigs, Helter Skelter, and Miss You (Rolling Stones), among others I forget.

I am trying to think of albums I like enough that I would want to see this, and all of the examples are bands that still exist, that I have seen/could see.

Maybe a black sabbath cover band could be cool. But this is similar to the Led Zeppelin thing, where I like some of their songs a lot, and others are not at all what I want to hear.

[Drygioni]

there are also not any cover bands I have ever heard of that cover bands I like enough to want to see. probably because the fans of the bands I like are people who say, cover bands are lame.
I feel like you are going to say I am a dick and find some cover band of a band I like, but I cannot think of what band it would be. Nirvana maybe? I guess a Nirvana cover band would exist. I have not heard of such a thing playing here, though. Only Led Zeppelin cover bands, which I do not really want to see.

Once I saw my friends play in a band where they did covers of different songs, and that was cool. They did War Pigs, Helter Skelter, and Miss You (Rolling Stones), among others I forget.

I am trying to think of albums I like enough that I would want to see this, and all of the examples are bands that still exist, that I have seen/could see.

Maybe a black sabbath cover band could be cool. But this is similar to the Led Zeppelin thing, where I like some of their songs a lot, and others are not at all what I want to hear.

Haha no not at all I was just in a rage. It is true that cover bands which cover the bands you'd enjoy are rarer than ones which cover stuff like Zepp and Black Sabbath and AC/DC

I think I'm in the position of most of the music I enjoy a lot of bands who aren't accessible for me live, so I have to rely on cover bands for some, Smiths being the first example that came to mind. Also a lot of bands are a bit disappointing to see live when they're older, they play less energetically and are more wanton to include more 'mature' material which isn't always as good. I like seeing cover bands for that reason sometimes, they'll play a bands earlier stuff and because they like it it's energetic and passionate and there's no crap 10 minute jams or whatever. 10 minutes jams are rarely as good as a band thinks they are.

I cannot believe I am arguing about cover bands.

Cover bands!

Possibly the least important thing in my life ever.

At least... that's what I thought.

[theinevitable]

actually, yes. I was thinking, what cover band would I like to see, and I thought "a Feelies cover band that didn't play any of their BORING "mature" stuff."
I saw them a year ago and it was so great, for the 20-30 minutes where they played the stuff from their first album. So Good.

[Doc]

Not really relevant now you two have kissed and made up but:

There's a big beginning of year party in my course called 'sports day' basically a pub crawl followed by massive drinking in the uni's playing fields and then there's shenanigans like drunken tug-o-wars and jelly pools etc. When we were talking about it in my study group one of the dudes said he wasn't going because he didn't like it. When we asked if he'd gone in previous years he said no. I just don't know how to respond to that. I think part of it is he's the type of religious guy who isn't down with drinking and partying but I know other non-drinkers who've gone in previous years and had a great old time just hanging out with people, it just really stuck in my gut someone saying 'I will not experience this because I have decided a priori that it is bad.'

It also makes me sad that a bud (because he's not a bad guy) will not be around to enjoy himself with me.