Hope I didn't kill it. Sorry RFR!
Well, you got some good points Mick.
I call it the ‘Led Zeppelin’ syndrome.
In LA there’s this music station called KLOS. Pretty good station back in the day. But....... they started a new show called get the Led Out. OMG! Nothing but Led Zeppelin every fucking day for an hour!!
Talk about changing the dial. I got so sick of the Zep I couldn’t bear to listen to a tune.
Years later, when I recovered. I put on Led Zeppelin just to revisit them and was shocked at how well crafted of a song stairway really was. But it took about a ten year break from them to be able to listen without the instant gag reflex kicking in.
Cover bands are like that. Personally I’ve never been a fan. And until hooking up with my current crew, I’ve never been in a cover band. EVER. Just original bands in LA with an occasional cover song thrown into the set.
But my current crew are a bunch of losers. All they’ve known is the cover band scene. The bass player has a book as thick as a legal book, say something like Blacks Law Dictionary, that has probably every pop song ever written. And he knows them.
They know every detail and nuance of the radio hits, yet have an inability to jam, improvise, or have any desire to write original tunes.
So I play along, I’d rather play than not play. And our rehearsal space is literally 5 minutes away. But, if I had to drive any distance to go play with them, I’d bail on that project.
And that’s the harsh reality.
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