Mr. C. Wise words.
However, all I did was state my opinion. It upset bob, and he made it personal.
We play music for belly dancers and for much of the time we play a lot of the standards, however we rearrange the heck out of them. I have even taken classic Rock and Roll songs like "Paint it Black" by the Stones and re-written it into an Arabic maqam and played it with a maqsoum beat. We weave a lot of things together for shows. We'll never be signed to a major label or play big arenas to thousands in the audience, but we're always working. We do a few very original pieces as well and two of our originals have been covered by other groups.
Hey Rimshot ..... thought I'd send you this update of what I did this weekend in Maine with my live sound support company ....
It was a burlesque show at the Merrill theater in Portland and was received very well!
In attendance on stage was the legendary *Tempest Storm* at age 82 she was still hot! But did not perform due to a broken hip recovery period that her doctor said no performing and no exotic clothing removal to music.
She spoke of her life on stage and off including a two year dating period with Elvis.
Along with local talent were such Vegas names as Kitten DeVille and Angie Pontani.
A new film is due to come out depicting her life called *Burlesque* staring Christina Aguilera and Cher.
During rehearsal one did see nudity - but when it came to show time - as with classic burlesque, there was no full nudity.
WHAT A SHOW!!!!!!!
That sounds like a great show. It's very very different from a belly dance show tho.
Being in a worship band, we do mostly covers of the best praise songs. But we do have about 5 or so originals that we throw in every blue moon.
BLUE MOON!!!! That's tonight.
You are correct! Me and dastrick are getting together and working on an original song tonight. It's -how- you knew that the blue moon was happening tonight that worries me...
Ahh...you can't beat that. Weird coincidence that my post coincided with an actual blue moon.
There's nothing lamer than cover/tribute bands.
Could not agree more!
My band played with the thought of covering a tune (our way),...
but I haven't played, or even tried to cover a tune by another band in 20+ years of playin'...and
I just don't think I'd even want to. I think it's best to leave the original song, to the original artist.
That's just my opinion. I'd much rather spend the time on my own original tune.
Me too. I hate playing covers live. I don't mind them when just fucking around at practice though.
But without cover bands, who will fill the bar scene with such favorite songs from Alanis Morisette, 1980's Bon Jovi, and Poison?