Weird cover band
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Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:56 pmby GuitarMikeB
After drinks and dinner, then walking around Boston Common to see the lights, we headed indoors for Starbucks sober-in-a-cup and caught half of a set by a cover band in the spacious food court there.
This band played covers of Prince ... and Wings! I'm not a Prince fan, but my wife says they did pretty good on a few (considering they were all white!) The lead singer, however, sang the Wings songs like Prince - Uncle Albert, Band on the Run and 1985.
Posted:
Tue Jan 01, 2013 11:18 pmby Starfish Scott
That must have been something to hear..
"Prince does McCartney/Wings".. ooh. lol
Re: Weird cover band
Posted:
Wed Jan 02, 2013 8:06 pmby DainNobody
GuitarMikeB wrote:After drinks and dinner, then walking around Boston Common to see the lights, we headed indoors for Starbucks sober-in-a-cup and caught half of a set by a cover band in the spacious food court there.
This band played covers of Prince ... and Wings! I'm not a Prince fan, but my wife says they did pretty good on a few (considering they were all white!) The lead singer, however, sang the Wings songs like Prince - Uncle Albert, Band on the Run and 1985.
Concord Music Group has the distribution rights for post-Beatles Wings music..
Re: Weird cover band
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Wed Jan 02, 2013 9:01 pmby GuitarMikeB
Dane Ellis Allen wrote:Concord Music Group has the distribution rights for post-Beatles Wings music..
Ok .... but what's that got to do with cover bands doing the songs? Our bass player wants to do 1985, alhtough one of Macca's better songs, I'm not sure it would be that good for us to do, rather than one of his more rock-y songs like Junior's Farm, or High High High.
Re: Weird cover band
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Wed Jan 02, 2013 9:09 pmby DainNobody
GuitarMikeB wrote:Dane Ellis Allen wrote:Concord Music Group has the distribution rights for post-Beatles Wings music..
Ok .... but what's that got to do with cover bands doing the songs? Our bass player wants to do 1985, alhtough one of Macca's better songs, I'm not sure it would be that good for us to do, rather than one of his more rock-y songs like Junior's Farm, or High High High.
I might be wrong, but Concord Music Group would probably want paid for performing songs they license?
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Wed Jan 02, 2013 9:18 pmby GuitarMikeB
Never heard of any cover band paying to perform songs - the venues have to pay their BMI/ASCAP fees, but I would guess that places like where I saw these guys play only have music 1 night a year, so don't pay for a license.