jimmydanger wrote:Half of the first Zep album was covers. The Stones and The Beatles both started out playing covers. Just because you write songs doesn't make them good. That's up to your audience to decide. What, do you think there's 10 million good songwriters in the world?
Let me bring it down a fraction. If they never attempted "originals" and were content on doing only "covers" you never would have heard of them. That was the point I was making.
If you want to hit "BIG" in music, you have to do originals and get them to go over. If not, you take the sure bet as a cover band that does some originals.
I don't know what is so complex about this issue. If a band is doing even a few originals, and everyone is asking for recordings of them and where your playing next and your packing the venues, your on to something.
If not it's time to re-tool, or keep playing the stuff going no where to stay true to "musical integrity", or realize the song writing is not good and just play covers.
The last option is why there are so many cover bands.
I was in band when I was 19 and we had 3 original tunes. Every practice we had more and more kids showing up untill we had no more room for them. Everyone wanted tapes (dating myself) and I was making like 25-30 a practice. Next thing we knew we were getting letters from all over the country and Europe. We had 3 tunes and didn't even think anything of them.
I was in another all original band with 25 tunes or so that was alot more "pro" playing clubs all over Chicago and we were lucky to have 20 people show up.
That's the difference.