Well This Is Different.......

That was a little weird and unsettling to me for some reason. Maybe because that song has been hardwired into my brain after so many listens that hearing it in another style messes me up? Kind of like when people "interpret" Beatles songs - it gives me cognitive dissonance.
 
This seems like what you'd hear in a crappy Vegas casino lounge by the in-house Big Band. The kind of place that has all-you-can-eat Steak Buffets for $3.99, nickel slot machines and coaches of elderly pensioners being bussed in every hour on the hour.
 
Yargnad said:
I would never want to hear a carbon copy anyways when I can just listen to the original. I like it when the players put their own twist on it like SRV does with Voodoo Child or Hendrix with Watchtower.
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Precisely! Its always more interesting and fun if you give it your own flavor. A dead ringer cover is, just the same thing but done much less talented
 
Clockworkmike said:
Hey, WE did a cover lol
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Cover is fine but it has to be close to original. Slight twist is great but if you butcher the song just like that woman did then NO.

I get annoyed when i hear megadeth’s tornado of souls solo being butchered almost every guitarist that has been there, trying to be original and do their own spin.... man just play the solo, people love it because its way it is and it dose not need your “own” spin.

Kiko dose it closest out of all after Friedman.
 
Yargnad said:
Thats not really a cover since he is filling that position in the original band. For a cover band, playing at a local bar, yeah, you want to get close since that's usually why they hire you. But for Megadeth to do a Black Sabbath tune exactly the same way as the original would be pointless to me.
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Thats my point man, maybe I didn't word it correctly. All Im saying is all these guitarists treat original like cover.... When they should be playing exactly note for note. They have skills and there is no reason to not other than ego.
megadeth covered sabbath song paranoid it was exactly like record but faster and different solo.

Like you said, if you are doing cover band you should play close to original possible, that why people came there in first place.
 
Yargnad said:
I think what's going on with this band is a veiled attempt to get around copyright protection. If they transpose and rework these classic tunes enough they will not be subject to licensing fees or be given a strike by YouTube. And by the time you realize you don't really like it - but still listen for a bit - then you've already played through the majority of the tune which counts as engagement and technically a view. It's a clever end run around the rules and they get to use a famous song title for their video which will show up in search results.

I mean who doesn't at least click on these covers once to see if its interesting or not?
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Im a sucker for them every time just to see if its a smash lol lots of times i get surprised completely by the unlikeliest of people doing a cover that just doesnt look like what they could manage but they knock it out of the park. One in particular that surprised me was Rick Astley ( yeah the Rick Roll/Never Gonna Give You Up one) doing an acoustic rendition of Foo Fighters Everlong. While im not a big fan of either ( Foo Fighters are ok i guess), it was a great example of someone going outside their forte and making a great track.

 
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