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This is very simple. Play what you enjoy playing.End of story. Miller
--- In , "Neal S." <memoryover@y...> wrote:
>
> danny,
>
> you should start building your band now the way you
> 'see it' in the future. Do you want to create your own
> system ( originals ) or play an exisiting proven
> system ( covers ).
>
> Either way youre going to lose some percentage. If you
> play all covers you will lose people like me, who are
> always looking for new innovative music, but you will
> gain some hardcore surfers. But whats your topshelf
> with playing covers, money wise, i see very little
> room for dollars once youre playing gigs for money.
>
> If you want to build your band as original, i wouldnt
> do many/any covers, because i think your youd be
> watering down your band brand. If you do all covers
> and slowly put in originals, it will take you much
> longer to get to your "original music vision" and it
> might be hard to shake the "cover brand" you already
> put in your listeners minds.
>
> When it comes to this, the greatest example i see is
> Jim Thomas of the Mermen.
> In my mind the MERMEN means 'innovative guitar
> instrumentals'. Now the mermen havent released an
> album in a long time. Jim needs money. Does Jim start
> playing covers with the Mermen to pick up more on a
> niche. Heck no, it would destroy the Mermen brand. So
> he started a band called the Shi-TOnes, to do all
> sorts of covers.
>
> What do you think ?
>
>
>
>
> --- snydr@s... wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > As I've mentioned earlier, I'm in the process of
> > putting a band
> > together, and it's going well - I'm actually finding
> > people who want to
> > play this music! But there's one question that
> > inevitably comes up
> > when discussing the direction of the band: should
> > we play covers of
> > classic surf tunes? A simple question?... no it
> > isn't. Buried in the
> > heart of that question are some more questions, such
> > as:
> >
> > Do you want to get gigs?
> > Do you want to make enough money to cover expenses?
> > Is it more important that more people get to hear
> > some of your
> > originals, rather than some people hear all of your
> > originals?
> > Will you be bored playing songs you've heard a
> > thousand times over the
> > last 30 odd years?
> > Will your band-mates get frustrated from not getting
> > a lot of gigs and
> > quit the band prematurely?
> >
> >
> > Music for me is about creative expression and doing
> > something unique
> > (however slightly) and I've found that building the
> > songs are just as
> > much fun as playing them. However, by limiting us
> > to strictly
> > originals and covers of songs that we like, I may be
> > "cutting off my
> > nose to spite my face". So I look to my "Brotherhood
> > of the Springs"
> > for their vastly greater experience in these matters
> > and for some
> > sagely advice.
> >
> > Danny Snyder
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> > removed]
> >
> >
>
