This blog is about a disturbing trend I'm seeing in some bands, SOMETIMES YOU SHOULDN'T COVER THAT BAND!
I'm not going to call out the band that sparked this thought but I think that some bands you just shouldn't cover. Cover songs are cool, I love when a band takes an old song and puts their own spin on it but there are just sometimes that there's no way you can do it better. Unless you are a musical legend don't do it. So here's a list of band that I think are beyond covering:
Nine Inch Nails- How can you possibly take a NIN song and make it better? I've heard bands try to take the electronic element out but then that just makes it a normal and somewhat boring song. THe one exception I'll give this is Johnny Cash's "Hurt" cover, that was great but he's a legend, he can do that.
Tool- Don't even try!
Led Zeppelin- Do you really want to try and out-do, arguably, one of the best bands ever? No, you'll just piss off a lot of people.
Dream Theater- See Tool, don't even try
Gun's and Roses- This one can be done but you need a killer guitar player and a special type of singer, otherwise you're going to screw it up.
I understand you're trying to pay tribute to these bands by covering their music and thats great but really there's no need to play it live. Any kind of tribute you are trying to pay to the band is just going to anger me as a listener, if I wanted to hear a Nine Inch Nails song I'd go to one of their shows and see how its really done.
These are just a few off the top of my head and I'm sure there's more so feel free to add some more in the comments section, and bands if I see you do any of these you probably suck.