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back in my heydays that's all the club owners wanted. I think bands should only play their original songs ,most bands I've heard can't really cover a tune very good anyway. Who is the worlds most famous cover band ? Who cares !



For what it is worth, it never has been what the club owners or what the bands what, but what the paying customer wants. When I made my full time living playing in the clubs, you played what the crowd asked you for and if you were smart, you paid attention to what the customers were requesting. I played in and around cities where I made more money than most musicians who were quite a bit better than me, because I played what the people wanted to hear and occassionally some things that I wrote or something else new and different that I wanted to expose folks to. I could have worked 7 nights a week, 52 weeks a year if I had wanted to (I made it a rule to take a least one night off a week), while other musicians played what they wanted and groused about not being able to make a living. Even the Beatles played little but covers when they played in the clubs.

Face it, most musicians don't get to be famous. If you are lucky, and smart enough to play to your audience though, you might be able to at least earn a living at what you love doing. I'm happy that I at least got the chance to do that for awhile.

Keith
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