I don't think it is the content at all.

It is all about the PERFORMANCE of said content, be it cover or original.

Bad Performance is bad performance, no matter if it is a cover song or an original.

Perhaps there is good reason for all the stereotyping going on concerning such in this thread, but at the end of the day it is still nothing more than stereotyping.

There are good cover bands, there are bad cover bands.

There are good original acts, there are bad original acts.

As with anything else, perhaps the bad outnumber the good.

Or perhaps it says more about where some people go to hear the acts than anything else.

Defense of the mediocre never made any sense to me.

As for whether it is better or not to play your own improvised solo or attempt to nail the wellknown solo from a target recording in a cover song, my view on that is that there are certain songs that contain solos that are actually musical hooks and in those cases the journeyman musician must both be able to determine if that is the case plus be able to learn and play that certain solo convincingly enough to pull it off and that seems to work better in those instances, judging from audience approval.

Cover or original, I'll go with Duke Ellington's famous remark, "IF IT SOUNDS GOOD, IT IS GOOD!"


--Mac

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