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Thing is Mac, there are also good cover SONGS.... Singing Someone To Watch Over Me, in my eyes and ears, has a different connotation than playing Mustang Sally to death. There is a subtle difference between homage and play crap just to get a bar tab.



I've been in performance playing Jazz Piano in my little jazz trio and someone has requested Mustang Sally.

I played it for them.

They put some munny in the bowl.

As Les Paul so famously said in his autobiography, it is the working stiff who pays our salary, who comes to the venue to be entertained and to have a good time. Those "working stiffs" are actually the people who pay the musician's wages. Les said that there are some musicians who want to force the paying customer to listen to whatever the musician wants to perform, even if they have to tie the audience to the barstools to keep 'em in the joint.

Perhaps that's what you are really complaning about, dunno, but I can tell you that a performer can make a better living by responding to whomever their audience happens to be at the time.


--Mac

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