cover bands are incompetent?

cover bands are incompetent? Don't you think that the cover band is a complete wreck and just losers

I wouldn't say that. I think there is talent involved in playing and performing songs. Sure, it's a different talent that writing songs, but to me it is talent nonetheless.

cover bands are incompetent?

no.

The Beatles, The Who, and the Rollings Stones all started as cover bands. Not everyone loves those bands, but few would call them incompetent.

Don't you think that the cover band is a complete wreck and just losers

no.

Есть лучшие способы начать разговор, чем этот, друг. Пожалуйста, оставайтесь позитивными.

its not easy to play note perfect and gutar tone matched rock covers for a crowd that wants an authentic reproduction of the album at a wedding or a bar at the shore.... but tis a different skill set than being a songwriter/arranger or a member of a big band with charts and improvised soloing etc... they cna of course overlap all of these skills ets, but to o one of them well it reuires core chops and then specific skills for the task at hand. A good cover band player will have great chops in that style and a solid ear and you need that to be a good player in any situation so if the cover band is good they're competent but all their general skills have been focused towards the goal of entertaining a paying audience with top 40 hits... a jazzman learns to read charts, improvise and also knows a lot of american songbook standards.... a blues guy can work the 12 bar with aplomb.... a songwriter knows every traditional song structure from every genre of popular music going back to the middle ages....

Starting as a Cover Band is fine, making an entire career off of being a Cover Band is another thing entirely.

I think what Metallica did was fine, they played a handful if cover tunes over their early-mid career (81-95), their cover album Garage Inc. may have been a bit much but it was still good.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that there's a fine line between too little and too many covers and that depends completely on if they can play them or not.

Don't you think that the cover band is a complete wreck and just losers

Reading this again, I think you should put your talent where your mouth is if you're so great. What have you ever done that you can talk shit on coverbands? I know a lot of players who avoided dayjobs by playing weddings as well as doing original music. THere's no money in originals, half the time its pay to play to get started and now there aren't even venues anymore! Facebook banned live streaming music now, I mean, c'mon. A player's gotta eat and playing covers is less like work than digging ditches. Maybe its the language barrier but you're either really young or really obnoxious.

I've done some time in seashore coverband hell LOL It was a lot like when Iw as an adult contempirary sideman, that felt like covers for me ebcause I was accompanying the artist in an album-note=-perfect way. She gave me her records and I elarned every song she had, charted them out with the bassist. They were her originals of course, but the feeling of being in a cover band and being a hired gun for a solo artist is the same, takes the same skill too. Which is a lot of fucking skill.

AGAIN what have you done that's so great? Are you even a real person, or maybe is Michael posing as a Russian troll for laughs????

Holy shit.

that was probably too harsh, but it was a pretty offensive statement... I learned to play in an ensemble in school jazz band and in early bands that had a few originals that were sketchy and a did a lot of top 40 rock radio stables because other kids wanted to hear that and I loved 80s and 90s radio, still do I guess. Those were the salad days. Dissecting those songs by ear taught me a lot about writing parts, style and most of all song construction. You can't learn that from a book.... I don't think. I essentially played covers between 92 and like 98 when I got really confident about playing my own stuff after I wrote about 100 mediocre songs that no one should ever, ever listen to.

okay, sorry for the harsh words ebebebeb, I;m not precisely taking them back but your question was actually a statement that's just not true. Maybe there's a lower grade of cover band in the russian federation?