Why you bitching about cover bands/songs on fb MC? I don’t like blowing you up in FB but that’s the market you guys should be in if you can’t get gigs anyway. Pick a couple unexpected songs people love already and really make them your bitch. Then you can get booked at different bars when they ask if you play covers and sprinkle in your own songs in between. Build some local hype. A kick ass cover song has blown up a fuck ton of bands. You can have the advice for free but if it makes you feel better you can send me $300 and I’ll call around for you.
No one said be a full on cover band but throwing 1 or 2 in there would help. I suggest Limp Bizkit. No one will expect it and even you probably can’t make it worse
I hate learning covers, I hate playing covers, and I dont want to be known as "that band that plays that one cover"
I want to be known for MY music. Not playing other people's music worse.
I also dont want to be a full on cover band/tribute band (which are really getting all the gigs). Its not for me.
I get all that, and hopefully one day you can get to that point. But you’re not there yet. You yourself (and some hired con man booker) said you can’t get booked for big shows. Or any shows. You have no online presence. Not even bar band level. Your band post on fb get zero interactions. Your own band members don’t even like or share the posts. Neither does your gf. Current plan isn’t working. Put Todd in the band, at least you’ll get 2 likes between him and his grandma.
You don’t play other people’s shit worse. You take something people already like and either punch it up and make it yours or find something clean and pure and just desecrate it into something dirty and awful. Take the cover gigs. Build momentum. Play just enough covers to meet whatever criteria each place has and play your own shit. Take covers and split em in half and stick your own shit in the middle of the song. Figure a way to make it work, especially if this is where all the gigs are at right now. It’s what the market wants. It’s worked for bands in your area already. Don’t get in the way of your own success. Playing gigs and earning money > Not playing gigs and earning money.
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I want to be known for MY music. Not playing other people's music worse.
I also dont want to be a full on cover band/tribute band (which are really getting all the gigs). Its not for me.