Crap Local Cover Bands
 

Last night I was passing a pub & saw some band(badly) performing Slayer`s Raining Blood ........ complete with a bubble machine on stage.

Feel free to post any stories of crap local bands here.

I am bumping this five year old thread to tell my own story.

I saw a band calling themselves "The Roaches" (just guess who they were covering). The singer's voice was whiney and off-timed with the music, and (this is the worst part) a girl I was with actually thought it was The Beatles... this was in 2002.

killllllll !!!

We actually got into an argument about it. I was about 9 at the time and she was 17....

Local cover band by the name of The Tim Clark Band. Any band who's name originates off the lead singer turns me off. Even worse, Mr. Clark pays his way around town doing covers.

I went to an outdoor market here a few years back, and there was this local country music band (didn't catch the name, but they're a dime a dozen here anyway) singing a god awful cover of Purple Rain. Yeah, that's right. I'm of the opinion that no one should touch that song except Prince anyway, but these guys were just terrible. My ears bled a little.

There's a band that covers nearly every '80s glam rock band known to man. They did everything from Motley Crue to Poison. Gross.

Also, I remember some poor cover band doing "Smells Like Teen "Spirit" once. It made me want to cry a little.

Ha yeah Smells like Teen Spirit really attracts the poor cover bands.

A band at my school used to do a 20 minute version of Stairway to Heaven which was pretty terrifying.

that it does



it's so terrible that it's funny

Well, I don't know about bad covers. But this one local band was in a Battle of the Bands competition versus my friends band. And they played at this place called Dirty Jack's where to begin with you are only allowed to play original music. But they played ****ty covers there in a Battle of the Bands competition!

SLTS and Stairway does attract a lot of crappy covers.

This is why I don't understand why people think being simple and basic is what rock music should be all about. This is my problem with the punk rock motto, just because anybody can pick up an instrument and start a band doesn't mean they should. I think a lot of music from the past 10 years has taught us that.

Just because a song is simple and easy to play doesn't mean EVERYBODY should butcher the f*ck out of it and then post it on youtube, and put in those misleading titles and tags that trick you into clicking on one. If the US government wants to put an end to torture that's where they should start.

This is why complex and technical music deserves it's props, weither it be classical or jazz or avant garde or prog or IDM, it's music that's not easly spoiled by constant repetition, being heard time and time again on every radio station, every tv commercial and every guitar shop. I'd still rather listen to Nirvana than Paganini, but at least no 12 year olds force me to listen to their sh*tty cover of Caprice No.24

It's really hard to get me to hate a song from simply hearing it too much though, I still love Stairway and Money and Iron Man and Bohemian Rhapsody and Layla and a lot of other classic rock staples.

But Dream On by Aerosmith. Somebody f*cking ban that song already. And Foreigner. OH GOD the Foreigner.

We once had a band open for us in a out-of-town show. They played 2 or 3 songs of noise which I assumed were original songs then attempted to cover 'Killing in the Name Of' by RATM. This proved to be utterly embarassing when they only made it past they 4 open chords at the beginning. When it came time for the bass intro... the bassist didn't know it and just stopped and looked at the guitarist, who was equally confused. I actually felt bad for the vocalist, he didn't even have his chance to butcher the song. Needless to say, we did the ******* thing and played the song for a sound check. It was mildly amusing at least.

Well i don't have a specific story about this but I thought I could voice my opinion on the subject as a whole.
It's really sad how these absolute garbage cover bands and mind you this applies to those cover bands that are actually amazing at what they do as well.. are without a doubt getting paid 3x what real original bands are getting paid to gig. These cover bands get good paying gigs that transpire to almost nightly events at bars.
Which really puts a damper on anyone with the heart to write and perform their own original music.

it just feels so unfair.

I doubt cover bands make more than the Original artist. Even dead musicians are still racking in the dough.

What the hell ! :p
this one totally wins the contest of baddest 'Smells like teen spirit' covers..
man, such a laugh...

I watched it and my ears are actually bleeding. That was revolting.

I couldn't do it. I watched 30 seconds of it and then had to listen to the actual song about 40 times to clear my mind of that cover.

There's this band that performs in my town for certain events every year, they cover the beatles. instead of telling you how bad i'll let you listen

Silver Wings

i gave it 5 stars on comedy value alone, haha

The next Pitchfork sensation, just wait and see.

My teenage-angsty senses are tingling!

It's hard to pick out the best part. Is it the tight rhythm section consisting of the kid with his "my first drum kit" and his imaginary bassplayer? Is it the epic guitar solo? Or is it the singers brilliant atonal howling and her hilarious tantrums during the chorus?

You decide.

I didn't make it to the solo. I barely made it to the chorus.

Dude, you GOTTA hear the solo.

It'll blow your fucking mind.

We don't seem to have too many of those around Richmond, VA.

Thankfully, I suppose.

The sad thing is that this song is probably one of the easiest songs to perform ever.

I just watched the whole thing through... Dear Lord, why was there an applause?

they thought it was genius comedy of course

I think that in every town in the world there are god awful cover bands. You should come to the UK on a Saturday night to hear hundreds of the little bastards murdering The whole Oasis/Stone Roses back catalogue

Ick! I can just imagine it... it probably goes something like this:

Ouch that is very painful.

Hahahaha that was so damn amazing!:laughing:

I'd like to put a band i'm in on here:
Crossing Aces - a band that covers many modern christian songs. we actually wouldn't be that bad if for 2 things:
1. The lack of creativity Ron allows us to put in the songs
2. The fact that Ron is the lead singer when he's the worst singer of us all (except Joel)

now i know that you probably have your reasons, but why not quit?

because there' not much else to do in this small town, and they allow me to perform my own stuff on Wednesdays (This is a lighthouse youth group thing)

ah, i see