Well, I wasn't expecting such bitterness to come out of my stating
that I enjoy hearing classic rock covers by modern bands that I love.
After hearing all of your arguments, I still don't have any problem
with it. Every band that does a cover does it differently than the
original artist and this is the reason I enjoy hearing the covers.
Sure, the songs are trite, but I enjoy hearing fresh takes on
them...and I'm not backing down from this. Maybe I'm just a
"youngin'" who hasn't spent enough time listening to AOR to get
thoroughly fed up with hearing the stuff. As I was saying, I really
do enjoy the covers. Take Toad the Wet Sprocket's cover of Kiss's
"Rock-n-Roll All Nite"...it's totally different in every way other
than the fact that it's the same lyrics. And hearing bands such as
They Might Be Giants totally alter The Joker is perfectly fine with
me. I believe that it's perfectly okay for a band to do a trite
cover...especially when 2/3 of the audience doesn't even realize that
it's an old song. I've seen and heard way too many audience members
look at each other and say "What the hell?"...this should be the true
mark of whether a cover is worthy of a band or not...isn't new music
a good thing? And if old covers are new music to members of an
audience, is there something so BAD about that? Okay, I don't think
I'm going to say anymore...and I'm going to creep back into lurker on
the list status and keep my mouth shut. -Melissa McKelvey