From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2018101523571997590-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Guess some people have to put their hand in the fire and get burnt before   
   > they'll believe it's hot.   
      
   But at least there, as soon as it gets too hot, they pull their hand out   
   before it's destroyed ;)   
      
   > To get me to crank the volume.   
      
   I wish I'd gotten an SPL meter when Radio Shack was still around because   
   those are the only things one needs when deciding which way to  crank the   
   volume.   
      
   > Life.  Or something else.  Who knows.   Maybe how I'm feeling an urge to   
   > redo some of our covers into very different styles than they are.   
      
   Makes them less boring that way. Lots of performers do that - we even do   
   that at church...puts some life into them sometimes ;)   
   Who want's to play the same old tunes the same old way every time...not me,   
   so I write Originals! ;)   
      
   > As of now, they sound like proper covers, as in we're doing them close to   
   > the record.   
      
   Easy to get sick(er) of them that way ;)   
      
   > That's fine, but I'm tiring of it.   
      
   Precisely ;)   
      
   > In the past it was accepted to " cover " a song by doing it in a new   
   > style, maybe unique to the group doing the cover.   
      
   Like Jose Feliciano's version of the Doors' "Light My Fire", or Joe Cocker's   
   version of the Beatles' "With A Little Help From My Friends".   
      
   > The word " cover " seems to have changed at some point to mean " copy ".   
      
   Actually, it  was Perverted into implying 'copy', and the Bottom Feeding   
   Lowlife Loser CopyCatfish bands did that, even though they're too Lazy to   
   truly copy anything, so instead, they play it like Crap over and over ad   
   infinitum ad nauseam!   
      
   > We didn't grow up trying to copy.   
      
   When I was in my first band, we tried very hard to copy as did all the other   
   starting out bands and when they rehearsed in garages, you could hear it -   
   they worked very hard on getting it Right, not 'close enough'!   
      
   The beginning lyrics in Carole King's "Pleasant Valley Sunday", *covered*   
   and made famous by The Monkees, starts out:   
      
   "The local rock group down the street  Is trying hard to learn their   
   song..."   
      
   And that's how it really was back in the day - I remember hearing it so many   
   times...helped me get interested in doing my own thing in Music!   
      
   But that was only starting out. Back then prospective bands had a better   
   view of things, and "cover" implied that IN ADDITION to the  band's Own   
   Original material, they would from time to time perform the material of   
   Other Artists, Artists Other than Themselves, that is!!!   
   And that's STILL what "cover" means to me, and Always will!!!   
      
   > It's only lately, with the last few players I've worked with that that   
   > became a goal.   
      
   I did it to 'learn the ropes' as it were, and then Move On, to Originals -   
   too bad my bandmates weren't Mature enough for that and I'd end up waiting   
   some 40 years TOO LONG to finally start making it happen...myself.   
      
   > Even now, we don't really sound like the records.   
      
   Neither did the bands who made the recordings ;)   
      
   Oh, sure, we sound more like the records that most bands, but that's   
   because we at least know the right chords :-)   
      
   Yeah, that's a big one, knowing the chords, and the breaks, and the lyrics,   
   'little' things like that ;)   
      
   > And the difference between certain styles.   
      
   That one always comes out.   
      
   > But overally, maybe it is time to do some originals.   
      
   YES!!! DEFINITELY!!!   
      
   > Oh no, jump right in, let then show me what they got.  If they are that   
   > amazing, it'll give me something to work towards. I really don't see how   
   > they could be.  I'm not a great singer, but I'm not awful either. So hey,   
   > let's rumble :-)   
      
   "Rumble"? ;) It's a band, not a gang fight ;)   
      
   > I know the one fellow I'd be replacing probably won't be there. Serious   
   > health issues.  But who knows, maybe they'll find someone other than me   
   > to take that slot. I'd be cool with that. It's not like we aren't   
   > already working nearly as much as I can manage :-)   
      
   Don't get overloaded, unless of course it's for something like going on tour   
   for your new album ;)   
      
   I can't wait (because I already have, too long) to go on my "Opening A   
   Channel" tour, and after that, the "Ignite The Sky" tour, and after that,   
   the "Through The Eons" tour, and after that, I should have 6 more songs   
   written to complete the as yet untitled fourth album tour ;)   
      
   > oh, yeah, I forgot about that song.  opps... like I said, busy busy   
   > busy .... today I made tracks for a Hank Jr tune called Old Habits for   
   > our other guy to sing saturday. And I learned a George Strait thing   
   > called Unwound, just to add another dance tune. And fed the birds, and   
   > walked the dog, and booked some jobs, and talked on the phone a lot,   
   > and noticed my nose is feeling odd .... catching a cold ???  Hope not.   
   > This is a bad time of year to get sick.   
      
   JimD   
      
   How about some older, better tunes? ;)   
      
   And it's kind of early for colds and flu, at least around my neck of the   
   woods, and I hope it stays that way.   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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