From: someone@anywheret.net   
      
   "JimD"  wrote in message news:2017022823494215677-email@nowherecom...   
      
   > Sure, it doesn't matter where a song comes from, or how you find it .....   
   > but it does matter, if you're doing it out, as a cover, that you give some   
   > consideration to the idea that no one, not ONE person in the place will   
   > have ever heard of it.   
      
   Maybe they have heard it before and just forgot it. I must have heard it   
   before Adele covered it, which is why the progression seemed so familiar to   
   me.   
   And when a good song is played for those who haven't heard it before, it's   
   like a breath of fresh air amid the Stale!   
      
   I know I'd much rather hear a good song that I've never heard before rather   
   than the same old, worn out, stale, Boring Crap played over and over again,   
   and again, and again ad infinitum ad nauseam!   
   It's NOT offensive to let an audience hear something new, to them, or better   
   yet Brand New and Totally Original, that's good, but rather it is to   
   constantly subject them to the  same old Boring Crap!   
   That's the way it Used to be, when Music was Awesome, and a brand new song   
   was played for the first time on the radio, and we couldn't wait to hear it   
   again. Remember what a rush it was to hear it when it was new? And remember   
   how we couldn't wait to get or at least hear the album?   
   It's time to bring all that back and continue the Tradition, which is why I   
   write songs!   
      
   > Now, just hold yourself, before you say you don't belive that, that no one   
   > where we play will have ever heard of it .... maybe you doubt that, but I   
   > don't. Not one person at anywhere we play will have. I doubt any of them   
   > would have ever heard of Adele period.  It's a demographics thing.  We   
   > don't have a lot of 13 year old girls at our gigs :-)   
      
   Then don't say it's an Adele tune, say it's a Dylan tune...or haven't they   
   ever heard of Bob Dylan either?   
   And don't say the "N" word either, in this case that "N" word is New!   
      
   > As a sort of related thing, we did " It's all about the bass " some last   
   > year.  I found two places where they knew the song. One, when I did a   
   > guest instructor thing at a local grade school.  The other was one time at   
   > one of our tourist spot gigs, when there was a woman there with some 9 -   
   > ish year old kids.   
      
   I guess they've never heard of something called the radio ;)   
      
   > At our typical dances or solo gigs, there's slim to no chance the Adele   
   > cover of the Dyan song will go over.   
      
   Then don't say that it's an Adele cover, just say that it's a Dylan cover,   
   and do it like Adele's cover - since they've never heard of her, it   
   shouldn't bother them ;)   
      
   > And here's the thing.  Out in the market place, it's decisions like this,   
   > deciding whether or not to waste time working this song up and rehearsing   
   > it that will determine whether we stay in business.   
      
   That's TRAGIC! ONE SONG, and a nice one at that, and having to worry about   
   staying in business over working on it.   
   Some 'business' to have such a severely Limited BUDGET...or is the real   
   limit in the area of  Confidence!!!   
   Quite often when a business wants to increase, they Diversify! Ever consider   
   that?   
      
   > Time spent on songs no one WHERE WE WORK will like, is time wasted. Waste   
   > enough time and you'll go out of business.   
      
   Then remove the Restrictions that Limit where you work...unless of course,   
   you're not interested in doing that because you don't particularly like the   
   other kinds of material.   
      
   > Or, learn enough songs no one where we work cares for, and again, they   
   > will stop hiring us.   And all to placate our drummers niece, who never   
   > has, and never will be in the audience at any of our gigs.   
      
      
   > Oh well.   
      
      
   Jim   
      
   Are you sure you aren't making more out of this  Single  Instance than it   
   really is?   
      
   Ouisie   
      
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