garywj
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I see people using the word "cover". It is usually associated with a song or video. What does that mean? And, so what if it's a stupid question, I still want to know!
A little of both. Think of a bar band doing covers... they usually try to mimic the original arrangements because that's what the target audience wants to hear.Anyway, my understanding of the word used to be that it was an attempt by another performer to recreate the arrangement of an original recording, but it seems to have broadened out to refer to your interpretation of a well known song.
I see people using the word "cover". It is usually associated with a song or video. What does that mean? And, so what if it's a stupid question, I still want to know!
A little of both. Think of a bar band doing covers... they usually try to mimic the original arrangements because that's what the target audience wants to hear.
But sometimes covers can be outrageously different from the originals. Take Vanilla Fudge's interpretation of the Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" or what Judas Priest did with Joan Baez's "Diamonds & Rust."
I always thought of a cover band as a band that did mostly, if not all, covers of various bands, and a tribute band doing only songs by one band (usually naming themselves after a song or album by that band).It was my understanding, and I could very well be wrong, that the difference between a cover band and a tribute band was that a cover band put their own flair on it, while a tribute band tried to play a song as true to the recording as possible.
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