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Subject: Re: Cover Versions
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Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 16:35:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  6 16:35:55 1984
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Gosh, I hate to just jump into a fray without reading *all* responses
first, but here I go anyway:

Mike, who claims that a "cover" version of a song is defined by aesthetics
or fame or fortune or something, is simply *wrong*!

I'm a musician, have been for years, and I know a lot of other musicians.
However you may personally define the word, to musicians the word "cover"
means simply playing a song you didn't write and/or record first.  Period.
Why else would all those horrid bands who play in bars and do songs "just
like the record" be called "cover bands"?  They're not famous or
particularly fortunate, but they are cover bands nonetheless.  And, no,
that's not just local jargon; that's the definition.  I admit that it is
more fun and probably more meaningful personally to 'weight' the value of
different cover versions of songs, and then to accord them the respect of
calling them "cover" or not, but I think you'll find that your definitions
are not understood by the world at large.  (By the way, did I mention that
I don't define "song" as lyrics set to music, but in fact as....  Oh. No
*wonder* we don't understand each other!)

-- 
--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe
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