Live covers

by **MartinC** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:01 am

The best cover we ever did was 'Teenage Lobotomy' by the Ramones, everyone seemed to enjoy that much more than when we covered Slayer songs.

by **thrash metal maniac** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:47 am

covers are great, i'd love to see support bands doing covers of the main bands songs hahaha :lol:

that would be awesome!

anyways, its fine to learn any songs as a band just for the practice (even slayer, megadeth, etc), but a live cover has gotta be well thought out and nicely done. we can play agent orange by sodom all the way through, maybe a good cover live

/m/

by **Pez** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:10 pm

we fully did black metal justice as well dude \m/ yeah

i think that newer bands are better off using more covers in a set list to get attention; sadly, certainly for the first few gigs, you wont always get the recognition you deserve for playing home-brew thrash; its better to use more covers at that stage, then shift to more of your own material as people get to know it. still, a cover can be a nice surprise from larger bands as well!

by **Metal Iain** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:20 pm

If any band plays Winter by Viking I'll give them 7p!

by **Johnny Tightlips** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:11 pm

Metal Iain wrote:If any band plays Winter by Viking I'll give them 7p!

Get your purse ready...

by **Metal Iain** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:23 pm

Johnny Tightlips wrote:
Metal Iain wrote:If any band plays Winter by Viking I'll give them 7p!

Get your purse ready...

Add White Death and I'll bump it up to 15p!

:shock:

by **Johnny Tightlips** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:56 pm

Metal Iain wrote:
Johnny Tightlips wrote:
Metal Iain wrote:If any band plays Winter by Viking I'll give them 7p!

Get your purse ready...

Add White Death and I'll bump it up to 15p!

With an offer like that, how can I refuse!

by **thrash metal maniac** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:05 pm

Viking rulz!!!!! :dance:

by **cavedrone** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:05 pm

When I first saw Xentrix play they used to do COTLOD (Testament) and
War inside my head (ST) which were fantastic and got us all going good style :rockdevil:

Then again I think the first time they were still Sweet Vengeance or is my brain become addled

by **southwestthrasher** on Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:27 pm

were doing thrash attack by destruction! that should go down a treat lol, also agent orange live will freighten the emo's, but guys lets start with black metal ok? its a good opener, im gunna ask rob or owen if they wanna come on stage and start sawing through a door with my dads chainsaw t kick it all off y'know? :rockdevil:

by **Michalik** on Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:23 am

southwestthrasher wrote:were doing thrash attack by destruction!

i'd love to see that, i don't think destruction played that last time i saw them

by **Destruction** on Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:17 pm

Covers are decent if a band adds some of their own style into it, kinda just filling time otherwise. Can only hear Raining Blood so many times when the vox are trying to be Araya, and failing hard...

by **Creeping_Dave** on Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:34 am

thrash metal maniac wrote:covers are great, i'd love to see support bands doing covers of the main bands songs hahaha

that would be awesome!

In my old band we often threatened to do that haha! Sadly it never happened.

Although in rehearsals now we regularly play 2 of Evile's songs, so who knows... might chuck in a surprise at Full Thrash Assault in September

Live covers

Do you like to see covers at a gig?