Pub cover band, your thoughts?

[Khonda]

My dad shared this with me and I thought it deserved a wider audience!

They were playing in his local and and apparently covered sweet child o' mine as well as some others.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/515499725887117/perm...

[droopsnoot]

I used to work with a bloke who used to be in a covers band, they did a very good (I'm picky, and I notice wrong notes even though I can't play anything) version of Sweet Child O Mine, and quite a lot of stuff I hadn't heard of at the time. Lots of very talented people out there. Sound quality on the clip makes it difficult to know how good that lot are.

[Reginald Molehusband]

I enjoy a good pub covers band. Many of them are very competent players and very often make a living teaching others to play instruments.

If you want wrong notes, look at videos of Jimmy Page trying to play the Stairway to Heaven lead live

[TGCOTF-dewey]

Go and see Elvana... Utterly brilliant.

Best live gig I've seen in years. So much fun.

[wol]

These two are pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/@BeatBoxDuke

or:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc

[Mr Tidy]

I saw A Band Called Malice last year and they were brilliant, so I'm going to see them again this year!

[Motorman74]

That's an open mic session - not a pub band doing covers.

There are some fantastic bands out there playing pubs - often for little reward, and far less than they deserve.

[cherryowen]

Reginald Molehusband said:

If you want wrong notes, look at videos of Jimmy Page trying to play the Stairway to Heaven lead live

I think that's unfair.

The solo is played over a A minor / G maj / F maj chord progression, and Page mainly plays A minor pentatonic but adds in the occasional F note to mirror the use of the F maj chord. The F note is allowed, diatonically, as it is part of the A natural minor scale of which A minor pentatonic "borrows" five of its degrees.

IMO, its a good solo; not Page's best (for me, I prefer No Quarter live and The Lemon Song) but well crafted.