Originally Posted by: maggiorYeah, for a guy that doesn't like to play covers, you sure have a long list!! :-). It's good for you though...it will help you form and discover your style.[/QUOTE]
And, learning some covers is a good way to learn some licks. And there's no shame in learning a cover or fifty. Besides, once I start gigging with a band, having a few covers under my finger-tips will become very useful. It'll make it easier to find a band if I can already play some known songs, it'll make it easier to fill a set in case of gigs until there's enough original material and it'll just give me (or rather, me and my band) a way to show people what kind of bands I'm into. Heck, most of my favorite bands still play covers today. Motley Crue still plays "Helter Skelter" by The Beatles. Guns N' Roses still plays "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", "Live And Let Die" and usually "Whole Lotta Rosie". Pretty Maids, an 80's Hair-Metal band who survived the 90's Grunge movement and become more Modern Heavy Metal, still plays Thin Lizzy's "Please Don't Leave Me". Lots of great bands still honor their idols by playing their songs, so I can't really see why I shouldn't do the same, when I think about it.

[QUOTE=maggior]I'm coming around your way a little. Even though our cover band hasn't really gotten off the ground yet, I can easily see a day where I grow tired of playing the same songs again and again. At some point the thrill of learning songs in a given genre will get old.