It is not often that one can scream out, "play some Skynyrd man", at a concert and the band will actually accommodate. However this is not true with Shinedown; whom are known to play an excellent rendition of "Simple Man". Unfortunately they did not play such cover at the 1-23-10 show at Nokia Theater. They did however play an excellent cover of Otis Redding's, "sitting on the dock". Which brings me to my point. The importance of covering songs well after you have "made it".
Too often bands do not pay tribute to whom their musical influences are after they become big. They seem to shun the fact that most likely they started off as a cover band and have moved on to bigger and better things such as writing their own self loathing lyrics. I like the cover song; it brings me a better understanding of what drove the guys on the stage to do what they do; it brings me closer. Puddle of Mudd even graced us with an awesome cover of AC/DC's "TNT".
So as an open request to all those artists whom I have seen; who I will see: BRING ON THE COVER SONG.
It's also possible they don't want to have to pay royalties for playing others songs?
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