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  Cover Band Soap Opera: ‘Alive’ by Pearl Jam

  1422 readers For anyone who follows the ridiculous adventures of my Cincinnati rock cover band, you may have noticed that I don't put video up of us.  Truth is, I'm self-conscious.  Someone missed a note, or this didn't sound right, or that's blurry, blah blah blah.    > Well, no more of that. This is my band playing "Alive" by Pearl Jam at a recent fall show. That's

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: ‘Blister in the Sun’

  1678 readers For anyone who follows the ridiculous adventures of my Cincinnati rock cover band, you may have noticed that I don't put video up of us.  Truth is, I'm self-conscious.  Someone missed a note, or this didn't sound right, or that's blurry, blah blah blah.    Well, no more of that. This is my band playing "Blister in the Sun" by

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: ”Rock’N Me” by Steve Miller Band

  1953 readersFor anyone who follows the ridiculous adventures of my Cincinnati rock cover band, you may have noticed that I don't put up much video. Truth is, I'm self-conscious. Someone missed a note, or this didn't sound right, or that's blurry, blah blah blah.    Well, no more of that. This is my band playing "Rock'n Me" by Steve Miller Band at

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: ”I Don’t Want To Be” by Gavin DeGraw

  4770 readersFor anyone who follows the ridiculous adventures of my Cincinnati rock cover band, you may have noticed that I don't put up much video. Truth is, I'm self-conscious. Someone missed a note, or this didn't sound right, or that's blurry, blah blah blah.    Well, no more of that. This is my band playing "I Don't Want to Be" by Gavin

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: ‘Creep’ by Radiohead

  2950 readersFor anyone who follows the ridiculous adventures of my Cincinnati rock cover band, you may have noticed that I don't put up much video.  Truth is, I'm self-conscious. Someone missed a note, or this didn't sound right, or that's blurry, blah blah blah.    Well, no more of that. This is my band playing "Creep" by Radiohead at a recent winter show.

• Cover Band Soap Opera: ”Poker Face” by Lady Gaga

  3851 readersFor anyone who follows the ridiculous adventures of my Cincinnati rock cover band, you may have noticed that I don't put up much video. Truth is, I'm self-conscious. Someone missed a note, or this didn't sound right, or that's blurry, blah blah blah.    Well, no more of that. This is my band playing "Poker Face" by Lasy Gaga at a

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  Band Soap Operas: Tales of My Old Originals Band…

  1654 readers I'm going to briefly put the continuing ridiculous adventures of my Cincinnati rock cover band on hold for a second to rewind band life a bit. My roots in music go back as far as I want to remember, starting with high school band from grades 7-12 (band geek the whole nine). Now I play with a rock cover band. But one

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  Band Soap Opera: I’m Thinking About Just Showing Up to a Gig When my Old Originals Band Reunites; Wife Calls Idea ‘Horrendously Awful’

  2192 readersTo summarize my last band-related post, I was very surprised to see that my old Cincinnati-based originals band was reforming after several years. I was a senior in college when the band was together, but don't let that fool you. All the other dudes in the band were older, experienced city rockers - complete with tattoos and long hair

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: The Art of Nonverbal Communication

  1538 readersWhen I'm playing a show with my rock cover band, and the music is at 115 decibals, it gets hard to communicate.  The lead singer and I can talk OK because we speak at close distances. But the bassist and I ... well, that's a different story. 25 feet separate us at any given show, so over the band's

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  Cover Band Soap Opera: How Alcohol Affects Playing

  2134 readers I had a few beers1 at this weekend's show with my cover band. As the night went on, three things you started to see from me were more smiles, more stage presence2 and more mistakes. It's all part of the way alcohol affects one's musicianship when consumed in not-tiny quantities.   You ever read one of those articles, where it