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I have played with fantastic session guys who really do make their occasional covers "their own", but in my experience they're outnumbered 100-1 by the people who use that phrase because they can't be arsed to listen to the song and work it out properly.
By all means take the bones of a song and do whatever you want with it, but don't just bash out G-C-D with a capo for a two hour set instead of learning about the tension, release and dynamics of the RIGHT BLOODY CHORDS!!!
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Exactly this.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Even simple songs like Warwick Avenue or Sweet About Me have some really interesting stuff going on in there. Sure, you can bash it out with cowboy chords but I spend an awful lot of my cover band time arranging an amalgam of brass and keyboard parts into guitar chords which hint at what I see as the stuff which makes the record a good one.
In Blame it on the Boogie for example I've put in a chord (6x6544) just before the chorus which no one person on the original plays, but it kind of summarises the tension leading into the chorus without needing a nine piece band.
Does it sound exactly like the record? No, but it doesn't sound like a crappy busker who can't be arsed to do his homework either.
I've never in my life heard a punter say "that band was crap, their drummer didn't play the xxxxx part in xxxxx just like the record". I have heard punters say the band is boring, or don't have any style of their own.
It's a muso thing to need to "nail" parts in my opinion. No-one else cares or even notices as long as they recognise the song and the band gives it some energy and doesn't make obvious mistakes.
Possibly, but close enough is fine as long as it sounds together and not fumbled. Not playing such an overplayed song in anything like the style of the original is better still though .
But if the drummer only has one style and beat you either need to work to that and choose material that you can play in a style which suits him, or get another drummer.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein