Music is Everything!!

I will say and this will be a short post. My point is you have to make a decision pretty early on if you want to be a copycat for you're career to make money or you don't. It is not a revelation it is just the truth!! I have a good friend who is in a wedding band!! They make a boatload of money, but when the 85 year old aunt who is sitting up front by the band starts complaining how loud they are, HEY reality sets in!! Then they walk out the door with $850 in their pockets!! Good for them, I just never got that, I am sorry.
The only think i can point out is, hey, I was a big fan of all the great rock n roll bands of the 50s, 60s, 70s 80s, blah, blah, blah you get it. But I was never a fan of someone trying to note for note duplicate what had already been written!!
I will say there is one exception to that rule which I witnessed on camera, and am still amazed at it!! You have to see the Chuck Berry documentary with Keith Richards playing the guitar for him. or should I say backing him up!! I think it is called, Hail,Hail Rock n Roll. anyway, there have been a lot of really great documentaries but this one is riveting because of one scene, and really, the only scene I will remember. It is when the band, who is an all star cast is rehearsing, "Oh Carol", and Chuck is playing the intro, and Keith just stops him and points out it is played this way. And then Chuck Berry, tells Keith no its not and they go back and forth for maybe 2 minutes, but it is the most riveting and real thing I have ever seen in a rock documentary!!! It just meant that much to Keith that he tried to correct the author and Chuck being Chuck would have none of it!! By the way Keith was right, but it didn't matter, the guy that probably made Keith pick up a guitar still had the ego, maybe not the chops and I think it is one of the most real things ever caught on camera today. Kudos to them both!! ROCK ON!!!