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Not sure you were referring to the fact that songs get changed over time, or they forget parts, or in the learning as you would if you were a cover band.
Some comments:
1. I guess it’s always been a problem for bands to play their recorded songs live and try to sound the same. ,
2. Problem for a cover band to try to duplicate the song of the original, with the overdubbed parts, extra instruments, like keyboards and horn or string sections.
When I played in a cover band (we never called it that) we did several Chicago (CTA at that time) songs, and never tried to do anything about the horns.3. Accuracy. When I started, there were no CDs, DVDs, or YouTube (no internet). No tabs or tab books. So you had to put a record on a turntable and keep lifting the needle to get the part to play over and over. (we also had to take the gear to the gig in a covered wagon). So I guess it was not always an accurate copy of the songs. I had no ear so it was always someone else that worked them out. There were no cassettes either. This was back in the 8-track days, but you couldn’t record on them. I eventually got a reel-to-reel tape recorder (as big as an EazyBoy recliner) and we figured how to run a turntable through it so we could rewind the tape to learn from.
4. As an aside, I recently saw Tribute Bands for Chicago, Journey, Eagles and Creedence/Fogerty. Some said they have done this gig for 20 plus years. If you would have told me, when we played in cover bands, that someone could do this for a living for that long, I would have thought they got the wrong half of the little brown pill (LSD reference for you younger types).
Funny story. I played bass in a band with my older brother, who worked out the songs and taught me a lot. Long after I quit and went on to other things, he continued to play with several other successful bands in Colorado. He also had two songs released later on a Dallas area compilation record with his wife (now one of hs exes) but that’s another story. Anyway, the reason for their success and his continued career was that Colorado at the time had a legal drinking age of 18, for 3.2 beer only (look it up). So the Denver area especially had many clubs that provided live music for the 18 and up crowd to dance and meet up. I’m Doug remembers that about Denver. But their steady gig was Eastern Colorado. Someone figured out that if they opened a 3.2 club near the Nebraska border (which had no 18 drinking age) it would be packed every weekend. So every Friday my brother’s band would load their equipment, and play Friday and Saturday out there, and then come back for his workweek. I think they did this for several years, along with playing in the Denver area. His band was called Slydog, and he has a cassette from one of the clubs that a band member recorded. Unfortunately, it was from the audience and not very good quality.
The lead in this song (Craig Goldie on guitar?) from Dio has a vibe that might work with Kashmir. Solo starts about 3:50.
I also found a video by Gretchen who plays guitar for an all girl Zep tribute band – Zepparella. BTW this is now officially my favorite Tribute Band.
She says they improvise on the songs (as does Page on stage). So she plays a solo for Kashmir. I watched their video, and I forgot she is going to solo in the DADGAD tuning. So she just plays octaves. Sounds OK but I want a solo that would be played on a second guitar in standard tuning. Could start with the octaves, though.
As an aside, the song is way more complicated than I would want it to be, for my version.
