cover band
Noun
Meaning
cover band (plural cover bands)
(music) A band that plays mostly or exclusively cover songs.
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Examples
James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
The best AC/DC cover I've heard? There was an all-girl cover band in America, the Hell's Belles.
When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band.
We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.
In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.