Why Not a Reggae Bob Dylan Cover Record?
Everyday Music Every Day #16
Why not a Regatta de Blanc reggae Bob Dylan cover record?
And if I messed it up, I could just make them my own songs, probably with zero tweaks.
I’d learn how to use some equipment better (the Teenage Engineering EP-40), I’d learn how to sync that with the MPC or Ableton, and I’d definitely come out of it with a better understanding of how to most-easily and best-sonically record bass into the MPC or Ableton scenes (session view). Plus, I’d learn some stone-cold classics.
There’s nothing to lose here. Doing covers means possible exposure—if they’re good. And if they’re bad, they go in the trash. There’s no discernible negative.
Or as Jeff Tweedy says, there’s no downside to writing a song. Ever. Here I’m adjusting that to recording or remaking a song, obviously. But it all remains true. At the end of it, I’m improved. Could be an EP or a single. Doesn’t matter. On those dark, cold mornings when nothing’s coming, I can pop one of these out. And it would be a blast.
So hold me to it. There have been worse ideas.
(By me? I think. By Bob? For sure.)