Mr. Greengenes: Good, Bad, Or Annoying?

Mr. MO F-ing Greengenes (you can already see where this is going right?). So Mr. Greengenes is this cover band that is incessant in the Washington D.C. Area (note incessant and the negative connotation with the word). Are they a ‘bad’ band? No. Are they a good band? Um, since when did cover bands that do rock covers of Rhianna – Umbrella equate to good – so No. Are they annoying? Yes. Now annoying how – you must wonder? We just might have to laundry list this one, folks:

• They cover Linkin Park (this would have been cool in 2004)
• They cover Rhianna (“rock” versions)
• They’re polarizing (I think they suck and the next broad next to me likes them).
• Every friggin’ time I end up going to Arlington, Virginia – these guys happen to be the band that night – and where does it annoy me? The hefty cover charge for a cover band! $10 bucks to see these guys? When seeing someone (original), like Aesop Rock or El-P might only be $20. Wtf.
• I love how cover bands actually get groupies! What are those called… cover-groupies aka cover-bandaids?

So, while they may be ‘good’ on some level – I’d much rather spend $4 to get into a place vs. $8, and they NOT be there. I know right now I must sound like an emo jaded version of Meg Griffin (SIRIUS Satellite Radio – see bottom) - but you don’t see pictures of me blogging in blackface, do ya?

Here’s my suggestion for a good name for a cover band:

University of Phoenix

Oh well, at least they’re not as creepy as the U2 cover band I saw once in Silver Spring, MD. I was pretty sure the ‘Bono’ character loved to …*insert vile criminal act involving farm-help here*.

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Btw, if you didn’t get the Meg Griffin reference here’s some light on it:
*snippet* Howard [Stern] moved on to talk about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stuff they were talking about yesterday. He said that they were talking about Leonard Cohen yesterday and that led to them getting a lot of e-mail from his fans. He said that Meg Griffin, the DJ Howard used to work with, was beside herself when she heard about him goofing on the guy.

Howard said that he doesn’t care nearly as much about music as Meg does. She’s always wanted to play her own music picks for people while Howard says he could play anything they threw at him. He said that he just wanted to talk on the radio, he didn’t care what kind of music he had to play.

Howard said he heard that Meg was beside herself about the whole thing. Doug said that he doesn’t know him that well but he has heard some of his songs covered by other bands and they’re usually much better than the originals.

Permalink Posted in: concert, dc, howard stern, music, show, sirius, ventilation August 15, 2008