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I have no problem whatever with cover songs and have a large repertoire to draw from, however where we live the audiences are open to the music we play regardless of the mix of covers versus our own music. I am not happy doing all covers all the time, though. I have been in those kind of bands in the past and I always get to a point where I don't want to continue down that path. For me it is not a snobbery thing, it is just what I enjoy doing. I have lived in other areas where it was much more difficult to do an evening of mostly our own music because the crowds are expecting covers, but where I live now the music scene is very accepting of it and in many cases the crowds even encourage it depending on the clubs.