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wsas3 wrote:"Learning how to play a favourite song destroys it for me, and the song is never the same again."

This. Nothing kills a great song for me faster than trying to learn it and beating it into the ground. I would much rather learn a song that i feel is lacking something and "improving" on it.

when it come to the loved songs, playing covers of that sound like the original feels dumb to me.

most of my favorite songs i don't play simply because i LOVE sad songs, and too many of them tend to kill the mood of the crowd.

I've just gotten to the point where I just don't really care to learn other people's songs, let alone my favorites. Most of the time anyway.

I rarely play covers all the way through, but I do try to go out of my way to learn those little riffs that stick out in songs. Figuring out how someone else plays has helped me add a different "voice" to some of my own playing.

I play in a covers band (mostly for the money and to hang with buds), but we never play songs I like, because no one else in the band shares any of my musical tastes, and the crowd would probably fucking hate it anyways. 99% of people out there like crap. So that's what we play.

My one friend that actually likes some of the same music I do, is my bandmate in my original band, and he has never had any interest in covers.

I play covers mostly for shits and giggles. Some Tool and Pink Floyd.
I was in a Pink floyd cover band years ago and that was tons of fun but we usually played unknown songs as opposed to singles. Echoes, One of these Days, welcome to the machine, The trial, everything from Animals ect. and put our own spin on them.
For the most part I would not want to play covers live anymore. ITs much more fun to write songs than learn them