[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

I am curious: why do you play cover songs?

I am not talking about performing them on stage shows, but rather, those songs you cover for your own pleasure, the back catalog of other people's music that you can play on your guitar that you dont play in any shows.

for example:

I can by memory and on the fly nearly EVERY single Deftones song, sing em as well..

also Nirvana..

a great deal of post-1998 sonic youth, a shitload of chaos punk like Subhumans or Varukers, and yet, I will probably never have an opportunity to perform any of these songs as I am in reggae and blues groups, and they have no need for distortion, loudness and growling on the microphone..

essentially I can play all these songs just for the sheer joy of playing them, for the same reasons I listen to them. I mean we are probably talking about at least a hundred or a hundred and fifty tunes that just end up serving as warm up material for my originals..

so I am curious, do any of you also play a shitload of songs just for your own pleasure and entertainment?