You Just Don’t Cover U2

Dan Spencer, trombone player for the O.C. Supertones.The other day I interviewed Dan Spencer, trombone player for the O.C. Supertones, for an upcoming article (Spencer mentioned that half the band now lives in Nashville, prompting me to wonder if the band should be called the D.C. Supertones for Davidson County). Their seventh album, Revenge of the OC Supertones comes out on June 15. After Spencer mentioned U2, I asked if the Supertones were given a chance to take part in the In the Name of Love U2 tribute album, which song they’d cover. This was his commendable response:

“You just don’t cover U2. Unless you’re somebody like Johnny Cash, you just don’t do it. Even if we were offered a lot of money we wouldn’t do it, it’s just against our philosophy. I applaud the guys who can, I just think we’d butcher it. There are just some bands you don’t cover. You don’t cover the Beatles, you don’t do U2, you don’t do Bob Dylan. There are some guys that are untouchable.”

Yet the butchering does happen. Before details of the In the Name of Love album emerged, I pondered what CCM bands I’d like to see cover what U2 songs. Sadly, no one listened to me.

2 thoughts on “You Just Don’t Cover U2”

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  2. I thought the Sixpence cover of Love is Blindness was decent, but the rest of that cd pretty much sucks.

    But the covers that you suggested would have at least resulted in a more interesting album than what hit the shelves.

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