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It was also the catalyst for me picking up enough music-related work to quit my day job and pursue music full time - I do freelance sound engineering, band transport, teching, looking at a bit of teaching soon and have just started a second covers band but the wedding band is my biggest regular income. In that sense, you may find it's the catalyst for.a bigger change in your life.
I still get my biggest kicks from creating original music and I'm currently trying to figure out how to squeeze an originals band in around my freelance work (and being a dad of four!) but to go out and play music people love to a full dancefloor every week and get decent pay for doing it is pretty damn rewarding!
If I could also add, as someone of "a certain age" with family commitments, cover bands allow you to keep your hand in, are probably easy to start up and be gig ready, if you've got the right personnel, and in my case, justify my need to Mrs.K for new gear and keeping my sanity. An original band would be of no use to me now, and it was a hard struggle back then, so I suppose you have to think of what you want from a band? Do you want to air your creativity? Be original/different? Are you looking to make it/get signed?
Oh, and one more thing - function bands today have changed and don't necessarily have to knock out "the cheesy numbers". I think it's still possible to play credible, popular, crowd-pleasing stuff and not feel you're being musically compromised. Talking of compromise, you could do what a friend of mine does and that's to take popular numbers and re-arrange them.
I hope you make the best choice for you, have fun with it and play lots!
All the best
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Wise words indeed.
Better to be out gigging than waiting for originals gigs to come in.
You could always do the two. Doesn't sound like there'd be much in the way of clashes.