Some friends/former bandmates from other projects and I started talking and we are going to give it a go. We picked some random tunes to start out with:
1. Metal Gods
2. The Trooper
3. Clean My Wounds
4. Mother
5. Powerslave
Obviously; nothing uber brutal or difficult to start out with (and in the case of Mother and the CoC tune; moreso hard rock more than metal). But really some familiar-ish tunes to get the ball rolling.
My initial concerns beyond the first wave of "oh this will be fun as f**k!" are:
1. What can we do with this? Booking old fart metal band is difficult as h#ll if not impossible and if you do get a booking; you aren't going to pull any real $ out of it. Also; at least some of the band members are going to want to do 4 hours worth in traditional gigging band fashion and I don't know if I (or we) have that in me.
2. Related to the above; I am going to have to figure out what the criteria for a "good" addition to a band of this type's setlist. I normally have to ask myself if a song is a dancer; but that criteria won't apply here
I'm over-thinking things as usual but very excited nonetheless
Any of you guys doing a metal band in a cover format? What are you doing with it and how well do you do? Any pointers?
) but pretty much the same boat 
Fired up the recto last night to practice the songs and while it sounded much better; the um, "nuances" in my playing sure were a lot more obvious 
