Ames Cover Band Guide

Photos and Text By Corey Moss

Ivory Star

Estimated Percentage of Covers: 95 percent

Crowd favorites: Blur’s “Song 2,” Elastica’s “Connection,” Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a Preacher Man”

Swing Crew

EPC: 100 percent

Crowd favorites: Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping,”

Tommy Tutone’s “867-5309 (Jenny)”

The Nadas

EPC: 15 percent

Crowd favorites: Jackopierce’s “Vineyard,” Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’,”

George Michael’s “Faith”

Upcoming show:

Sept. 11 at People’s

Sauce Monkeys

EPC: 80 percent

Crowd favorites:

Bob & Tom’s “Feminine Hygiene Song,” Gear Daddies’ “Statue of Jesus”

Upcoming show:

Sept. 9 at People’s

Uncle John’s Band

EPC: 100 percent

Crowd favorites:

Grateful Dead, Phish, Widespread Panic

Upcoming show:

Sept. 11 at People’s

Tim Mahoney

EPC: 20 percent

Crowd favorites: Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes,” U2’s “Pride (In the Name of Love),” Marvin Gaye’s “Sexual Healing”

Upcoming show:

Sept. 25 at People’s

Troll For Trout

EPC: 50 percent

Crowd favorites: ’80s disco

Upcoming show:

Sept. 9 at People’s

Timmy Likes To Fish

EPC: 75 percent

Crowd favorites: Jackopierce

Freddy Jones Band

Upcoming show:

Sept. 30 at People’s

Paul Wright

EPC: 100 percent

Crowd favorites:

Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl,” Billy Joel’s

“Piano Man”

Hydroplane

EPC: 100 percent

Crowd favorites:

Grateful Dead, Phish, Allman Brothers

Upcoming show:

Sept. 24 at People’s

Freebase

EPC: 75 percent

Crowd favorites:

George Clinton,

P-Funk All Stars

Upcoming show:

Sept. 19 at People’s