YOUR QUESTION

01/17/2021

01/17/2021 Traviz Gartzeea

Hi Trevor. An honour to have this little chat with you. I had just discovered that a commercial metal band (or at least sounded/looked like that) did a cover from Retrovertigo. That freaked me out a lot! Also made me curious show did you feel about that and if you received any profit/royalty fee or similar as composer of the song or WB swallowed it... Thanks in advance and sorry for my weird/poor english...

MY ANSWER

I was honored to have that song covered although I thought it could have been treated differently. I like the way Cat Power rewrites the covers she chooses. She finds the essence and makes it her own rather than just saying, here’s my karoake take. Fortunately Bungle and the individual writers retain our own publishing rights so we do see royalties for that.