cover songs that mention a band member's name that substitutes the cover band member's name in the lyrics - when/why/how?

is there some linguistic rule that governs when/how this happens?
(I just heard a cover of 'chinese rock' that subs in dee dee's name(!))

The Johnny Thunders version?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M30ACuNgKfU

heartbreakers' version says "dee dee", ramones version on record says "arty" for arturo vega, their art director/dee dee's roommate.
weird example because it's hard to say who "covered" it - dee dee and richard hell wrote it, but the heartbrreakers recorded their version before the ramones

oh weird on the loco live version, joey says "dee dee"
i just wondered if there was some etiquette about this sort of thing.

yeah I think they started saying Dee Dee after he stopped playing live with them

if there's an etiquette or pattern to it, you'd have to ask a bunch of dead new york punks what it was exactly

then i took out my razor blade / then i did what Todd forbade

Pretty sure there are cover versions of "Surrender" where the band names change in the final chorus ("Tommy's all right, Robin's all right . . ."). I know for sure the Posies have done it that way.

http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2014/05/29/3443070/why-doesnt-iggy-azalea-give-charli-xcx-a-shout-out-in-fancy/

euromooks New York City Connection got refused permission to release their cover of Fight For Your Right which included the line "aw mom you're just jealous, it's NYCC." So they honoured the original writers polite way of saying "this is terrible, don't embarrass yourselves lads" by putting it out anyway with "Beastie Boys" back in place.

Yo mean like how Vince Neil sings, "my buddies Sixx, Mick & Tom," in "Smokin' in the Boys' Room"?

R.E.M.'s cover of "Strange" by Wire - Michael's nervous, rather than Joey.

if you sing a karaoke version of surrender, would your natural inclination be to change the final name call to other people in the room?

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-tXIEbvppEfQ/TY6IGF8CBwI/AAAAAAAAa2A/Vu6LvDiXe-c/s1600/02.jpg

Not substituting a band member's name, but a similar situation: when Bill Withers covered "Let It Be", he substituted his mother's name in the lyrics ("Mother Mattie comes to me").

I always liked it in History Lesson Pt II when

The song was penned by Watt and, as such, makes specific reference to Boon in the third person ("me and D. Boon, we played for years"). However, when the song was recorded, Boon performed lead vocals and changed the third person references to Watt ("me and Mike Watt, we played for years"). The lyrics, as printed on the cover of Double Nickels on the Dime, contain the original references to Boon despite the difference in the actual recording

the Chicks On Speed version of Song For A Future Generation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12barV6sqpM

then i took out my razor blade / then i did what Todd forbade

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, June 19, 2014 7:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

looool

btw, I totally prefer the Ramones' version of Chinese Rock, just saying.