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I think he wants to go see good music.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peruvian
Cold Hard Cash is pretty good. That Mac Sabbath looks like an amazing show.
How do the rights work with something like a cover band?
I need to find some new music. What rocks these days?
I got what your looking for...Just in time for summer too...Try to keep up.Quote:
Originally Posted by stuckathuntermtn
Three Beat Slide freshness...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k21nZsf6kHM
Lulz, just what stucky needs
Like the scene from PCU where they lock the rich people up in a room and play Starland Electrical Band's Afternoon Delight on repeat to drive them insane..Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
Without reading any of the following posts, I'm guessing Jimmy Buffett. If not, it should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Betcha Springsteen has a nice yacht.
I kinda like that record.Quote:
Originally Posted by SumJongGuy
IDK, I think those comedians found an audience and got some chuckles, but I'm still a bit perplexed by what constitutes "taking off" for a YouTube series.Quote:
Originally Posted by Self Jupiter
I was in Nashville a few months ago and was blown away with how many cover bands were playing. Great, talented musicians, but all covers, and very few originals. I know that's what gets people in off the streets, but man, play 1:1 or something. It was during the week though, maybe weekends are better.
Don't know if this is an outlier, but my brother in law plays in several original music projects around the Boston, MA area. Anyone ever hear of Tim Gearan? The Mother Brothers? He's active in a couple others as well and just entered in to a partnership to run a recording studio there. Most of the folks he plays with are people he's known since is Berklee days.
That said, every other year I see posts that they're playing at (enter club name)'s last night.. Those venues are definitely closing.. not sure if others are opening up to fill the void or not..
Austin, TX usually has a pretty active original music scene.. East end of Long Island as well. That's where most of my original music band gigs were in the late 1980s... My original band was called Zephyrus.
I guess I’m trying to say that it never took off into mainstream, got a deal with a bigger media production company and possibly TV/Netflix/Amazon deal. The comedians might have been victim of being ahead of their time. Workaholics, which ended up with a few seasons on Comedy Central, started as a similar YouTube series put out by unknown actors.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirshredalot
The term Yacht Rock has transcended the YouTube series.
http://www.alternativenation.net/modern-day-yacht-rock/Quote:
Originally Posted by Self Jupiter
Sirius XM has a Yacht Rock channel. I listened for a bit to see what it was. 70's and 80's light rock with some occasional Sinatra and Kenny G type music. The DJ drops between the songs are funny. "We play music for people that don't have to work hard"
A few mentions of aging rock bands with just 1 or maybe even no original members makes me want to give a shout out to Aerosmith. They haven't done anything in the last 30 years I'm even remotely interested in listening to but they still exist and tour with all 5 original members. If they announced a tour where they'd play a set of nothing but 70s tunes I'd throw down & pay their exorbitant prices to check that out.
Hey Benny - Check out Royal Thunder, they're playing in Rochester at the end of the month. The singer's got the best voice in rock today! I saw 'em as an opener a couple years back, had never heard of 'em and was blown away. You won't be disappointed.
I think musicians change and they want to play new materials. Some music is timeless and we pay money to hear those timeless music. I hate to see bands skip their hit songs and play new stuff.... there is no rules about their set list. Play the hits and then play whatever you want. Heck if they did a medley of hit songs, that would be alright too.
For example, primus did entire album one set and another set of whatever. That would be great.
So I can see the “tribute” bands attraction. They play the old stuff we want to hear and not the new stuff.
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Aerosmith played an impromptu free street show in Boston in front of an apartment building they used to live in, 11/5/2012. They sounded great, like really good, I was surprised.
The set list:
Walkin’ the Dog (Rufus Thomas cover)
Movin’ Out
Mama Kin
Lover Alot
Back in the Saddle
Sweet Emotion
Mother Popcorn (James Brown cover) (Partly)
Walk This Way
Encore:
Oh Yeah
Train Kept A-Rollin’ (Tiny Bradshaw cover)
Don’t you wish they would tour with that-theme set list?
Yeah that's a nice set.
It's a miracle those guys are all still alive, yeah they lost me after Toys In The Attic but I still love those first 3 albums, I hope they keep on truckin
Mike Score, the singer from flock of seagulls lives in Florida, and still plays clubs (possibly a one-man show). And he steadfastly refuses to play I Ran. Since the only reason people would even go to one of his shows is to hear that song, they've been known to "request" it - mostly by yelling it from the audience - which gets old Mike more and more agitated, until he goes into meltdown mode.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmokes
I'd almost endure an hour of pretentious synth-pop just to see that.
Does he still have that haircut?
Totally bald!
https://static1.squarespace.com/stat...i+-+Single.jpg
not sure if it's a statement, or just genetics.
Plenty of non-cover and tribute stuff out there, although not sure if/when any of these bands/artists tour...
I saw Flock of Seagulls a few years ago at an 80s retro fest thing -- it was a greatest hits sort of setlist, ending with I Ran.Quote:
Originally Posted by pisteoff
I wonder if the refusal to play the biggest hit is just for solo shows?
I saw them at the club I worked at i DC, it was one of their very first US dates, in '83. "I ran" was at the top of the charts at the time (it peaked at #3, I just checked) and yes, they played it.
Don't know. He might have just decided to go with the money.Quote:
Originally Posted by El Chupacabra
Music like FoS are why I was in a punk band.
We had Culture Club, Men at Work, Flock of Seagulls, Thomas Dolby and Haircut 100 in like 3 months or something. It was an early-'80s extravaganza!
Then the mid 80s came along and Yacht Rock finished dying
I was never into AFOS, but this particular drift in the thread caused me to "research" a bit about them.
The lead singer was a hairdresser before starting the band.
They won a GRAMMY for an instrumental song, of all things.
I had never heard this track and find it way cooler than what they are best known for, causing me to think that perhaps they have some interesting deep cuts on their early albums...
The local Rite Aid had a run on hairspray.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
We had the Ramones a lot, which helped balance things out a bit.
sounds kinda like the frat douche at the Ryan Adams show who started yelling for "Summer of '69" and Ryan melted down.Quote:
Originally Posted by pisteoff
^^^ lol, with good reason.
FKNA!Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
So, last summer I saw Bonham.. Totally a "tribute band" LOL! Funny thing was, I've seen better Zeppelin tribute bands and that's no lie.
^^^ The dwarves that do kiss are better singers than Gene Simmons (although, that's not saying much)
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume also that their guitar player is better than Ace Frehley
ha! again, that's not saying much!
Were you sporting a mullet?Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
New wave drove you to punk?Quote:
Originally Posted by pisteoff
Someone mentioned Springsteen as not yacht rock. Don't get me wrong, I really dig some of his earlier work. However, mid 80s in college towns it was the yuppy greeks that were the biggest Springsteen fans. The regular burnouts were either classic rock or punk fans, some new wave as well. We all turned our noses up to Springsteen at the time while the silver spoons were eating it up..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJY-mGEqKAY
Just the hair.Quote:
Originally Posted by FLS