WTF is this tribute band thing?

**Ted Striker** · 07-10-2018, 09:33 PM

^^^ are there notes?

**Ted Striker** · 07-10-2018, 09:40 PM

Originally Posted by FLS

Pics or it didn't happen [emoji3]

Just thinking to myself. Back in the day, when everybody was smoking (often indoors) you would have thought there would have been more big hair band explosions.

Heh.. I was torn between the sold out of hairspray joke and "nobody light a match!"

FTR, I never had new wave hair, but did have punk rock hair for years. Black, almost white, yellow, orange, and briefly red. There are a few pics somewhere, but they predate digital.

**Ted Striker** · 07-10-2018, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by dookey67

I was never into AFOS, but this particular drift in the thread caused me to "research" a bit about them...

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...

Their name came from a Stranglers song, so they couldn't have been all bad.

**Shredhead** · 07-11-2018, 06:27 AM

We went to the Wailers at the Belly Up Sunday. Only one original member, more or less a cover band.
Still had a good time!

**Benny Profane** · 07-12-2018, 04:24 PM

Ha. A local festival site is having a two day "tribute fest" with many bands, and it's called Mockstock

**XXX-er** · 07-12-2018, 04:59 PM

Talkin about being in a lot of bands a local bro who has been known to sit in lots of bands was telling me about playing base in 11 of 30 sets at the local weekend folk fest, I asked him how cuz most of these bands are from somewhere else and you are just kinda sitting in, he said its not that hard really

**abraham** · 07-12-2018, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Self Jupiter

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?

The best cover show I've seen was kexp's Raw Power show

Raw Power KEXP, a tribute to Iggy & the Stooges performed by Seattle musicians Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, Mark Arm, and Barrett Martin, recorded live on the roof of Pike Place Market. Recorded August 23, 2015.

Songs: Little Doll
T.V. Eye
I Got a Right
I Need Somebody
Down on the Street
Search and Destroy
Loose

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GKWhiPZVcLE

Originally Posted by Flyoverland Captive

Someone should start a Merzbow tribute band; play every song note-for-note.

I met a girl who was really excited that I knew Merzbow and had seen Boris sorry before meeting her. That was a sign

**dookeyXXX** · 07-20-2018, 07:44 PM

This may very well be the ultimate cover-cum-tribute band:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Chaos_(band)

**Self Jupiter** · 07-21-2018, 04:56 AM

Dennis Quaid gets drunk and plays covers

**SumJongGuy** · 07-21-2018, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by Self Jupiter

Dennis Quaid gets drunk and plays covers

Oh dear God.. His band played here at The Durham Bulls Ballpark a couple years ago on the 4th of July. Ya, he is horrible! His band was pretty tight and probably well paid but his vocals?? God chimed in on that. About 3 songs in to the first set a giant bolt of lightning took out the power grid hahahahaha! Wicked storms raged for an hour. We went home.. being that we live about 2 miles from the ballpark.

**SumJongGuy** · 07-21-2018, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by dookey67

This may very well be the ultimate cover-cum-tribute band:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Chaos_(band)

Dirty Loops is a pretty talented couple folks that do new music covers..

**Benny Profane** · 07-21-2018, 07:18 AM

Quaid is playing close to home, along with Kevin Bacon, with his brother, and Jeff Daniels. Maybe we have to start a new thread that is wtf is up with B hollywood actors playing mediocre rock stars on stage.

**Self Jupiter** · 07-21-2018, 07:21 AM

I feel the bands pay tribute to the star actors’ overall well-rounded greatness

**El Kanone** · 07-21-2018, 06:51 PM

I’m in Canada, yesterday on the radio I heard an add for a Tragically Hip cover band. I thought it was funny.

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**dookeyXXX** · 07-22-2018, 01:13 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

...Maybe we have to start a new thread that is wtf is up with B hollywood actors playing mediocre rock stars on stage.

**Self Jupiter** · 07-22-2018, 01:14 PM

Hollywood Vampires, anyone?

**Mudfoot** · 07-22-2018, 02:50 PM

It may suck, but I know all the words.

**Self Jupiter** · 07-22-2018, 03:00 PM

Originally Posted by dookey67

Plenty of non-cover and tribute stuff out there, although not sure if/when any of these bands/artists tour...

Went back to this, thanks again

**Bobby Stainless** · 07-23-2018, 04:27 AM

Dead and Co.?

**dookeyXXX** · 07-25-2018, 08:56 PM

I don't know why I am surprised by this, but I am...

If cover and tribute bands weren't enough, you can also see tribute comedians. This guy performs as Robin Williams:

http://devildogshows.com/wed-aug-15t...1-on-sale-now/

**Benny Profane** · 07-27-2018, 05:58 AM

Yeah, I heard an ad for that guy at a local venue. Creepy.

**Marshall Tucker** · 07-27-2018, 06:14 AM

OK. I'll come out of the closet. Seen a few rumors shows and they are absolutely fantastic. young, entergic, in smallish venues, at $20 about 1/10th of what it costs to see the real thing. but the kicker was local band MoonTower. Think several towns have a moontower but I was blown away by this one. Like stepping into the jukebox from the skatepark about 1978. Some of it was that they were playing in a larger hall known for good accoustics, through rumor's sound equipment. thier setlist

sweet Emotion (missed came in late)
People Talk
LaGrange
R & R Hoocheechoo
Voodoo child (dude's guitar & pedal work was unreal. note for note)
Tiny Dancer
One Way Out
Fox on the run
Never been any reason
Stranglehold (again unreal guitar work)