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Post by lonelysummer on Aug 8, 2024 5:52:32 GMT
You might have noticed a lot of bands canceling shows and tours. (We've had a few that were due to come here. The Black Keys was one, and I know there were others, though I'm forgetting names.) How about an entire swath of headliners at a festival!? The Moondance Festival, a festival in northern Minnesota, is canceling all of the national acts they've advertised for their July 18-20 festival. Creed, Foghat, BOC, Kansas, Switchfood, and the Sweet are all out, and the festival is carrying on with only local bands (several of which are cover bands). The kicker: as of now, no refunds of the $200 tickets! (Bad P.R. is sure to reverse that, though.) I see similar things happening locally. A lot of the festivals and fairs here in Washington state have moved away from bringing in national headliners, and are going with just local bands; I guess that's okay, but they're hiring TRIBUTE BANDS. Tribute bands are taking over everything!
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Post by kds on Aug 8, 2024 18:58:31 GMT
You might have noticed a lot of bands canceling shows and tours. (We've had a few that were due to come here. The Black Keys was one, and I know there were others, though I'm forgetting names.) How about an entire swath of headliners at a festival!? The Moondance Festival, a festival in northern Minnesota, is canceling all of the national acts they've advertised for their July 18-20 festival. Creed, Foghat, BOC, Kansas, Switchfood, and the Sweet are all out, and the festival is carrying on with only local bands (several of which are cover bands). The kicker: as of now, no refunds of the $200 tickets! (Bad P.R. is sure to reverse that, though.) I see similar things happening locally. A lot of the festivals and fairs here in Washington state have moved away from bringing in national headliners, and are going with just local bands; I guess that's okay, but they're hiring TRIBUTE BANDS. Tribute bands are taking over everything! We actually have a festival in Baltimore in late September that only books tribute bands. It's a food truck festival that runs for two days, and the entertainment is provided by tribute bands.
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Post by lonelysummer on Aug 8, 2024 19:02:16 GMT
I see similar things happening locally. A lot of the festivals and fairs here in Washington state have moved away from bringing in national headliners, and are going with just local bands; I guess that's okay, but they're hiring TRIBUTE BANDS. Tribute bands are taking over everything! We actually have a festival in Baltimore in late September that only books tribute bands. It's a food truck festival that runs for two days, and the entertainment is provided by tribute bands. I've seen a few tribute bands over the years, mostly Beatles-related. Some are unbelievably great, and some just had me thinking "what's the point?"
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 8, 2024 19:06:32 GMT
We actually have a festival in Baltimore in late September that only books tribute bands. It's a food truck festival that runs for two days, and the entertainment is provided by tribute bands. I've seen a few tribute bands over the years, mostly Beatles-related. Some are unbelievably great, and some just had me thinking "what's the point?" It's amazing how many there are now. When I was in college or a young adult, you had a lot of COVER bands, but only a few TRIBUTE bands. It seems that's flipped now: they're much more specific to a band, or a couple bands, or maybe a narrow genre. But you don't see as many broad-based cover bands anymore. At least I don't notice them.
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Post by kds on Aug 8, 2024 19:08:27 GMT
We actually have a festival in Baltimore in late September that only books tribute bands. It's a food truck festival that runs for two days, and the entertainment is provided by tribute bands. I've seen a few tribute bands over the years, mostly Beatles-related. Some are unbelievably great, and some just had me thinking "what's the point?" The oddest one I saw was a Jimmy Buffett tribute band we caught at the beach about ten years ago. Half the setlist were Skynyrd songs.
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Post by kds on Aug 8, 2024 19:14:22 GMT
I've seen a few tribute bands over the years, mostly Beatles-related. Some are unbelievably great, and some just had me thinking "what's the point?" It's amazing how many there are now. When I was in college or a young adult, you had a lot of COVER bands, but only a few TRIBUTE bands. It seems that's flipped now: they're much more specific to a band, or a couple bands, or maybe a narrow genre. But you don't see as many broad-based cover bands anymore. At least I don't notice them. I've noticed that too, and I think there are a couple reasons. In the last 20-25 years or so, many of the originators to whom said bands were paying tribute have either gone away, dramatically changed, or charge too much for the average concert fan to afford. Also, I don't know if it's the same in Minnesota, but in the Baltimore area, there used to be a slew of covers bands who were operated under an Entertainment Company, and from what I recall, that company had a lot of say in the songs those bands could play. So, you'd basically have a lot of covers bands, all playing the same songs. The rather predictable Sweet Home Alabama, Livin' On a Prayer, Don't Stop Believin', etc, you know the 20-30 tracks that Classic Rock radio ran into the ground. At least if you're going to a local place to see a tribute band, you're not subjected the same few songs that every covers band under the sun plays.
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Post by lonelysummer on Aug 9, 2024 18:53:32 GMT
There is a guy up here, Arny Bailey, who has 8 different tribute bands he performs with - Eagles, McCartney, Boston, Styx, Sheryl Crow, Linda Ronstadt, John "Cougar", and Chicago. Another couple of guys perform on some of those bands along with a Stones tribute, and then one that is just a generic cover band. They have kind of a stranglehold on gigs in the north end. I have seen their McCartney show, Wings N Things, and they are excellent. They don't try to dress or look like Paul or the Beatles or Wings, they just play the music, they alternate on lead vocalists, so I guess it's not technically a tribute band. I have also seen the Ronstadt tribute, and that was great as well. Linda's not performing anymore, so I can see the need for this show; and Macca's tours, when he comes around, are in the $500 range, so this is a nice alternative for those of us who live in the real world.
I've also seen Rain - Beatles tribute; 1964 - the Tribute; and a couple of lesser Beatles tributes that didn't impress me much (but never seen Shania Twain). 1964 is great if you just want to hear the red album era Beatles music. Rain does the whole shebang, with costume changes, etc. I saw an Abba tribute once about 10 years ago, thought they were very good, but now there are dozens of groups doing Abba. I always look at the ads and say to myself "but the girls aren't as pretty as Agnetha and Frida!" There's a local guy that does Elvis, and he's not bad, but I'm nitpicky. The thing I liked about the Abba and Beatles tributes was, they played the songs exactly the way they are on the records. The Elvis show, the guitarist did not play those Scotty Moore solos precisely like the records, a few of the songs were in different keys, obviously the singer did not have the range Elvis had. But for a free show, I shouldn't complain. If a Beach Boys tribute comes to town, and it don't cost much, I'm sure I will go.
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Post by kds on Aug 9, 2024 19:07:52 GMT
That last time Rain came to my neck of the woods, the tickets were double what I paid to see Ringo Starr...an actual Beatle.
I actually saw a pretty decent Beach Boys Tribute Band playing a free show on the Boardwalk of Ocean City, MD five or six years ago. One thing that really stuck out was that they closed their show with Wendy.
While not specifically a Beach Boys band, there's a quasi local band that I've seen here a few times called The Beach Bumz. Most of their sets are Beach Boys and Jimmy Buffett hits, while the rest of the set is made up of various summer themed songs.
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 12, 2024 12:15:40 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 13, 2024 18:19:52 GMT
Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed's estate are going to release Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65 in September of this year. The album mostly compiles music Reed wrote, along with some cover tunes he helped perform, for that budget label. (It includes the first Reed-Cale collaboration, the title track, which was Cale's first published credit.) Among the covers ... some not-very-good performances of Beach Boys tunes. In fact, that's a very generous description.
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 13, 2024 22:01:53 GMT
Moon Unit Zappa wrote her memoir:
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Post by jk on Aug 14, 2024 12:29:52 GMT
Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed's estate are going to release Why Don't You Smile Now: Lou Reed at Pickwick Records 1964-65 in September of this year. The album mostly compiles music Reed wrote, along with some cover tunes he helped perform, for that budget label. (It includes the first Reed-Cale collaboration, the title track, which was Cale's first published credit.) Among the covers ... some not-very-good performances of Beach Boys tunes. In fact, that's a very generous description.It reminds me of this uproarious take on "Kokomo" by The New Surfsiders... ...to say nothing of the outrageous "covers" done by Freddie French-Pounce: soundcloud.com/frederickjamesfrench-pounce/sets/freddie-slaughters-the-beach-1
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Post by kds on Aug 27, 2024 12:54:18 GMT
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Post by Sheriff John Stone on Aug 30, 2024 11:25:12 GMT
Do you know who this is? They just objected to Donald Trump using their music during his campaign. Father Time waits for no one...
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Post by kds on Sept 6, 2024 14:21:45 GMT
Do you know who this is? They just objected to Donald Trump using their music during his campaign. Father Time waits for no one...
ABBA
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