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Topic History of: When heritage bands are tribute bands Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Green Man
I was hesitant to clicking on the Guardian link, but a broken clock is right twice a day. When I looked at the members of Soft Machine, John Etheridge was in Soft Machine in the mids 70s, when I was kid.
Napalm Death is pretty much owned by Shane Embury.
A friend of mine has just started his own band called The Blankets......he likes doing covers.
Green Man
The only downside is the use of iPads. M.P. are spectacular live. YT does not do them justice IHMO.
My partner loves Peter Barton's CCR tribute. She likes burly greasers who can play guitar, which I am not one. When she booked she thought it was the real CCR, I was puzzled when she tried to surprise me in the car with the tickets.
When I said it's a tribute band, she looked deflated. We went to it still and loved every minute of it, as we went with open minds. The names are very close, so I can see how she got a bit confused.
Green Man
The only one who has made it from Stars in Their Eyes is Gary Mullen in One Night of Queen and The Works. They are on a mammoth tour of the States and Europe this year.
Stars In Their Eyes was an awful show. Matthew Kelly good at confronting Frank Skinner about the joke he made. I never saw the appeal to Frank Skinner to be honest. I did watch an early stand-up VHS years ago at a mate's house, the whole routine was nothing but football, toilets and blow jobs. Was Frank into cottaging in his youth?
He thought the VHS tape was funny, I found it crap. Then again he never understood why I was laughing at Hale and Pace.
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