I am on the fence with L.S. They have a blood brother in the band,
Rickey Medlocke did do bits and pieces with Skynyrd in the 70s.

However, Foreigner, should give up the name IMHO, they are drawing big numbers. Yet, I would feel cheated if I paid to see Foreigner and the lineup walk on stage.

Michael Monroe will be known as the singer from Hanoi Rocks, but he does not call his band Hanoi Rocks.





Soltice come from your area Rich. I have socks older than some of the band members.

Tigertailz are hanging on by a thread, Jay Pepper is on the origanl and founding member left.

It's quite a simple equation for me. If there is nobody original in the group that made the actual records then you are not a heritage group you are simply a tribute act.

Whatever next? This goes on with the groups, maybe we will have solo artists next, so someone you've barely heard off will pass themselves off as Prince or George Michael!

Much as I'm not keen on avatars, at least with Abba you are getting the group and they have never entertained the idea that their group is anything other than the 4 we all know and love, Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid. Quite right too. Artistic purity has a lot to commend it.

I could never see a tribute solo singer. You have to be very easily pleased if you enjoy those. I did a Blondie tribute band last week, it got better as the night progressed, but I will never see them again. Yet, there were a handful of fans who went mad with excitement and dancing in the tiny aisles. I do like Motley Crude who actually play more tight and in rhythm than the real Motley Crew.

Rich wrote:
It's quite a simple equation for me. If there is nobody original in the group that made the actual records then you are not a heritage group you are simply a tribute act.

Whatever next? This goes on with the groups, maybe we will have solo artists next, so someone you've barely heard off will pass themselves off as Prince or George Michael!

Much as I'm not keen on avatars, at least with Abba you are getting the group and they have never entertained the idea that their group is anything other than the 4 we all know and love, Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid. Quite right too. Artistic purity has a lot to commend it.

One for certain Rich, Arthur Brown is pretty much immortal. www.thecraufurdarms.com/events/2025-06-1...wn-the-craufurd-arms

I can't quite believe how Arthur Brown has managed to keep fanning the flames of that one and only hit he had way back in the summer of 1968 just before I was conceived for so long! How bored must you get with the very same thing for such a long time. Nobody thinks of him for anything else other than Fire. What's crazy is he's still at it in 2025, there were false reports of his demise last year I recall.


On the solo tribute acts, a bit like watching Stars In Their Eyes. I wonder just how many of these people from years ago who went on that show to mimic well known solo artists went on to make something more of it and make some kind of living at it, not very many I'm sure. When it came to Elvis impersonators don't you think it was weird how they all seemed to like doing Elvis close to the end of his life when he was overweight and wearing the white suit, rather than when he was a more sharply dressed fit and young man at his physical best.

I forgot to mention Tigertailz who you left a clip of.

That name rang a bell immediately to me from one of my Guinness Books. They were one of the few artists with the rare distinction of troubling the charts with a technical "hit" record for just one single week, classed as charting at No75 and vanishing again. They did that in 1989 with Love Bomb Baby. I've always remembered this from the book. Unfortunately I just re-checked and they blotted their chart achievement when two years later they had another entry which did a week at 71, so are no longer part of an interesting chart hit club of acts to only ever have one hit at No75 for a week and nothing again.

I love those kind of stats, just like Gambo does!

I love Tigertailz Rich! I thought about seeing them with my partner but seeing other bands instead. Tickets, travel, hotels, food does add up very quickly.

Wrathchild I hope to see later in the year when it's not hundreds of miles away.

Arthur Brown's first album is fantastic and heavy even for the 60s. I would see him live if I was you!

Seeing a tribute band is a strange experience. Some have been very enjoyable and I have seen the same band more than once,some of them I have walked on during the first half of the set. I could never see a fake Elvis but Ben Portsmouth has made a nice living being Elvis.


If you like Rush - Moving Pictures is worth booking up for.

www.thecraufurdarms.com/events/2025-09-1...te-the-craufurd-arms

82 years old?

There is hope for us all.

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.

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.

A friend of mine has just started his own band called The Blankets......he likes doing covers.

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.

www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/04/me...dyssey-molly-hatchet