Paul S Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 3 hours ago, Christine said: This whole tribute act argument bores me to death, what's the problem? If you don't like it move on to something you do like; if I stopped to add comment to everything I didn't like I'd be typing for the rest of my like and never get off page one, the sooner you grow up and get on with life the better. We're all different, accept it, don't make yourself look inadequate by trashing everything you don't like. Like it or lump it, the market for bands is driven by audience demand, if they don't want to see it they won't pay and hence you don't get the booking. The universal truth for any group of musicians is; if you want to get on you have to give the audience want to hear what you have to offer or make the audience want to hear what you have to offer and no amount of whining or whinging will ever change that Very sorry about that, one of the few things that annoy me are people who like to put others down in any way, why not try and make them smile for a change? Thank you, Christine. You have been on the forum for 2 days and this is the most eloquent and sensible thing I read read on the tribute band subject and in response to this ridiculous post. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 3 hours ago, Christine said: This whole tribute act argument bores me to death, what's the problem? If you don't like it move on to something you do like; if I stopped to add comment to everything I didn't like I'd be typing for the rest of my like and never get off page one, the sooner you grow up and get on with life the better. We're all different, accept it, don't make yourself look inadequate by trashing everything you don't like. Like it or lump it, the market for bands is driven by audience demand, if they don't want to see it they won't pay and hence you don't get the booking. The universal truth for any group of musicians is; if you want to get on you have to give the audience want to hear what you have to offer or make the audience want to hear what you have to offer and no amount of whining or whinging will ever change that Very sorry about that, one of the few things that annoy me are people who like to put others down in any way, why not try and make them smile for a change? of course this all very sensible, but if we all agreed to differ on opinion they'd be very few threads left to comment on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Love them or loathe them, the public gets what the public wants/deserves (delete as applicable) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetera Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 5 minutes ago, Les said: Love them or loathe them, the public gets what the public wants/deserves (delete as applicable) Yeah.... that's what the JAM tribute say.... 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 1 minute ago, cetera said: Yeah.... that's what the JAM tribute say.... Edit, edit LOL I was just typing the same, Going underground now LOL 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudpup Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 1 minute ago, Christine said: Edit, edit LOL I was just typing the same, Going underground now LOL Hey, thats entertainment! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 1 minute ago, Mudpup said: Hey, thats entertainment! And this is the modern world after all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 *wracks brain trying to think of a Down In The Tube Station At Midnight pun* *gives up* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 17 minutes ago, Rich said: *wracks brain trying to think of a Down In The Tube Station At Midnight pun* *gives up* Terrible when that happens, it's the bitterest pill, you might as well light your funeral pyre and all around the world, in a strange town, a town called malice in fact , this English rose and the man in the corner shop along with Smithers-Jones will write to the news of the world for publication in the city but not pretty green fields filled with carnations How terrible is that? 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnDave Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 52 minutes ago, PaulWarning said: of course this all very sensible, but if we all agreed to differ on opinion they'd be very few threads left to comment on That's true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borntohang Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 1 hour ago, cetera said: True, but only as long as the band are vaguely the same build etc as the originals. A 5ft, 20 stone Gene Simmons does not look good, especially if his bandmates are 6ft 2 and lithe..... It's amazing how many crap looking KISS tributes are out there...... Counterpoint: Mini Kiss 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 (edited) In a rather amusing 'life imitating art' (or at least tributes) moment I read the other day that Mike Campbell is now on board with Neil Finn in Fleetwood Mac. There's a guy who's both Lyndsay Buckingham and Mike Campbell in FM and Tom Petty tributes respectively. Seen him in both and both were excellent acts. Never done a trib myself but wouldnt knock it back if the venues were good and it was a band I was genuinely into. Don't think he's posted on the thread but one of our members is in the brilliant Kate Bush trib 'Cloudbusting'. Edited May 17, 2018 by KevB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 if memory serves me right Dee Dee Ramone played in a Ramones tribute for a while, bizzare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 Does this count as a tribute? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Christine said: Terrible when that happens, it's the bitterest pill, you might as well light your funeral pyre and all around the world, in a strange town, a town called malice in fact , this English rose and the man in the corner shop along with Smithers-Jones will write to the news of the world for publication in the city but not pretty green fields filled with carnations How terrible is that? Ped, can we ban Christine please? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 2 minutes ago, Rich said: Ped, can we ban Christine please? You Billy Hunt!! Only kidding, Thick as thieves we are! OK Finished, no more Back on topic (ish) I would love to be in a Status Quo (pre 77) tribute band, too old now and not enough energy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 5 minutes ago, Rich said: Ped, can we ban Christine please? It will be a start... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 3 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said: Yes. We have "Standards" here you know God help me, I can see myself banned by the end of the week (Thursday today!!) This is me on my best behaviour Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Christine said: Terrible when that happens, it's the bitterest pill, you might as well light your funeral pyre and all around the world, in a strange town, a town called malice in fact , this English rose and the man in the corner shop along with Smithers-Jones will write to the news of the world for publication in the city but not pretty green fields filled with carnations How terrible is that? Copied to BC Famous Quotes thread. Laydeez'n'Gemmun, we have a new record for fastest newb into FQ's. Kudos. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 1 hour ago, PaulWarning said: if memory serves me right Dee Dee Ramone played in a Ramones tribute for a while, bizzare It can go the other way as well, wasn't Nick Fyffe in a Jamiroquai tribute band before getting the call from JK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 (edited) 16 hours ago, Dan Dare said: Rather a silly comment. No orchestra or members actually try to dress like or be Mozart and Schubert (or any other composer) and/or play only their material. In fact, the Vienna Mozart Orchestra dresses up like Mozart (see post above) and performs only his work. The Bach Ensemble was formed in 1978 by the esteemed Joshua Rifkin, plays Bach almost exclusively and has recorded only the works of Bach. Indeed, in the geographic home of the tribute act The Haydn Orchestra of Australia hews pretty closely to his works but occasionally chucks in stuff like Boccherini to sweeten the pot. The list goes on... In fact, it's a pretty established tradition among jobbing classical musos to form scratch bands with rotating personnel and to name the aggregation after certain well-known composers; to begin by performing a mixture of that composer's faves and rarities and then - when the steam starts to go out of it or they've made their name - to start throwing in music by the composer's contemporaries. On the other hand, you get outfits like the Bach & Beethoven Ensemble of Chicago who go off the rails and don't perform anywhere near as much of the eponymous composers' work as one might expect but instead branch off into commissioning new stuff and generally being a bit arty-farty in the community (the better to score donations from charities, quangos, philanthropists, I suppose). So - within classical music - there's a clear and living distinction between 'function bands' that play a mix of well-known covers (the LSO, The Berlin Phil) and sort-of-tribute bands such as those mentioned above. Then there are era-bands like the Academy of Ancient Music or The Consort of Musicke or The Tallis Scholars who roughly equate to I ♥ the 80's acts. New original music is regarded as terribly worthy but not as good at putting bums on seats as a programme of old chestnuts, unless it's ghastly pabulum by the likes of Einaudi and Karl Jenkins as hawked by Classic FM in between the good stuff. In fact, the more one thinks about it, the more the classical world and the pub music market come to resemble each other with the financially-driven need to pull audiences in with the offer of familiarity and / or focus. Edited May 17, 2018 by skankdelvar 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnDave Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 2 hours ago, Christine said: Terrible when that happens, it's the bitterest pill, you might as well light your funeral pyre and all around the world, in a strange town, a town called malice in fact , this English rose and the man in the corner shop along with Smithers-Jones will write to the news of the world for publication in the city but not pretty green fields filled with carnations How terrible is that? I haven't clue what that's about, but it reads like lyrics or poetry that has been machine translated through several languages. Interesting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 6 minutes ago, Graham said: It can go the other way as well, wasn't Nick Fyffe in a Jamiroquai tribute band before getting the call from JK? same with From the Jam, they got their Paul Weller from a tribute, and very good he is too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 9 minutes ago, FinnDave said: I haven't clue what that's about, but it reads like lyrics or poetry that has been machine translated through several languages. Interesting! It's a bunch of Jam song titles bundled into something that has a bit of punctuation in it here and there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FinnDave Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 1 minute ago, Christine said: It's a bunch of Jam song titles bundled into something that has a bit of punctuation in it here and there Ah, I didn't realise that, wouldn't know a Jam song if it walked up to the bar and bought me a drink. Not really my era. Comes across well, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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