Obscure tribute bands

[Lozz196]

6 hours ago, warwickhunt said:

 

There was a Swedish rock band doing ABBA songs in the rock music genre/style... entertaining for 30 seconds per song; they might have even done rock songs in an ABBA style!

Was that Black Sweden? I thought their version of Take a Chance On Me, which they put to the music of Enter Sandman, was excellent.

[Alanko]

16 hours ago, Boodang said:

I started an Eberhard Weber tribute band doing his solo work, took three bass players to take his place. Did one gig, everybody said what the actual F was that and the project hasn't seen the light of day since. Took a year to learn the songs and get them down properly but the effort was worth it from a musical growth perspective if nothing else (certainly wasn't a financial success!). 

 

Were you called The Covers of Chloë?

[Alanko]

16 hours ago, Boodang said:

I started an Eberhard Weber tribute band doing his solo work, took three bass players to take his place. Did one gig, everybody said what the actual F was that and the project hasn't seen the light of day since. Took a year to learn the songs and get them down properly but the effort was worth it from a musical growth perspective if nothing else (certainly wasn't a financial success!). 

 

Were you called The Covers of Chloë?

[warwickhunt]

4 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

Was that Black Sweden? I thought their version of Take a Chance On Me, which they put to the music of Enter Sandman, was excellent.

 

That's the one! 

 

[police squad]

On 04/04/2025 at 20:17, ezbass said:

One of the BC collective was in a Wishbone Ash tribute, AshboneUwish. As they were friends of mine, I saw them a few times and they were always better than the contemporary version/s of the actual band.

I saw Wishbone Ash in Deal a good few years ago and Bob Skeete wasnt there, it was the Ashbone U wish bss player

[ezbass]

2 hours ago, police squad said:

I saw Wishbone Ash in Deal a good few years ago and Bob Skeete wasnt there, it was the Ashbone U wish bss player

You did well there IMO. Our very own @BassManGraham.

[Alanko]

On 04/04/2025 at 20:17, ezbass said:

One of the BC collective was in a Wishbone Ash tribute, AshboneUwish. As they were friends of mine, I saw them a few times and they were always better than the contemporary version/s of the actual band.

Must be quite hard learning how to nail all those bass lines while singing everything slightly flat, à la Martin Turner.

[police squad]

2 hours ago, ezbass said:

You did well there IMO. Our very own @BassManGraham.

we had a chat with him after the gig, they all came out from backstage an we went to Graham, a) because no one else did and b) we wanted to tell him what a bloody great job he did. He had A Thunderbird and got a great sound

[Stub Mandrel]

I always fancied being in a Hawkwind tribute.

 

 

Edited 20 hours ago by Stub Mandrel
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[casapete]

4 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I always fancied being in a Hawkwind tribute.

 

 

Think I’ve seen one advertised recently - ‘Hoaxwind’ ? 

[Woodinblack]

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

I always fancied being in a Hawkwind tribute.

 

Me too - I did a couple of songs once as a one off

[tauzero]

16 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

Every cover band does Paranoid (badly) and Iron Man is a bit over played.

 

I want to drop Paranoid (I have problems playing it due to a damaged right hand which means rapid alternate picking is problematic). However, the drummer is a Sabbath fan so for now it stays in.

[SteveXFR]

My regular barber wants to start a band playing Status Quo songs in the style of Motorhead. It could be a winning idea. The songs are OK, they just sound boring because of the way they're played

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Me too - I did a couple of songs once as a one off

 

Thing is, the songs I would choose aren't very pub friendly.

 

Sonic Attack

 

[Stub Mandrel]

16 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Every cover band does Paranoid (badly) and Iron Man is a bit over played. The Wizard should be in your set as well, I covered it in a band once it's great to play on bass 

 

Paranoid has sme nice subtleties if you listen carefully.

[rushbo]

On 05/04/2025 at 15:26, Boodang said:

I started an Eberhard Weber tribute band doing his solo work, took three bass players to take his place. Did one gig, everybody said what the actual F was that and the project hasn't seen the light of day since. Took a year to learn the songs and get them down properly but the effort was worth it from a musical growth perspective if nothing else (certainly wasn't a financial success!). 

That is amazing. If you'd have sweetened the deal with a few tunes from his collaborations with Jan Garbarek, I'd have been there in a heartbeat.

[Woodinblack]

6 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Thing is, the songs I would choose aren't very pub friendly.

 

Sonic Attack

 

Ah we just did masters of the universe and you shouldn't do that.

[rushbo]

I was once asked to join an All About Eve tribute band, well after their chart successes. As much as I like AAE, I politely demurred.

[Jackroadkill]

I've always fancied forming a Sisters Of Mercy tribute, but rural mid-Wales probably isn't the most fertile hunting grounnd as far as audiences are concerned.

[Boodang]

10 hours ago, Alanko said:

 

Were you called The Covers of Chloë?

Ah, if only I'd thought of that, we might still be playing... although I doubt more profitable!

[Cosmo Valdemar]

2 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

 

Ah we just did masters of the universe and you shouldn't do that.

Why not? 

[redbandit599]

22 hours ago, Doctor J said:

Alternatively... Fernanodopeth

Or Abbacadaver 💀

[chriswareham]

4 hours ago, Jackroadkill said:

I've always fancied forming a Sisters Of Mercy tribute, but rural mid-Wales probably isn't the most fertile hunting grounnd as far as audiences are concerned.

 

There's the "Sisters of Murphy" who have been doing the rounds for years as a Sisters tribute. The version of the Sisters currently fronted by Eldritch sound like a third rate techno outfit, so I'd definitely prefer to see a tribute if they can capture the intensity of the pre-Floodland band.

Edited 13 hours ago by chriswareham
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[Jackroadkill]

10 minutes ago, chriswareham said:

The version of the Sisters currently fronted by Eldritch sound like a third rate techno outfit, so I'd definitely prefer to see a tribute if they can capture the intensity of the pre-Floodland band.

 

Yeah, I'd love to have seen them in the early days, but it's been a million years since they've done anything worth seeing, by all accounts.

 

I did see Patricia Morrison playing with The Damned in a pub in High Wycombe once, and we chatted about the Sisters for a bit.

Edited 13 hours ago by Jackroadkill

[chriswareham]

1 hour ago, Jackroadkill said:

 

Yeah, I'd love to have seen them in the early days, but it's been a million years since they've done anything worth seeing, by all accounts.

 

I did see Patricia Morrison playing with The Damned in a pub in High Wycombe once, and we chatted about the Sisters for a bit.

 

I didn't see them in the early days either, a little before my time. I did see Patricia Morrison in Wokingham of all places when she briefly fronted her own band. I had high hopes, since I was familiar with her pre-Sisters activity in bands like The Bags and Gun Club. Sadly it turned out she was doing what a lot of other formerly quite distinctive bands and musicians were doing at the time, which was trying to go mainstream by playing heavy metal. Appropriately enough, this was also when Eldritch tried to do the same thing with the execrable "Vision Thing" album.