Favourite Tribute Bands

[Fastchas]

I went to see 'Endorphin Machine' Saturday night in Birmingham. I can really reccommend them, I thought they were fantastic. easily one of the most talented I've seen. Some great musicians, every one of them. Just's a shame 'Prince' was 6'2" though!
Others I've seen;

Counterfeit Stones - excellent
George Michael by Rob Lamberti - virtually unrecognisable from the real thing.
A Take That tribute theat weren't 'all that' but can't remember their name...

Anyone else recommend some they've seen?

Edited by Fastchas on Tuesday 26th May 13:46

[Johnspex]

Fastchas said:

I went to see 'Endorphin Machine' Saturday night in Birmingham. I can really reccommend them, I thought they were fantastic. easily one of the most talented I've seen. Some great musicians, every one of them. Just's a shame 'Prince' was 6'2" though!
Others I've seen;

Counterfeit Stones - excellent
George Michael by Rob Lamberti - virtually unrecognisable from the real thing.
A Take That tribute theat weren't 'all that' but can't remember their name...

Anyone else recommend some they've seen?

Edited by Fastchas on Tuesday 26th May 13:46

Who's Who, Small Fakers, Too Petty, Illegal Eagles, AC/DC UK, Samtana, and a Dire Straits whose name I can't remember.
The Small Fakers' Steve Marriott looks and moves like him . Absolutely brilliant. They also do Humble Pie and, with a "Rod", do Faces stuff too. Worth catching if you like 60's/70's rock.
There are a couple of dodgy Bon Jovis out there.

If you live in West London try the Tropic at Ruislip and for Southwest London try the BOOMBOOM at Sutton. I have no connection with either.

[Fastchas]

I live in the Midlands so don't travel for nights out in the Smoke.
Endorphin Machine are at a place called '229 The Venue' in London on 25th & 26th Sept though.

Edited by Fastchas on Wednesday 27th May 10:09

[1878]

"I'm off to see the Bootleg Beatles, as the bootleg Mark Chapman"
/HMHB

[IainT]

Off to Festwich again this year - 2 days of rock & metal tributes. Weather was glorious last year and "Higher On Maiden" were the highlight for me.

[AmiableChimp]

I've been to see Dirty Harry, a Blondie tribute band, twice now and really rate Sarah's performance.

Both vocally and in her mannerisms she does a good Debbie Harry.

She is a psychiatric nurse in St john's hospital, Livingston during the week.

[SeldomSeenKid]

Limehouse Lizzy, Live/Wire, Rumours of Fleetwood Mac and The Ultimate Eagles are the best I've seen. All of them were pretty much note perfect. Especially Louise Rogan, as Stevie Nicks in ROFM, vocally, she was as close to the real artist as I've heard.

[Sir Snaz]

speaking of tribute bands ......my little Foos tribute band are playing at the O2 in Islington tomorrow night (wed 3rd) if anyone fancies it

[prand]

I love a good tribute band.

My faves that I've happened to see more than a couple of times are:

The Rollin Stoned (best experienced at their spiritual home at the Half Moon in Putney), lots of in jokes and Mick Jaguar has all the moves, Bryan Jones appears as a ghostly angel halfway through. Ladies are invited on stage for Honky Tonk Woman. It gets a bit raucous.

Fleetwood Bac are pretty good, even if Stevie Nicks looked a bit like Sharon from Eastenders, Lynsey Buckingham guy properly rocks (should that be Blues?) out to the Peter Green stuff which is cool.

My favourite of all probably don't exist any more, but I really enjoyed the Australian Doors when they were playing in the early nineties, memorable seeing them at the Astoria.

Managed to catch Bjorn Again a couple of times - not really my cup of tea, but I did see them famously warming up for Nirvana's last UK gig at Reading Festival in 1992.

I quite fancy seeing the Australian Pink Floyd too - they are supposed to do a really good Albert Hall show.

I've just found this festival of tribute bands at Wellington Country Park near Reading/Basingstoke: http://www.marvellousfestivals.com/ could be a laugh!

[Bradgate]

I saw the Australian Pink Floyd Show a few years ago. Musically, they were absolutely note-perfect. If you closed your eyes, you would struggle to hear the difference. I believe the lead guitarist uses exactly the same equipment as Gilmour, down to the last detail, and the sound engineer has worked on Floyd tours.

Vocally, the singer who did Gilmour's parts didn't sing in quite as high and plaintive a voice as DG, but he was very close.

No flying pigs, though