Best and Worst Tribute Bands You've Seen

[996Type]

lufbramatt said:

Really enjoyed Think Floyd a couple of weeks ago. Thought they were superb. Second half was the entire DSOTM album. Think tickets were about £28, great value for money IMO.

Brilliant band, agree with the above, look to see them on every annual tour!

[Newc]

There was a reasonable Guns n Roses tribute band on at Glastonbury yesterday. Lead guitarist was great, singer wasn't really on it.

More relevantly, the Clone Roses are worth digging out your bucket hat for.

[DodgyGeezer]

just come off a cruise with P&O whose 'house band' (for want of a better expression) was called Pulse - Oh. Dear. GOD!!! It was painful This was followed by a succession of attempts at singing motown and rawk on the main stage

I've acquired a whole new appreciation for the incredible skill and ability of the artists on K-Tel's records or the Stars on 45 types - virtuosos both by comparison

[Mick Dastardly]

Best The Smiths tribute band I’ve ever seen…..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0ft6w7z

[suthol]

The Lexington Lab Band, cover a different band each year and they are incredible

Toto - Hold The Line
https://youtu.be/ybnX66IVMVg

Pink Floyd - Money
https://youtu.be/x-Ht3s-Svsc

REO Speedwagon - Take It On The Run
https://youtu.be/FcG8tm-IbXI

Rush - Tom Sawyer
https://youtu.be/hc7BktMeiRs

Johnny Cash - Get Rhythm
https://youtu.be/KNewxeKFkr8

Bad Company - Shooting Star
https://youtu.be/WMCFsS18R-k

Merle Haggard - Sing Me Back Home
https://youtu.be/16p8m2ColU4

Eagles - Lyin Eyes
https://youtu.be/9ggbro4A8po

Edited by suthol on Monday 26th June 03:55

Edited by suthol on Monday 26th June 03:57

[Johnspex]

Polly Grigora said:

Never seen one

Sorry

What a bloody stupid post.
Did nobody else comment on what a bloody stupid post ? Was it because it was too bloody stupid to comment on?

Illegal Eagles. Brilliant
Billy Joel songbook, equally brilliant.
Small fakers. Excellent
Too Petty. great,

Edited by Johnspex on Friday 30th June 13:07

[popeyewhite]

cobra kid said:

Only seen one - Livewire. Small venue in Sheffield and were better than ACDC at Wembley the following year.

Second time I saw them (Holmfirth) 'Angus' tripped over a speaker on the stage whilst doing his duckwalk and gashed his leg. Performance was halted as his leg needed to be bandaged up. Audience didn't really see the funny side like I did and one shouted "get on with it you silly tt" Verymetal.

Saw Letz Zep at Holmfirth, lead singer tried too hard and ruined what was a quite poor but interesting show.

Aussie Pink Floyd. Would have preferred a tribute, not an attempt at a note perfect copy. I mean it's always going to be ersatz so why not just give the audience your very own version?

[TTmonkey]

BigMon said:

Rumours of Fleetwood Mac are the best cover band I've ever seen. If you close your eyes sometimes they could actually be them.

Plenty of ste ones. I think the worst was a Beegees tribute at the Spinning Wheel in Paignton. The white 'cat suits' they were wearing looked like decorators overalls.

If anyone wants to see them before going to a venue, they’ve done great videos on YouTube.

They are excellent. Recent line up change with the girl doing the Chris McVey being swapped out but the new girl is great too.

They do some ripping Peter Green era stuff too. Excellent.

[Magnum 475]

TTmonkey said:

If anyone wants to see them before going to a venue, they’ve done great videos on YouTube.

They are excellent. Recent line up change with the girl doing the Chris McVey being swapped out but the new girl is great too.

They do some ripping Peter Green era stuff too. Excellent.

I'm just going through some of their videos on YT. Very, very impressive. To find a vocalist who even gets close to Stevie is rare, but this girl is incredible. They've also got the rhythm section nailed, which was always a key part of Fleetwood Mac.

[Chris-m39vz]

Hi,

Anyone seen any Genesis tribute bands? I've seen The Musical Box twice- very good indeed, and seemingly endorsed by Peter Gabriel.

Also seen The Book of Genesis a couple of times. Less slick and polished but good musicians and a certain charm. Until they changed lead singer- to a blonde haired guy who didn't know the lyrics and had to read them from a crib sheet as he sang! Met Anthony Phillips at one of their gigs though (Genesis's original lead guitarist).

But then saw Steve Hackett live, after seeing the real thing I gave up on the Genesis tribute acts.

[popeyewhite]

anonymous said:

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Great name!

[DoctorX]

Magnum 475 said:

TTmonkey said:

If anyone wants to see them before going to a venue, they’ve done great videos on YouTube.

They are excellent. Recent line up change with the girl doing the Chris McVey being swapped out but the new girl is great too.

They do some ripping Peter Green era stuff too. Excellent.

I'm just going through some of their videos on YT. Very, very impressive. To find a vocalist who even gets close to Stevie is rare, but this girl is incredible. They've also got the rhythm section nailed, which was always a key part of Fleetwood Mac.

Saw them tonight. Incredible

[ArnageWRC]

Chris-m39vz said:

Hi,

Anyone seen any Genesis tribute bands? I've seen The Musical Box twice - very good indeed, and seemingly endorsed by Peter Gabriel.

Also seen The Book of Genesis a couple of times. Less slick and polished but good musicians and a certain charm. Until they changed lead singer- to a blonde haired guy who didn't know the lyrics and had to read them from a crib sheet as he sang! Met Anthony Phillips at one of their gigs though (Genesis's original lead guitarist).

But then saw Steve Hackett live, after seeing the real thing I gave up on the Genesis tribute acts.

Yeah, saw The Musical Box at the Liverpool Philharmonic about 10-15 years ago.....extremely good; and there is a band who use the old Genesis costumes, can't remember who though. I also saw Re-Genesis a few times in Birkenhead, once doing the whole of The Lamb - their keyboard player was a ringer for Tony Banks......

I've also seen TAPF numerous times - about as good as a 'tribute band' can get; I'm sure they've had sound engineers who worked with PF.

[bob1179]

UK Foo Fighters - A friend of mine invited invited me along to one of their gigs a few years back as he had a spare ticket and I'm a huge Foo's fan.

I wasn't convinced, but they turned out to be absolutely brilliant, going to see them again later this year (third time).

[dinger]

Cloud busting ….. Kate Bush
Rob Lamberti ….. George Michael
Small Fakers…. Small faces
Bootleg Beatles… Beatles
T Rextacy… T Rex


Worse by a country mile ….was a Queen Tribute band that after the interval turned their hand to the best of ELO. Scarred me for life , can’t even remember their name .

[RedAndy]

Bryan Adams Experience , By Jovi , Beatlemania, AB-CD, Deepest Purple, Stereophonies,

...all good pub cover bands in the 90s/00s north east...great puns as well as musically.

then Iron Maidens (girl group) were excellent
NoWaySis were probably good in freshers week at uni, but i cant really remember.

[marcosgt]

langtounlad said:

Saw Bootleg Blondie a last month - you are in for an enjoyable evening.

Just back and I totally agree.

A very entertaining evening!

M

[Glosphil]

Last time I saw the Bootleg Beatles (brilliant) the other act was a take-off of Abba who were dreadful.

At the end of their set they asked, 'Shall we do another one? There was a very loud, "No" from the audience, but they still did another one which was almost drowned out by very loud booing by the crowd.

[Ronstein]

Chris-m39vz said:

Hi,

Anyone seen any Genesis tribute bands? I've seen The Musical Box twice- very good indeed, and seemingly endorsed by Peter Gabriel.

Also seen The Book of Genesis a couple of times. Less slick and polished but good musicians and a certain charm. Until they changed lead singer- to a blonde haired guy who didn't know the lyrics and had to read them from a crib sheet as he sang! Met Anthony Phillips at one of their gigs though (Genesis's original lead guitarist).

But then saw Steve Hackett live, after seeing the real thing I gave up on the Genesis tribute acts.

Steve Hackett's 'Genesis Re-Visited' is brilliant.

[cooky73]

Genesis Visible Touch - brilliant.

Mama are decent too...