Seeing you mention Marty Wilde reminds me of seeing him in 1969. He was doing a revival show back then! He started every song with an introduction " And now I'd like to take you all the way back to 1958...,or 1959" as he went into Endless Sleep, Teenager in Love or whatever. Me and my mate were helpless when he introduced Abergavenny with " And now I'd like to take you all the way back to 1968...". Having said that he was very good. Amazing to think that 50 years on from that he was still touring with Mike Berry and others. BTW Marty Wilde cowrote "Im A Tiger".
I saw Marty Wilde at a New Year’s Eve ball at the Willerby Manor, just over twenty years ago, I can remember very little of that evening.
I like you are not fan of tribute bands, but I stopped off in Singapore for one night once, and went to see a Beatles tribute band just for something to do, and they were fantastic.
Is it a bit of snobbery to not like tribute bands? You go to your local boozer and there's a band on and they do covers or a tribute band, so what. I like live music and I like to hear great songs. Went to the cavern and saw a superb Beatles covers band, who then did a set of classic songs from all eras. Excellent. The drummer sang, bassist, keyboards and the guitarist. Hugely talented. A Chinese Beatles band were funny good too. People still love hearing Elvis songs, one of the most amazing talents the world has ever seen. Ye you can play the records but why not see a live act singing them songs? No ****ing problem. As triple h says, keep it up Bobby.
I enjoy a good tribute act, I don't enjoy a bad one; needless to say, I don't bother with tributes of **** acts I don't like in the first place. Good cover bands are good, **** ones are ****. It's really not complicated, is it?
Indeed there is. The Stones were originally a covers band. As were most of the people who came through in the 1960s.
Funny that, I saw the "official" Beatles tribute band, ie they were licenced officially somehow, and they were American which was slightly odd, but licensing restrictions meant they could mainly only play B sides and Album tracks. It was crap tbh - they were excellent musicians but not hearing any of the big hits made it kind of pointless and to be honest, boring, really.
My wife has booked us to see Oye Santana which is an out and out tribute band. She has also booked Voodoo Room who just play the music of Hendrix Clapton and Cream with no wigs or gimmicks. Though not really a fan of tribute bands i am just seeing it as a couple of cheapish evenings of hopefully good music and beer very close to home.
Watching people on a stage playing guitar, bass, drums and singing songs that you know and enjoy, LIVE, is no bad thing - only the music snobs will tell you otherwise. They can go **** themselves btw.
Thinking about it, I remember having a bloody great night at an All Mod Cons gig in welly. Fair few years ago now. Big mix of ages and a proper mosh pit. Soon as someone went down the blokes next to him helped him back up. That was the Friday night then Happy Mondays on the Saturday. Happy days.
