Smithers XKR
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Its so good but the problem is why spend your whole life making a perfect copy when you are so good? Why not create your own thing?This is awsome !!!
Its so good but the problem is why spend your whole life making a perfect copy when you are so good? Why not create your own thing?This is awsome !!!
I do have a problem with tribute bands Rich if I am honest. The obsessive accuracy of them and I find it a little pointless. A bit like the classic car genre where everything has to be so perfect and intricate and accurate and original. The Illegal Eagles are better than Eagles... what is the point of that? Nah the imperfections is what makes a band. Sod the copy bands, not interested, sorry. Do your own thing. Dont copy, innovateSmithers, there are lots of reasons... I know one fellow who does a couple of tribute bands similar to what the Pretzel Logic does. He's an excellent guitarist, but his "day job" is a music professor at a major university and chairman of the music department. He can play regional shows for fun and extra cash, without the pressure of having to create something that may or may not make money. He does work with a prog rock band that does original material.
When doing the tribute band, their goal is to reproduce the sound as acurately as possible, even to the point that he'll use the same guitar and amp as the original.
This is another band who was started to make videos of popular songs many years ago. They pick a band, a few songs from the catalog, and do videos of the recording. I think they only do one live show a year. It's a collection of regional musicians who just do this for fun, but they are all pros.
Lexington Lab Band
I do not, but that is unfair Rich. That was 200 years ago. I try to play Beethoven 14th sonata on piano in C minor. The Moonlight Sonata... I can play the first passage. Ok we will not argue,Do you have the same problem with the London Symphony Orchestra "copying" Dvorak's 8th Symphony, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet , or Beethoven's 9th? They've been done 100 times before.
C sharp minorI do not, but that is unfair Rich. That was 200 years ago. I try to play Beethoven 14th sonata on piano in C minor. The Moonlight Sonata... I can play the first passage. Ok we will not argue,
Prokoviev Troika was Greg Lake as well xxxxC sharp minor
Apologies I dont wish to fall out. It is a great band. I understand what you are saying. But.... I still say they could be great writing their own stuff as well xxxxProkoviev Troika was Greg Lake as well xxxx
I am sure you play well xxI'm living proof that not everyone who can play an instrument is a prolific, or even competent songwriter.
BTW, many years ago, my exwife and I went to see one of the Beatles tribute bands. They did an excellent job and she really enjoyed it. Neither of us ever had the opportunity to see the Beatles, she liked the music (at least up until Sgt Peppers) and knew the songs. I enjoyed hearing the band reproduce the tougher parts of Abbey Road and Pepper, and the costuming was great. It was like going to see a play or musical. Which is the reason that these things are popular.
Thanks mate, these current meds are shit. I am going to try the new ones and if they dont work then I will just get off the lot and try to tough it out. Its crap, I am better off and happier on the beer if I am honest. Thank you. I am despondant with my recording gear, I have a load of good stuff, I just havent got a clue. I am thinking about paying a consultant to teach me.Hang in there... You can do anything if you put your mind to it.
A bloke put some words up and I jammed it. But he seems to have gone.Hang in there... You can do anything if you put your mind to it.