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And if he held out, "Air guitar" extraordinaire JOE COCKER would be 75 today!
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Whitefang
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Sure. I don't think anybody joins any "tribute" band if they have no respect or liking of their music. Wouldn't make sense.
Whitefang
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I know that A string. And what wasn't being asked was what anybody else preferred to use.
But also what wasn't mentioned was the kind of metronome the person was using. The old mechanical "wind-up" kind my buddy had, or one of those electronic kind that either gives off an electronic "beep" , a flash of light, or both.
Whitefang
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Should be a good time. But cripes!
SEVEN years old in the summer of '73?
Hell. I was busy moving me, my first wife and first daughter into our FIRST HOUSE that summer!
Whitefang
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I mentioned elsewhere that I'm still using the same HP "tower" and monitor I bought 6 years ago(to replace my ragged COMPAQ Pressario)
It still(knock wood) works fine. Gets me online OK, and cost a total of $650 and $5 for lunch(for my computer tech daughter) to set it up.
Whitefang
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OK. One thing being overlooked here is.....
YYB's budget. He(she?) never did state how much money was available, whether or not the metronome mentioned was mechanical( like the one my buddy used when learning classical guitar) or electronic. And if the suggestion to purchase yet another device without those making the suggestion pulling out their wallets, then those kind of suggestions should be made more cautionary.
Whitefang
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I'm not sure I like the way p90jr posts, "...been around since the '80's" as if it was SO...LOOONNNNGGGG ago!
But, I guess as far as the equipment being discussed goes, it IS.
Whitefang
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Yeah. I mean, geez Shark. The man was asking about tempo and not styles or effects after all.
Whitefang
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I agree with the above commentary too. Now, some HAVE "maligned" the electric guitar's overused high volume in certain quarters. For instance....
JAMES TAYLOR, in an old taped performance I saw broadcast on PBS sometime in the late '70's, during his intro to his tune "Steamroller", complained a bit about electric blues players who, he felt cranked it up too much, saying sarcastically, "As if VOLUME equals SOUL
" But he really wasn't against loud electric guitars. They just had a different place....But yeah, I suspect that in some artists cases, Like Joe's and many others, LOUD is probably what the audience( remember them? THEY pay the bills if you recall sound guys!) probably wants and expects.
I don't suspect ANY Ted Nugent fan ever went to a show and wished HE scaled back on the volume and would prefer having to lean forward in order to hear him! But too....
Some people(like the aforementioned sound "engineers") get certain notions from somewhere, like back in late '79, when shopping around for a new home sound system was told by many a stereo "tech/ salesman" that I didn't want a system that had any good measure of bass, saying, "People want HEADROOM these days!" Too bad for him I preferred to spend MY money on what I wanted.
Whitefang
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No comment.
None needed. Just spittin' out some sour grapes is all....
Whitefang
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"To thine own self be true and thou canst be false to no man".
-Wm. Shakespeare
Usually good advice, but take it with a grain of salt( 'cause it depends on where you are....)
Every time I'VE tried that here, I got a lot of grief.
Whitefang
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In the movie "RAY" it was made clear that Ray Charles did start out being known by locals to be able to "sound like" this well known "star" or that, but he came to realize that HE wasn't being appreciated for who HE was, and then strived to find his own "voice". Which of course, meant in both singing AND playing.
Singer/actress Bernadette Peters once said she hated, in her early career, to be known(in some circles) as, "the next" this person or that. Saying, "Well, we already HAVE one of this or that person, so WHY in the hell do we need ANOTHER?"
I'd say that it might be better to shrug the idea of letting some musician be your influence, and instead let them be your inspiration. To me, it seems that would make it less likely for you to copy them too much.
Whitefang
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I salute your integrity too.
SOMEbody's got to take charge and be the "leader". And if your band lacks an actual manager, then choose someone to handle all the business end and can do so without their musical input suffering. And I'm guessing YOU'RE that person!
An Uncle of mine used to paraphrase---
"Nice guys might finish last, but they finish BEST, and in better shape."
Whitefang
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Really..Lutherman,
Kinda like what you'd hear on MUSIC CHOICE's "Soundscapes" channel, or on some "Stress Busters" CD.
Delightfully Narcoleptic!
Whitefang
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RAIN started out as "REIGN" in the mid '70's, and were probably the earliest of the Beatles "tribute" bands. And has grown from merely that to a constant travelling Broadway corporate production. And probably(by now) with enough stored revenue that there's NO excuse for them NOT to be "spot-on".
Oh, and FRED---Woulda liked hearing that band's cover of "Key To Love"
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@Fang. I guess we should agree on the definition of a "Tribute" vs "Cover" band. I've always differentiated between the two by the music they play. A tribute band might play songs that were recorded by the original group but they also may insert original music that is a "tribute" to the original, i.e. similar in style and tone but original in lyrics and leads. A Cover Band only does covers of the original.
But that's my own definition. It's not something you find in the dictionary.
Actually Doc, I've always thought the REVERSE: ie: A "tribute" band doing their best to both do songs and overall SOUND just like the OG's, and "cover" bands just doing the songs any which-way. You know....
Like The Beatles' "cover" of "Rock and Roll Music" not sounding anything like the Chuck Berry original.
Whitefang (PS: I'm still convinced that John Lennon, in The Beatles' cover, is singing, "BLACK beat" instead of "Back beat", and "you can't blues it."
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Not being familiar with The Chemical Brothers, I had to give a few listens on the YT.
Must say I wasn't much impressed. One would have to have been long into "Electronica" to know whether or not anything they did sounded "old" Not knowing the name of their newest album, nor how old your mom is for her to make that statement, well...
And there are those(like me) who think of other kinds of artists when the topic is ELECTRONIC music. Like, when I hear that said, I think of...
ISAO TOMITA...
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KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN:
[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/264HLeQIUv4
WENDY CARLOS( formerly Walter)---
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And even JAN HAMMER!
[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/_Dn2AOhxj1k
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I thought Doc, that a "tribute" band tries as best as possible to not only SOUND like the band they're "tributing". but also present that band's more notable tunes in the manner that band being "tributed" played them too. In this case, that "Dead" tribute band actually DID die!
"Morning Dew" was one of the songs me and the first "real" band I was in played to death in late '67.
Dig.......
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Thanks, Caev.....
Say "hi" to Rocky Rococo for me, eh?
As I don't listen to a lot of radio that would advertise that type of entertainment coming 'round, and the local newspaper cut down to a three day a week delivery, I don't get "hep" to any tribute bands coming to town anywhere. The Canadian BEATLES tribute band The Caverners was the only "tribute" band I bothered to pay to see, and they were pretty good. But I haven't seen any others( so far
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And today is the 108th anniversary of ROBERT JOHNSON's birth!
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That's a large part of the FUN of it all, ain't it?
I know there's lots of folks here who don't like the idea of playing familiar songs "note for note", but I think that can come later. I mean, if it's a really "Cool" tune( IYHO) the feeling of accomplishment in learning it in original form can be quite personally satisfying.
Like with my first foray into photography...
I could have bought an "all-automatic" camera( like the Canon A-1) but based on a family member's suggestion( and also a long time photographer) I bought a Canon AE-1, and NEVER put it on "auto" mode( which when merely pressing the shutter would have automatically set the shutter speed and aperture). I would have never learned photography that way.
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Well, most of my "practice" (still working on dexterity and endurance after health issue 5 years ago) consists of finger exercises. And if the mood strikes me, I'll just run through a bunch of songs I already know, or think I remember(
) but y'know....Singer/songwriter CHRIS SMITHER talked one time about doing a collection of BOB DYLAN songs, thinking, "I must know about 40 Bob Dylan songs." But when he sat down to run through them, confessed, "It turned out I just knew PARTS of about 40 Bob Dylan songs...."
I'd say that's sort of true for me too. Of the 40 or more Bob Dylan tunes I think I know, I can probably play about 5 or six "end to end".
Whitefang
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If the only quality issues with the newer LPs is electronics, that sounds like an easy( albeit not really all that cheap) fix. Then the problem becomes finding a good enough and reliable enough tech to help with it?
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All fine ideas, sure, but.....
"LP like" isn't really an "LP".
Whitefang
" But he really wasn't against loud electric guitars. They just had a different place....
Tribute Bands
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Don'tcha just love semantics?
I for one, would designate a "theme" band as one that plays a wide variety of songs by a wide variety of artists that address a particular or similar "theme". (subject matter, for lack of better....).
I'd possibly stretch it to "protest", "novelty" and/or "parody". all songs of course, addressing the same "theme".
Blame WEBSTER for this......
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