One of my mates was in Aussie Pink Floyd on sax for a fair few years, as you say, brilliant.
Nirvana UK....drummer is a very naughty boy.
Another vote for Aussie Pink Floyd - very, very good. However I still would give a testicle or two to see the real Pink Floyd live.
Aussie Pink Floyd.
G2Genesis. Seconds Out era Genesis. Unfortunately the singer died a last year, not seen them with the replacement, but very good, not a looky-likey band, just the musicianship.
Letz Zep. They used to be very, very good. The last time I saw them it was only the singer left from the line up that I thought were very, very good. They aren't a patch on what they were.
Planning on seeing Elvana in the near future
Saw Brit Floyd a couple fo years ago, were really pretty good.
The saw Roger Waters in a big venue last year, that was really amazing.
Agree on wish to see full Pink Floyd play together, the amazing bunch of geniuses that they are!
But you can’t expect to keep making objective comments about something as subjective as other people’s musical taste without being pulled up on it.
I'd like to know where I've done that. Just give an opinion, like everyone else. Like the OP - but you don't (tediously as ****) pick him up on it. Not sure how else to get involved in threads that ask for an opinion. Maybe someone as wise as you can help with that.
On the name front, "By Jovi" is one that makes me smile.
Bjorn Again were pretty decent when I saw them. I do remember a Take That tribute act playing at a Students Union do when I was at Sheffield (in about 1997). They were absolutely dreadful, and the audience let them know as much.
Dez, perhaps if I stop reading your posts about music, that'd help.
Constantly reading, on every single music thread about how other people's taste in music is 'shit' and irrelevant gets a bit wearing after a while.
We'll just have to agree to differ.
I think I've just been here too long, read and responded too the same old thing, time after time.
I don't come here half as much as I used to, which is probably for the best.
Take care fella.
a Take That tribute act playing at a Students Union do when I was at Sheffield (in about 1997). They were absolutely dreadful, and the audience let them know as much.
Considering the originals are ****ing terrible, a tribute was never going to end well.
Constantly reading, on every single music thread about how other people’s taste in music is ‘shit’ and irrelevant gets a bit wearing after a while.
Yet no examples.
oasish, I mean there's no way on earth I'm going to listen to this stuff, but the name's so brilliant I can't imagine they're not good. Better than high flying bloody birds anyway as tribute acts go.
The time is right to start a Huey Lewis tribute band.
#fakenews
You know what Dez, life's too short and I really, genuinely can't be arsed arguing with you anymore.
Please take that any way you like.
Get a room you two...
+1 for The Sex Pistols Experience.
Singer is a spitting image, as is ‘Sid’
Oasis
I’d put David Gilmore as a tribute act these days. The Gdańsk and Pompeii DVDs are excellent but I’m certain much of the audience is there for the Floyd stuff and his non Floyd back catalogue just fits around it.
IMHO obviously.
Livewire - AC/DC alikes. Seen them a couple of times.... they even changed the vocalist halfway through!
They did a a double-header with (I think) the ZZ Tops, and they didn't do too badly either.
As an aside, both gigs were at Holmfirth Picturedrome. What struck me most about both were the sheer number of bald fifty-something guys in the audience, all dressed in black tees and jeans. Made me feel very much at home!
The worst? Well, Think Floyd. Granted they played a lot of Floyd reasonably well, but it was shortly after Syd's death and they told us they'd written their own song to mark his passing. It was seriously dire... an unimaginitive three chord wonder that sounded like it was composed in a teenager's bedroom. Which just goes to show ...... great music can be really easy to imitate, but it takes true genius to make something as simple as a pentatonic blues scale sound as brilliant as Gilmour does
Eddiebaby - when I was working for the BBC I invited The Hamsters in to record a session in ou sound studio. I still have a copy of the songs they recorded, including an epic “New Delhi Freight Train.
The worst? Well, Think Floyd
I don't know. They seem to capture the prolonged, boring ten minute intros of Pink Floyd rather well I thought. 😉
The Musical Box....
Peter Gabriel era Genesis tribute band from Canada.. seriously good musicians using period instruments.Class act.
I have seen Limehouse Lizzy a few times and they never fail to entertain. The fact the singer looks like Phil Lynott has been pumping iron since his death and is from Bolton is beside the point!
saw them in the Continental in Preston which was brilliant. A small intimate venue, was very amusing when they went off prior to the encore and the band were huddled together behind a curtain as if they were playing hide n seek.
I love this line from When the Evening Sun Goes Down (Half Man Half Biscuit):-
“I’m off to see the Bootleg Beatles,
As the Bootleg Mark Chapman”.
