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07-07-2018, 04:38 PM #76
WTF is this tribute band thing?
This has to be one of the the most yacht rock songs outside cross sailing:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Adw772km7PQ
Steve Winwood- Back in the high life again
Now this is fucking boat music!! - Dennis Reynolds
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07-07-2018, 04:40 PM #77
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07-07-2018, 04:41 PM #78Head down, push foreword
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WTF is this tribute band thing?
Well he was in the last episode. But yea I pretty much agree.
https://youtu.be/vBYMu2bpUyE
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07-07-2018, 04:44 PM #79
WTF is this tribute band thing?
I’m on Fire is definitely on the yacht rock spectrum
Peg, Steely Dan. What a fool believes by the doobies
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07-07-2018, 07:21 PM #80
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07-07-2018, 07:38 PM #81
So I have a theory on this. (Most of) our parents grew up with Jazz, classic country, or early rock-n-roll and listened to that stuff until the Stones, Beatles, et. al changed the pop music world. Most of us still listen to the music of our youth, now called "Classic Rock" - yes even Nirvana and Pearl Jam apply. This resulted in our children being exposed to enough music they can relate to that there is still a demand for bands to perform that music live. The concert calendar around here is replete with old 70's and 80's fuckers still touring despite not having released anything meaningful in 30 years. Regarding OP there are many bands that for one reason or another aren't touring anymore, thus the Tribute Band stuff, like Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, and now it seems Queen.
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07-07-2018, 08:05 PM #82
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07-07-2018, 08:22 PM #83Registered User
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07-07-2018, 08:44 PM #84
Lulz, just what stucky needs
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07-07-2018, 09:12 PM #85
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07-07-2018, 11:25 PM #86
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07-08-2018, 06:01 AM #87
Betcha Springsteen has a nice yacht.
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07-08-2018, 07:39 AM #89
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07-08-2018, 07:50 AM #90Registered User
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I was in Nashville a few months ago and was blown away with how many cover bands were playing. Great, talented musicians, but all covers, and very few originals. I know that's what gets people in off the streets, but man, play 1:1 or something. It was during the week though, maybe weekends are better.
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07-08-2018, 07:59 AM #91
Don't know if this is an outlier, but my brother in law plays in several original music projects around the Boston, MA area. Anyone ever hear of Tim Gearan? The Mother Brothers? He's active in a couple others as well and just entered in to a partnership to run a recording studio there. Most of the folks he plays with are people he's known since is Berklee days.
That said, every other year I see posts that they're playing at (enter club name)'s last night.. Those venues are definitely closing.. not sure if others are opening up to fill the void or not..
Austin, TX usually has a pretty active original music scene.. East end of Long Island as well. That's where most of my original music band gigs were in the late 1980s... My original band was called Zephyrus.Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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07-08-2018, 08:27 AM #92
I guess I’m trying to say that it never took off into mainstream, got a deal with a bigger media production company and possibly TV/Netflix/Amazon deal. The comedians might have been victim of being ahead of their time. Workaholics, which ended up with a few seasons on Comedy Central, started as a similar YouTube series put out by unknown actors.
The term Yacht Rock has transcended the YouTube series.
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07-08-2018, 10:13 AM #93
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07-08-2018, 04:26 PM #94
Sirius XM has a Yacht Rock channel. I listened for a bit to see what it was. 70's and 80's light rock with some occasional Sinatra and Kenny G type music. The DJ drops between the songs are funny. "We play music for people that don't have to work hard"
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07-08-2018, 10:12 PM #95Registered User
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A few mentions of aging rock bands with just 1 or maybe even no original members makes me want to give a shout out to Aerosmith. They haven't done anything in the last 30 years I'm even remotely interested in listening to but they still exist and tour with all 5 original members. If they announced a tour where they'd play a set of nothing but 70s tunes I'd throw down & pay their exorbitant prices to check that out.
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07-09-2018, 04:12 AM #96Registered User
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I think musicians change and they want to play new materials. Some music is timeless and we pay money to hear those timeless music. I hate to see bands skip their hit songs and play new stuff.... there is no rules about their set list. Play the hits and then play whatever you want. Heck if they did a medley of hit songs, that would be alright too.
For example, primus did entire album one set and another set of whatever. That would be great.
So I can see the “tribute” bands attraction. They play the old stuff we want to hear and not the new stuff.
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07-09-2018, 06:47 AM #97
Aerosmith played an impromptu free street show in Boston in front of an apartment building they used to live in, 11/5/2012. They sounded great, like really good, I was surprised.
The set list:
Walkin’ the Dog (Rufus Thomas cover)
Movin’ Out
Mama Kin
Lover Alot
Back in the Saddle
Sweet Emotion
Mother Popcorn (James Brown cover) (Partly)
Walk This Way
Encore:
Oh Yeah
Train Kept A-Rollin’ (Tiny Bradshaw cover)
Don’t you wish they would tour with that-theme set list?
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07-09-2018, 08:06 AM #98Funky But Chic
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WTF is this tribute band thing?
Yeah that's a nice set.
It's a miracle those guys are all still alive, yeah they lost me after Toys In The Attic but I still love those first 3 albums, I hope they keep on truckin
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07-09-2018, 01:31 PM #99
Mike Score, the singer from flock of seagulls lives in Florida, and still plays clubs (possibly a one-man show). And he steadfastly refuses to play I Ran. Since the only reason people would even go to one of his shows is to hear that song, they've been known to "request" it - mostly by yelling it from the audience - which gets old Mike more and more agitated, until he goes into meltdown mode.
I'd almost endure an hour of pretentious synth-pop just to see that.
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07-09-2018, 01:38 PM #100
Does he still have that haircut?
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