Beatles Tribute Bands

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:57 pm

And now for the....
World's Youngest Beatles Tribute Band!

http://www.stockwoodrocks.com/

I just wish somebody would buy little Johnny a 325. But check out the videos... what a crackup!

winston · Post by **winston** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 8:16 pm

Kent,

Thanks for starting this thread. This is great fun.

bosifis · Post by **bosifis** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:24 pm

Great, I've been playing guitar and bass longer than these kids have been alive and they kick my a$$. To quote Moe from The Simpsons- "Well, it looks like it's suicide AGAIN for me"!!! I guess I'll have to move to rap!......Wait.......

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:39 pm

Rap?... Oh no, dont do it! I had a bit of that feeling when I saw that kid doing Roll Over Beethoven. If these kids stick with it they will be very good one day soon.

Bu dang... whats with the 330 instead of a 325? If ANYONE should use a 325 (or a 350 if he wants to cheat a bit) you'd think that it would be little Johnny.

(Brian... I agree, it's interesting to see these tribute bands. There's a ton of them)

shamustwin · Post by **shamustwin** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:26 am

That Hofner looks huge on him!

petevent · Post by **petevent** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:45 am

The one kid has a VOX AC-30! Shoot me NOW! LOL

rumbush · Post by **rumbush** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:33 am

It's an Epiphone Viola bass I think.

What a riot.

kog · Post by **kog** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 3:58 pm

It's....just....not....fair....

But will they still have all that hair when THEY'RE! HA!

lennonon · Post by **lennonon** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:39 pm

Just got back from seeing Beatlemania Now. Big disappointment. John's voice is week and pinched and he spends way too much time trying to get the audience to participate while giving little Beatles history lessons. Not that EVERY live act doesn't strive for involvement, but it's SO un-Lennonesqe that it instantly blows the illusion.

They have obviously invested a tremendous amount in the act - all the instruments are the real thing, the Hofner looks vintage. Vox backline.

The Paul guy is NOT Ricky Vacca (a FANTASTIC Paul) , as advertised on their website and on all ads for this show, but he was a lefty and passable.

Main problem was an absolute sluggishness of tempo. The songs crawled along. Absolutely no bite in anything. I guess when you have a Lennon this week, you can have every other piece and it still can't quite come off.

Good George, guitar-wise, singing voice sounded like John on the Decca audition tapes. Solos were note for note, though and impressively executed.

This may have been an off night, but it lacked just about everything that made The Beatles so great. You really appreciate them when you hear their music painstakingly reproduced and their image replicated and the effect is so underwhelming.

Paul wore his bass way too low AND.... AND- get this for the weirdest one EVER. - He played lefty, left handed instruments, but they were strung UPSIDE down as if for a right-handed player. So his Low E was at the bottom of the fretboard.

Anyone ever see this before. Bizarro. Nice night w/the Missus in the park, but now I NEED to see a solid tribute band...

ANYROAD...

brammy · Post by **brammy** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:14 pm

Beatlemania Now....
http://www.beatlemanianow.com

................................................................................................what's up with the Fender strap?

iamthebassman · Post by **iamthebassman** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:52 am

"AND- get this for the weirdest one EVER. - He played lefty, left handed instruments, but they were strung UPSIDE down as if for a right-handed player. So his Low E was at the bottom of the fretboard. Anyone ever see this before. "

Nope, never.

rumbush · Post by **rumbush** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:12 am

"...but now I NEED to see a solid tribute band... "

I've seen The Fab Four a number of times and have been solidly impressed with them each and every time. They're very good, especially the chap who does the Paul part, as someone else here noted.

icabod · Post by **icabod** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 4:51 am

I've mixed the Fab Four several times, as recently as April and I have them again in Sept., good band and Mark who plays Paul, plays him well and he is also a Brit. so the accent works. He also uses a Galien Kruger brain for his bass and me thinks a NCM reissue bass cab.

lennonon · Post by **lennonon** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 5:35 am

Funny Mr. Roberts..

So I assume this is a more common oddity than I initially presumed...

I'll try and check out The Fab Four...

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:24 am

There are two 'tribute' bands I'd really like to see: The Eggmen and Dweezil Zappa's unit. The Eggmen aren't 'trying to be The Beatles' and Dweezil's not 'trying to be Frank'. To me, it's far more impressive to think "listen to those guys who aren't The Beatles sound just like them" than it is to split hairs about stances, guitar straps and between-song banter. Who gives a damn? It's not 1964 and it ain't ever gonna be again...and anyone who misses 1964 that badly wasn't paying much attention to the state of the world back then.

For the record, Ronn, when I see pix of you playing with The Eggmen, I don't find myself thinking "That's guy's a FANTASTIC Paul" or "That guy's NOT A FANTASTIC Paul"...instead, I think to myself: "That guy's a FANTASTIC Ronn Roberts"...

Great music from any era deserves to be performed again and again, even if it's been a thousand years since it was written, and a certain amount of getting into the millieu in which it was composed is okay, too...but this 'solid tribute band' stuff is right up there with people who imitate Klingons, RenFair types, guys who like to become the 7th Cavalry and shout orders at each other on weekends, losers who dress up like 'lurps' and play paintball...and long-haired Caucasians who pretend to be the Hebrew philosopher Yeshua ben Yoshua once a year at the big 'pageant'...

'Do what you wanna do, but be who you are...'