Tribute band article in Music Connection

[RacerX]

1st page of article:

http://www.musicconnection.com/curre.../feature2.lcgi

featuring my friends in Iron Maidens and Led Zepagain!

[Evol]

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I've heard the Iron Maidens rehearse,they are quite good!

[zeegler]

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Why does Jimmy Page look Chinese?

[Chuckracer]

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Tribute Bands...Cover Bands...well, I guess if musicians are able to play and make a dime with their instrument, that's great. I just don't know how you can handle "being" somebody else musically that intensly.

Personally, I can only hope and pray that people will someday get back to being original. Writing and performing. I wish audiences would come back to wanting to hear original music. My utopian dream.

[horns666]

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"Tribute Bands...Cover Bands...well, I guess if musicians are able to play and make a dime with their instrument, that's great. I just don't know how you can handle "being" somebody else musically that intensly."

Chuck you are Sooooo correct man...the Van Halen thing was very fun for a while...and then ...well it just sucked for me...I hated going up their being a human jukebox...playin'.."jump" every friggin' weekend..

my heart was NOT in it..it became "work" and I hate "work"..

The money was extremely good though fortunately..that was nice.

[thurston]

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It's the only way to make any money playing music in boise.

That's why I ended up with a "real" job.

[lerxstcat]

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It's a situation that seemed to develop at a time when original metal was at a low point and you couldn't get a gig playing your own original metal here in the States. Say you admire a band to the point you do their stuff perfectly. You'd rather do a tribute to them than not play at all, or play grunge or nu-metal just to play out.

Also some of these musicians have something of the actor in them too. Nothing wrong with that. Of course I'd rather see a new vibrant metal scene, and I was not a big fan of tribute bands at first, but The Iron Maidens for example do a great job at what they do. It's entertaining in its own right.

[Fragle]

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The money was extremely good though fortunately..that was nice.

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just out of curiosity: how much did you get per gig?

[Chameleonfong]

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Ron,
Have you fix your computer or are you still using the library's?

Fong

[Tetsuo]

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Tribute Bands...Cover Bands...well, I guess if musicians are able to play and make a dime with their instrument, that's great. I just don't know how you can handle "being" somebody else musically that intensly.

Personally, I can only hope and pray that people will someday get back to being original. Writing and performing. I wish audiences would come back to wanting to hear original music. My utopian dream.

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+1

[micha]

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hey ron!
is one of those girls on your avatar the bass player of the maidens?
got that feel, that I somehow know her...

[horns666]

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"just out of curiosity: how much did you get per gig? "

600-1200 bucks a night , plus free drinks , sometimes , food , lodging , and a tip most of the time if we make a lot of people party and drink.....oh, and puss [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

split four ways...not too shabby!

but it got to be "work" after a while..