| Subject: Re: Cover Bands Invade Bonnaroo!!!!!!! |
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Bonnaroo Bob
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Date Posted: 15:07:26 05/23/03 Fri
In reply to:
Vic
's message, "Cover Bands Invade Bonnaroo!!!!!!!" on 10:54:42 05/22/03 Thu
>Checked Pollstar once again and noticed 4 bands listed
>that are not on the schedule. So I checked the bands
>web sites and this is what I found:
>
>Friday Night
>Stickey Fingers (rolling stones cover band)
>The Soft Parade (doors cover band)
>
>Saturday Night
>Mr Brownstone (Guns N Roses cover band)
>The Machine (pink floyd cover band)
>
>Sunday
>Zosa (led zepplin cover band)
>
>If you would like to check things out for your self
>the addy's are:
>www.stickyfingerslive.com
>www.thesoftparade.com
>www.mr-brownstone.net
>www.themachine.com
>
>I cant believe out of all the musical choices at their
>disposal they have resorted to booking cover bands for
>bonnaroo. I mean why couldnt they have had yonder
>mountain play a late night set too or anyone else for
>that matter, I would much rather have two
>oppurtunities to see a band that weekend with so many
>other conflicts in the schedule. Might as well gotten
>DSO instead of the Dead and shoulda booked Phix
>too...oh well.
....And the funny part is, a lot of people will just hear the familiar licks of those bands ringing out across the campground and come running as a result. I guarantee you that in the mind-bending rush of music that will assault concertgoers all weekend, the cover bands will get a good reception. And the reason I say that is because I've noticed that a lot of people only remember memorable Phish, Widespead Panic and String Cheese shows by the COVER SONGS they played rather then by the extensive selections of originals they also might have pulled off. I guess there's no good way to purge the sounds of old, comfortable and familiar bands from people's memory banks, and so, as a result, cover bands thrive. Personally, I LOVE hearing a good, obscure cover tune done justice by a band that I admire (ie, Phish doing "Loving Cup", "Emotional Rescue", "A Day in the Life", etc.), but I also like to hear their originals as well, so maybe having all those cover bands there will allow some of the "bigger" bands to focus more on their original material. Of course, Les Claypool doing Jethro Tull's "Locomotive Breath" was one of my own personal highlights last year, so I guess I'm just talking sh*t. Either way, though, I think Bonnaroo is gonna be the biggest thing to hit this summer, just like it was last year....
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