Jan 112010
So Electric Stevie Land is the Townspeople’s choice.
I will present this to the band as “my” pick and I’ll report back.
In the meantime, let’s have some fun with Guess the Cover Band’s Object of Affection by Their Name Game.
I have one example and one band (fictitious, of course) and then two to guess…I’m sure Townspeople can come up with better ones.
Space Monkey Mafia – Billy Joel Tribute Band (from “We Didn’t Start the Fire”)
Caviar Four Star Daydream – ?
Testimonial Pictures – ?
Can you identify the real bands being held in tribute? What real or fictional tribute band name have you got?
Testimonial Pictures is giving me a Rush tribute band vibe. Am I right?
Testimonial Pictures is a late era Beatle/early Wings tribute doing only McCartney “story songs”. (ie Rocky Racoon, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Lovely Rita, Uncle Albert etc.
Caviar 4 star daydream is a Floyd tribute band that just covers Dark Side of the Moon with different classic hollywood movies projected onto them (Wiz of Oz, Casablanca, Aliens etc)
I was in a band called Prince Duran one time. We never played out. we were awful. We were, Jamie Mahon of 3,4,10s on bass, me on guitar, Dane Wilson of Sugar Skulls on drums and Barry Ollie Sharp on lead vocals. We only covered Prince and Duran x2. We were wretched. It was a drinking band.
oops i forgot to pay it forward. guess the following:
Heaven & Richard Hell
Tangerine Dream Police
Styx and Stones
Everything But The Girls Vs. Boy George Michael Jackson Browne Sugar
But wait Electric Stevie Land was the one I suggested, but I said NOT to use. Oh well, the People have spoken. Story of my life….
My imaginary tribute bands:
Cathode Ray
Do You Remember?
Tiny Steps
Aerie
Wynged Bypeds
Cathode Ray = Television
Wynged Bypeds = Byrds
Aerie = Budgie (!)
My tribute band names:
The Chimps (actually used by Mockcarr and me on a long-ago and oh-so-faraway EP)
Angle (or, alternatively, Jute)
Aerie – Budgie is incorrect.
I assume The Chimps is the Monkees.
Angle or Jute is intriguing. Saxon?
Is Caviar Four Star Daydream – Sonic Youth?
I’m guessing Tiny Steps is a Little Feat tribute band rather than an Elvis Costello tribute band that specializes in material collected on Taking Liberties.
My tribute band is MDMA.
Close, Mod. Tiny Steps plays only Costello songs but in the style of Little Feat.
I’m very impressed you got both references.
“in the style of Little Feat.”
just threw up a little.
I hope “Styx and Stones” only plays Paradise Theatre and Tattoo You (records I bought the same day as a young lad..5th grade?)
I had a band called Rollinmachine…(of course) Seeds, Yardbirds,Blues Breakers, Bo Didley , Nuggets stuff (all cover songs). Great band, but our singer/guitarist (my brother) decided to try his 2nd stint in Memphis and the band broke up.
Big Tears of a Clown
Pinball Wizzard
Ray’s The Dead
Birthday Party Cheesecake
My bands, previously mentioned here on RTH are:
Hummer of Mahwah
Dionysus Warwick
As for the Jimi tribute band, I hope they are ready to learn some “new” songs:
http://www.examiner.com/x-30199-Rock-Music-Examiner~y2010m1d 11-Jimi-Hendrix-album-Valleys-Of-Neptune-slated-for-March-re lease-with-12-previously-unrelease-tracks
My Blank Generation
What’s Birthday Party Cheesecake? A Lady Gaga lookalike doing Nick Cave covers?
It’s a (fictional) band that specializes in REM covers from Document and after, i.e., the albums I don’t listen to.
The phrase in question comes from “It’s the End of the World As We Know It.”
Essentially, my theory is that choosing at random any 3 or 4 consecutive words from the lyrics at random produces the name of a REM cover band. For what that’s worth.
See (or hear) about 2:35 in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmxyj6iInMc
Yes, BigSteve, right on both counts!
Though I’ve received a number of guesses offline, no one was successfully able to nail the details of “Ray’s The Dead”, which is a two man tribute to the “magic, mystery and majesty of the works of Jim Morrison” featuring a keyboard player inhabiting the role of Ray Manzarek and a singer who dresses like the ghost of Jim Morrison. The singer does a few Doors songs between readings of poetry and providing words of guidance and encouragement to his keyboard player.
alexmagic, I thought it was a Kinks tribute band that specialized in 30-minute jams on “The Banana Boat Song.”
You’re confusing them with Danzig In The Streets, the Grateful Dead tribute act that faithfully recreates Dead shows from ’76-89, but whenever the setlist calls for Drums/Space, they play the entire Danzig album instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHv3qO_Y8kk
In tribute to a solo artist: Girl Singing