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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
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I rather like Jah Division, but it's not exactly the cliche of a "tribute band" when you have someone who actually does something new. Plus their a really decent dub group.
I saw Hells Belles, the all girl AC/DC band when they were fairly new, and I must admit it actually rocked. Having a black woman singing Bon's vocals made perfect sense actually, and they only did his material, and rocked really hard. I'd imagine seeing them was 50 times better than seeing the bloat posing as AC/DC in the arenas would be, though I'd also imagine that as they're still doing this tribute that they are probably starting to get as boring and burned out as the bald Ausies they are emulating too.
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Originally Posted by Heckler Spray
Nobody found a Sonic Youth tribute band. It's too difficult to reproduce their music, I think. They 're too special. They are unique. They are priceless.
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I don't think it would be
too difficult for somebody to do carbon copy covers of Sonic Youth songs, though you are right that it certainly is a lot harder to get all the tunings right than to ape a standar rock group. Hopefully anyone who was smart enough to figure all that out would also be smart enough to realize that creating their own music would be more rewarding. Also, the commercial appeal for a Sonic Youth tribute band seems less than minimal. I'm sure we'd all be quite against it, and we're some of the few people who buy the original. So no, not priceless, just low profit, which is probably a good thing.
Still, Sonic Youth were pretty much the house band for every tribute album to come out from the '80s on starting with Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father on, so it may be inevitable that somebody thinks it's perfectly natural to tributize them sooner or later. They only just had their first tribute album, Confuse Your Idols, a couple years ago, and that's probably the first step on the road.