'The art of the tribute band involves creating as perfect as possible a representation of the tributed act. Many tribute bands go to great lengths to achieve this, both musically and visually. In some cases this involves seeking out vintage guitars, amplifiers and electronic effects, or having them specially built in order to capture the ‘authentic’ sound of the tributed act. Moreover, in many cases individual members of tribute bands attempt to emulate as closely as possible the image and persona of the musician they are portraying, learning to be him or her via repeated listening to live albums and/or viewings of film and documentary footage of the tributed act.
'The success of the tribute band in achieving this aim is of course also highly dependent upon the willingness of the audience to buy into and go along with the ‘trick of illusion’ that the tribute band attempts to stage. The issue of audience reception also needs to be set in context. According to a leading exponent of postmodernist social theory, Jean Baudrillard, a centrally defining characteristic of the postmodern era is the dominance of simulacra. Everything, from works of art to significant historical sites and aspects of national culture is now experienced at the everyday level as a series of simulations. Tribute bands have assumed their place in a world where the replication and reproduction of objects and images is increasingly taken for granted and largely perceived as ‘normal’.
'Already used to treating recorded sounds and mediated images as the primary text, from the point of view of the audience it could be argued that tribute bands are merely another medium for the enjoyment of their favourite music. The audience realizes that the tribute is not the ‘real thing’, but this is not the point. For decades, records, tapes and videos have had to stand in for the original. Tribute bands follow this pattern of standing in for the original, but with the added novelty of the flesh and blood dimension which they bring to the reproduction of the music. ' -- Andy Bennett, 'Even better than the real thing? Understanding the tribute band phenomenon'
Nearvana 'Medley'
ZOSO 'Kashmir'
Mr. Crowley 'Medley'
The Smiths Indeed 'This Charming Man'
Green Plastic 'Paranoid Android'
Ovueen 'Somebody to Love'
Sex Pistols Experience 'Pretty Vacant'
Fascination Street 'Just Like Heaven'
Mortallica 'Master of Puppets'
Too Rex 'Jeepster'
Bitchfits 'Die die my Darling'
Absolute Bowie 'Ziggy Stardust'
Fleetwood Bac 'Go Your Own Way'
Feuerengel 'excerpt'
Guns N' Roses Real Tribute Band 'medley'
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p.s. Hey. Happy Valentines Day to its willing participants. So, the deadline for Joy Division Day contributions is your bedtime tonight, and please send in something if you haven't and if you're so inclined. Thanks a lot! ** Empty Frame, Hey, man. Oh, it is that John Hawkes. Well, I guess my favorites of the ones I've read are 'The Blood Oranges', 'Death, Sleep, and the Traveler', and 'The Lime Twig'. Oh, yeah, 'Invisible Man' is crazy great. Cool. Hope your weekend panned out beautifully. ** David Ehrenstein, Hey. Oh, I guess they meant the French-speaking Araki, and the comparison is probably loose. I'll try to see 'Heartbeats" if I can. Terrific post on the Losey film. Everyone, over on his FaBlog, David E. makes the case for eternity on behalf of 'The Big Night', Joseph Losey's underknown remake of Fritz Lang's 'M', and you would do well to head right over there and read/watch. ** Bernard Welt, Well, yeah, totally, on the US news re: Egypt. Shocking if predictable. Nope, haven't heard or seen a peep from Lautreamont, not even on Facebook unless I'm missing something. Judy Davis is just insanely good in that Judy Garland movie. ** Thomas Moronic, Hi, T. Next Saturday, wonderful. Count me in. Where are you staying? Yeah, the 'Dark Stars Rising' book is real good. Shade spent at least ten years putting that together. Real labor of love rewarded. ** Pilgarlic, Oh, Sherman, fire, right, of course. Wow, my memory might be playing tricks on me, but I think during one of visits to Atlanta years ago, a friend pointed out Vaseline Alley to me, and I might even have a fuzzy mental picture of your abode's facade somewhere in my banks. I was happy to see people giving you advice about the generics, and of course I hope your doctor can help you out big time. I would imagine on 'Cops: In Russia' they leave out the parts where the cops take whoever they want out to some remote spot and execute them, and their friends and relatives don't make a fuss because ... well, for the obvious reason. ** David, Interesting about the film's Americanness. I hadn't thought about that, and yeah. ** Postitbreakup, Hey. Hopefully, we're beyond the visa crisis and injustice phase now, but I have no idea. Thanks for the petition idea. Honestly, the last thing in world I want to do is get my life caught up in the kind of media coverage, etc. it would take to make something like that work. I don't know, right now I'm just holding out hope that he'll get the visa, and that all of the years of crap will be over. If he doesn't get it, then we'll see. Thanks a lot for the thoughts and help to Pilgarlic. ** Dan Callahan aka Keith, Tell Keith his avatar made me happy. Yes, please link us up to Xavier Dolan piece on THND. Actually, I should ... Everyone, are you familiar with The House Next Door, a wildly good and very addictive culture blog to which our pal d.l. Dan Callahan is a contributor? If not, you really should visit and explore it. It's really something, and it's here. ** Steevee, I hope 'LBS' gets a French release and even an earlier than summer one. I've never seen Allen's films as proposing an objective realism. They seem like the dreams and fantasies of an auteur. I don't see titling his film 'Manhattan' as necessitating an accurate portrait of Manhattan at that point in time any more than, oh, X's 'Los Angeles' is problematic because it's not an accurate LA in the mid-70s or, oh, 'The Last Days of Disco' is problematic because it only addresses the end phase of disco for a particular set of New Yorkers. ** Alan, Yeah, completely, about the Ashbery translation. His trans of Roussell and Reverdy, et. al, have been just splendid. Well, I was using the technical meaning of revolution, or one of them: 'the overthrow of a government by those who are governed'. As far as the long term outcome, no doubt you're right, but I just mean the intentions and actions and the immediate results of the people deserve credit. ** Matt/ Nicole, Will do on 'Tron'. Interesting parallel there with 'EtV, huh. Cool. Ha ha, yeah, wow, on that link/video. Very nice. Everyone, courtesy of Matt, and vis a vis video game space, and for your delectation on Valentines Day, check out 'Best sex menu/bed in second life' here. ** Amccartney, Hi, Alistair! Yeah, we've decided to try again. Yury's in the strongest position he's ever been in by far, and it would probably be a slam dunk if not for the three denials, and, as you know, I guess it's going to be all about what interviewer/ decider he gets, and the outcome will be dependent on his or her mood and prejudices and sense of empathy, etc. There's not much we can do at this point apart from dotting all the required i's and hoping against hope. Your good wishes are very mightily appreciated, man. Lots of love to you, and I hope that neck gives you a break. ** Daveyhoule, Hi, Davey! Thank you again so much, man. It went great! 'Vicki Christina Barcelona' is one of my favorite Woody Allen films too. I guess my other faves might be 'Manhattan', 'Zelig', 'Broadway Danny Rose', 'Deconstructing Harry', 'Crimes and Misdemeanors', and 'Hannah and Her Sisters'. The word over here is that the new one, 'Midnight in Paris' is a real gem, but we'll see. ** Sypha, Oh, that's interesting and makes sense about your fondness for the thin line between ridiculousness and seriousness. Makes sense. ** Bollo, The General Idea show is really energized and wacked and beautiful. I wish you could see it. I'd imagine the catalog is pretty good. Their work is very reproduction-friendly, obviously. HVD right back at you. ** Kiddiepunk, Hi, M. What's going on down there? I just noticed last night that someone here has a locked airport signal entitled 'RecolletsInternetSucks', ha ha. You good? Let's talk and etc. and everything. ** _Black_Acrylic, Thanks, Ben, re: the visa thing. Come Thursday, I'll let you know. I hope the YnY guys feel the magic of your 'Trash Humpers' idea. Sure seems like they would. ** Misanthrope, Hey. Well, yeah, his lack of range makes the minimalism. I like that. It's all taste, like you said. Man, there are lots of really good movies being made now. France alone has a ton of amazing active filmmakers. The problem, as you pointed out, is in their limited distribution and the consequent lack of much media coverage, which means people have a really hard time finding them. ** Chris Cochrane, Hey. Yeah, the Paris 'Them' stuff is exciting. Yeah, I know you think we should do Utrecht, and you know I don't but will if that's the decision. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hey. Oh, is Bieber a Youtube kid gone viral phenomenon? That makes it a little more interesting. Just a teeny weeny bit, mind you. I think 'Born This Way' is a tired, completely unexciting, Madonna-infused, standard fare rehash. I'm kind of shocked by how weak and conservative and overly familiar sounding it is after all of that fuss. It's not even ridiculous fun, it's just so usual sounding and blah. Most of the characters in 'Epic Mickey' are really old, pre-me, from like the '30s and '40s. But, so far, Goofy and Daisy are there, and they've been dismembered, and their heads are being kept alive by a machine, and Mickey has to find their body parts and put them back together. It's dark for Disney product, and it gets more and more interesting. 'Damp concrete is alway unpleasant': nice! Oh, that's cool about your friend's shirt's compliment. Hm, I think I'm going to avoid 'Let Me In'. It doesn't sound like it's worth it. Loved your 'love' dialogue, and, yeah, I'm glad she wasn't driving that day. Effusive love and driving are a dangerous combination. I saw a few bits of the Grammys this morning. The Gaga and a few other bits. I guess the surprise about the Arcade Fire win is good 'cos surprises are good, and Eminem's acceptance speeches are always so boring. 30 hours awake? I'd be dead. Hope you crashed. My weekend: I didn't get out much. In fact, I even forgot to go out and buy food for the weekend, and so I had basically nothing to eat last night unless stale tortillas and a few pieces of cheese count. I played a bunch of 'Epic MIckey' I just last night helped some pirates from 'Pinocchio' escape from jail and then ran around a seaside pirate port fighting things and doing tasks in order to open the way to an area where I think I have to fight Captain Hook who has been turned into a super robot pirate by some machine or other. I did visa related stuff. I was going to buy the plane tickets, but I'm so irritated that I have to buy them that I procrastinated until today when I will have to buy them. A lot of theater stuff happened that required a bunch of emailing and phone calls: 'Them' might get a great Paris gig. Gisele's and my big upcoming maze piece 'Last Spring' might be exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, which would be just amazing 'cos it would be in the museum and on display/usable for months, and it would be a really prestigious and all that. But it's not a done deal yet. I really needed to get my haircut, but Yury was too busy to do it. He was also too busy to see 'Black Swan', so I don't know when I'll see that, if I do. As I'd suspected, 'The Marbled Swarm' is going to be really tough to translate, and my French publisher has already had two big translators read it then decide it's too difficult for them. Yikes. The laundry room is still closed, and I'll ask them about that and about the internet situation today. Gosh, I don't know. It was a busy weekend, but most of it was spent in one chair or another. I'll stop there and wait for your Valentines Day report, and thank you in advance. ** Dusty rose, Hey. Well, very few people get to write for a living, if that makes you feel better. I don't quite make a living from it. Sometimes it's okay, and sometimes I'm a stressed out broke person. Yeah, I like 'Epic Mickey' I recommend it as long you like that kind of adventure game format and don't hate classic era Disney animation. ** We're there, it seems. One more please on the Joy Division Day thing. I think the post today probably speaks for itself, no? Okay, I have a day ahead of theater rehearsals and visa worrying and related task-doing. What about you? Catch up with you tomorrow.
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