Tribute Bands
This is Tribute Bandland
Includes 3 videos — TRIBUTE BANDS, MINIKISS and A PRAYER FOR THE KING: THAI ELVIS — 2 feature articles — THIS IS TRIBUTE BAND LAND and ORIGINAL BANDS: GO BIG TODAY FOR TOMORROW’S TRIBUTE BANDS — and a blog/interview — IRON MAIDENS: SYMPATHY OR THE DEVIL
Tribute Bands
Tribute bands rock. Led Zepplica had me bursting into song which I’m guessing goes on a lot because tribute bands are pretty much everywhere these days. When artists you love fade away they leave sucking voids. Voids tribute bands fill like phantom limbs that are actually real…
Minikiss
Like any tribute band worth its artificial blood, MiniKiss rocks, proving that with rock, as with so many other things, size just doesn’t matter. Nor, it turns out, does actually playing your instruments, because MiniKiss doesn’t actually play its instruments…
A Prayer to the King: Thai Elvis
There are tribute artists, and then there are Tribute Artists, and then there’s Kavee Thongprecha, also known as Kevin, also known as Thai Elvis: A Prayer to the King…
Original Bands of Today: Go Big for Tribute Bands of Tomorrow
Dear Original Bands of Today,
Get your buck cherry, sequin-skinned freak on. Wear sex clown make-up and ass-less pants (unless you’re, like, Motorhead, then DO NOT wear ass-less pants). Play rococo leads on multi-neck guitars (throwing in one — and only one — gratuitous mandolin riff to show you know what the little neck is for). If you’re white, do awkward split jumps and windmill guitar strums (black people aren’t awkward enough for these). And excrete fluids. How and what fluids you excrete is your business. But just go mental on fluid excretion… Give tribute bands of tomorrow something to work with today. (Read More)
