I tend to be ambivalent when it comes to tribute bands.
One part of me says, yeah it's OK for a band to act out another band, especially if a band from long ago is no longer around and the tribute performance gives the audience a sense of what a gig would have been like by the original band.
A bit of entertainment for the curious and a bit of fun for the tribute band.
The other part of me says, what a waste of good musicianship. If they became their own band and composed their own tunes, they could be contributing original material to the development of music rather than just replicating music from bygone days.
Why choose to try to be somebody else when you could be presenting yourselves?
We'll never know anything about the tribute musicians musically, because they didn't allow themselves to be themselves.
They are also not "on par" with the bands they copy because the original bands were the ones with their own authentic music "ideas", not the tribute band.
A tribute band may manage to perfect note for note accuracy but the same band of musicians remain creatively blank in comparison to the original band.
I certainly wouldn't want to start an archive collection of tribute band gig tickets..!!
GG
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