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Re: Birthday Wishes
« Reply #75 on: September 23, 2010, 10:22:09 pm »
I saw The Machine, a Floyd cover band a few weeks back, but they could never compare to The Musical Box, the only licensed Genesis cover group who recreate original shows to the T.

But The Machine show was annoying because I ended up having to carry my friend out of there.  Fuckin' idiot, I hate that shit.  It was at Brooklyn Bowl which is like the coolest concept ever.  They have some pretty decent shows there and Questlove is the house DJ.
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Re: Birthday Wishes
« Reply #76 on: September 23, 2010, 10:41:25 pm »
I have never actually attended a show of a full-on only-one-band cover band before, actually.

But at one of the more humiliating jobs I had, the nebbishy trainer's weekend gig was as the bassist in a Floyd cover band called "Crazy Diamond" and this is a detail that has always stuck with me.

The idea of a dude getting through his horrible job as a trainer at a T-Mobile call centre by looking forward to the weekend when he can play bass in a cover band in dive bars in, like, Rome or Syracuse... it just stuck with me.
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Re: Birthday Wishes
« Reply #77 on: September 23, 2010, 11:01:46 pm »
Quote from: *****_god on September 23, 2010, 10:22:09 pm
(T)hey could never compare to The Musical Box, the only licensed Genesis cover group who recreate original shows to the T.

Is that the one that Peter Gabriel took his kid to see? The one where he told the kid "that's what Dad used to do"?
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Re: Birthday Wishes
« Reply #78 on: September 23, 2010, 11:22:48 pm »
Probably the most famous tribute band would be that one that not only does songs only by Grateful Dead, but recreates their most famous shows note for note.  Rusty Weir and a couple of the other dead guys actually hired the guitar player for their new group.
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Re: Birthday Wishes
« Reply #79 on: September 24, 2010, 01:43:21 am »
Quote from: *****_god on September 23, 2010, 10:22:09 pm
I saw The Machine, a Floyd cover band a few weeks back

Good christ, they're still together?  I saw them in college.

(Not what I'd normally go see, but it was a free show on the quad, so what the hell.  I'm pretty sure we were all drunk.)
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