Tribute Band Names

Tribute Bands can range anywhere from amusing & entertaining to pretentious & boring. I think a lot of that comes from how seriously the band being paid tribute to took their music & themselves. In some cases, the best part of the act was the name of the band. I just saw that a Tom Petty tribute band was playing at Disney World. They billed themselves as “Petty Theft”. My favorite (& nominee for most succinct) was a ZZ Top tribute; they called themselves “ZZ Not”.
 
Got any favorites? Feel free to make up your own!

I went to HS and a bit of college with larry & gary:
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Cool local guy Mike Geier has a number of ongoing gigs - this time of year he fronts a big show-band Elvis tribute with his band Kingsized.

We get a lot of them through here.

Badfish - tribute to Sublime
Dark Star Orchestra - Tribute to the Grateful Dead
Johnny Cash the Check (self-explanatory, no?)

Shoot, now I'm drawing a blank on any more.  I may be back.

Vince Macek


Cool local guy Mike Geier has a number of ongoing gigs - this time of year he fronts a big show-band Elvis tribute with his band Kingsized.

Does the name indicate the size of the band or is it a reference to a point in Elvis' career?

Björn Again - ABBA

cavandre

Vince Macek


Cool local guy Mike Geier has a number of ongoing gigs - this time of year he fronts a big show-band Elvis tribute with his band Kingsized.

Does the name indicate the size of the band or is it a reference to a point in Elvis' career?

Well, Mike himself is a BIG guy, with a shaved head, and not making any attempt to look like Elvis. And the ensemble is indeed big - horn section, guitars and drums, backup singers, go-go dancers, naturally falling into Vegas-era Elvisness. So, I'd say, combination of all that!

www.lezzeppelin.com

Back in the day there was a reggae style Led Zeppelin tribute band that had an Elvis impersonator for the lead singer... Dread Zeppelin. Don't know if they're still around.

There's also The Iron Maidens, the all female Iron Maiden tribute band.

The Machine - Pink Floyd Tribute band
Lez Zeppelin - All femal Led Zep. tribute band

The cool thing about DSO is not only are they a dead tribute band, they recreate entire dead shows, song for song.  Pretty awesome.

Here in southern WI "Pink Houses" is a popular Mellencamp tribute band.

Brad

"The Beach Boys" - a Chuck Berry tribute band from the '60's who performed Chuck Berry songs that they gave different names.

I've seen 1964, the Beatles tribute band.

Niagara


"The Beach Boys" - a Chuck Berry tribute band from the '60's who performed Chuck Berry songs that they gave different names.

HUH?---im not a Beach Boys fan but---did i miss Chucks original rendition of Help Me Rhonda?

How about---
from the UK Mick Jogger and The Rolling Zones
Night Moves-- a bob Seeger trib. band from Michigan
and my favorite --from NYC- Lobotomy--a Ramones tribute!

tiki

Niagara


"The Beach Boys" - a Chuck Berry tribute band from the '60's who performed Chuck Berry songs that they gave different names.

HUH?---im not a Beach Boys fan but---did i miss Chucks original rendition of Help Me Rhonda?

No, but you apparently missed the Beach Boys recording Chuck's "Sweet Little Sixteen" with new lyrics and calling it "Surfin' USA" and crediting the song to Brian Wilson, Chuck suing them for for plagerism and winning, and the judge ordering the Beach Boys to correct their all future records to show Chuck Berry & Brian Wilson as co-writers of "Surfin' USA".

So one song out of hundreds makes them a tribute band?  Interesting.  I'll have to pass that on to the folks I know in the industry.

felix4067


So one song out of hundreds makes them a tribute band?  Interesting.  I'll have to pass that on to the folks I know in the industry.

Old "industry" joke:
 
Q: Name an early Beach Boys song that copies a Chuck Berry Song
 
A: Name one that doesn't
 
OK, Ok - you got me, Mr. Humourless..."Sail On Sailor" doesn't.

Are you calling me Mr. Humourless?  Also interesting, as I am female.

Having spent the majority of the last 20 years working in the entertainment industry, I can assure you that simply playing music written or previously performed by another does not make anyone a tribute band.  Or even a cover band.  It makes them a band.

You might as well call David Allen Coe a tribute band for Steve Goodman.

Niagara

tiki

Niagara


"The Beach Boys" - a Chuck Berry tribute band from the '60's who performed Chuck Berry songs that they gave different names.

HUH?---im not a Beach Boys fan but---did i miss Chucks original rendition of Help Me Rhonda?

No, but you apparently missed the Beach Boys recording Chuck's "Sweet Little Sixteen" with new lyrics and calling it "Surfin' USA" and crediting the song to Brian Wilson, Chuck suing them for for plagerism and winning, and the judge ordering the Beach Boys to correct their all future records to show Chuck Berry & Brian Wilson as co-writers of "Surfin' USA".

Oh hell---EVERY one that ever wrote a tune stole something from someone---and even if they were sued and lost--it doesnt mean they KNEW they stole it---Heck John Fogety was sued by the company that own his early Credence material because a newer tune--yrs later-sounded like one he wrote in the old days---and everyone in the industry knows ALL his stuff spounds like that--thats what makes him John Fogety. So does that make Fogety a Creadence Tribute band? Jeez--the Beach Boys had a gazillion hits and "Stole" one---big woop--i was not a huge fan of theirs like i said--but Brian Wilson was a rock and roll genius who had PLENTY of folks steal from him too.  And i have met Chuck--and he thinks EVERYONE stole his material!

felix4067


Are you calling me Mr. Humourless?  Also interesting, as I am female.

Having spent the majority of the last 20 years working in the entertainment industry, I can assure you that simply playing music written or previously performed by another does not make anyone a tribute band.  Or even a cover band.  It makes them a band.

You might as well call David Allen Coe a tribute band for Steve Goodman.

Next time I attmpt to make a joke, MS Humourless, I'll put a big note to you at the bottom -
 
NOTE ; THE ABOVE POST MAY CONTAIN AN ATTEMPT AT HUMOUR! PLEASE DO NOT GET YOUR SHORTS (OR PANTIES) IN A WAD!

Oh please.  If I had something in a wad, you'd be the first to know.  You're just entirely too stuck on this whole Beach Boys/Chuck Berry thing for your own good.  This is a thread about tribute bands, but instead you're using it to rant and rave over a 40-some-year old, long-settled legal battle.

It must be an OLD industry joke, as I'd never heard it before.  Like I said, I've only been around 20 years or so...and the Beach Boys/Chuck Berry thing happened in, what...1963?

Looking through YouTube, I just spotted a Shaggs tribute band named My Band Foot Foot. I have officially seen everything now.

For the blissfully ignorant, the Shaggs (ca. 1969) were three sisters put into the recording studio by their father before they learned to play (and possibly hold) their instruments; 'My Pal Foot Foot' being the relative high point of their album.

We had a local Doors tribute band, The Back Doors.

Is Spinal Tap its own tribute band?

Vince Macek


Looking through YouTube, I just spotted a Shaggs tribute band named My Band Foot Foot. I have officially seen everything now.

For the blissfully ignorant, the Shaggs (ca. 1969) were three sisters put into the recording studio by their father before they learned to play (and possibly hold) their instruments; 'My Pal Foot Foot' being the relative high point of their album.

I looked up My Band Foot Foot; they are much more than a tribute band. They are J.C. Sanford, John McNeil, Andrew Green, and a few other avant-garde jazz guys! "Rather than attempt to imitate the Shaggs, My Band Foot Foot has drawn on their original tunes as inspiration and arranged them in a wide variety of musical genres, including jazz, blues, musical theatre, chamber music, rock, gospel, and more."

They are pretty damn good.

Mosca

Vince Macek


Looking through YouTube, I just spotted a Shaggs tribute band named My Band Foot Foot. I have officially seen everything now.

For the blissfully ignorant, the Shaggs (ca. 1969) were three sisters put into the recording studio by their father before they learned to play (and possibly hold) their instruments; 'My Pal Foot Foot' being the relative high point of their album.

I looked up My Band Foot Foot; they are much more than a tribute band. They are J.C. Sanford, John McNeil, Andrew Green, and a few other avant-garde jazz guys! "Rather than attempt to imitate the Shaggs, My Band Foot Foot has drawn on their original tunes as inspiration and arranged them in a wide variety of musical genres, including jazz, blues, musical theatre, chamber music, rock, gospel, and more."

They are pretty damn good.

Interesting! All I saw was a video of them doing a high-octane cover of "It's Halloween" that did show some good musical chops - and using the Shaggs as a point of reference is always okay in my book!

Was Johnny Paycheck a tribute to Johnny Cash?

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