Posted on 12/27/2022 6:27:56 AM PST by DoodleBob
IN THE LAST few years, CJ Strock, a talent agent who worked with the later incarnation of the Allman Brothers Band, faced an unusual dilemma. As seen in catalog and merch sales, a market still existed for the Allmans, their quintessentially Southern rock & roll, and their improvisational live shows, but the band itself didn’t exist: They formally gave their last performances in 2014, and Gregg Allman died of liver cancer three years later.
With an eye toward introducing new fans to the band, Strock had an idea — essentially a new Allmans... Thus was born “The Allman Brothers Band Presents Trouble No More” — as it’s billed on concert tickets and posters — a multiracial, eight-piece ensemble that plays the band’s repertoire but, thanks to the approval of the Allman Brothers estate, isn’t just a tribute band...
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Age, death, and retirement have taken their tolls in classic rock, leaving many heritage groups — the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Eagles, the Temptations, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steely Dan and ska legends the Skatalites among them — with only one or two founders in their lineups. In many of those cases, the audiences are still there, eager to hear the hits and see a legendary band onstage no matter who’s in the lineup: The Stones, Eagles, and Dead & Co. were in the top five grossing tours of 2021, pulling in a combined $225 million.
Johnny Van Zant, who took over the frontman role in Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1987, 10 years after the death of his older brother Ronnie, has witnessed that devotion firsthand. He says he’s watched fans bring the ashes of their loved ones to the front barriers near the lip of the stage at their shows.
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Best tribute band I ever saw was an all female AC/DC group called Thunderstruck. They all dressed like the band and they flat out brought it. They were on right before Skynyrd. That was 15 years ago.
Our local county fair that same year had Foreigner. Without Gramm, they sucked.
That’s pretty much all these bands... (really any band really)...
Studies show most artist have a peak creativity/shelf life of about 7 years...
Some, like Billy Joel, for instance become self aware, and stop making new music, but still perform.
Others continue to try to keep releasing albums to ever decreasing sales...
And a Few, a very very few, actually find ways to keep making music that connects with an audience for decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iPJqVVGxx8
This year I saw The Zappa Band, comprised chiefly of Zappa tour alumni. THAT was awesome, but then Zappa music isn't played by random cover bands. It's either that band, Dweezil's band, or my album collection.
And make the mistake of playing those songs at concerts when people just want to hear their hits.
Some Girls had at least 3 or 4 solid songs.
I’d be curious to know how many people attending a Rolling Stones, Who, or Allman Brothers concert in the last 20 years was seeing the band for the first time.
What is sad is being in your 50s, and still being the youngest person at a concert.
Funny to think a band like Metallica which used to be a band for rebellious teenagers is now a band for rich grandfathers.
Quite literally, eyes rolling.
LOL. Exactly.
Some suggest they were dead after Keith Moon died.
**Well, there’s the Abba model of not using real people and playing recordings over the speakers.**
Things that were powered by IC engines is what interested me. Went to one live rock concert in 74. Failed to get the bug. Continued enjoy listening to the radio for music, while working or driving my car.
Lo and behold, in 77 I met my wife, who thought the same way: we didn’t like crowds, didn’t have celebrity worship virus, and also saw most musicians and entertainers as drug addicts or commies or both.
Much of the british invasion was fantasy world: pinball wizard? Yellow submarine?
There is a hillarious video on YouTube called “Dad Band” with Jerry Cantrell of Alice In Chains.
That timeframe of 7 years overlaps with the high school/college years of the core of their fans.
‘Some Girls had at least 3 or 4 solid songs.’
Yep, ‘Some Girls’ was a really fine album. Some of the songs on ‘Tattoo You’ had been sitting in the vault, but it was a good album. ‘Start Me Up’ from ‘Tattoo’ was maybe the Stones last great song.
The Stones still put on a good show, they don’t lip synch, they write most of their own songs, they play in the studio, and play live onstage. It’s only rock and roll, but you can tell they still like it.
Biggest disappointment is I had tickets to see Led Zep and John Bonham decided to vomit himself to death.
Bonham's death was the death of Zep.
Yeah, not quite the same after Moon’s death, but I still like some of their post-Moon songs, such as “Eminence Front”.
Some still perform quite well, Sting comes to mind, he was great in concert last year. I still enjoy the Doobies, their 50th tour last year was good. Same for Steve Miller, Jackson Browne. I'd go see the Marshall Tucker Band if they appeared locally. Others I'd see if local, Grand Funk Railroad featuring Dave Mason and Foghat , Randy Bachman, America, Daryl Hall’s “BeforeAfter Tour” featuring Todd Rundgren and John Oates. I've seen Elton and I think he's over the hill now, Springsteen and Roger Waters still tour but I'd never buy a ticket. I'd go to an Eagles show as well.
Some Girls and Tattoo You were IMHO both excellent. As was 2016’s album of old blues songs, Blue & Lonesome.
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