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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The root problem is that current music sucks, and has for a long time, so the public and promoters want to keep groups with members that are now in their 80s touring.
Unstated so far in this thread is that these “legacy bands” achieved their popularity during a time when there was really only one medium that everyone listened to - FM radio.
Nowadays, there are so many different media - YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Facebook. The music scene has become so splintered and so tribal that newer acts cannot build a large enough following to justify arena-sized, much less stadium-sized, concerts.
My son sends me links to songs and concert snippets from bands that seem to have gathered a modest following, and I have never heard of them.
I know, I catch quite few a year. As for "newer" bands, I gravitate more now to the younger jazz bands, like the ones you can find at the annual Saratoga Jazz Festival.
The Rolling Sones are not my favorite rock band. Having said that, i’ve been to more of their concerts than others, and rockin’ enjoyed every show. Hated Keef’s singing, but that’s just part of the show. Could watch and listen to him play a guitar, and any song, all weekend.
Yep, of all the 70s singers, Paul Rodgers is the only one I can think of that still sounds exactly like he did then.
I saw their Steel Wheels tour. Best show I’ve ever been to, although I almost got crushed trying to get to my seat at The Cotton Bowl.
We’re all going to listen, or wish we were. 🤟
Totally agree, seen them live 5 times, all the way back to Excelsior Park, in MN, in ‘64. Always a great show!
They should have the self-respect to simply realize they are done, retire, and move on. I’ve seen some of these bands, geriatrics. I still remember years ago going to a Chieftains concert and watching the performers helped onto the stage by assistances, walkers, and then sat in chairs to perform. Painful even if the music was still good.
Marty Stuart and the Fabulous Superlatives gives a daggum good show in some small venues. Worthy.
“We Are The Old”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfJFoyl-G5g
Well, the ‘no talent greedy’ also steal movie names and comic book characters from the past... why not steal band names?
Our homegrown ‘entertainment’ thugs are democrat sexual weirdos who don’t have a creative bone among ‘em. Same with ‘shock artists’. No talent - low IQ phonies.
But all that stuff with Indian music started in the 60s. The Byrds copied John Coltrane, who copied an Indian melody for “Eight Miles High”.
Hopefully they’ll be playing in Dallas next year
I don’t think the Red Dog Saloon does a live stream. I’ll see if we can get the owner to consider it in the future. 🎸🔊🎤👍🎧
I’ve seen a couple of GREAT cover bands. “Brit Floyd” put on a great show. They had this chick named Olga (who looked like an older slightly chunky Britney Spears), who sang “The great gig in the sky” note for note like the original. And the rest of the show was also very good.
And the other is Leonid and friends. They’re the best Chicago cover band you’ll ever hear. (When I saw them in Vegas a couple of years ago Danny Seraphine came on stage and played a couple of songs with them!)
Here are a couple of examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_torOTK5qc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwYV4H9rU6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDatFQ3m98
I can picture a band like Journey playing live at some state fair 200 years from now.
Freegards
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