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Fake rockers headline Montana fair
Seattle P-I ^ | August 12, 2006 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/13/2006 3:10:53 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper

BUTTE, Mont. -- A band that headlined a fair last weekend is accused of masquerading as the rock group Redbone, whose hits included the 1970s song "Come and Get Your Love."

The band at the Butte-Silver Bow Fair performed under the name Redbone, but the real Redbone was playing in Wisconsin, said Ron Kurtz, Redbone's manager.

"I've been in the business for 40 years, and I've never ran into anything this blatant," Kurtz said Thursday from his office in Burbank, Calif. He said the fair board was conned.

Fair officials said they dealt with a man who identified himself as Denny Freeman and said he was a co-founding member of Redbone.

Pat Vegas, who founded Redbone with his brother, Lolly, in 1968, said he had not heard of Freeman.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: fair; fakebands; fraud; impersonators; music; redbone
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The real Redbone

1 posted on 08/13/2006 3:10:53 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper
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***A band that headlined a fair last weekend is accused of masquerading as the rock group Redbone,***

Nothing really new. Just after WWII a group came into a small NM town and claimed to be from the GRAND OLE OPRY in NASHVILLE. My Mom is from Nashvile and went to the show, it was all impersonators. Not a real Opry member in the group.

I also understand there was several groups going around as THE INK SPOTS.


2 posted on 08/13/2006 3:19:04 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Democrats have never found a fight they couldn't run from...Ann Coulter)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Addendum: This fake Grand ole Opry group even had a fake Minnie Pearl (With that GREAT opery MINNIE PERL!).

Note the difference in the name. My mom noticed and knew something was not right but didn't realize the fraud till this fake minnie Pearl came onto stage.


3 posted on 08/13/2006 3:24:03 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Democrats have never found a fight they couldn't run from...Ann Coulter)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Did they stay at the local Holiday Inn the night before?


4 posted on 08/13/2006 3:28:37 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: BigSkyFreeper

But were they any good?


5 posted on 08/13/2006 3:29:02 AM PDT by Dallas59 (WHAT THE HELL ARE MUSLIMS DOING IN AMERICA???)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
It could have been worse.

They could have been imitating Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods...

6 posted on 08/13/2006 3:29:12 AM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Maybe they got Leon Redbone? That would actually be a better show.


7 posted on 08/13/2006 3:31:01 AM PDT by HAL9000 (Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
BUTTE, Mont. -- A band that headlined a fair last weekend is accused of masquerading as the rock group Redbone, whose hits included the 1970s song "Come and Get Your Love."

Thanks for posting. I was wondering what Ward Churchill's doing these days.

8 posted on 08/13/2006 3:32:50 AM PDT by Lonely Bull
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To: Dallas59
But were they any good?

I don't know if they were or not. There wasn't any complaints until a week after their performance.

9 posted on 08/13/2006 3:33:53 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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LOL!


10 posted on 08/13/2006 3:34:49 AM PDT by onyx (1 Billion Muslims -- "if" only 10% are radical, that's 100 Million who want to kill us.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Some popular bands can't perform live at all. They need high dollar equipment to carry a tune. The copycats sometimes do a 100% better job at singing live.


11 posted on 08/13/2006 3:38:50 AM PDT by Dallas59 (WHAT THE HELL ARE MUSLIMS DOING IN AMERICA???)
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To: Dallas59
The copycats sometimes do a 100% better job at singing live.

Singing cover tunes is one thing, but ripping an established band off by using their name and songs is pretty darn low.

12 posted on 08/13/2006 3:42:07 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

"It could have been worse.
They could have been imitating Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods..."

No, they could have been imitating Sam Donaldson and The Bodeans


13 posted on 08/13/2006 3:43:47 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Thank you again Jimmy Carter.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Didn't the rock group Kraftwerk once stage something like 10 shows simultaneously, with only one having the real band memebers and the rest having robots?

They all act robot-like anyway, nobody could tell the difference.


14 posted on 08/13/2006 3:43:47 AM PDT by canuck_conservative
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"Did they stay at the local Holiday Inn the night before?"

Yes they did, and in the same room with the Brenda Lee impersonator.


15 posted on 08/13/2006 3:46:42 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Thank you again Jimmy Carter.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Meanwhile, Leon Redbone is saying "Who? I've never heard of Pat Vegas and Denny Freeman"...


16 posted on 08/13/2006 3:57:03 AM PDT by DJ Frisat (Tired of being called intolerant by the truly intolerant...)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
Nothing new...

About 25 years ago, some guy just out of Joliet prison hooked up with his brother, threw together a band, and went about impersonating the "Good Ole Boys". They even had the brashness to play in venues that "Good Ole Boys" were already booked in by showing up early and they were known to run up very large bar bills in the process.


17 posted on 08/13/2006 3:59:44 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am a big fan of urban sprawl but I wish there were more sidewalks)
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To: SamAdams76

LOL!


18 posted on 08/13/2006 4:00:36 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity.)
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To: SamAdams76

Great version of "Rawhide".


19 posted on 08/13/2006 4:04:20 AM PDT by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

I think this is all a big misunderstanding....The band playing at the fair is not calling themselves "Redbone" but "Redboner".


20 posted on 08/13/2006 4:10:26 AM PDT by Screamname (Batman and Godzilla : When will they fight?)
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