why don't you start the surrey pigbag instead?

hahaha this was funny as shit :D

It sounds too much like a gang of 14 year olds hanging around outside Threshers.

"We're the Surrey Pigbag. What you gonna do 'bout it?"

there is a midget tirbute band to KISS, also I think there is a Britney Spears midget singer.

the midget stooges also come to mind.
every so often we get a tribute band coming to little old jersey to play to a crowd packed with rich, bored middle aged guys who feel they will regain something long lost by watching some other equally bored middle aged guy prance around pretending to be johnny rotten/bon scott/robert plant.

there are loads and loads of beatles tribute bands.

This one was brought to my attention years ago:

http://www.trextasy.com/

The funniest one I ever saw was a BeeGees Tribute band.
It was awful, but at the time I was really into the BeeGees.

The Clone Roses, Stereophonies, Antarctic Monkeys.

we had an arctic monkeys' tribute band play on the island once.
they were called "The Antarctic Monkeys"
i mean... come on!
EDIT - didn't see the above post!

Nobody found a Sonic Youth tribute band. It's too difficult to reproduce their music, I think. They 're too special. They are unique. They are priceless.
No ?

Tribute bands are lame.
It's like reciting some one else's poetry.

I rather like Jah Division, but it's not exactly the cliche of a "tribute band" when you have someone who actually does something new. Plus their a really decent dub group.

I saw Hells Belles, the all girl AC/DC band when they were fairly new, and I must admit it actually rocked. Having a black woman singing Bon's vocals made perfect sense actually, and they only did his material, and rocked really hard. I'd imagine seeing them was 50 times better than seeing the bloat posing as AC/DC in the arenas would be, though I'd also imagine that as they're still doing this tribute that they are probably starting to get as boring and burned out as the bald Ausies they are emulating too.


I don't think it would be too difficult for somebody to do carbon copy covers of Sonic Youth songs, though you are right that it certainly is a lot harder to get all the tunings right than to ape a standar rock group. Hopefully anyone who was smart enough to figure all that out would also be smart enough to realize that creating their own music would be more rewarding. Also, the commercial appeal for a Sonic Youth tribute band seems less than minimal. I'm sure we'd all be quite against it, and we're some of the few people who buy the original. So no, not priceless, just low profit, which is probably a good thing.

Still, Sonic Youth were pretty much the house band for every tribute album to come out from the '80s on starting with Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father on, so it may be inevitable that somebody thinks it's perfectly natural to tributize them sooner or later. They only just had their first tribute album, Confuse Your Idols, a couple years ago, and that's probably the first step on the road.

I started my own, Girls Girls Girls, an all-girl Motley Crue tribute band. I can tell you why I started it, and that's that I'm 32 with a day job I don't plan on quitting trying to be famous. This is just an easy way to get on stage and play rock music, and whatever you may think of the fanbase, people like to go to a show to sing songs they know, which is why it's easier to draw an audience with a tribute band than an original band. Anyway, we've got some music and video up now, so check it out:

www.myspace.com/girlsgirlsgirlsnyc

It's also a lot more fun to watch girls sing these songs than a bunch of 40-year-old men wearing wigs. And because we're girls, people expect us to suck, so most people are shocked when they hear our lead guitarist. I'm having a blast with it.

That is so cool.

I'm sure it would probably be more fun to see you play than the "real" thing these days.

I saw a Van Halen (ROTH ERA ONLY!) tribute band once...a Gun's N Roses tribute band opened for them.

I would do a sonic youth tribute band.

There's a band on myspace that does (not full time) a minutemen tribute that's pretty cool.

Seeing as there's a distinct lack of Einstuerzende Neubauten tribute bands, I've decided to start one up right now, called Schwarzwaelder Kirchtorte. Anyone fancy joining in? You'll need to bring your own road drills and bass springs, mind.

they sound more like my dad is dead....I may have already said that before on this board, but it's true

The clone roses is a pretty cool name for a tribute band