Tribute Bands – The Upbeat Beatles at Skegness – Photos

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I don’t like tribute bands. I don’t care how good they are. I think they are a negative experience. I can’t see why anyone talented enough to play that well would want to be so uncreative. Tribute bands are ruining Rock Music.

Now I can see the flaws in my feelings. It is creative to mimic another person so closely. It is no difference to performing in a play. A lot of bands cover other people’s songs. What’s the difference?

I don’t like them.

The Upbeat Beatles were good at what they did. John and Ringo really looked the part. George didn’t really look like George though. They played their part – though I found it irritating the way they referred to each other as if they were really Paul, John, George and Ringo. They focussed on the earlier Beatles of course. That was to be expected.

I just don’t like Tribute Bands. It’s mercenary.

I Hate Tribute Bands!

Posted on by Opher

I hate Tribute Bands, background music, Muzak and a lot of Pop Music. I like my music to have some passion and individuality to it. I like my music raw, meaningful and with creativity.

John Fowles summed it up for me:

‘Once Joyce has written, Picasso painted, Webern composed, it requires only a minimal gift, besides patience and practice, to copy their techniques exactly; yet we all know why this type of technique-copy, even when it is so painstakingly done – for instance, in painting – that it deceives auction-house  experts, is counted worthless beside the work of the original artist. it is not of him or hermit is not art, but imitation.’

I don’t really care if a tribute act sounds exactly like the Beatles, Stones, Led Zep or Pink Floyd. They are not them. They cannot conjure up the same excitement for me.

Music has to be real!

This is my story of my search for the best Rock Music on the planet!