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Poll Question: Which tribute live show will give you the most trouble?
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    Posted: September 05 2007 at 17:41
Imagine you play an instrument and you have your little band. Imagine that you want to play a tribute show to any of these bands, playing very  faithful to how the original bands would sound when playing live and with the same level of speed and improvisation quality.

For which band would you and the band expect to have the hardest time, assuming you have the same number of band members as that band and the group can cover all the instruments used.
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ELP because nobody could sound as glib as Greg Lake. It can't be done. ;P
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the guyz in GG played loades of diffrent instrumnets, must be pretty hard to cover that but what do i know..
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Crimson, theres songs that people can't even tab out...let alone play.
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Ayreon for the sheer amount of people necessary to be involved


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Mahavishnu Orchestra ... everyone's got to be a virtuoso and be totally fractious with each other.
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Mahavishnu.
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as stated above
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GG. Noone else could do it. They are all superb musicians and they are SO versatile.

Mahavishnu Orchestra also come close, but the multipart harmonies on GG's album sre the decisive factor.
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Jessica Simpson for sure LOLLOLLOL
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Originally posted by proglil49 proglil49 wrote:

Jessica Simpson for sure LOLLOLLOL
You couldn't do it, doubt you could even fit in the costume...
 
 
... oh we were talking about the music? nevermind
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It'd be darn near impossible to cover either Mahavishnu or Giant
 
...but my vote goes to Milli VanilliClown, very innovative in the genre of imaginary music; miles ahead of Jessica SimpsonDead
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Points: 10686 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2007 at 22:37
Gentle Giant, all those authentic baroque instruments, and even baroquer 4 part harmonies, Mahavishnu seems like an easy 3 set gig in comparism.
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Points: 1321 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 05 2007 at 23:02
I choose Emerson Lake and Palmer just because of Keith Emerson.

the way he uses his hammonds and synthesizers is explosive fun. Have you seen him in moogfest 2006? he played the entire tarkus with a band and his playing was spectacular. Also, his piano parts can be crazy at parts. Last thing: you gotta be able to replicate his stage antics like playing backwards, lifting heavy keyboards, stabbing keys, and rubbing your butt with a portable synthesizer (pictures of exhibition DVD)

Mahavishnu Orchestra slightly behind. However, Moogfest 2006 had the keyboard player and there was apparently a different set of musicians and they played better than on the studio IMO, so it's possible. I gotta tell you, I was in awe at how they seem to play different songs at once in odd time signatures and don't mess up.
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funny you say live, cause then definitly the Mahavishnu... why do I remark the live aspect? cause I think you can easyly cheat some bands life, like Meshuggah... live it can be so loud and distortioned that you might play those incredible time signatures a bit different, much simpler of course, and the result might not be that bad... now, this is one thing you cant do in studio...
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Mahavishnu Orchestra without a doubt, though putting Gentle Giant in there was a good idea too!
 
If you want to hear some guys try to sound like MO, check out Mahavishnu Project.
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I think that may be Magma, I don`t know any cover of them, you have to learn kobaian (by ear!) and play like Vander.
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I would love to form a Mahavishnu tribute band called Birds of Fire.
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Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

funny you say live, cause then definitly the Mahavishnu... why do I remark the live aspect? cause I think you can easyly cheat some bands life, like Meshuggah... live it can be so loud and distortioned that you might play those incredible time signatures a bit different, much simpler of course, and the result might not be that bad... now, this is one thing you cant do in studio...


There would be no point in making the complex music if they couldn't pull it off live as well, that would just be ridiculous.
And my vote goes to Meshuggah anyway, polyrhythms, odd time sigs, complex musicianship among other things go to them being my vote.
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No one would ever manage to cover Gentle Giant with satisfactory results, I'm sure. 
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