hardest band to cover ... live!
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Topic: hardest band to cover ... live!
Posted By: Zitro
Subject: hardest band to cover ... live!
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 17:41
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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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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 17:49
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ELP because nobody could sound as glib as Greg Lake. It can't be done. ;P
------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 18:14
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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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Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 18:17
| Crimson, theres songs that people can't even tab out...let alone play. |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 18:18
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Ayreon for the sheer amount of people necessary to be involved
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 18:20
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Mahavishnu Orchestra ... everyone's got to be a virtuoso and be totally fractious with each other. ------------- What? |
Posted By: mattmacneil
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 18:26
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Mahavishnu.
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/mattmacneil/?chartstyle=red"> 
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Posted By: fungusucantkill
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 18:27
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as stated above -------------  
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Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 18:59
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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. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: proglil49
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 19:16
Jessica Simpson for sure  ------------- I want to be an astronaut |
Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 19:25
... oh we were talking about the music? nevermind ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
proglil49 wrote:Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 21:55
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It'd be darn near impossible to cover either Mahavishnu or Giant
...but my vote goes to Milli Vanilli
 , very innovative in the genre of imaginary music; miles ahead of Jessica Simpson |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date 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. |
Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: September 05 2007 at 23:02
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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. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 06 2007 at 00:21
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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...
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: NotSoKoolAid
Date Posted: September 06 2007 at 02:06
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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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Posted By: moebius
Date Posted: September 06 2007 at 02:45
| 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. |
Posted By: jimidom
Date Posted: September 06 2007 at 11:51
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I would love to form a Mahavishnu tribute band called Birds of Fire. ------------- "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - HST |
Posted By: coleio
Date Posted: September 06 2007 at 12:39
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. ------------- Eat heartily at breakfast, for tonight, we dine in Hell!! |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: September 06 2007 at 13:59
| No one would ever manage to cover Gentle Giant with satisfactory results, I'm sure. |
Posted By: cookieacquired
Date Posted: September 06 2007 at 22:22
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GG would be really tricky to cover with the vocals
and the innumberable instruments
too distinct of a sound anyway, wouldn't come out that great ------------- 
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: September 06 2007 at 22:23
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The Harry Partch Ensemble. It's not rock, but the music is physically impossible to perform unless you either somehow acquire his original instruments (already owned by Dean Drummond) or construct your own, which would take on hell of a lot of effort. -------------   |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: September 06 2007 at 22:25
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Van der Graaf Generator.
Seriously, you try singing Peter Hammill.
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Posted By: ProgShine
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 02:06
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Absolutely GG, but The Flower Kings is soooo dificult too ------------- https://progshinerecords.bandcamp.com 
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Posted By: Matt Dickens
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 02:20
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my vote goes to Meshuggah.... Why, you ask?.....well you just tell me where i can pick up an 8 string guitar and I'll get that tribute band going right away. ------------- If it ain't broke don't break it. |
Posted By: ProgShine
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 02:28
A good Luthier  ------------- https://progshinerecords.bandcamp.com
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 04:31
I do, every morning, in the shower.
"I can SEE the LEMmings comING!!!"
Gets the neighbors up nice and early. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 04:57
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Mahavishnu Orchestra. I wouldn't know where to begin with that stuff. Gentle Giant would be a non starter unless you had a few decent singers in the band. |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 11:19
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Merzbow ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 19:51
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Of this poll, Mahavishnu, Meshuggah, GG and Spiral Architect! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Lady In Black
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 20:24
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In this poll sure King Crimson and Meshuggah. But I prefer to be a singer of Opus Avantra tribute band or Andromeda (UK) tribute band! ------------- It's dark... I've fear... I have strong pains... A serpent is being born... That badly I did, I? |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: September 07 2007 at 22:51
Naw, that's easy. You just put the sound of the audience screaming in agony at your noise through a noise filter, thus creating a sadistic vicious cycle of Merzbowian pain. ------------- |