Would You Go To Watch A Hologram Tour?

[Garaman]

This might be the future, perhaps better than tribute acts!

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[andy-hughes]

No.

I don't watch 'tribute acts' either, because they are not a 'tribute' at all, just a pale imitation for people who are not fussed about seeing the real thing.

I am a complete unreconstructed unapologetic music snob, if it's not the real band, I don't want to see it.

I have no problem with core bands who evolve, like The Stones, but I have serious issues with 'Queen' which is two guys who used to be Queen with another bassist and a bolted-on singer.

I competely understand that I am in a minority on this - which is why 'tribute acts' are such huge business.

But for me, if you can't make your own music, don't piggy-back on someone else's talent, it's undignified.

[Buenchico]

I wouldn't go to such a concert but it might be fun to work behind the scenes with the holograms. You could have Ozzy Osbourne singing with The Wurzels and Aled Jones joining AC/DC!

[pixie374]

Maybe as a novelty... I think tribute acts can be brilliant. I know lots of bands who do covers- they can be just as enjoyable, which is the point really, to me.

[davegosling]

Lots of tribute bands play music which the original bands no longer do, often because they're dead. What's wrong with that? I went to see The Rite of Spring recently - Stravinsky wasn't conducting.

[andy-hughes]

davegosling - // Lots of tribute bands play music which the original bands no longer do, often because they're dead. What's wrong with that? //

Absolutely nothing at all, as I said.

// I went to see The Rite of Spring recently - Stravinsky wasn't conducting. //

No - but I bet the conductor wasn't dressed in a pre-1971 suit either, with a stick-on moustache.

There is no correlation between a classical orchestra and a tribute band!

[davegosling]

"as I said"

Er, I'm pretty sure you didn't, but OK.

[andy-hughes]

dave- You are quite right, I didn't and I stand corrected.

I am all for any musician earning money and having a good time, but I don't think 'tribute acts' are an appropriate way to do it - they take up venue space and audience money from original musicians who are keeping new music alive

[Garaman]

I could enjoy a band in a pub doing a good version of a Stones song, but if they were trying to look like The Stones it would put me right off no matter how good they were. Hence I have never been to see a tribute act, and don’t think I ever will.

[gness]

Evening, Garaman.....I don't think I'd go to a Hologram Tour.....but...we will see because I once thought that about tribute acts until......

I was taken to see the Illegal Eagles and they were just fantastic....way, way above my expectations....so much so I made a two hundred mile trip a few weeks later to see them again....and I will again and again....

They don't pretend to be The Eagles......they're a fantastically talented group of guys performing music I love.....x

[gness]

Garaman....The Illegal Eagles don't look like nor attempt to look like The Eagles.....or dress like them....or imitate their stage show.....and they seem to like each other...... :-)

[sunny-dave]

To add to gness's posts :

One big advantage of the tribute acts is the absence of the clashing egos that so often bedevil performances by long established bands - and also you don't get the "We know what you want to hear, but you'll damn well have to sit through 45 minutes of our new (often inferior) stuff first - and then we'll bûgger around with the old favourites until they're virtually unrecognisable - because we can" attitude.

I may just have been lucky with The Illegal Eagles and The Australian Pink Floyd Show - but I'd pay good money to see either of them again.

[davegosling]

I saw a Queen tribute band years ago - The Bohemians, I think, or something like that - and they were visually stunning, looking incredibly like the four band members around the Live Aid time.

But musically they were awful! The singer had nothing like the range of Freddie Mercury, so they had to drop the key of virtually every song.

[yogi-bear]

No....not for me at all.

When I throw my boxers on stage seeing The Corrs, for instance, at least I get a nice reaction and smiles from Andrea, Sharon, and Caroline....just a glare from Jim though ☺

[naomi24]

I wouldn’t pay to watch a hologram tour, but tribute bands performing Queen or Beatles music can hardly be charged with taking audience money from original musicians. I’ve seen both and they were very good indeed. Bye the bye, if anyone is interested, the stage show ‘Let it Be’, the story of the Beatles, is fantastic! A real party!

[hereIam]

Haha yogi.

[hereIam]

Yes, I think it would be naomi, I loved the Beatles early music ..

[naomi24]

hereIam, I don't know where you are, but I goggled it and it's on in Liverpool, Edinburgh and Manchester this year.

Sorry to detract Garaman. I'll shut up about that now.

[naomi24]

'goggled'? Ooo ... I've gone all of a dither! Googled!

[hereIam]

I'll check that out naomi, I often go to the theatre in Liverpool ..

[-Talbot-]

Holograms are not for me.

I agree with SD's post on tribute bands.
Some are dire but some really surprise you and more often than not they are free to watch.