well said, Doug. I saw Seconds Out at the Odeon as well...but because Matt Riddle the
keyboardist is a friend of mine I was more impressed initially with those guys than with
MB, in spite of the visuals & backdrop etc. Matt nabbed Banks' lines note for note...(and I
gave him his tron samples from the Pinder CD) :) Matt also played with YES-tribute
Envision, sadly now defunct.
--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "Doug Berg" <caddyfam@...> wrote:
>
> --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "charel196" <charel196@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I don't wanna give anyone the wrong idea here. As a musician
> myself, I DID enjoy the show
> > and their pretty accurate Genesis renditions. I just found myself
> kind of "distant" and not
> > emotionally connected like seeing the real deal. I've felt this
> with just about any "tribute"
> > act I've ever seen. Even in "cover" bands I've played
> with....there's more emotional flow
> > when I'm performing original material than someone else's song,
> which I think is only
> > natural. I've been in bands that played
> Genesis,Crimson,Moodies,Strawbs...and while those
> > songs are a lot more fun to play for me than, say, Bob Seger or
> Rolling Stones....I still feel
> > more of that "butt kicking" energy start rolling when an original
> song is performed. Any
> > other musicians here feel the same way?
>
>
> No need to apologize although you have permanently etched that
> analogy on my hard drive, thanks. But really they did a good job
> for what they do. We only saw one other "cover band" here- Seconds
> Out and here again a first time experience I thought they were good
> not great but the second time we saw them it really wasn't anything
> special, but the location was terrible, a punk rock club in the
> flats called the Odeon, I think there were only a dozen seats in the
> whole place so most stood for 2+ hours, what a dump. I also thought
> the staging backdrops at MB added something extra, and anyone who
> watched the video of Genesis Oxford 73 show could see Mb did come
> close.
> I've often wondered how performers cope with doing the same sets
> over night after night and after time how emotional can they get?
> Seems the spark of freshness tends to diminish with time. Now I
> cannot hold a candle to what you have done musically, late this
> summer I had a chance to take my tron out and play with a band,
> never done this before, but the band does oldies, doo wop etc. again
> other peoples material and the last place you would expect to hear a
> tron. Now you know you have your good and not so good moments as a
> group but every once in awhile you have a great one and at our last
> outing for the season, yeah that was a "butt kicking" deal for me
> although I cannot explain why, its like something that you had
> inside and were'nt aware of seems to surface and take control. It's
> fulfillment with a sense of accomplishment and expression that seems
> to win out against just playing notes regardless of whose material
> it is and the talent that was given to each of us should be
> cherished and not taken for granted. Otherwise we would be playing
> hip-hop!!! Sorry for carrying on, Doug M400#703
> >
> >
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