Mellotronists

By that logic, then you should also feel that there should be no 
performances of the great classical music through history, or the 
staging of spectacles like the Rites of Spring, Mozart's operas, or 
countless other wonderful pieces.  The whole "cover band" argument is 
specious.  Music has had a long tradition of performers with the goal 
of striving to recreate a performance or a composition with exactly 
the same nuance each time they play it.  Don't denigrate what they do 
simply because they didn't write the music, just accept that it is a 
different type of musical expression that is valid in its own way. If 
they happen to suck at it, that's an entirely different story...

Jon E Salley
M400 #886

> Yeah - 
>  tribute bands are just giving us commodified museum exhibits of 
past culture.
> 
> If Genesis had done that in the first place, 
> where would we be?
> 
> It doesn't matter have slavishly they try to imitate
> the original in terms of musical and visual form - 
> what they can never imitate is the fact that the 
> original was, erm, original - 5 blokes in a band
> striving to do something new and exciting.