From craigslist in Albany:

http://albany.craigslist.org/muc/5446804022.html

“I gotta get this off my chest. WTF is a “tribute” band? Especially if no one in the original band isnt dead,or the original band isnt even broken up. This fucking things way out of hand. Why dont you call yourselves “a bunch of talentless jerkoffs dressing up,trying to act, and STEALING the music from a ORIGINAL band”? MUCH more misleading. Its the fucking stupidest,lamest,fucking shortcut from fucking thinking idea Ive ever seen. For gods SAKE,theres even a “vanilla ice” tribute act. Years ago I met some real shitty local tribute to Aerosmith band-toys in the attic or some shit-these fucking clowns thought they were ROCK GODS,and they couldnt even play fucking Aerosmith right! The fucking shit ass lead singer,who sounded like the guy from Molly Hatchet-IF you could hear him as he sung so quietly over the guitars who thought they were in Metallica,actually THOUGHT he WAS Steven Tyler. Bunch of fucking talentless queers playing dress up. DO YOUR OWN SHIT,ASSHOLES.”

Sometimes I like to read the craigslist Albany musicians section just for laughs and see what they’re debating about. This original post here wanted to rant about “tribute bands” in Albany and it sparked a debate on craigslist. Whoever made this post, got all kinds of other musicians trying their best to defend “tribute bands”.

I never was a fan of “tribute bands” either as a matter of fact. I too found “tribute bands” to be pointless and they’re just a bunch of posers. Tribute bands is becoming quite a problem in the Capital District area as there has been way too many of them lately.

Whenever someone speaks the truth about “local music”, they get written off as a bad person or a troll. There’s nothing wrong with being realistic on local bands so I say, keep speaking the truth! If you’re pissing ’em off, you’re saying the right things.

I don’t like tribute bands either. I may love playing cover songs and all but I would never start a tribute band or join one. Tribute bands, in my opinion are pretty silly. Bravo to whoever wrote that post above!

Kev