Legitimate or Cover Bands?

[METALPRIEST]

 

[Soot and Stars]

Great post, however it evades the real question: would that version of the band be a legitimate representation of Skynyrd!?

Maybe you should ask those fans laying down money for the tickets screaming Freebird with the same passion as ever because the band is still playing it with the same spirit as it started with. Ask them if they aren't at a Lynyrd Skynyrd show!

 

[Lynch]

Ok, you talked me into it.

 

[flipflop]

I think Priest were at a peak when Ripper was with them - a peak they haven't regained yet with Halford back, imho.

Rapid Fire w/Ripper, 1998
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmzGGKNIPJI

 

[annie]

A band is like a great story. All it takes is one person who was there when it happened to pass down the essential information and spirit of what makes that story to keep it going. A great story never dies because people don't let it die. That's why when people go see Lynrd Skynyrd they still sing along like they were seeing the only version of Lynyrd Skynyrd that's important. It's because the songs still live on and those are the "Storytellers" who are the ones who are qualified to pass it down.

This is exactly what happened with the great Glenn Miller Orchestra. Glenn disappeared in 1944. The Miller estate authorized an official Glenn Miller "ghost band" in 1946, headed by the lead saxophonist Tex Beneke. The present Glenn Miller Orchestra was formed in 1956 and has been touring consistently since, playing an average of 300 live dates a year all around the world. Trombonist Larry O'Brien is the orchestra's present musical director.

That's the way life oughta be.

 

[Tiny Tim]

A band is like a great story. All it takes is one person who was there when it happened to pass down the essential information and spirit of what makes that story to keep it going. A great story never dies because people don't let it die. That's why when people go see Lynyrd Skynyrd they still sing along like they were seeing the only version of Lynyrd Skynyrd that's important. It's because the songs still live on and those are the "Storytellers" who are the ones who are qualified to pass it down.

So you also agree that if Gary Rossington, Ricky Medlocke and Johnny Van Zandt all headed out seperately with bands called Lynyrd Skynyrd, that each of those bands would be valid?

I've been to see a local Beatles tribute band who is pretty darned good. You know what the crowd does? They sing along to the songs. The doesn't make them the Beatles.

 

[Tiny Tim]

Peter Green is the best example in this thred. It should also be noted that Phil had nothing to do with the name Thin Lizzy.

No, Peter Green is not a good example at all. Peter Green played on only the first three Feetwood Mac records. Phil Lynott played and sang on every Thin Lizzy record except the posthumous live record the tribute version released.

Peter Green never wrote or co-wrote more then half the songs on any Mac record he participated in. Aside from a handful of covers, Lynott wrote or co-wrote every Thin Lizzy track ever recorded.

Peter Green isn't dead.

As for the name, Fleetwood comes from Mick Fleetwood, Mac comes from John McVie. So unless Eric Bell was born Lizzy Bell or Eric Thin, you have no point.

 

[Foxhound]

No, Peter Green is not a good example at all. Peter Green played on only the first three Feetwood Mac records. Phil Lynott played and sang on every Thin Lizzy record except the posthumous live record the tribute version released.

Peter Green was the one who put Fleetwood Mac together though. The reason he named the band Fleetwood Mac was to induce Mick Fleetwood and John McVie to leave John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and join his band. Peter was definitely the leader, until he took one acid trip too many.

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[flipflop]

Peter Green was the one who put Fleetwood Mac together though. The reason he named the band Fleetwood Mac was to induce Mick Fleetwood and John McVie to leave John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and join his band. Peter was definitely the leader, until he took one acid trip too many.

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Yup, it was Green's band until he pulled a Syd Barret. And it seems to me that he was on more than 3 albums, btw.

 

[Foxhound]

And it seems to me that he was on more than 3 albums, btw.

Depends upon how you want to count them. Fleetwood Mac released these three U.K. studio albums with Peter Green:

1968 Fleetwood Mac
1968 Mr. Wonderful
1969 Then Play On

There were however an additional three albums released on this side of the Atlantic:

1969 English Rose
1969 The Pious Bird of Good Omen
1969 Fleetwood Mac in Chicago /Blues Jam in Chicago, Vols. 1-2

Another Fleetwood Mac album that should not be forgotten is "The Biggest Thing Since Colossus" by Otis Spann (with Fleetwood Mac). It's a fabulous album and I strongly recommend that all blues-rock fans acquire a copy:



"7936 South Rhodes" by Eddie Boyd (with Fleetwood Mac) was yet another album:



The record companies have put out almost innumerable compilations since but they shoudn't count.