Originally Posted By: Notes Norton

The Kingston Trio is still touring with no original or recording members. How can you have Earth Wind And Fire without Maurice White? That would be like the Rolling Stones touring without Mick Jagger.


Let's open THIS can again.... Or Journey without Steve Perry.

Everybody on these forums are "half band using tracks" if they use BIAB/RB. 80% of my CD was Real Band. On so many of those tracks I used banjo, mandolin, slide guitar, dobro, fiddle... all things I don't play. Had I brought in people to play those instruments, I could not have afforded to do the CD, since I never planned to play it out live anywhere to see copies. As big a fan as I am of technology, my fandom stops at "I accept that bands can and are using backing tracks" and never crosses into "Let me go pay a cover charge and pay $2.00 each for cranberry juice and soda with a lime to see a guy who is playing either with tracks he created himself or stuff he downloaded from from the internet." There is a female duo here in town that I go see twice a year. They sing over downloaded karaoke tracks. I go see them because they are both great PEOPLE, and very good singers, but not with any expectation that I will hear a great song that they wrote or the tracks they just made in their studio. Not my style. And THOSE kind of acts are the ones who play "the list". It is my habit that if a band plays Free Bird (or ANY Skynard), ANY Kiss, Stairway to Heaven (or ANY Zep), Brown Eyed Girl (or almost ANY Van Morrison), or Proud Mary, I will leave immediately. The rest of the list I can tolerate for about half a set, but when the cliches just keep on coming, I will wave goodbye to whoever it is on stage that I know and head home.

BUT... not everybody is a difficult, grouchy old man like me, so whatever.

I always wanted to start a band and call it The B-Sides to do the back side of those cliches. Never happened, and probably not even an original idea.