Just Announced- The Cover Bands

Tusk
State Theatre
2-17
$20

TUSK covers all the great hits of Fleetwood Mac, which has featured the talents of Mick Fleetwood, Christine and John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and others over the years. The Fleetwood Mac story is an episodic saga that spans more than 30 years. It is the saga of a British blues band formed in 1967 that became a California-based pop group in the mid-Seventies. In between came a period where Fleetwood Mac shuffled personnel and experimented with styles, all the while releasing solid albums with chart topping hits such as Landslide, Rhiannon, Go Your Own Way, Don?t Stop, Dreams, Say You Love Me, Hold Me and many others.

The five seasoned, well-respected musicians comprising TUSK have been making music together in various combinations and styles, from complete originals to covers, for over 30 years themselves. It is only fitting that they should come together to form the Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute, and pay homage to a group that dominated the charts during the band members? formative years. Fronted by solo artist Kathy Phillips (vocals) and supported by veteran players Scott McDonald (guitar, vocals), Kim Williams (keys, vocals), Randy Artiglere (bass) and Tom Nelson (drums), TUSK takes its audience members on a sweet ride down memory lane.
Authentic-sounding and always respectful, TUSK leaves no stone unturned in replicating the sounds of one of the world?s best-loved, top-selling bands.

State Theatre

Sat 01.28
HIGH VOLTAGE: A TRIBUTE TO AC/DC
Genre: Tribute 
Doors: 7:00 PM
Showtime: 9:00 PM
Tickets: $15
High Voltage is the Nation's Premier AC/DC Tribute Band - five veteran musicians putting it all on the line every time they take the stage enabling audiences to enjoy as authentic an AC/DC live performance as possible.  Baltimore's own, HIGH VOLTAGE is the most entertaining AC/DC live show you will see, next to the real thing.  HIGH VOLTAGE delivers the pure energy, excitement and concert experience that true AC/DC fans around the world have grown to expect.  HIGH VOLTAGE performs the very best AC/DC songs and the most recognizable hits, spanning the full range of epic hits songs from the Bon Scott era through the days with Brian Johnson at the helm.


boardies interested in this let me know….

for the Pearl jam fans


Ten
Ramshead Live
3-25
$10

I . . . approve of this thread.  nice one, hutch.

20 Years of Dark Star Orchestra®
One day in 1997, two Dead Head musicians were ruminating about life without Jerry Garcia and simultaneously came up with the same idea: "Let's recreate a Grateful Dead show."  Around forty people came down to Martyrs' in Chicago on November 11, 1997, to hear the brand-new Dark Star Orchestra's rendition of the Dead's show of 10/8/81. They'd planned it as a four-week experiment; ninety folks showed up the second week, then two hundred, then a 400-person sell-out?so it seemed like a good idea to keep going.

Since the idea behind the "Orchestra" part of Dark Star Orchestra is that this is a tribute to a body of music, lots of people have come and gone over the years?one co-founder, Scott Larned, passed on in 2005, the other, John Kadlecik, went off to play with the Dead's Phil Lesh & Bob Weir in Furthur.  But DSO keeps rolling, to the point that they've played well over 2,600 shows ? 120,000 people in just the past year – and incredibly enough, are looking at an approaching 20th anniversary. This calls for celebration.

Like the Dead, DSO has developed an extraordinary relationship with its audience, and to honor the long strange trip they've shared, DSO will offer, for the first time at regular shows, beginning with their spring tour, a VIP Soundcheck and Poster Signing package.  Participants will get exclusive pre-show access to the venue, a chance to hear the soundcheck, meet the band and get their 20th anniversary posters signed, a souvenir laminate and sticker?and more.  Only 25 such tickets will be offered to each show.

Anyone who has seen ? and heard ? DSO will tell you this is not a "cover" band.  It's on a higher level, and you just have to be there to get it?kinda like the band whose music they play.

Written by Dennis McNally, former publicist of the Grateful Dead

great great cover band.  one, of the best.  so many good times seeing them, even at the state theatre.

I thought they took the cover band schtick a little too far when they killed off their keyboardist.

ggw wrote:
I thought they took the cover band schtick a little too far when they killed off their keyboardist.

POTW

at DCnine

^with all the great potential names for a Joy Division cover band they go with Moving Units?


Shadowplay
Unknown Pleasures
Closer
Still
Control
Transmission
Atmosphere
etc
etc
etc


just about anything is gold and they pick "Moving Units"???

I see they are an actual band.. ok can't fault them then… although Moving Units is kind of blah

Jammin Java is attempting to corner the market on third tier "tribute" bands.

Unity (311)
3/11

Dammit (Blink182)
Josie (Weezer)
3/25

The Last Rewind (Phish)
4/14

ggw wrote:
Dammit (Blink182)
Josie (Weezer)
3/25

Josie could also be a Blink-182 cover band technically.

Rams Head has quite the slate as well:

The Reagan Years (1980s)
Zoso
Girlfriend in a Coma
Hey Nineteen
The Idol Kings (Tom Petty, Journey, and John Mellencamp (?!?))
Ted Vigil (John Denver)
The Australian Bee Gees
The Musical Box (The Exclusive Authorized by PETER GABRIEL Recreation of GENESIS ?Black Show" version of "Selling England By The Pound?)
Classic Albums Live (David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars)
The Bird Dogs (Everly Brothers)
Beginnings (Chicago)