Canadian Tribute Bands

I doubt anyone is interested in doing so, seeing how these bands constantly tour the exhibition/not-quite-arena circuit still (and do surprisingly well). Those bands probably even play Northern Saskatchewan.

Meanwhile, due to factors of geography etc, Canadians are usually individualistic and somewhat reactionary

This isn't a fair assessment at all. Read Grove's Fruits of the Earth. Geography led to the main character being very individualistic; being individualistic led to his downfall by the end of the first half of the novel.

Who needs tribute bands when all three are still together and touring, occasionaly, as far and as fast as their nurses let them. Loverboy claim to have their original members, no word on orginal pants.

, but for some weird reason have been governed since forever by sandal-wearing studies forever going on about equal rights for crippled rabbits etc,

What about The Def or Joe Clark and Margarat Thatcher Jr? No sandals or equal rights to be found there.

check the canoe.ca concert listing thing.

Getting away from that, though, I often though it would be a GREBT idea for the hip young Canadian kidz of today to do a tribute album to the classick Canadian rawk of yesterday, as some sort of exercise to prove that Canada does in fact have some sort of musical identity separate from the music of the US or Europe, something which keeps getting bandied about. So you could have Sloan actually covering April Wine's "Tonight Is A Wonderful Night" instead of just flirting with April Wine with their original material. You could have someone else doing Streetheart's "Snow White" (I guess that would be Bryan). Someone else could do a Harlequin or Queen City Kids song. The point being, there's a lot of these songs that we as Canadians know from listening to Canadian rock stations that people outside the country just wouldn't have a clue about...just play "Superstitious Feeling" for anyone about 25 years old and up, and if they're from the prairies they'll more than likely be able to sing along.

Please, change the background on that damm website.

Doesn't this keep happening, and you just end up with sub-novelty ironic punk covers, and terrible songs/videos by the New Pornographers promoting the FUBAR soundtrack over and over again? Outside of Neil Young, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, what Canadian artist is likely to get a reverential cover? Plantinum Blonde? Honeymoon Suite? Klaatu? Corey Hart?

But will there ever be a tribute for Luba?

As for young hip bands? They all break up to go to Japan and teach English these days. Or at least that had been a factor or result in His Luscious Uncle (ok, ok they werent that young), Plumtree, The Pets and Vancouver Nights [I think it was them]. For the sake of our music we must put an end to the JET program.

But do the first two names mean anything at all to Canadian bands out there today? (I don't know anything by the first two myself, but I've only lived in Canada for the last eight years, so I could be missing out)

I'd like to hear Swollen Members cover Rush's "Roll The Bones", if only to make the rapping skeleton look good in retrospect.

Anyway, if you come down to Toronto, I'll be happy to jam the standards out with you. On the condition that we close each show with Chilliwack's "Fly At Night" followed by A Foot In Coldwater's "Anything You Want". I keep having this idea of forming some kind of avant-AOR band but I don't know if/when I'll ever get around to it.

But hey, nice timing. I was *just* listening to the Rheos' Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald as I came home. That and their Jane Siberry cover are both awesome. I can't remember at this sec, who was it again that sampled Sundown?

Revive thanks to tcote posting this elsewhere:

For a good example of a bad band website, check out http://www.popcherry.org/ The band's commercial and "About" are pure gold.

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