Tribute Bands - an Analogy.

Al-otment

Al-otment

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Dr Feelgood are an R&B band with punk undertones who started as a band in 1971, Canvey Island, Essex, U.K. They enjoyed considerable early success and then one thing after another happened and personnel, sometimes very sadly, left and were replaced. This has carried on ever since Wilko Johnson, the bands main songwriter and lead guitarist left the band around about 1976/77. The very important thing is that there has always been continuity of band members or a 'family tree' if you like and the spirit of the band has continued and lived on within the line-up at any given moment in time of the bands history.

Ironically even though Dr Feelgood has always existed as a band there are also Dr Feelgood tribute bands and they cover the original songs as best they can - but they are not Dr Feelgood, they have not experienced the struggles, hard work, arguments, good times, sad times, history, evolution and spirit that makes Dr Feelgood, Dr Feelgood.

It's a bit like that with Norton Motorcycles (U.K) Ltd.......plus they've got a crap lead singer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CZMLs8Ke40
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzF0AETdRF8
 
High energy Rock and Roll is what powers me along but last URL locked up with this.
This video contains content from WMG and Sony ATV Publishing, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Peel's stereo will over power the megaphone to beepbop along too.
 
That's a shame you can't view the whole thing, Hobot. The documentary telling the story of Dr. Feelgood, 'Oil City Confidential', is well worth seeing if you haven't already. The live album/cd, 'Stupidity' is a cracker. This genre is definitely motorcycle music - strangely trad. jazz seems to becoming popular at some classic bike events, notably the Castletown I.O.M VMCC meet? Nightmare.

P.S the links in the U.K are working fine now, hope you're getting them in the U.S.
 
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