What's it like to tour with a VAN HALEN tribute band? - JUMP 

Especially when the real band is charging $1000+ a ticket for a single show . When Rockstar become the person who they hated and they sell their soul

You have to admit, some of them are pretty cringy. I’ve seen videos on here of various RUSH cover bands, and for the most part they were all cringy. Now, back in 2017 I did see this AC/DC cover band, and they were friggin AWESOME. They sounded very much like 1980 to 1982 AC/DC, especially their “Brian Johnson”, who was dressed like he was for the Who Made Who video shoot - same denim vest, the same type of grayish wool kangol hat, the Afro-like wig… all of it. And his voice was very 1980 to 1983 Brian Johnson Their drummer had the same SONOR kit like Phil Rudd played, their rhythm guitarist had one of the exact copies of Malcolm’s ‘63 Gretsch, their bass player with a similar Fender precision bass as Cliff Williams, and their “Angus” and older almost walnut looking SG standard and a black ‘61 reissue with white pick guard… not exact, but similar to Angus’s 1970 SG custom that was black and white The most recent songs they did were from The Razor’s Edge, with Money Talks being an awesome cover they did, better than Thunderstruck. They even did Are You Ready Yeah, I can’t say enough good things about what excellent of a job they did. They had the early 80s live sound down perfectly

Cover bands and tribute bands, in my opinion, killed the live music scene at one point here in the U.K. Not saying there's no talent there, far from it but original bands trying to get noticed and even get a gig at a decent venue were competing against this stuff. I mean look at the line of people waiting to see this Van Halen band, it's embarrassing really, maybe I'm just bitter and twisted, they'll even be signing autographs, a bizarre world we live in

cover bands are better than tribute bands imo

Duuude thank you so much!

The tingles are real

Thanks man!! I appreciate you. Been too long!

Wonderful! Now your 9 year old is a rocker forever! Still rockin' @ 63!

Wonderful! Now your 9 year old is a rocker forever! Still rockin' @ 63!

Wonderful! Now your 9 year old is a rocker forever! Still rockin' @ 63!

Awesome! Now your 9 year old is a rocker forever! Still rockin' @ 63!

Awesome! Now your 9 year old is a rocker forever! Still rockin' @ 63!

How bloody awesome were they hey! ❤❤❤

Of course! I love working with these guys

Thank you! That show is gonna be a blast 🤘🏻

You took the words right out of his mouth

Thanks man! Mike is the goat

It’s VanTastic!

Thanks dude!

JEALOUS

Thanks!

YOU KNOW IT

That is amazing! Such a good story. If only I was able to go see Van Halen back in the day haha

@@JFM_Official it wasn't the hey day. It was about 22 years ago. But he definitely looked totally hot that night.

Agreed!

LOL true

It was at Ashland not this one

I believe they are working on it!

@@JFM_Official Thank you for sharing

You probably saw me there then too! JD Legends is a dope place for shows

That'd be a great question for their accountant. But you gotta buy some merch for the answer 😀

So good