Zepparella!

[Hepcat]

Is Zepparella the greatest cover band of them all?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH-_9cwdLug

What do you think?

[marsattacks666]

Here's my opinion...and this only for my accessment of the drummer(Bonham) in the band. This is not an indictment on her or playing as a drummer. However. Her technique of the drum part is incorrect. Most drummers play When the Levee Breaks, incorrectly. Including me, until recently. With that, maybe she needs to focus in it correctly.

The rest of the band seems fine. But, then again, I am not a guitarist.

[marsattacks666]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=703eNA26KNM

[Hepcat]

Well I dunno.... I hear tell that John Bonham's drum part for When the Levee Breaks was recorded with him banging away in an apartment stairwell. That's not where the fellow in the video appears to be.

[marsattacks666]

Well I dunno.... I hear tell that John Bonham's drum part for When the Levee Breaks was recorded with him banging away in an apartment stairwell. That's not where the fellow in the video appears to be.

Was it an apartment or house? I cannot remember.

[marsattacks666]

I just now found the video.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JM5UDL4l5jQ

[Hepcat]

More Zepparella:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVvSfVQqT_M

[marsattacks666]

But here is how the song is really played.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6SwzXvyzw

[Hepcat]

Here's an even better video of Zepparella performing the Immigrant Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvYsygyVjqo

I really like the way Zepparella nails not just the look but the facial expressions and stage mannerisms of Led Zeppelin.

[ChristineBCW]

Is the Eternal Question about cover bands based on Being Like The Personnel, or Faithful Re-creation Of The Music? 

For me, if I'm going to listen to cover bands, I prefer the musicians to be excellent students and re-create the music.  (This is something LedZep could not frequently do in live performances since they overdubbed guitars, bass, keys from their first album on.  But that's OK - they're not a cover band.) 

But when I listen to cover-bands, I prefer a great re-creation of the music.

Out in Las Vegas, there's Yellow Brick Road, a gang of excellent student-musicians... like this RAMBLE ON with all 3 guitars used...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbgOwwf_WK8#

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Or maybe their good re-creation of WHAT IS AND WHAT SHOULD NEVER BE...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofi6tMBgM9w&fmt=18#
(I should point out that Yellow Brick Road's lead singer in these videos was the band's organizer who tired of this repertoire, found a replacement for himself and he went on to re-create other cover-band acts in Vegas.)

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I also enjoy Band Geeks, which re-creates BABE I'M GONNA LEAVE YOU using a Line6-Variax for the head-banging Telecaster-then-DropD-Slide, along with the Taylor lead acoustic...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te0NWulOJfg#
This is a fine demonstration of two of the Variax's 12 native modes (Telecaster mode switched to DropD-tuning-on-Dreadnought-slide).  I'd also be remiss if I didn't give props to this group's re-creating Yes' STARSHIP TROOPER as a tribute to Chris Squire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhCHQPricjo#


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And don't get me started on Leonid & Friends re-creating Chicago's hits, starting with I'M A MAN...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rmOg4_8wD0#

There's something to be said about re-creating the music, not the personnel.