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Abaco

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http://www.myspace.com/yandttributeband

Here we are. No recordings yet. A few photos with Joey Alves jamming with us - which was cool. We're playing a gig in January and will continue to mangle Y&T tunes for a while after that. Challenging stuff to play be we have a blast with it. Note my Hamers...

 
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Cool band to pay tribute to! I have to wonder if you could even try something like that over here on the East coast. I really don't know anyone who's into them and the one time I saw them play a club here it was a pretty sorry turnout. Hope you have fun and success in equal measure!

 
tommy p said:
Cool band to pay tribute to! I have to wonder if you could even try something like that over here on the East coast. I really don't know anyone who's into them and the one time I saw them play a club here it was a pretty sorry turnout. Hope you have fun and success in equal measure!
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Did you see them at Jaxx? I caught them there, a few years ago, and there was not much of a crowd either. This was the day that Dave M was in a bad car wreck around the Reston area, IIRC.

The problem with Y&T, and this is strictly my opinion, was that they were kinda done, before hair metal.

The first 2 records.. late 70's, as "Yesterday and Today", are raging slabs of Rock and Roll.. Some of the best of that decade. But nobody seems to knows those records. They disappeared for a bit, and then returned as Y&T with "EarthShaker". Not quite as good as the earlier stuff, but still pretty decent. After that, they managed a few decent cuts per record, but nothing, once again.... my opinion, as good as the early stuff.

 
As expected, they have a pretty religious following out here in California. At many of our past gigs a roady or door man would start blabbing that his "uncle" was Y&Ts manager back in the day, or something like that. Everybody's uncle was, apparently. Pretty funny. A good friend of mine described it best as a "cult following".

And, yes, their early stuff was really great...and easier to sing. We love playing some of that stuff and will probably start playing more of that.

 
Turdus said:
tommy p said:
Cool band to pay tribute to! I have to wonder if you could even try something like that over here on the East coast. I really don't know anyone who's into them and the one time I saw them play a club here it was a pretty sorry turnout. Hope you have fun and success in equal measure!
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Did you see them at Jaxx? I caught them there, a few years ago, and there was not much of a crowd either. This was the day that Dave M was in a bad car wreck around the Reston area, IIRC.

The problem with Y&T, and this is strictly my opinion, was that they were kinda done, before hair metal.

The first 2 records.. late 70's, as "Yesterday and Today", are raging slabs of Rock and Roll.. Some of the best of that decade. But nobody seems to knows those records. They disappeared for a bit, and then returned as Y&T with "EarthShaker". Not quite as good as the earlier stuff, but still pretty decent. After that, they managed a few decent cuts per record, but nothing, once again.... my opinion, as good as the early stuff.
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I did indeed see them at Jaxx, 12/6/02. I don't remember the car wreck story but I think they came through once or twice more after that so the wreck might have been another date.

I need to check out those first two albums - those seem to be the ones that true fans love. I started with Meanstreak and got In Rock We Trust. A friend had Black Tiger and Earthshaker (which I can't really remember) and stayed a fan for one or two of the later albums beyond In Rock... so I did get to hear it even though it was just as you said. It seemed like each album got weaker and weaker.

Still - cool non-obvious band to do a tribute to, and Abaco does say they still have a good following in CA so maybe it'll fly.

 
tommy p said:
Still - cool non-obvious band to do a tribute to, and Abaco does say they still have a good following in CA so maybe it'll fly.
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Yeah, we gigged pretty heavily for couple years and had a great time. We played rock clubs all over norcal and just had a lot of fun with it. That was the goal, really. I took a break to get my engineers license (had to study like a hermit for several months). Then, as we were about to start gigging again, my son came down with autism. That really fucked up any and all plans until now, 3 years later. The other guys are all pretty busy with other projects. Our drummer keeps really busy with a country gig and the bass player has another project - I'm going to his gig here on Friday.

I love the loud, intense, theraputic effect I get playing and singing this music, and in many of our shows the fans really are great and appreciative. We even get members of Y&T out to play with us at rehearsals and even gigs sometimes. They are pretty cool guys. First time I met Nyman he reached out his hand and said, "Hey! I know you!" John's really a nice guy.

I've been hankerin to do a blues project eventually...really offensive stuff, much like Bonamassa /emoticons/default_cool.png (not for the purist blues police).

 
Abaco said:
http://www.myspace.com/yandttributeband

Here we are. No recordings yet. A few photos with Joey Alves jamming with us - which was cool. We're playing a gig in January and will continue to mangle Y&T tunes for a while after that. Challenging stuff to play be we have a blast with it. Note my Hamers...
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Hi, the band sounds like a good time! Have fun with it. Just a small suggestion, but your myspace layout is super hard to read. I don't know if it's just the way my computer is displaying it. Anyway, the text describing the band is overlapping some background text with the logo etc. Hard to read it with that set-up.

rock on /emoticons/default_cool.png

 
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