David Farrier

Mostly people just writing in about their favorite tribute bands, which is kind of amazing.

Anna Roden.

I used to work for Live Nation in a role where I had day of show access to the bands.

And Anna isn't a fan of tribute bands, even though the tribute band we talked to was beautiful and wonderful, and this doesn't apply to them.

I loathed the nights I had to deal with cover bands.

Sorry, tribute bands.

Calling them a cover band was the ultimate insult.

They took the distinction so seriously that they fully committed to what they imagined the real artists' personalities were like.

This meant trashing green rooms, being openly awful to venue staff, and expecting backstage groupies and drugs, despite the fact they were struggling to fill a 3,000-cap room.

Meanwhile, the actual bands they were emulating were consistently kind, low-maintenance, and genuinely humble.

The contrast was wild.

The worst offenders?

Can you guess which tribute bands were the worst?

Led Zeppelin tributes were particularly offensive and bad.

And I found this very amusing because I'm a huge Tool fan and their fans are fucking annoying.

Tool tribute bands.

Apparently very badly behaved.

Truly some of the most impressive twats I've ever met.

Also, we raise in the Tribute Band story the question of how legally they're allowed to cover this band's music.

Did a lawyer write in?