# Sound-alike bands and singers (classic rock) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903 "2008-01-17T18:36:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903/21 "2008-01-18T06:31:22Z")
Latter Tom Petty really evokes Dylan, no? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903/22 "2008-01-18T06:34:31Z")
[QUOTE=John DiFool] Don’t get me started on all the bands whose lead singers sound exactly like the guy in Creed. [/QUOTE] That seems fitting since Creed’s lead singer, Scott Stapp, has built his career by sounding exactly like Eddie Vedder. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903/23 "2008-01-18T06:53:19Z")
I read an article a long time ago where Eddie Vedder named the term for his early style of singing around the time “Ten” came out. It was all tongue in cheek and was something like “churling”. It was pretty cool he admitted to it, and that he gradually gave it up, just in time for Scott Stapp to pick up the torch. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903/24 "2008-01-18T06:53:47Z")
[QUOTE=JohnT] Led Zeppelin has a few, most notably (at least from when I paid attention to such things) Whitesnake. There was also a Led Zep-esque band that charted in the late 1980s, early 1990s with a song that pretty much lifted its guitar riff from _Whole Lotta Love_, but I can’t remember the name of the band or the song. [/QUOTE] The singer for **Zebra** sounded a lot like Robert Plant. [http://www.thedoor.com/html/discography.html](http://www.thedoor.com/html/discography.html) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903/25 "2008-01-18T06:58:02Z")
**Krokus** was said to have ripped off both \*\*AC\DC \*\* and **The Scorpions**. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903/26 "2008-01-18T07:22:25Z")
[QUOTE=RealityChuck] And Klaatu had a whole PR campaign that hinted that they were the Beatles. Their “Sub-Rosa Subway” sounds a lot like the Fab Four. [/QUOTE] Not quite. Oh, you’re correct about “Sub Rosa Subway” sounding like the Beatles, but the band had little to do with the rumours. Some critics and DJs advanced the idea that Klaatu was the Beatles, then the ball started rolling. From Klaatu’s own [website](http://www.klaatu.org/klaatu1.html): > [@](#): > > How did these rumors get started? > > A Providence, RI newspaper (The Providence Journal) ran an article by a rock music writer named Steve Smith which stated “Could Klaatu be the Beatles? Mystery is a Magical Mystery Tour.” Smith concluded that Klaatu was more than likely in part or in whole the Beatles. > > Charlie Parker at WDRC … in Hartford, CT said on air that it was, “a marvelous experience” to listen to this album and asked, “Who are Klaatu? Are the Beatles really back?” and suddenly Capitol records had to ship another 20,000 copies to that region of the country. > > All this led people to think this was the Beatles. If it wasn’t them, then why not put their names and their pictures on it? The album referred to was _3:47 EST_, also known simply as _Klaatu_, since the band’s name was prominent on the record jacket, but the title was not. (Wikipedia has a [picture](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Klaatu1.gif) of the album cover.) It bears no artist photos or names, and all songs are listed as having been written and composed by “Klaatu.” At any rate, Klaatu themselves did nothing to stop the rumour–after all, it was sending their record sales through the roof. And the album itself was Beatlesque; exploring the same potential of the studio’s technology and various tapes and sound effects that the Beatles did with _Sgt. Pepper_, the _White Album_, _Abbey Road_, and _Let It Be_. Even today, when we know better (Klaatu was not the Beatles, and the identity of the band’s members is known), a listen to \*3:47 EST \* still recalls the sound of the Beatles of the late 1960s. (And if you’re really interested about the _real_ “Sub Rosa Subway,” Klaatu helpfully provides information about Alfred Ely Beach and his clandestine subway in the FAQ at their website.) ---
**Author:** ![Carson\_O\_Genic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Carson\_O\_Genic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carson_O_Genic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903/27 "2008-01-18T08:20:52Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] Latter Tom Petty really evokes Dylan, no? [/QUOTE] ``` What I thought.Musta been the Wilbury gig, ``` ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903/28 "2008-01-18T11:13:05Z")
Billy’s Squier’s ‘Lonely is the Night’ is not only a Zeppelin sound-alike, it also closely resembles their ‘Nobody’s Fault But Mine’ right down to the drum break in the middle featuring a John Bonham wannabe. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903/29 "2008-01-19T03:24:04Z")
Going back in time now,Captain Beefheart and the Edgar Broughton band sounded incredibly alike. ---
**Author:** ![Br\_er\_Lapin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Br\_er\_Lapin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Br_er_Lapin)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903/30 "2008-01-19T03:34:52Z")
My mother absolutely refuses to believe that Edwyn Collins’ “Girl Like You” is \*not \*David Bowie. YMMV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sound-alike-bands-and-singers-classic-rock/433903.md?page=1)