Latter Tom Petty really evokes Dylan, no?
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Don’t get me started on all the bands whose lead singers sound exactly like the guy in Creed.
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That seems fitting since Creed’s lead singer, Scott Stapp, has built his career by sounding exactly like Eddie Vedder.
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.
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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.
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The singer for Zebra sounded a lot like Robert Plant.
Krokus was said to have ripped off both **AC\DC ** and The Scorpions.
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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.
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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:
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 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.)
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Latter Tom Petty really evokes Dylan, no?
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What I thought.Musta been the Wilbury gig,
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.
Going back in time now,Captain Beefheart and the Edgar Broughton band sounded incredibly alike.
My mother absolutely refuses to believe that Edwyn Collins’ “Girl Like You” is *not *David Bowie. YMMV.