Fan Halen vs. The Atomic Punks

[davehagarfan]

With Ralph the Atomic Punks were the best around....every VH tribute band shouldn't even bother....the new guy is good but Ralph was the best and noone will ever top that guy.....AP has the Van Hagar years covered now as well....everyone else should just call it a day....The Punks were the first CVH tribute and are still the best


If I had a choice between seeing AP at the Whiskey or seeing Van Heineken at The Staples Center....I'd choose AP everytime....until Van Heineken pulls their heads out and get Mike back....that's the way it's gonna be for me.....

[Calderone]

The new atomic punks singer does a better roth voice than ralph,but he needs to do some homework,watch US FEST even more,his voice is way better than ralph,way better,but he needs to let go his vibrato and his ohhhyeiiiyeah !

Fan halen has a little more looks,but the sound is not better than the punks

Kudos to both bands,but New atomic punks are better than fan halen and are better with the new singer !

[ZahZoo]

Check this dude out for someone who truly has that look alike/sound alike thing going.
The Jimmy Page guy..

LOL

Yeah he's got that patented Page live playing sloppy and crappy tone down pat!!

I played in a Led Zep copy band called Ded Zep back in 1980 in the SF Bay Area... I guess you'd call that a tribute band these days. Was fun for the 1st few months... then the band kept harassing me that my timing signatures on guitar were too "rigid" and I needed to loosen up. Told em I'd need some heavy doses of heroin to nail Page's timings... drummer goes we can set you up here and pulls out his smack kit. I left the band the next day...

[At0micPunk]

LOL

Yeah he's got that patented Page live playing sloppy and crappy tone down pat!!

I played in a Led Zep copy band called Ded Zep back in 1980 in the SF Bay Area... I guess you'd call that a tribute band these days. Was fun for the 1st few months... then the band kept harassing me that my timing signatures on guitar were too "rigid" and I needed to loosen up. Told em I'd need some heavy doses of heroin to nail Page's timings... drummer goes we can set you up here and pulls out his smack kit. I left the band the next day...

Well my point is if you're going to promote yourself as a band that looks like the real deal that Page dude is the standard most would expect to see I'd think. The VH tribute bands don't look or truly move anything like them. I'm not a person who is into seeing tribute bands but I'm a VH fan. I think it's ridiculous either of these bands would boast that they are look alikes. That was really my point.

As far as you not liking Page. lol Well we can disagree on that one.

[TheAtomicPunks]

Well my point is if you're going to promote yourself as a band that looks like the real deal that Page dude is the standard most would expect to see I'd think. The VH tribute bands don't look or truly move anything like them. I'm not a person who is into seeing tribute bands but I'm a VH fan. I think it's ridiculous either of these bands would boast that they are look alikes. That was really my point.

WE DEFINITELY don't say we are look alikes, nor do we call ourselves by the actual Van Halen members names!!

[Douglas T.]

WE DEFINITELY don't say we are look alikes, nor do we call ourselves by the actual Van Halen members names!!

Yeah I thought it would had been better at the end when David Lee Brian introduced the band he'd have used their stage names instead of the actual Van Halen members names! Nonetheless you PUNKS got your work cut out for ya with this battle of the clones!

[ELVIS]

I'm moving this crap...

[ZahZoo]

I'm moving this crap...

Can we get a courtesy flush please... startin to stink up the joint!!

[atomicpunk5151]

As far as you not liking Page. lol Well we can disagree on that one.

ZZ is totally right about Page's LIVE playing. Go listen to the 100s of live bootlegs from the 75 or 77 tours. Page is strung out and VERY sloppy at most shows.

[ZahZoo]

Yeah I saw em on those tours... clearly Page's better work during that period was in the studio.

[At0micPunk]

ZZ is totally right about Page's LIVE playing. Go listen to the 100s of live bootlegs from the 75 or 77 tours. Page is strung out and VERY sloppy at most shows.

Yes thats true for a certain point of his career but thats not the whole story and not his legacy. Trust me I know what the deal is still Page is a favorite of mine.

It's all besides the point really. I'm not being harsh on the tribute bands. One claims they looked like the real people. Being a VH fan I just think it's silly because none of them do. I posted that Page dude as someone who is able to back up that claim..as silly as it is.

I guess this thread is pointless. A battle of the imitators noone wants to participate in. lol I was just a little shocked by that claim.

[fryingdutchman]

Speaking of Jimmy Page...

From the archives of The Onion...

Unreleased Jimmy Page Guitar Riff To Be Retrieved From Secret Vault To Save Rock And Roll

GWYNEDD, WALES—Calling it the planet's last, best hope for saving rock music, the Guardians of the Protectorate of Rock announced Monday that they would take the extraordinary step of unleashing a never-before-heard Jimmy Page riff, hidden for decades in a mythic, impenetrable vault.



Some speculate that this is the gate to the secret vault.

"We who believe in the immortality of rock took a vow 30 years ago that we would never release this incredibly powerful force unless we faced a Day of Reckoning—and that day has come," said Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, one of the chosen few who helped forge the Secret Vault to Save Rock and Roll, at a press conference in the Welsh highlands. "Just look at the pop charts, and you shall know I speak the truth."
"Let's give rock and roll its fucking balls back," he added.

The Guardians said recent developments in the music world, such as the unaccountable popularity of the Dixie Chicks and Sufjan Stevens, have created a "perfect storm of lameness" from which rock might never recover. While Iommi refused to say when the vault would be opened, hard rock sources believe it will take place just prior to next month's Fall Out Boy–Honda Civic tour, which many fear will suck the remaining lifeblood from all that still rocks.

"Citizens of Rock, we refuse to stand idly by any longer," ZZ Top founder and Protectorate High Elder Billy Gibbons said. "When a puss like James Blunt is allowed to rule the airwaves, we must respond by exposing this monster riff, and blowing minds into the stratosphere."

The Protectorate, devoted to the preservation of badass jams and blistering guitar solos, was reportedly formed in the 1970s during the rise of adult contemporary music. According to legend, the riff, played only once by Page and recorded on a special cobalt record, contains the raw power, mind-blowing skill, and unbridled passion of all the Guardians combined. Recently translated parchments from the era describe it as a soul-searing power-chord progression faintly resembling a cross between "Smoke On The Water" and "Living Loving Maid," but "basically defying all description."

It is believed that, upon the riff's release, even those who claim that the genre is dead will have no choice but to pump their fists, bang their heads, and bow down to the gods of rock for all eternity.

"May God have mercy on our souls for what we are going to set loose upon the world," proclaimed Queen guitarist Brian May, dressed in druidic robes and bathed in the rising blue smoke of a nearby fog machine. "Will it save rock or destroy mankind? We have no way of knowing—yet we have no other choice."

Members of the Protectorate were each given only partial information about the location of the vault, which they were instructed to open in unison only in the event of a total Rockopalypse. While some believed the vault was buried in Boston, Chicago, Kansas, Europe, or Asia, others claimed it could be found in the Court of the Crimson King.

However, after piecing together clues hidden in Yes album covers and Pink Floyd liner notes, rock historians now believe the riff is locked away deep beneath the Welsh countryside house known as Bron-Yr-Aur, at rock-grid coordinates SH735026. British weather satellites have also photographed an enormous cloud, shaped like a hybrid of an upside-down question mark and cross, forming above these exact coordinates.

The vault's Key, regarded as too staggering a burden for any one man to bear, was divided in two parts, with half entrusted to Eddie Van Halen and half to David Lee Roth, shortly after Roth left the rock supergroup Van Halen. The two men, who have refused to work together for 20 years, recently announced plans for a historic reunion tour.
"Before we shake Heaven and Earth with the vicious power of this riff, we of the High Council of Elders of the Guardians of the Protectorate of Rock ask you: Are you about to rock?" AC/DC guitarist Angus Young said. "If so, we salute you."

When asked to comment on the possible dangers of using the riff, Sir Paul McCartney seemed surprised. "There's a secret vault to save rock and roll?" McCartney said. "This is the first I've heard of it."

[TheAtomicPunks]

Don't know why this post was moved to an irrelevant section but here's a new video..

[chefcraig]

That said, tribute bands arguing amongst themselves about who's "truer" is kinda gay.

No, it isn't. It rawks, like having all the living, breathing drama rite in the mess of your own living room. Instead of just judging who's the best at playing/impersonating we also get to judge who's got the more game over the internet.

Cheers! :bottle:

As opposed to a parking lot where both groups are flyering cars, like at the beginning of Rock Star?

[atomicpunk5151]

As opposed to a parking lot where both groups are flyering cars, like at the beginning of Rock Star?

STEEL DRAGON fuckin rules!