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We took this last month off from Classic Metal Class, but we've got a really interesting session coming up this weekend, specifically on
Saturday at Noon Central Time We'll be focusing on an age-old issue in the arts, the role of
Mimesis. That's a Greek term that can be translated as "imitation," and discussions about the nature of art (including music) have long viewed it as involving - or even at its core, just being - mimesis.
There are a number of other issues connected with this that we'll likely explore in upcoming episodes, but the one that we're going to focus on here is rather specific. There's a phenomenon that is essentially one of imitation in metal, and that is Tribute Bands.
We've all seen them either live or in other media like YouTube videos - bands whose entire purpose and point is to imitate another band, going past just covering their music to imitating their appearance, their style, their ethos. Sometimes, they're dead-on. Sometimes they're from the originals. Sometimes they rock. And sometimes they suck.
But there's thousands of tribute bands out there, so we're going to discuss what distinguishes tribute bands from other ones, and examine the range of values they provide, deal in, or exploit - and what their relationships are with the original metal bands they imitate.
Guitarist and Berkelee School of Music professor Scott Tarulli will be joining me as a special guest again for this session. I hope you can join us for it! If you can, you get to participate in the discussion. Here's
the ZOOM LINK to join us at Noon Central.
We will be recording the session as well, just like the three previous class sessions,
all of which you can view here.
