Was VH a "Tribute" band with Gary?

[chewbaccamonkeylunch]

I hope this is the right place to put this.
Anyway,I would say no, because Gary didn't do Dave's Tia Chi solo Isn't this the proper place to draw the line? I don't think that Sammy has Vic play 316 right?
P.S. no matter what some of you might say, Gary's "twirling" in Sydney was not an attempt to duplicate Dave's solo [img]graemlins/sssh.gif[/img]

[Kamikazesheep]

Tribute to who... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[The SLAWTERHOUSE Bug]

LRHRN has a pretty fair tribute to The Who...

[Mario VH]

Hell no. How can a band that has 3 founding members be a tribute band.

[FlufferChick]

Originally posted by Mario VH:
Hell no. How can a band that has 3 founding members be a tribute band.

If you want to be real picky, there were only 2 founding members. The band was started by Dave, Ed and Alex. Mikey is not the original bass player. Mike Stone was. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

At least I think that was his name.

[ June 14, 2002, 08:03 PM: Message edited by: FlufferChick ]

[DiamondSyxx]

I gotta go with "No", since they had an album they were touring in support of and actually played material from.

[Rokgtar]

If you use the same logic to describe Van Halen with Cherone as some on this site have described Dave solo, then yes, they were acting as a tribute band when they played Classic Van Halen songs without Dave.

HOWEVER, I do not subscribe to this point of view; I believe that if you had a hand in writing/recording a particular song, you should be able to play it live all you want without being called a "tribute band".