by JimmyPage 23 Replies latest jw friends
I was checking out Alice In Chains' new album "Black Gives Way To Blue" and how they've replaced deceased frontman Layne Staley with William Duvall. It got me thinking of other bands that have done this, like Journey replacing Steve Perry with Steve Augeri and Arnel Pineda, and INXS replacing Michael Hutchence with J.D. Fortune.
Anyway, who else can you think of doing this? Which ones did you consider sacrilege? Which ones did you like?
AC/DC gotta away with a "close enough"
Here's J.D. Fortune:
Here's William Duvall:
Here's one of mine:
In the case of JD, he can sound like Hutchence, but he also has his "own" voice. I can dig it. Van Halen w/ Sammy Hagar was great as it's own animal, but when he tried singing DLR songs, it was plain awful.
That being said, bands who hire a sound-alike for the sake of one drive me nuts, I like it when a singer brings another dimension, like w/ AC/DC. I prefer Bon Scott, but Johnson definitely brings his own thing. I liked Tim "Ripper" Owens in Judas Priest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qd1iQscjFI
And sometimes when they bring in someone who sounds totally different, it's an epic fail, i.e Blaze Bailey w/ Iron Maiden, or John Corabi w/ Motley Crue.
Nothing to do with sound-alikes, but I love this song. Reminds me of the Borg.
