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Not sure if this should have gon in the non-hip catergory, but it is sort of Hip related.

Does anyone remember The Hip coverband, "Road Apples"?
They eventually became "Vegabond Groove".

Here is thegroove.net from 1997:
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This guy was the "Gord Downie" impersonator of the band. Micheal Compeau.




Here is a humerous article ripping "Road Apples" up University of Western Gazette online dated February 6th, 1997.

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ive seen them play before - as road apples, no originals. Are they amazing? no. Are they the hip? no. What they are is a band that presents their own versions of hip tunes, with the occassional rant thrown in to boot. they arent pretending to be the hip; they are just a bar band playing a few good tunes and doing a pretty good job of it too.

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i think they`re just doing what alot of us do when we`re driving down the highway or rocking out at home or insert hip listening situation here, albeit in front of an audience, which takes ahem courage :wink: i`d be willing to bet that 90% of hipbasers have channeled their inner gord at some point.... obviously they are huge fans, good on them... that review was pretty harsh

thesellout Wrote:ive seen them play before - as road apples, no originals. Are they amazing? no. Are they the hip? no. What they are is a band that presents their own versions of hip tunes, with the occassional rant thrown in to boot. they arent pretending to be the hip; they are just a bar band playing a few good tunes and doing a pretty good job of it too.

For the most part I would agree with this. It's one thing to be a cover band , playing songs you like to play and the drunks want to hear on a Saturday. It's another thing to be a tribute artist and present yourself as the next best thing, when clearly, you aren't. Road Apples are a cover band, plan and simple and at the end of the day no gets hurt by them. The kind of pubs they play aren't going to usually host up-and-coming singer songwriters anyway.

Last time I saw Road Apples was in 2005 and Ackroyd was there. I can't imagine seeing Ackroyd ever attending, say, a Practically Hip show. Then again, if the Prac show had a lot of young Queen's students...

Cheers,

Pat