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I was conversing with a fellow inmate, when the band Tora Tora came up. Hot damn, their debut album, Surprise Attack is now a quarter century old! At the time, the band were still teenagers. Yet, they came up with a solid Led Zep clone.
I used to think that Surprise Attack sounded kind of slick. But when I saw Tora Tora (opening for L.A. Guns) in late '89 or early '90 at San Francisco's Warfield, their live performance sounded very similar to what's on record. I've been going to rock concerts for decades. I'm racking my brain, and I can't think of any other band whose live performance sounded as close to what's on record.
Now that I look back, it's too bad Tora Tora didn't team up with that other Lep Zep clone, Kingdom Come (whom I saw open for Warrant at S.F.'s The Fillmore in June '89). A Tora Tora/Kingdom Come bill would have been awesome!
The Audiophiles' DJ,
-Lummy The Loch Monster
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Very similar to 'Kingdom Come' another Zep rip-off according to the critics back in the 80's.
This morning, I was listening to Testament 'Practice what you Preach'.
...maybe because they brought what they couldn't do live on tape, sound an awful lot like their albums. However, the live concerts were in surround sound.
Joe
In the late-80s, or perhaps very early 90s, one of the heavy metal magazines asked a band why they sounded so similar live and on their latest album.
The band gave two main answers. One, they had asked the producer specifically to capture the band's "live" sound. So, the producer made the band play together in the studios (including Berkeley's Fantasy Studios), set up the mikes, and pressed RECORD. He patched in the vocal tracks later, and voila, the album was done.
Two, this same band then brought the same instruments used in the studio on the road.
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