Originally Posted by Old Joysey (Post 1184089)

The winner of Richie's Every Road contest wrote a tribute song and asked other contestants from all over the world to play it and film themselves and he's just posted the video. No doubt Richie will love it! He wrote "Mr. Bluesman" to pay tribute to his guitar hero Eric Clapton and now some of his fans do the same thing for him (with errr... less talent), ain't that cool?! :cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXVFw_nTHJ8

Originally Posted by sambos apprentice (Post 1184107)

Best way to pay tribute to your hero is to write great songs using what they taught you- this song sucks!

Originally Posted by sambos apprentice (Post 1184107)

Why write a tribute song for anyone?

Originally Posted by Rdkopper (Post 1184116)

I tried to listen to it again and I can't. Someone needs to post the lyrics

Originally Posted by Old Joysey (Post 1184117)

What a strange question!!! It's a common thing that musicians do for each other to show their respect and admiration, to thank their favorite musos for the good music and times, for inspiration, hope, strength and the likes (unless of course if you have an ego bigger than the whole universe and think that your genius and your genius alone made you what you are!).

Richie paid tribute to Clapton as you may know:
http://www.whereseric.com/the-vault/...t-eric-clapton

Another example: Dylan, Harrison, Lynne and Petty as The Traveling Wilburys paid tribute to (or made fun of?) Springsteen with "Tweeter and The Monkey Man" using Springsteen's song titles and themes
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Tweeter_and_...apn&ap=ask.com

Richie fans used exactly the same formula but the result is ... errr... what it is!!!

Originally Posted by Old Joysey (Post 1184134)

They say love is blind, I say love is deaf.

Originally Posted by Rdkopper (Post 1184094)

Now I've seen it all. This is so corny lyrically that I'm almost embarrassed to be lumped in as a Richie fan.

Originally Posted by Old Joysey (Post 1184233)

That's not what Richie (or his staff) wrote...

Originally Posted by Old Joysey (Post 1184233)

Now, as John L. sang: "so this is Xmas... and what have you done?"

Originally Posted by MrIks from Finland (Post 1184251)

He said:
"It's people like you that keep me wanting to continue and get better and better"
Which means exactly that he wants to try harder and harder... And you know it. What is your problem with this?

Originally Posted by MrIks from Finland (Post 1184251)

He said:
"It's people like you that keep me wanting to continue and get better and better"
Which means exactly that he wants to try harder and harder... And you know it. What is your problem with this?

Originally Posted by MrIks from Finland (Post 1184252)

I've done lots of things. And if you mean have I made any music, yes. And while you seem to be interested, here's a link (expecting some thrash talk in few hours.)
https://soundcloud.com/zebra-band

Originally Posted by Old Joysey (Post 1184255)

And if you're so proud of what you've done, why don't you upload it and market it?

Let me put it this way one last time in case you haven't bothered to read the explanation underneath the YT vid: this thread is about a bunch of fans living in different countries who got in touch through Richie's cover song contest. Valentin won Richie's 2 electric guitars + a couple of other things and a trip to NYC to meet the cool cat in the flesh. Then he decided to do something to thank Richie, he chose to write a song and perform it with some of the other contestants via the internet, they never met and played together in the same room.

As I said before and as rolo_tomachi said too, it's not about songwriting and singing, it's a message of love from some fans to their idol, why can't you understand? They're not a tribute band, they're not trying to make a living out of it (the Bounce guys ARE a German tribute band though), it's obviously a selfless piece of work, that's all.


PS: one of the lead gtr players is one of the Italian guys who organized the fans choregraphy in Udine and Milan. They spent an awful amount of time and money to do so, if that is not dedication, then what is???
http://youtu.be/AcR032N_9kI

Originally Posted by MrIks from Finland (Post 1184256)

Ok, I don't know where to start. Lot of your writing has nothing to do with what I've written.

First of all, who said I'm particularly proud of what I've done or that I want to market my music? You were the one who asked about what I've done (rhetoric or not).

Second of all, I knew very well about Richies competition and the guy who made the video was the winner of it.

Third of all, I know it's a tribute and a message of love from the fans but it is still IN MY OPINION cheezy, tacky and embarassing as hell. I don't care who made it, it doesn't change my opinion about the content of the video.

And last, what the hell has it to do with me what you wrote: "one of the lead gtr players is one of the Italian guys who organized the fans choregraphy in Udine and Milan. They spent an awful amount of time and money to do so, if that is not dedication, then what is???"

I haven't said anything about anybody's dedications. I don't care if the video was made by Ava Sambora, Richie himself or Paul Mccartney, it's hidious.

So if you don't have anything else to do than argue, at least have some point and don't put words in my mouth.

Here's a good the Beatles tribute song written by a fan. This one sounds like it could have been written by adults and the Sambora tribute sounds like it was written by 12 years old girl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE24Igdkivk

But hey, that it is just my opinion, in case you want to teach me again.

Originally Posted by MrIks from Finland (Post 1184223)

Wow! That is one tough piece of horse shit! And Richie said the people who made it make Richie try harder and harder. If this tells anything about the taste of music of Richie's fans, Richie can stop trying. This bunch of losers will lick his butthole anyways.

Originally Posted by MrIks from Finland (Post 1184256)

... and don't put words in my mouth.

Originally Posted by rolo_tomachi (Post 1184258)

Do not be so hard ****.

Originally Posted by Old Joysey (Post 1184260)

EDIT: gimme 5, rolo_tomachi! We're saying the same thing but you were faster!

Originally Posted by Old Joysey (Post 1184260)

- it's NOT about you and this thread is NOT about you either

Originally Posted by Old Joysey (Post 1184260)

- you're perfectly entitled to express your opinion as anyone else over here but you could do so without insulting people and being aggressive and, most of all, without changing other people's words/comments, which is the main reason for my posting. Is it too much to ask for?

Originally Posted by MrIks from Finland (Post 1184223)

Wow! That is one tough piece of horse shit! And Richie said the people who made it make Richie try harder and harder. If this tells anything about the taste of music of Richie's fans, Richie can stop trying. This bunch of losers will lick his butthole anyways.

Originally Posted by JackieBlue (Post 1184267)

It's your closing statement that I find offensive on so many levels I can't even begin to number them. It's not clear if "this bunch of losers" refers to the people who did the video, to the fans whose taste you think may be assumed by it, or to Richie fans in general, but it doesn't matter. At least one Richie fan has enough taste to know that your final comment, besides being uncalled for, had none.

Originally Posted by Supersonic (Post 1184273)

Aloha !



Yeah, I don't get that either. These guys are passionate about what they love and showed it by creating something new. Now I don't understand why they're passionate about it, why they still love it, and think the song is mediocre at best, but I wouldn't call them losers for simply doing such a thing. If anything, there's more passion and love involved in that 5 minute video than there is in the last few records of Bon Jovi.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan

Originally Posted by JoviCrush (Post 1184289)

Bah Humbug to the Scrooges on here trying to knock down a nice gesture. Just sad and pathetic.
There was nothing wrong with their video at all. It was a really cool thing to do.