The real Redbone
Posted on 08/13/2006 3:10:53 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper
BUTTE, Mont. -- A band that headlined a fair last weekend is accused of masquerading as the rock group Redbone, whose hits included the 1970s song "Come and Get Your Love."
The band at the Butte-Silver Bow Fair performed under the name Redbone, but the real Redbone was playing in Wisconsin, said Ron Kurtz, Redbone's manager.
"I've been in the business for 40 years, and I've never ran into anything this blatant," Kurtz said Thursday from his office in Burbank, Calif. He said the fair board was conned.
Fair officials said they dealt with a man who identified himself as Denny Freeman and said he was a co-founding member of Redbone.
Pat Vegas, who founded Redbone with his brother, Lolly, in 1968, said he had not heard of Freeman.
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***A band that headlined a fair last weekend is accused of masquerading as the rock group Redbone,***
Nothing really new. Just after WWII a group came into a small NM town and claimed to be from the GRAND OLE OPRY in NASHVILLE. My Mom is from Nashvile and went to the show, it was all impersonators. Not a real Opry member in the group.
I also understand there was several groups going around as THE INK SPOTS.
Addendum: This fake Grand ole Opry group even had a fake Minnie Pearl (With that GREAT opery MINNIE PERL!).
Note the difference in the name. My mom noticed and knew something was not right but didn't realize the fraud till this fake minnie Pearl came onto stage.
Did they stay at the local Holiday Inn the night before?
But were they any good?
They could have been imitating Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods...
Maybe they got Leon Redbone? That would actually be a better show.
Thanks for posting. I was wondering what Ward Churchill's doing these days.
I don't know if they were or not. There wasn't any complaints until a week after their performance.
LOL!
Some popular bands can't perform live at all. They need high dollar equipment to carry a tune. The copycats sometimes do a 100% better job at singing live.
Singing cover tunes is one thing, but ripping an established band off by using their name and songs is pretty darn low.
"It could have been worse.
They could have been imitating Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods..."
No, they could have been imitating Sam Donaldson and The Bodeans
Didn't the rock group Kraftwerk once stage something like 10 shows simultaneously, with only one having the real band memebers and the rest having robots?
They all act robot-like anyway, nobody could tell the difference.
"Did they stay at the local Holiday Inn the night before?"
Yes they did, and in the same room with the Brenda Lee impersonator.
Meanwhile, Leon Redbone is saying "Who? I've never heard of Pat Vegas and Denny Freeman"...
About 25 years ago, some guy just out of Joliet prison hooked up with his brother, threw together a band, and went about impersonating the "Good Ole Boys". They even had the brashness to play in venues that "Good Ole Boys" were already booked in by showing up early and they were known to run up very large bar bills in the process.
LOL!
Great version of "Rawhide".
I think this is all a big misunderstanding....The band playing at the fair is not calling themselves "Redbone" but "Redboner".
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