Dennis Dunstan and Mick Fleetwood love those guys. In fact, I think Dennis manages them now. The band is Australian. They’re a really precise cover band with good musicianship (see their cover of Bowie’s “Young Americans”). But I still think the best band of that sort in the world is a Russian group called Leonid & Friends. They are peerless with covers of Chicago and Earth Wind & Fire.
Still, it’s a weird sort of brilliance because foundationally you’re just a mimic. You hear something and you craft a direct replica. It’s akin to repainting a Manet.
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