Change is commonplace and if you can't "change with the times" or go with the flow", your experience will be rough. Tribute shows in second life have had a very shady reputation at best. The competition and rivalries make the "HatFields and Mcoys" look like a tea party! Club owners copying everyone else's events, sending griefers to ruin other groups events, its all nuts. It's no wonder why the major clubs have nothing to do with them.
The "Tribute shows" days are numbered. It can't come too soon for me. Much like the big casinos and porn clubs everywhere plaguing the landscape, the tribute show has become pointless except for a laugh. How many times can you go see another group doing Pink Floyd? Or Prince? or any of the other bands that seem to be done to death? Most of the time it's done very badly lol.
Many of the live entertainers and fans have looked down on tribute shows as no talent wannabes, and they could be right. Why bother doing a tribute show when you can stream a full concert of the real band from You Tube into second life? Less lag lol.
The hot ticket now is burlesque shows. Strip clubs are mostly out of fashion so burlesque is the next step up. Much more skill and imagination needed for these types of shows for sure and much more fun!
Unfortunately like the glut of tribute bands, too many are turning to burlesque. Done well its great fun, done badly its much like a school play...lol. This new fad will die out to as the live professional singers will eventually win out.
What's next? I have a good idea but won't divulge that info yet as a few are probably already planning it!..LOL. I want to be one of the first and I'm one of the few that can pull it off. I hope :)
So all you tribute artists and copy cats out there, have fun while you can till the increasingly sophisticated SL audience turns to the newest fad of entertainment. And to the griefers , may you rot in hell...lol GOOD LUCK!
