Which band do you consider the biggest rip off of Pearl Jam?

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  • gobrowns19
    gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    Songburst wrote:
    gobrowns19 wrote:
    I think the singer of Crash Test Dummies or whatever that band is called tries to sound like Eddie the most.
    Who was around first?

    I don't know?

    I really don't care honestly either, i'm sorry.
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  • mojoro23
    mojoro23 Posts: 13
    I don't know, I think Silverchair sort of has a PJ sound to it, definitely Australia’s version of grunge. I like them, I like a lot of the early 90’s music. i.e. Alice in Chains, STP, Screaming Trees, Sound Garden and I really like Hum. :geek:
  • QT31085
    QT31085 Posts: 33
    there was a band called Nixon (or Dixon?) many many years ago that sounded exactly like pearl jam. so much so that i remember hearing one of their songs on the radio and thinking it was a new pearl jam song (and a rather shitty one at that).
  • pjamaholic
    pjamaholic Posts: 1,225
    mrshock13 wrote:
    Creed, by and far. Their lame singer even said he likes Pearl Jam. My old band's guitarist said he didn't like Pearl Jam because they're the reason that Creed and Scott Stapp are in existence. I laughed, then got confused...

    I echo that, Creed tried to rip em off and didnt do a very good job of it. They are known to be the biggest rip-off band of PJ of all time and they couldnt stand the test of time like PJ have. :lol:
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,459
    coldplay? i am not seeing it, sorry. they are more a rip off of U2.
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  • TransplantedNewf
    TransplantedNewf Posts: 805
    gobrowns19 wrote:
    I think the singer of Crash Test Dummies or whatever that band is called tries to sound like Eddie the most.

    That's the strangest thing i've ever heard. Brad Roberts sounds nothing like Ed, in my opinion. In fact, i don't think he could sound like anyone but himself even if he tried.
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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,334
    That ass-face lead singer from Nickelback.
    Worst band ever.


    A large number of bands that hit the radio in the mid 90s had a lot of Ed-wanna-be-sounding lead singers.
  • lateralus963
    lateralus963 Posts: 381
    All Pearl Jam cover bands. Instead of spending so much time coping PJ, why don't they go make new music. New music is the greatest result of inspiration, not making money off of the band... Personally, I see it kinda like piracy. Not to mention, Cover bands are a huge cock tease, not as satisfying as the real thing. :P :oops: :lol: :roll:
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  • samnation
    samnation Los Angeles, CA Posts: 277
    STP's "Plush" always sounded exactly like PJ to me. And I'm sure it got pushed out there to cash in on PJ's success.
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    lateralus963 wrote:
    All Pearl Jam cover bands. Instead of spending so much time coping PJ, why don't they go make new music. New music is the greatest result of inspiration, not making money off of the band... Personally, I see it kinda like piracy. Not to mention, Cover bands are a huge cock tease, not as satisfying as the real thing. :P :oops: :lol: :roll:
    maybe cause they tried to make it in the music business and didnt and grew up and decided to play for fun on the weekends. its not a cock tease at all. i've had more fun at pj cover band concerts then the actual pj concerts. least i dont have to deal with drunken assholes before, during and after the pj cover band concerts :lol:
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  • lowenan
    lowenan Posts: 79
    Never understood why this bothers people so much. I thought Creed's My Own Prison was a decent release. To me it doesn't even sound that much like Pearl Jam. Just sort of a similar genre. Their subsequent releases were hardly worth releasing, with Stapp going over the top in so many songs. Mark Tremonti seems like a good guitar player though.

    STP's Plush was one of my favourite albums growing up, not far behind the first Pearl Jam albums. But STP never released a Vitalogy or No Code.
  • DewieCox
    DewieCox Posts: 11,432
    lowenan wrote:
    Mark Tremonti seems like a good guitar player though.

    STP's Plush was one of my favourite albums growing up, not far behind the first Pearl Jam albums. But STP never released a Vitalogy or No Code.

    Tremonti is a freak guitarist. He tries to keep it harnessed it, but he still gets too ridiculous for my taste.

    Core is the album.

    I think STP gets a bad rap. I've been listening to Shangriladida and it's a damn fine album. I think STP went as far musically as PJ did, though not quite as often and I don't think they made an album as "bad" as Riot Act.

    Would like to point out. Dean Deleo is an awesome guitar player. I like to think of him as a modern day Jimmy Page, with the alternate tunings and different techniques he employs. After seein them in concert, I had to go home and relearn all their songs with the correct crazy chords.
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Creed
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  • BEnglish017
    BEnglish017 Posts: 455
    bush and creed
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  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    washedinblack91 wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phh_FRGdKzY

    LOL!

    P.S what made you come from NY to SYD?
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  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    washedinblack91 wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phh_FRGdKzY

    LOL!

    P.S what made you come from NY to SYD?
    i wanted to study abroad but i wanted to go somewhere that spoke english. i figured england was a shorter plane ride than australia so i can go to england any time i wanted to later on in life and if i wanted to go to australia i'd have to go now. and i picked sydney because i'd get to do more stuff since it's a city and i thought it'd be the closest thing to ny to make me feel at ease :)
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  • tenforthewin
    tenforthewin Posts: 177
    I guess Creed sounds the most like them. Although, I don't think they really sound all that much like PJ as a band. Same for STP. To be fair, I think the song Plush was written before ten even came out, believe it was on STP's first demo when they were still called mightly joe young in 1990-ish.
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  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
    tenforthewin wrote:
    I guess Creed sounds the most like them. Although, I don't think they really sound all that much like PJ as a band. Same for STP. To be fair, I think the song Plush was written before ten even came out, believe it was on STP's first demo when they were still called mightly joe young in 1990-ish.
    i dont believe STP sounds anything like pearl jam. they sound like a totally different band. and i really don't get how plus sounds like anything pearl jam ever did. and, being completely honest, i think weiland has a better voice than ed. if we're talkin which voice gives me more chills, definitely ed, but which voice has more range? that goes to weiland. i dont even think those two bands come close to sounding like the other. i may be wrong though, i'm still a newbie compared to all you other 30+ year olds :lol:
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  • tenforthewin
    tenforthewin Posts: 177
    washedinblack91 wrote:
    tenforthewin wrote:
    I guess Creed sounds the most like them. Although, I don't think they really sound all that much like PJ as a band. Same for STP. To be fair, I think the song Plush was written before ten even came out, believe it was on STP's first demo when they were still called mightly joe young in 1990-ish.
    i dont believe STP sounds anything like pearl jam. they sound like a totally different band. and i really don't get how plus sounds like anything pearl jam ever did. and, being completely honest, i think weiland has a better voice than ed. if we're talkin which voice gives me more chills, definitely ed, but which voice has more range? that goes to weiland. i dont even think those two bands come close to sounding like the other. i may be wrong though, i'm still a newbie compared to all you other 30+ year olds :lol:

    yeah I saw STP on their reunion tour and they sounded fantastic. Both Ed's and Scott's voices have changed, or mostly their style and delivery. Sometimes I wish Ed would just go back to the baritone patented Ten voice. Oh well, he's been singing in the higher vibrato-y register for a long while now so I'm used to it, still sounds great to me
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