Tribute Bands

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David explores the world of the tribute band - meeting “Dirty Deeds”, America’s best AC/DC tribute band (yes, there are lots of them). With their youngest member in their 30s and their oldest in their 70s - David explores how these American friends ended up choosing to portray Australia’s biggest rock band, learning that the world of the tribute band is expansive, surprising, inspirational... and often deeply weird. Links: - Email us your feedback: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.com - Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/flightlessbird Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	David.
0:09.0	Hi, Rosabel.
0:09.8	How are you?
0:10.7	I'm good.
0:11.4	How are you?
0:12.2	I'm good.
0:13.0	I'd give my day a 7 out of 10.
0:15.8	What about you?
0:16.8	Oh, hmm.
0:17.9	I would give it a six out of ten.
0:21.4	Have you had something go wrong or has it just been boring?
0:24.0	I got rained on.
0:25.4	I'm sorry.
0:26.6	I don't mean to make your day worse by throwing an annoying question at you, but today's topic, we're looking at tribute bands, quite a bizarre sort of territory we get into. But I'm wondering if you could see any
0:40.3	band, you know, that wasn't the band or the artist, but was someone pretending to be said band or
0:45.9	artist, who would you want to see? Oh, that's such a good question. You know, it's sort of almost
0:51.8	like you don't want to fork out top dollar for the actual band,
0:55.3	but you kind of want to be in the zone and pay less for someone who is not quite the real band.
1:00.9	Okay, so you mean the band is still alive?
1:03.7	Like, you could go see them.
1:05.1	They're not dead.
1:06.1	In this scenario, the band is still alive.
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