Naturally, there was just as much redundancy among lesser bands.
Baker also led the crack Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and lesser bands such as the Orange County Pacific Symphony Orchestra.
In fact, three-quarters of the gig would have been set-closing finales for lesser bands – who wouldn't want to go out on Hell's Bells, Back in Black, Thunderstruck, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap or You Shook Me All Night Long? – but the Dacca catalogue is a deep one.
In the early eighties, a loose aggregation of punk-rock bands, including Black Flag and X, were responsible for an explosion of musical activity in the area, and by the end of the decade the hard-rock scene in Hollywood had yielded Guns N' Roses — along with a fashion for teased hair and tight leather pants, which helped propel the careers of similar but lesser bands.
He says some people like mistakes more than they do the music and that it would be easy to fool the audience with a lesser caliber band.
The artists appealing the "Blurred Lines" ruling point to a a recent copyright case in which Led Zeppelin was accused of ripping off another, lesser known band in their creation of their 1971 hit "Stairway to Heaven".
The lesser "shadow band" peaks, labeled S, probably derive from PCR errors.
Two lesser known bands billed to play at the same festival, the Klaxons and the Gorillaz Sound System, also dropped out.
As the lesser-known band member — and the only one who didn't compose anything in the set — Mr. Gambale didn't grapple for the spotlight.
No matter that there were albums still to be released in 2014 by the critically acclaimed likes of TV on the Radio, Ariel Pink, the Bug, Savages and Bo Ningen, (as well as the first AC/DC album in six years, and releases by lesser known bands with names like Two Inch Astronaut and Lumen Drones).
