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YouTube: The New Way to Find a Sound-alike Lead Singer
Kevin Maney sees a trend: First I see that the old band Boston is going on tour with a 43-year-old Home Depot clerk who can sing exactly like late lead singer Brad Delp. Then I read in Rolling Stone that Journey has been touring with a middle-aged Filipino who'd been fronting a cover band but happens to sound exactly like former Journey wailer Steve Perry. In both cases, the band accidentally ran across the replacement singer while trolling YouTube.
This is quite the interesting development. Neither band would've found these singers if not for the recent emergence of YouTube as a global distributor of amateur video. And you just know that once these stories get around, two things will happen: sound-alike singers will make damn sure they've got video up on YouTube just in case their doppelgangers get fired or killed; and bands in search of replacements for fallen comrades will more systematically search YouTube.
I can do a passable Alice Cooper. I'm just not sure how I'd look in mascara...
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