Why I Should Like Tribute Bands Is Precisely Why I Don’t

Tony Russo
5 min readNov 16, 2018

You don’t have to burn out and you don’t have to rust

Just about a decade ago a friend took me to a heavy metal show. It was one of those “Monsters of Rock” kind of events with a bunch of great, if aging, heavy metal acts. We saw Judas Priest and Black Sabbath (featuring Ronnie James Dio and going under the name “Heaven and Hell”) and I feel like maybe one more.

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Tony Russo

Pencil-sharpening enthusiast, journalist, author of “Dragged Into the Light” https://amzn.to/3bLQ0Wi