Skip to main content Rear View: Remember live music? It's back at INXS tribute show at Kate in Old Saybrook Vinnie Penn FacebookTwitterEmail Remember live music? While many world-renown musical acts are cautiously optimistic about announcing tours for late summer and definitely fall, the key word is cautiously. It is important to keep the word “tentative” in the back of your mind while purchasing tickets, even if the date promoted on a given venue’s website might not be so bold as to place it there. The safer bet as we emerge from the darkness that is—was the pandemic seems to be the tribute act. They are an ambitious lot, often playing as close to 365 days a year as possible and, that being the case, are the perfect guinea pigs. For some it is supplemental income working in a tribute act — even a labor of love. For others, though, being the lead singer in a Tom Petty tribute band or Bon Jovi is the day job, and it’s been a lot of days since they got to play.