"It's so funny," says John Payne. "All these guys, because we play in original bands, none of us have ever played covers before."
But they're learning "Stairway to Heaven" now.
Payne is at the helm of "Raiding the Rock Vault," a production show featuring veteran rock pros that will play five nights a week at the LVH starting March 9.
Payne started developing the show after "noticing how well tribute bands do now" as a member of the band Asia.
His experience with that band brought its own Warhol soup-can moments of separating originals from copies. He toured with Asia during the years for which the band is less famous, before the best-known original lineup got back together.
The reunited Asia agreed he could continue with the name Asia featuring John Payne; they played Fremont Street last summer. But Payne says he once played a gig in Canada, "and two nights later an Asia tribute band played to 500 more people than we did."
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