Amid Sky-High Concert Tickets, Tribute Bands See Boom

FRISCO, Texas—In 1989, Mike Mroz and Darren Caperna were trying to make it in the Los Angeles music scene. They loved performing and dreamed of being full-time musicians.
There was just one catch.
“We weren’t making any money,” Caperna told The Epoch Times.
So, in 1990, they made a change.
Thirty-six years later, sitting in the green room of a beer garden in Frisco, Texas, with their current band, Back in Black, the performers said they feel blessed to finally be able to make a living as an AC/DC tribute band.
There was a time when tribute bands were considered novelty acts at best. They were musical impersonators, a step above garage bands—talented, but not quite professional. Now, tribute bands are exploding in popularity….