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….