Deraps - sound familiar?

I have no idea who this band is. but the SOUND is familiar, check it out.

That’s the new band featuring the guitar wiz kid Jacob Deraps. He’s been a big YouTube sensation for several years doing spot on guitar covers of early Van Halen songs. Same with the drummer Josh Gallagher. They joined forces for this band as a Van Halen inspired power trio.

Jacob lives in Quebec Canada and Josh is from Australia.

I like what I hear, glad to see someone doing a classic style. Sure, it's a rip off of VH but howmany bands rip off AC/DC and we love those bands too.
I hope they do more!

Not too shabby at all. Thanks for the heads up.

Wow! Not just the guitar, but the drumming (especially as the songs starts) really has an early VH sound to it. Honestly, if you take away the vox, it sounds like a lost VH track circa 1978-1983. Besides the obvious, the Hair band Roxy Blue came to mind, especially the song, Rob the Cradle. A few years back there was that band Klassik 78 or something that sounded just like 70's era Kiss; we could have a Classic VH that does dead on impersonations of DLR era VH. Thanks for the heads up, brother.

The one element that is the hardest to imitate is Michael Anthony’s backing vocals. I’ve never heard a VH cover band that can recreate that!

That sounds really cool.

Can hear some Aerosmith vibe in there.

Interesting music.

I like this. Up-tempo boogie-shuffle with some killer guitar and nice vocals harmonies. What's not to like? Oh wait, the name. Yea, I get it, it's his last name. Just looks too close to "derp".

MetalGuy71 wrote:

I like this. Up-tempo boogie-shuffle with some killer guitar and nice vocals harmonies. What's not to like? Oh wait, the name. Yea, I get it, it's his last name. Just looks too close to "derp".

He plays guitar but he also likes De-rap.