‘X’ Factor Boy Band Rips Off Randy Rogers Band Logo
For a site like Saving Country Music, the reality show beat could be such an endless supply of roasting material on darn near a daily basis, it’s not even worth broaching the subject unless it’s done as a full time endeavor. There’s so many shows and competitions, and what’s transpiring there is so cancerous, it’s not worth providing it with unnecessary attention even by gracing it with the poison pen. We’ll leave our venom for more worthy adversaries and let these people prove their muster in the real music world first before we ride them with ridicule or shower them with praise.
But over the past few weeks, I’ve been receiving numerous emails about a country boy band made up of three ‘X’ Factor contestants collectively named “Restless Road.” Apparently this band is now a semi-finalist on the show and yesterday, the intrepid country music writer for Entertainment Weekly named Grady Smith sent me a link to a video of one of their performances covering Luke Bryan’s “That’s My Kind Of Night.” Of course it was awful on its own, but that goes without saying. More importantly what caught my eye immediately was the logo on front of the bass drum on the back line. It was the immediately-recognizable back-to-back capital ‘R’ ‘s of the very popular and successful Texas country mainstay the Randy Rogers Band.
I found it quite alarming to think Randy Rogers has stooped so low as to slum it as the house band for The ‘X’ Factor, but that’s not what was going on here at all. Apparently even though this Restless Road boy band is still competing on The “X’ Factor, part of the ‘X’ Factor bit is to match up contestants with branding even as they’re competing. And I’ll be damned if Restless Road, The ‘X’ Factor marketing team, or someone didn’t straight up rip off the Randy Rogers Band logo, back-to-back capital ‘R’ ‘s, with the white highway stripes down the middle and everything.
Sure, there may be some subtle differences, like the slanting perspective of Randy’s logo compared to the straight up-and-down of Restless Road, but nonetheless, this isn’t just a little too close for comfort, this is straight-up thievery from a band whose been around for a dozen years and is signed to MCA Nashville, or is such wholesale oversight that it is inexcusable.
December 12, 2013 @ 12:04 pm
Dear GOD! Ripping off RRB AND N’Sync.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHgFAo5_GV8
December 12, 2013 @ 12:06 pm
C’mon I’m sure you can find a logo more fitting for yourselfs, like 3 boys holding hands! And on that note………never mind just looking at these little pukes makes me want to vomit!
December 12, 2013 @ 12:35 pm
A boy band covering Luke Bryan. Stop the world and let me off.
December 16, 2013 @ 7:03 pm
Hey Hey”¦wait a minute”¦you just quoted Waylon!
December 12, 2013 @ 1:01 pm
Pretty road cases.
December 12, 2013 @ 2:32 pm
Sad really does anyone on this show not check these things out before hand. What should RRB do ? Not sure I’d probably have an attorney send a cease and desist letter but they may not want to get involved. I guess we will see.
December 12, 2013 @ 9:00 pm
Haha. I’m hoping it was a typo that mentioned this act made it to the semi-finals!! Can’t be real.
December 13, 2013 @ 7:33 am
I don’t know who the first person to have this logo is, but I can’t tell you how many time I have seen this logo for an establishment. I was even stationed in Turkey for a year and there was a restaurant called Reyhan that uses basically the same symbol. It’s crazy how many places I have seen this, but I can guarantee this band wasn’t the first to use it. It’s a big difference when an a/c company is using the same logo or another band is using the same logo.
December 14, 2013 @ 7:32 am
Is Copyright Law the next avenue for Randy Rogers…or does he have to swallow the ‘X’ Factor?
December 14, 2013 @ 6:50 pm
What’s the “X Factor”?
March 16, 2014 @ 10:56 am
they had a lot of good performaces ! “thats my kinda night” was good too! but if your going to hate on them watch all of there videos there REALLY GOOD you guys watched on of there low weeks there other covers are AMAZING
March 16, 2014 @ 11:24 am
Oh, Miss Katie… I had a hard time deciding if you were actually serious in your comments here, they’re that comical! I hope you know you’re not doing your friends in Restless Road any favors by posting about the in such a flawed and unprofessional manner. The comments you have posted are so full of grammatical errors, that they took nearly twice as long to read, simply because I found myself having to decipher nearly every other word for it’s correct tense, spelling, and usage equivalents…I won’t even bring up how atrocious your punctuation was!
I bet you like Brantley Gilbert too, haha? Now anyone who reads into the comment section of this article as their first impression of Restless Road will undoubtedly associate that band with a. trashy, illiterate, and incompetent fan base: not something anyone wants to be associated with, so good job! After reading your Tourette’s Syndrome-inspired commenting, I have no interest in EVER exploring this band’s alleged musical talent.
December 15, 2013 @ 11:56 am
I agree that the logos are close. Maybe a bigger story is what I feared would happen after some mainstream stars started releasing bad and/or pop songs and changing country to pop. The That’s My Kind of Night cover shows stars are influencing kids to go in that direction even before they make their first record. This is why country artists shouldn’t record bad or pop songs or release them to country radio, and why country radio shouldn’t play those songs. Just say no to the pop and bro. Radio demand better songs then artists will have to send you better. The current bar can’t get much lower.
March 16, 2014 @ 10:53 am
first of all they are not a “BOY” band they are counrtry man duo now. they did not “rip off” any logo X factor made a design alot of people have this logo but it makes more sense for restless road to have it because there name is restless road and they have a road going down the middle . plus they are going to be BIG hits soon and the logo will be ised EVERYWHERE and im sure there going to use it RESTLESS ROAD
March 16, 2014 @ 11:42 am
They are a boy band and all three of them looked like douche bags.
A year later, they don’t even have a record deal so I’m not sure exactly what big hits you’re talking about. They have no musical or songwriting skill to speak of. If they haven’t landed a record deal by now they never will.
Basically you are just a goober teenage girl with a crush on a couple of pretty boy idiots that were on a reality TV show (that was so horrible it’s now cancelled).