Anyone can do anything, but... I hate those posters with DIRE STRAITS written with huge font. I hate those wristbands. I hate REAL Dire Straits photos in 'photography' section on official site. Who cares? It's like I'll post a photo of Earth and write 'This is my photo with Mark Knopfler, now GO TO MY CONCERT!'. I can go on and on.
C'mon, people. If they'd have a non DS related name, if lead singer mimicry was not so obvious and plain, if where was no all this pathetic statements like Alan's (There was a topic on it, lazy to find). If, if, if, if, if, if. So I really angry about The Straits.
In other hand, check out Beatles' tribute band 'Fab Four'. It's really cool. The best tribute-band ever, not the guys who pretend they a Beatls (sic) or something like that. Paul McCartney himself liked this band and was on their concert. It's just matter of promotion, statements and feeling, and for me feeling and atmosphere is very bad. I'll not argue with that, sorry to any real fans.