If you're a KISS tribute band, you know you're investing in makeup and platform shoes. If you're a hair metal tribute band, it's spandex, leather and Aqua Net. But what do you wear if you're a vintage soul tribute band like the Kansas City septet Good Foot?

"It's a lot of suits," says guitarist Tim Braun.

Actually, it takes a lot more than some dapper threads to replicate the sound of '60s and '70s soul classics and get glowingly featured in The Pitch doing it. You can hear it for yourself when Good Foot performs at 9 p.m. tonight at Room 107.

The group - with Braun, Julia Haile (vocals), Adam Wagner (keys/vocals), Quentin "Q" Schmidt (bass/vocals), David Conarroe (drums), Marshall Tinnermeier, (sax/vocals) and Nick Howell (trumpet) - is a mix of experience and freshness. Six of the members have played in previous indie outfits while Haile, an opera and classical music singer studying at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, is the group's freshman frontwoman.

Good Foot formed in January 2008 when Wagner and Braun discussed the idea of organizing a Motown tribute band. For Braun, other than the opportunity to be Kansas City's only soul tribute group, it was the music that made the strongest case.

"That and The Beatles' tunes are some of the best tunes ever written," he says. "And it appeals to all people. We've seen 50- and 60-year-olds coming to the show with their sons and daughters and they're all out on the dance floor all night."

The idea was one thing. The execution was another, as Braun could attest.

"A lot of those tunes are deceptively hard," he says. "You don't even notice the individual parts ... the music behind that works so well, it's transparent."

So, what can you expect to hear at a Good Foot show? A lot, as it turns out. Want to hear Motown classics from the Jackson 5 and The Temptations? They've got that covered. Want to hear Stax staples by Booker T. & the MG's or Sam and Dave? Consider it done. Legendary tunes by Al Green, Sly and the Family Stone and James Brown: Check.

And Good Foot plays this mix of vintage soul ballads and upbeat tunes on truly vintage equipment: old drums, amps and guitars specifically picked to replicate those unmistakable sounds.

"They definitely know how to get the sound they need out of it," says Mike "Sumo" Bransfield, general manager of Room 107. "They do (vintage soul covers) better than I can imagine anybody else doing it."

Of course, Good Foot has higher aspirations than tribute band notoriety. The group plans to write and record original soul tunes. But for now, they have no problem paying homage to a sound that's ingrained in American culture.

"It seems like this stuff is, like, relegated to the oldies stations and these tunes are just as poignant and just as accessible as they were when they were written," Braun says.