Covers

Few things are radder than a great cover of a great song. Your favorite little-heard covers? I don't mean, like, Crossroads by Cream, everyone knows that one.

Let's Spend The Night Together - David Bowie
a lot of Frank Zappa covers (Stairway to Heaven, I Am The Walrus...)
The G3 Jams (songs like La Grange, Red House, My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama...)
Detroit Swing City - Brian Setzer
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
Stayin' Alive - Ozzy Osbourne and Dweezil Zappa
a bunch of Van Halen songs

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Billy Mystic

I think it's actually better than Dylan's original.

from Is It Rollin, Bob?

glatt wrote:

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Billy Mystic

I like Edie Brickell's version. I love a good cover.

Jane's Addiction does a great Ripple, and a Sympathy for the Devil Way better than the Stones.

The Indigo Girls version of Down by the River is really good, and Tangled up in Blue, and Wild Horses.

Blues Traveler does a good No Woman, No Cry, with some help from Ziggy, and their Low Rider is very cool.

Tori Amos does a shit-ton of covers, I like I'm on Fire and Landslide the best

Warren Haynes does a ton too; One, Stella Blue, To Lay me Down, Madman Across the Water, And it Stoned Me, It hurts Me Too...

Dave Matthews - Long Black Veil, All Along the Watchtower
GnR - Sympathy for the Devil, Knockin in Heavens Door
Grateful Dead - Knockin on..., It's all over now Baby Blue, Desolation Row, Just like Tom Thumb Blues, Quinn the Eskimo...
Bob Dylan - Moonshiner, Man of Constant Sorrow
John Mayer - Message in a Bottle, The Wind Cries Mary
Beth Orton - Ooh Child
Phish - Sweet Jane
Sinead - All Apologies, Ave Maria
I'll remember more after I hit submit...

Santa Esmeralda - Don't let me be misunderstood
frijid pink - house of the rising sun

Ooh, Jerry Garcia does a good House of the Rising Sun on the Pizza tapes, forgot about that one....

Tori Amos-
Smells like teen spirit

Pearl Jam

You've got to Hide Your Love Away




I love a great cover.

Train In Vain - Dwight Yokam

Springsteen and the E Street Band "Who'll Stop the Rain?"
Ugly Kid Joe "Cat's in the Cradle"
Guns n' Roses "Live and Let Die"

Manfred Mann
- Father Of Night, Father of Day
- Blinded by the Light
- Spirits in the night.

Dave Mason
- All along the watchtower

Yes
- America

Eddie Vedder- Masters of War
Smithereens- Mrs. Robinson

Have a Cigar - Primus

Crossroads - Rush

Stone Cold Crazy, Metallica
Gimme Shelter, Grand Funk Railroad
Fields of Gold, Eva Cassidy (well, anything by Eva)

Ballrooms of Mars - The Cruxshadows

Free Bird by Molly Hatchet, just as good or even better than the original..

Real Big Fish ...... Brown eyed girl


Van Morrison with a ska beat....

Phish do a wicked "Fire" and "Good Times, Bad Times", "Boogie On Reggae Woman", and a brilliant "Also Sprach Zarathustra", AKA 2001.

rkzenrage wrote:

Prince rips it a new one.

Very cool. Questions:
1) who is that kid to Tom Petty's left?
2) Isn't it way past his bedtime?
3) How come Tom looks completely Slagged out and Prince still looks pretty, well, Fresh?
4) How come I suddenly smell cat spray and all the windows are closed?

"Like a hurricane" Roxy Music
"over the rainbow" by Israel Ka 'anoi Kamakawiwoole

rkzenrage wrote:

Prince rips it a new one.

That's nuffin.

EDIT: that kid is Harrison's son, according to my mother.

Quiet Village by Martin Denny; he took Les Baxter's song and made it his own.

Ibram wrote:

That's nuffin.

EDIT: that kid is Harrison's son, according to my mother.

That guy is awesome, and that is one tiny ass guitar.:p

Ukelele, mate.

Check him out here.

This is not Dani Harrison...does George have other sons, and why does this guy look so Oriental?

Whoops...totally misread the reference. I see that the "Harrison's kid" thing was in reference to the Concert for George video, not the uke. That is, in fact, Dani Harrison. Great concert, if you haven't seen the whole thing. Killer.

RHCP does Fire, Crosstown Traffic, and Castles made of Sand.

Unfortunately, they can't hear Jimi....
:(

Ibram wrote:

Ukelele, mate.

Dude you're taking all the fun out of sarcasm.;)

I knew there was a killer cover that I was forgetting to mention, then I heard the original today, and was reminded of the cover...

Foo Fighters' cover of Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street".

AC/DC - Baby, Please Don't Go (Joe Williams)
Motorhead - Motorhead (Hawkwind)
Rob Zombie - Blitzkrieg Bop (The Ramones)
The Ramones - R.A.M.O.N.E.S. (Motorhead)
Type O Negative - Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath)

Manson's Sweet Dreams

That was good. Sad, but good.

footfootfoot wrote:

George Bush covers "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"

:lol:

The Echoing Green - "Words" (Missing Persons)