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Posted: February 21 2014 at 18:47
Okay, I believe in the "most bizarre" category, this one should win, topping even Yes's unlikely cover of Simon & Garfunkel. (But first: seriously, of all the songs ever written, *why* would Yes cover *this* song?!?!? I still don't get it, and I just can't past it, not enough to ever enjoy it.) Okay, here's Glass Hammer, in an equally WTF?!? moment, doing a prog version of Dan Fogelberg(!)'s "Longer." However, unlike the Yes track, this one was no b-side or cast-off from a jam session - it actually appeared on an album!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOl4vQ8W1W0
Another one that many Floyd fans might not know of, a French singer I'm quite fond of - but by no means is he even close to being prog - is Etienne Daho, who did a cover of Floyd's Cirrus Minor as a B-side, and it's surprising okay. Nothing revelatory, it's a straight reading of the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XztpyibW7Cg
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Posted: April 22 2014 at 16:57
Jaco Pastorius: "Blackbird" Peter Banks' revisiting of "Astral Traveller" Steve Howe's got several: "Walk, Don't Run", and the 2nd movement of the Vivaldi Lute Concerto in D are my favorites. Also, when he teamed up with Jon Anderson on "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". Someone above mentioned Rick Wakeman's "Eleanor Rigby", but I like Wakeman & Wakeman's "Paint It Black" even better. ELP: "Fire" and in a classical vein, "Mars, the Bringer of War". Hell, there could be a mini-thread just including Keith Emerson. Jeff Beck: "She's A Woman", especially the live version with Jan Hammer. Jazz Is Dead's flirtation with various Grateful Dead.
I would like to hear Kammerflimmer Kollektiev do a remake of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra only acoustic. Magma covering Supertramp's Crime of the Century. ABBA doing Magma's MDK. CAN covers Wolf City, Amon Düül ll does Soon Over Babaluma. I wouldn't mind if Miles Davis had done Bobby Beausoleil's Lucifer Rising either. Or maybe Edgar Broughton Band covering The Lamb.
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Posted: May 02 2014 at 23:54
Esperanto – Eleanor Rigby (actually got some local airplay in 1975, made quite an impression!) Steve Hillage – Not Fade Away Robert Wyatt – I’m a Believer Mike Oldfield – I Got Rhythm Mike Oldfield – Wonderful Land (only recently found out it was originally by Hank Marvin & the Shadows) The Nice – She Belongs to Me The Nice – America The Nice – Hang on to a Dream Penguin Café Orchestra – Walk Don’t Run Café Jacques – Boulevard of Broken Dreams The Move – The Last Thing on My Mind Emerson, Lake & Powell – The Loco-Motion Fred Frith – Dancing in the Street John Cale – Heartbreak Hotel Durutti Column – I Get Along Without You Very Well Deep Purple – River Deep Mountain High Fireballet – Desiree Gryphon – Mother Nature’s Son Peter Gabriel – Strawberry Fields Forever Ambrosia – Magical Mystery Tour Ronnie Montrose – Town Without Pity B-Tribe – Albatross Moodswings – State of Independence (Spiritual High) (orig. by Jon & Vangelis) Phil Manzanera/801 – Tomorrow Never Knows Love Sculpture – Sabre Dance Yes – Something’s Coming David Sancious – Dixie Spirit – Like a Rolling Stone Synergy – Slaughter on Tenth Avenue Triumvirat – Darlin’
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Posted: May 05 2014 at 09:15
Steve Hackett did a segment of Focus' Eruption on the second disc of Beyond the Shrouded Horizon. He also did All Along the Watchtower on the live vid, Fire and Ice.
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Posted: August 22 2014 at 22:07
HackettFan wrote:
Steve Hackett did a segment of Focus' Eruption on the second disc of Beyond the Shrouded Horizon. He also did All Along the Watchtower on the live vid, Fire and Ice.
Another cover Hackett did worth mentioning is When You Wish Upon a Star, and the Focus cover makes two that (unintentionally?) didn’t get the proper writing credit. On the first U.S. LP pressing of Till We Have Faces, WYWUaS was credited to Steve along with the rest of the album (i/o Leigh Harline and Ned Washington), and on Beyond the Shrouded Horizon it should actually be Pupilla/Tommy/Pupilla i/o simply Tommy, and should be credited to Thijs van Leer and Tom Barlage.
Kansas did only two covers that I know of, Bringing It Back and Eleanor Rigby.
Some covers of Peter Gabriel solo tunes: Glass Moon – Solsbury Hill Robert Wyatt – Biko Joan Baez – Biko Simple Minds – Biko (that’s really all I can think of)
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