Prog covers of Beatles songs.
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Topic: Prog covers of Beatles songs.
Posted By: Stool Man
Subject: Prog covers of Beatles songs.
Date Posted: April 10 2013 at 15:37
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Today I found in a charity shop a double LP of Beatles covers called "All This And World War II", which includes Peter Gabriel covering "Strawberry Fields Forever". It got me wondering which other prog acts have covered a Beatles song, so here I am asking you. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
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Posted By: MFP
Date Posted: April 10 2013 at 15:54
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: April 10 2013 at 22:20
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I don't think Spooky Tooth is considered prog but I really think they did a killer version of this one.... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Gerinski
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 02:33
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This is very obscure. In 1972 the Spanish pianist - keyboardist Lucky Guri teamed with saxophonist Peter Roar, bassist Carles Benavent, guitarist Max Sunyer and drummer Salvador Font (all of them stars in the Spanish 1970's Prog and JR-F scene) and released an album of Beatles covers in jazz-fusion style (instrumental) called We Are Digging The Beatles. However they had not asked permission for the rights and The Beatles management demanded to withdraw it from the market, it was sold during only 2 weeks so it became a real collectors rarity. Recently (2010 I believe) Picap records solved the rights issue (I don't know how) and re-released the album in CD. I could not find any track in YouTube, maybe I will try to upload some. http://www.picap.com/en/rss:Cos/totesnoticies/_/698" rel="nofollow - http://www.picap.com/en/rss:Cos/totesnoticies/_/698 Track list: - Let It Be - Strawberry Fields - The Fool on the Hill - Ticket to Ride - The Long and Winding Road - When I'm 64 - Here There and Everywhere - A Hard Day's Night - Norwegian Wood - All My Loving - And I Love Her  |
Posted By: progresssaurus
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 02:51
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Yes - Every Little Thing |
Posted By: progresssaurus
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 02:55
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Deep Purple (Proto-Prog) - Help! |
Posted By: progresssaurus
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 05:27
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 07:13
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That Peter Gabriel version of SFF is brilliant, he's one of the few artists I can think of that would do that song justice.
The best prog Beatles cover I know is "She Said, She Said" from Lone Star's eponymous debut album. It's so good I even forgive them for adding a verse that's not in the original.
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 07:30
| Didn't Phil Collins cover Tomorrow Never Knows? |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 10:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ysx2yh_60" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7ysx2yh_60 ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
chopper wrote:Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 10:17
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Tomorrow with Steve Howe...... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: progresssaurus
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 11:17
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Kansas with London Symphony Orchestra - Eleanor Rigby (from album http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3217" rel="nofollow - Always Never the Same ) It is not covered with prog-rock creativity (by my meaning), but still very good and interestingly interpreted |
Posted By: Prog Sothoth
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 15:36
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Shiina Ringo, though not on the Archives, is a pretty borderline avant garde artist while being successful in Japan. I dig her heavy cover of "Yer Blues", and it gets tripped out towards the end, but as of this moment all I could find was her Gillette commercial which utilizes her version, which only showcases the first minute or so. Pretty funny actually... |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 18:46
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: April 13 2013 at 05:10
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William Shatner cover of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: AreYouHuman
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 22:54
^I Need You by Transatlantic is not a pure Beatles cover, but a mash-up of like-titled songs by both America and the Beatles. Sneaky! (Though both bands had George Martin production in common.)The “All This and World War II” soundtrack also featured Bryan Ferry’s She’s Leaving Home and Ambrosia’s Magical Mystery Tour. (BTW, anybody who thinks that Ambrosia aren’t prog, as some critics of their first two albums suggest, really listen to them and then get back to me.)Some others I find especially engaging:Gryphon—Mother Nature’s Son (segues effortlessly from the instrumental Rain Dance)Deep Purple—We Can Work It OutSpirit—Yesterday (features beautiful fluid guitar lines from Randy California)------------- Caption: We tend to take ourselves a little too seriously. Silly human race! Yes is for everybody! |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: February 24 2016 at 23:19
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Here is my Fav Prog Beatles Cover from 1970 Eleanor Rigby, by the Band Zoot, believe it or not featuring Rick Springfield on Guitar.............
and Beeb Birtles later of the Little River Band on Bass. ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: DDPascalDD
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 02:56
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Don't forget Rick Wakeman, he covered The Beatles multiple times (if memory serves well...) ------------- |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 03:53
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I like this version of "Norwegian Wood" from the only self-titled 1969 album of a Brittsh band named Circus featuring Mel Collins of King Crimson fame.on flute and sax. as a contrast another version of the song by US-band Bangor Flying Circus (who are not in the archives for some reason though they definitely belong), also from their only self-titled album and also from 1969 -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 06:01
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Triumvirat's Helmut Koellen covered this song on his solo album of the same name. |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 08:12
Dutch group Zoo's album includes a Beatles medley called "Dedicated To You All", including:
It starts at 18:55. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 18:53
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I love how Gryphon stretched out the melody on Mother Nature's Son.....it's a reason to own the Raindance album. Peter Gabriel doing SFF makes me wish he'd have copped a few Beatles tunes when he was touring with the New Blood Orchestra. Yes doing Every Little Things....Peter Banks! Herbie Mann turns Norwegian Wood into organic trance on the Whirling Dervishes album.....just had it on the turntable and had to give a mention. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: February 25 2016 at 22:35
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Arjen Lucassen covered 'For no one' and 'Norwegian Wood' in his album called "Strange Hobby". ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: February 26 2016 at 03:41
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Thank you Frank. A medley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As8sgFPLKX0 I once heard a compilation of soul covers of Beatles tunes. Varied from good to mildly awful. I mean Daytripper without the riff. The thing disappeared. Blue Oyster Cult do a fantastic version of I Want You. Yes had a go with I'm Down. Got that on a bootleg somewhere... |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 26 2016 at 05:24
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The band B For Bang did an album with Beatles covers called "Across the Universe of Languages", which we have and like very much. Here some live examples of them: And a video from recording "Dear Prudence" for their album: And here is their version of "Julia" from their album: -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 26 2016 at 06:18
Forgot about that one, I think it's on the YesYears box set.
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Posted By: Prog Snob
Date Posted: February 26 2016 at 07:12
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Dream Theater - Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End This has Charlie Dominici on vocals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dxn3tclcp4 ------------- 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 28 2016 at 05:43
Well that wasn't too bad until they got to "Carry that weight" then I had to stop it. This is much better They even do the medley in the original order! |
Posted By: Son.of.Tiresias
Date Posted: March 02 2016 at 11:23
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Blue Oyster Cult do a fantastic version of I Want You. Wow, that must be really something as BÖC never suck. They took "Born to Be Wild" in another dimension. Exists a video ? Thanks for info.
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Posted By: Replayer
Date Posted: March 02 2016 at 14:23
That's right, he even recorded an entire album consisting of instrumental versions of Beatles covers! It was the appropriately-named Tribute from 1997.
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Posted By: Skalla-Grim
Date Posted: March 02 2016 at 20:39
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Steve Hillage: It's All Too Much. One of my favourite Beatles songs. I prefer the original but this is good. ------------- "4/4 - That's 5/4 minus one." - Don Ellis (1934-1978) |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 05:15
This is correct. BOC never suck and they do own (so to speak) Born To Be Wild. Not that there's much wrong with Steppenwolf's original; very cool. The track is a live recording on the Rarities compilation in the box set. Very well worth it by the way. The first 3 are remastered (again and with a slew of extra tracks which, for once, actually add to the albums in a positive way). OYFOOYK is remastered but the live gem is Some Enchanted Evening, extended and with a DVD of BOC in glorious 1978 TV mono. And it has Astronomy. There are mp3 downloads of four gigs none of which have Astronomy although there is a CD compiling the best of these. Nothing else has been remastered. |
Posted By: Prog Snob
Date Posted: March 03 2016 at 13:33
Agreed. The version you posted is much better. I really just think that anything Neal Morse touches is gold. He's in my Top 5 musical minds list. -------------
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Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: March 04 2016 at 01:49
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Vanilla Fudge does a great psych prog of Eleanor Rigby |
Posted By: Sagichim
Date Posted: March 04 2016 at 02:44
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Check out amazing band Tatran playing Strawberry Fields Forever... |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 05 2016 at 03:44
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Martin Barre does a hard rock version of Eleanor Rigby on his latest album "Back To Steel". Here is a live version: |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 05 2016 at 03:51
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...........and Adrian Belew with "If I Fell" |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 05 2016 at 03:55
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....and I know they are not on PA (but they should). Here is Living Colour with Tomorrow Never Knows..... |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: March 05 2016 at 04:09
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Not a Beatles cover but a Beatles tribute single called "Come Back Beatles" by Irish Celtic prog legends Horslips. Who released this as a single during the height of their prog days (around Book of Invasions i.e. 1975 or 76) and under the name "Lipstick". Side B was an instrumental called "The Fab Four Four"! The Lips did have a great sense of humour! Here's "Come Back Beatles".............. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: March 24 2016 at 14:32
I love Beatles covers and have been doing them for years...here are some of my most recent ones. These all have analog synths taking the main melody and chords with Rick 4001 fuzz bass and drums to give it that rocky feel...enjoy 
Strawberry Fields http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAUcTtZPoyw" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAUcTtZPoyw Lovely Rita http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OArZkt4hvyE" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OArZkt4hvyE Martha My Dear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiO-mXKOyqU" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiO-mXKOyqU
------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: March 24 2016 at 17:26
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CSN does a beautiful version of "Blackbird": ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |