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Points: 3449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2008 at 19:36
Forgot to mention Niacin, who credibly cover KC's Red and Jeff Beck's Blue Wind on their Time Crunch LP.
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Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

[QUOTE=jammun]
  
Not heard Zappa's Stairway, but I've heard... Rolf Harris's!!!
 
 
There's a boot floating around with 109 versions of Stairway on it as MP3's. However, for a legit collection (if you're that desperate) go for:
Stairways to Heaven
 
The pastiches (is that the right word) here by The Australian Doors Show (a la Doors) and The Beatnix (a la Beatles) are standout.
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Points: 2720 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2008 at 10:31
I heard Tarkus played by Jordan Rudess the other day (from Long Road Home). I actually liked it a lot, seemed to smooth out a lot of rough production edges.
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My two cents worth.....
 
I'm fond of -
The James Taylor Quartet's version of Zep's Whole Lotta Love
Colosseum II performing Joni Mitchell's Down To You
Allan Holdsworth's version of The Beatles' Michelle
The Syn's take on "Time And A Word" (I know, I know....Squire was involved, but it's still a great reworking)
Annie Haslam covering Genesis' Ripples
Isaac Hayes doing Bacharach's "The Look Of Love"
Pat Boone's version of Alice Cooper's No More Mr Nice Guy (no, .....really)
Pat Metheny's cover of Gerry & The Pacemakers' Ferry 'Cross The Mersey
Hairless Heart from the recent reworking of The Lamb Lies Down by Rewiring Genesis
 
Just a few of many!


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"Allan Holdsworth's version of The Beatles' Michelle"
 
Let me give credit to his version of Norwegian Wood as well. Especially when I heard it live!
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Norm, that cover of Whole lotta love by James Taylor Quartet is really fine.
I only own a "very best" of them, but love it so muchThumbs Up
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2008 at 18:07

I like the Collective Consciousness Society's version of Whole Lotta Love
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Points: 7053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2008 at 12:14
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I like the Collective Consciousness Society's version of Whole Lotta Love

 
And I guess you like their 'original' Tap Turns on the Water as well...?
 
Or maybe you just rate Alexis Korner!
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Originally posted by Bitterblogger Bitterblogger wrote:

"Allan Holdsworth's version of The Beatles' Michelle"
 
Let me give credit to his version of Norwegian Wood as well. Especially when I heard it live!
 
NORWEGIIAN WOOD!!! Try Nektar's "Sounds Like This" - they only drop in a few bars on a track I forget the name of but It fits in nicely. Stoner at its (vibrant) best!
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Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I like the Collective Consciousness Society's version of Whole Lotta Love

 
And I guess you like their 'original' Tap Turns on the Water as well...?
 
Or maybe you just rate Alexis Korner!
Guess again Wink 
 
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I like the Collective Consciousness Society's version of Whole Lotta Love

 
And I guess you like their 'original' Tap Turns on the Water as well...?
 
Or maybe you just rate Alexis Korner!
Guess again Wink 
 
 
Got exactly what i deserved on that one. Race with the Devil? Fire? Tokoloshe Man? Standing in the Road?ha ha I quitSmileSmileSmile
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Points: 7053 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2008 at 13:44
Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I like the Collective Consciousness Society's version of Whole Lotta Love

 
And I guess you like their 'original' Tap Turns on the Water as well...?
 
Or maybe you just rate Alexis Korner!
Guess again Wink 
 
 
Got exactly what i deserved on that one. Race with the Devil? Fire? Tokoloshe Man? Standing in the Road?ha ha I quitSmileSmileSmile
 
Actually after a quick ( okay hour long) think I believe CCS also did something called Brother. Or at least with the word somewhere in the title. PS another good cover: Rainbow's Black Sheep of the Family (Quatermass).
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 20 2008 at 13:51
Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I like the Collective Consciousness Society's version of Whole Lotta Love

 
And I guess you like their 'original' Tap Turns on the Water as well...?
 
Or maybe you just rate Alexis Korner!
Guess again Wink 
 
 
Got exactly what i deserved on that one. Race with the Devil? Fire? Tokoloshe Man? Standing in the Road?ha ha I quitSmileSmileSmile
 
Actually after a quick ( okay hour long) think I believe CCS also did something called Brother. Or at least with the word somewhere in the title. PS another good cover: Rainbow's Black Sheep of the Family (Quatermass).
Yes, CCS did a number of original songs (Tap and Brother being two of them) and quite a few covers (Donovan's Walkin' and Tull's Living In The Past for example) - I just remember their cover of Whole Lotta Love as the ToTP theme tune. Korner did do a pretty good blues show on the radio in the 70s as I recall,
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Points: 413 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2008 at 17:12
Strange, or not, I enjoyed "The Dark Side of The Moon" by Dream Theater very much.
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Points: 9455 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2008 at 18:46
Cool Cool:
 
Frank Zappa - Stariway To Heaven
801 - TNK
Les Claypool - TNK (17 minute live version I stumbled across as an mp3 file ... anyone know what album or DVD this is off?)
Mostly Autumn - Echoes
CCR - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
Deep Purple - Hey Joe
Arthur Brown - I Put A Spell On You
Living Loud - Crazy Train
Beggars Opera - McArthur Park
Kush - McArthur Park
Lowell Fulson - Why Don't We Do It In The Road
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Helter Skelter
Mr. David Viner - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
 
Approve Unusual:
 
Saffire - Highway Star (Australian acoustic guitar quartet covering Deep Purple on its Nostalgica album)
 
Wacko Bizarre:
 
Seņor Coconut & His Orchestra - Smoke On The Water (featured on the OST of Thunderstuck)
 
 
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Points: 2755 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 22 2008 at 20:48
My favorite covers:
 
Yes -- America
H.P. Lovecraft -- Let's Get Together
Annie Haslam -- Ripples  (I always knew this could be done better than Phil did it!)
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Points: 1698 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 23 2008 at 01:14
What do you guys think of the April Wine version of 21st Century Schizoid Man? A good friend of mine was sure that April Wine wrote it originally.
 
By the way, my friends can never figure out when an album is a cover album. They thought that Garage Inc. was crappy because Metallica ripped off Diamond Head and that "21st Century Schizoid Man" was by Ozzy Osbourne.Unhappy

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Points: 4335 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2008 at 12:20
There are a lot of great covers:
- Johnny Cash's later albums
- Kingston Wall's take on Hendrix's Fire
- You might consider Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Jerusalem a cover
- Frank Zappa - Purple Haze & Sunshine Of Your Love
a lot more great covers but on a bad note:
I had the extreme misfortune of being stuck in a Hark Rock Cafe while they were playing an agonising cover of Another Brick In The Wall done by Korn, and it lasted foooooorever
 


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