This weekend whilst picking up my Ministry ticket I browsed the cd rack. Picked up Great White "A Double Dose". Disk one is Zeppelin covers and disk two is covers of various others, The Cult, AC/DC, Stones, Bad Company, etc... and my favorite so far, Bob Dylons cover of Tangled Up in Blue. It is a really really really good cover.
Roger, Dan-o! I was in Busted Buy and the Disc Exchange this eve and neither had that Great White in stock. I did pick up a Los Lobos cover EP, RIDE THIS. I'm gonna listen to it later after a little Elton. Thanks for the tip, I'll keep my eye out for that Great White. I have enough covers left to make more discs than I'm likely to make anyway...for now...
Hey, hey, Van the Man! Have you run into any covers of his songs? I know he's done a few things lately, like on How long has this been goin' on, but people almost never do his stuff... I think I heard a cover one time, of Into the Mystic or Moondance maybe, by a couple of girls? Might have been the Roaches? I wish I could come up with some details... :frowning:
HERE COMES THE NIGHT by Them is a Van song, he sang it. I never checked the writing credits. I used A David Bowie cover of it. Cassandra Wilson's cover of TUPELO HONEY is very nice. It has a few of Jimi Hendrix's ANGEL lyrics weaved in to boot. I've heard several groups do Bown-Eyed Girl but can't remember whom...? That's about all I can think of at the moment...
It was a nasty, rainey morn here so I stayed home and finished another editiom....
ABSOLUTELY COVERED
1. Los Lobos - Shoot Out The Lights 2. Aerosmith - You Gotta Move 3. Mother's Finest - Somebody To Love 4. Beck, Bogert & Appice - Black Cat Moan 5. Tina Turner - Overnight Sensation 6. The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man 7. Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln 8. Boz Scaggs - T-Bone Shuffle 9. Chuck Brown & Eva Cassidy - Let The Good Times Roll 10. Ralph Rebel - Rumble 11. Eric Clapton - I Shot The Sheriff 12. UB40 - Every Breath You Take 13. Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues 14. Janis Joplin - Summertime 15. Pat Benatar - Rated X 16. Steve Miller Band - You're So Fine 17. Joe Cocker - Cry Me A River 18. Rush - Crossroads 19. Santana - Black Magic Woman 20. Dwight Yoakam - Things We Said Today 21. The Beatles - Honey Don't 22. The Byrds - All I Really Want To Do
Have you got a copy of the Elektra anniversary double album "Rubaiyat"? All "reinterpretations" [read: fancy covers] and I can't stand most of them, but Bjork doing "Motorcycle Mama". And no, since Van Morrison was the lead singer for Them, that's not what I'd call a cover. You know there were a few weeks in 1969 when he shared a stage with Jim Morrison? That must have been quite, mm, interesting.
Christopher, I do not. I have beaucoups of albums but never heard of that one. So many albums, so little time. Have you been to the All Music Guide and put in Brown-Eyed Girl or Madame George in the search? You know you'll get the most hits on Moondance! I could swear I recently saw an album somewhere that had a cover of Madame George on it...? I'm not remembering it though,,,sorry.
The way I see it Them was the Van Morrison Group. Them didn't last long. I think Astral weeks came out in '67 or '68 and Them was a footnote in history. A good footnote though! The Bowie cover of Here Comes The Night is righteous, IMO. It seems like I have another cover of that song but it's escaping me at the moment.
Christopher, I found ya another Van Morrison cover. Phoebe Snow does MADAME GEORGE.
I just finished another MD, THAT'S COVERED:
1. Elvis Hitler - Green Haze ** 2. Tina Turner - The Bitch Is Back 3. Otis Redding - Satisfaction 4. Led Zepplin - You Shook Me 5. Climax Blues Band - Come On In My House 6. Bonnie Raitt - Pride And Joy 7. The Meters - Make It With You 8. Phoebe Snow - Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu 9. Alex Skolnick Trio - War Pigs 10. Sting - Come Down In Time 11. Joan Baez - Blue Sky 12. Livingston Taylor - If I needed Someone 13. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Michelle 14. David Bowie - Don't Bring Me Down 15. Elvis Costello - Honey Hush 16. Los Lobos - Uncomplicated 17. The Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 18. The Wallflowers - I started A Joke 19. Jean-Luc Ponty - America Drinks And Goes Home
** Green Haze is Hendrix's Purple Haze with the lyrics to the Green Acres TV show theme, really!
Neat. I only wish Domino would get some action, possibly my favourite Morrison cut tho' the album is badly mastered [spun it just the other day]. Sorry, I think I misunderstood what you said about Them... never mind. Are you sure about that Animals track? They had a tendency to change the lyrics on the songs they did; makes classifying them as "covers" problematic.
Christopher, I've never heard a Domino cover. I know I have heard Brown-Eyed Girl more than once. I may even have Brown-Eyed Girl? However, for now I cannot recall. MISUNDERSTOOD is an old song, everybody does it, stille. I have lots of covers of it. This is atleast the 2nd version of it I've used on my series.
BTW, I'm making atleast one more disc and Madame George will be on it. I never seem to run out...
Again, back around 1990, SHOOTING GALLERY, a group featuring at least one ex-member of HANOI ROCKS, covered "Brown-Eyed Girl" on their debut (and only) album. It wasn't bad...
1. Big Blue Missle - Time Of The Season 2. Lenny Kravitz - American Woman 3. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe 4. Hagar, Shon, Aaronson & Shrieve - Whiter Shade Of Pale 5. Natalie Cole - Ticket To Ride 6. Phoebe Snow - Madame George 7. Climax Blues Band - Let's Work Together 8. Elton John - Imagine 9. King Curtis - Changes 10. Nikka Costa - Call Me 11. Georgia Sattelites - Don't Pass Me By 12. Rufus Wainright - He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother 13. Madonna - American Pie 14. Pat Benatar - Helter Skelter 15. Brownsville Station - Sweet Jane 16. Crosby, Stills & Nash - Blackbird 17. Livingston Taylor - Somewhere Over The Rainbow 18. Fine Young Cannibals - My Girl
COVERED DINNER
1. Jimmy Smith - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag 2. Average White Band - Work To Do 3. Angelina - Tide Is High 4. Isley Brothers - If You Leave Me Now 5. Boney James & Rick Braun - Grazin' In The Grass 6. The Dramatics - Me & Mrs. Jones 7. Jamie O'Neal - All By Myself 8. Lighthouse Family - Ain't No Sunshine 9. Kate Bush - Rocket Man 10. Opus III - I Talk To The Wind 11. James Taylor Quartet - Mission Impossible 12. Leon Russell - Night Life 13. Average White Band - I Heard It Through The Grapevine 14. Dina Carroll - Someone Like You 15. Ramsey Lewis - Where Is The Love
I'm not out of pulled recordings yet. I'll proably make one more disc, for now...
I finished that other disc this morning and I called it:
X-TRA COVERED
1. Deep Purple - Hush 2. Johnny Winter - Highway 61 Revisited 3. Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze 4. Eric Clapton - Please Be With Me 5. Cowboy Junkies - Thunder Road 6. Elton John - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds 7. Donovan - Universal Soldier 8. Jefferson Airplane - Fat Angel 9. Bryan Ferry - One Way Love 10. Mike Marshall - Because 11. K.D. Lang - Helpless 12. David Johansen And The Harry Smiths - Don't Start Me Talking 13. Deep Purple - Lucille 14. Los Lobos - More Than I Can Stand 15. James Taylor - Day Tripper 16. Isley Brothers - Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight 17. Rod Stewart - Only A Hobo 18. Paul Weller - Birds
I'm not gonna make any more of these recording for awhile anyway, unless somebody triple dog dares me or somethin'. Everytime I think I'm running out of stuff I realize I'm not... Time to go jogging and jog off yesterday's Thanksgiving calories and listen to my new disc on my portable.
I lied about not making another disc anytime soon. The Disc Exchange called me and got in Great White's Double Dose I ordered. I finally obtained a used copy of Keb'Mo's cover album, BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND, there too. So, I put together another 'un...
CANDY COVERED
1. Ralph Rebel - Pipeline 2. Axxis - Good Times Bad Times 3. Johnny Winter - Help Me 4. Great White - Ready For Love 5. Joan Jett - Love Hurts 6. Keb' Mo' - Get Together 7. Warren Zevon with David Lindley - Casey Jones 8. Henry Gross - Help 9. Allman Brothers - Hoochie Coochie Man 10. Leon Russell - Smashed 11. Billy Preston - Get Back 12. Derek And The Dominoes - Little Wing 13. Doro - A Whiter Shade Of Pale 14. Great White - Fire And Water 15. Tierra Santa - Communication Breakdown 16. Paul Rodgers - Born Under A Bad Sign 17. Keb'Mo' - For What It's Worth 18. Todd Rundgren - Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine 19. Patty Smyth - Downtown Train 20. Lyle Lovett - Friend Of The Devil 21. Rod Stewart - What Made Milwaukee Famous (has made a loser out of me).
Another disc is in the works. Will I run out of names and have to resort to numbering or will Elvis come in a spaceship to this forum? Some quandries have no clear answers Weedhoppers...
1. The Cult - Born To Be Wild 2. Joan Jett - Tush 3. Guns N' Roses - Sympathy For The Devil 4. Great White - Burnin' House Of Love 5. Blaze - Dazed And Confused 6. Eric Clapton - Ain't Giving Up On Your Love 7. Doro - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 8. Joan Jett - Have You Ever Seen The Rain ? 9. Great White - Tangled Up In Blue 10. Jane's Addiction - Ripple 11. Elegy - Rock And Roll 12. Johnny Winter - Frankenstein 13. Pearl Jam - Rockin' In The Free World 14. A Perfect Circle - Freedom Of Choice 15. Guns N' Roses - Since I Don't Have You
I have another disc about 1/2 made and I'll finish it this week sometime....
1. The Who - Shout And Shimmy 2. Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Purple Haze 3. Great White - Immigrant Song 4. Joan Jett - Celluloid Heroes 5. Cee-Lo - Foxey Lady 6. Keb'Mo' - What's Happening Brother 7. Pearl Jam - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away 8. Isley Brothers - Sunshine (Go Away Today) 9. Chaka Khan & Kenny Olson - Little Wing 10. Greg Allman - Don't Mess Up A Good Thing 11. Cheryl Crow - Sweet Child O' Mine 12. Keb'Mo' - People Got To Be Free 13. Santana - Spanish Castle Magic 14. Prince - Purple House 15. U2 - All Along The Watchtower 16. Hector Qirko Band - Trouble No More 17. White Skull - Stairway To Heaven 18. R.E.M. - Draggin' The Line 19. Keb' Mo' - Someday We'll All Be Free
I'll proably make another disc or 2. A friend loaned me a Led Zepplin tribute album which I want to use more of...
1. The Bar-Kay's - I Thank You 2. Wilson Pickett - Funky Broadway 3. Otis Redding - Day Tripper 4. Musiq - Visions 5. Chambers Brothers - In The Midnight Hour 6. Clarence Carter - Back Stabbers 7. A Perfect Circle - What's Going On 8. The Bar-Kay's - If This World Was Mine 9. Caron Wheeler - Another Star 10. Earth, Wind & Fire - Voodoo Child (Slight Return) 11. The Meters - Loving You Is On My Mind 12. Wilson Pickett - Sugar Sugar 13. Booker T. & The M.G.'s - Groovin' 14. The Bar-Kay's - Hey Jude 15. Eric Clapton - Higher Ground 16. Chambers Brothers - People Get Ready 17. Clarence Carter - Drift Away 18. The Bar-Kay's - Dance To The Music 19. Marc Anthony - All Is Fair In Love 20. Keb'Mo' - Imagine
Anybody else cooked up a stew, baked a cake, fried sum collard greens? I stille have so many leftover recordings that I'll proably make another disc. Anybody else cook up somethin' tasty???