The Official Cover Thread

Better than the original? I'm on the fence here - whoever did it first always has the high ground. But this is a tough call.......discuss! BTW here are two examples of the same group doing covers.

She has a ton of covers. I think she's Lebanese living in Sao Paulo.

DAMN! Just when I think I might try to bone her fine ass, you tell me she's a Lebanese. Just my luck! Maybe I can covert her, and teach her how to play the "skin flute"!
Or in my case the skin bassoon.

Her cover of Sia's "She Wolf" Is pretty.

HEY! Since this is all about the covers, how about bad covers? Covers that are so bad you can't imagine that when they were being made lightning didn't strike the studio!!! I'm talking about sucking all the spirit, soul, message, talent, etc.etc. out of the original until it is drained of all humanity. Everyone loves covers when the performer brings something new but great to the table. When they trample it into the dirt? Not so much!

I'll call this one a tie. Both are right in the right ways.

I'll be this guy could do a heck of a job on "At This Moment"

while putting together a CD that both my son and I would enjoy in the car together, I of course had the Disturbed version of "Land of Confusion" but I also found this. His tastes are much harder than mine but I still love a quality song so we can find a little common ground

and speaking of hard covers, you military types will appreciate this probably

on a lighter note...remember Carol Decker of T'Pau? She apparently never went away in the UK



Man, this is how youtube becomes a time-sing for me...pursuing the sidebar links, because Beverly Knight basically sings with everybody eventually.

Like Joe Cocker...

Which led me to Joss Stone...

Which led me to Stone covering "Son of a Preacher Man"

which led to this...

(in which by the way, the drummer is providing some industrial strength action)


I'm going to have to stop this...

Thanks! Good cover, even better video. The band interacting with actual military members is an interesting idea. By and large any entertainer going into the sandbox isn't going to make much profit, and they know this. But we do appreciate them coming to us. BTW when I was in Iraq 2003 Arnold "The Governator" Swarzenegger came to Balad (north of Baghdad). It happened to be the day
we got hit by mortar fire for the first (but not last) time. BTW the first shells hit just about where he would be appearing later in the day. Arnold and his keepers were informed of this, but came to Balad anyway despite the risk. That's pretty cool!

Not Fade Away

Stevie Nicks, at the Music Box Theater in Los Angeles, Sept. 7, 2011.

Waddy Wachtel on guitar, Lee Sklar on bass



Written by Buddy Holly

George Gobel visited us on LZ Jamie.
His comment:

"This beer is warm!"


It's So Easy

John Fogerty, for a PBS tribute to Buddy Holly, 1987.



Johnny Lee Schell on guitar.

Where was LZ Jamie? Great porn star name BTW! And "Lonesome George" Gobel? What is he, 145 years old? I must be thinking of another George Gobel.

LZ Jamie was near Tay Ninh... Vietnam.

It was cut out of the jungle. A landing zone for helicopters, and an operation center for our battalion.
There were four infantry companies. We rotated. Eighteen days in the field and six days on the LZ.

Wow was I out in left field. I thought you might have meant the sandbox as in recently. Now it makes senses that George Gobel was there - he was still actively performing then.
Yes I know what an LZ is - I worked in air traffic control my whole army career (and now still as a contractor). Once in Poland we had a blackhawk kill a pilot from a "hard landing" at an LZ in the woods. That is some dangerous flying situation right there, no room for error. It's no picnic for the guys on the ground either, what with a helicopter careening around out of control. "Pinnacle Landings" are no joke either!

The very beginning melody of the song (and beginning of all the versus I think) sounds like Queen Of Hearts - listen closely. Just a couple of notes difference.
Wait a few seconds until she starts singing the main melody - for some reason the similarity jumped out at me. Of course that's where the similarity ends!

John Fogerty's "Center Field" intro sounds a lot like 'La Bamba" too! Both have a clean strat tone too. Was it deliberate or accidental? Regardless, both are good songs!

Great Jackson Brown cover. Man I remember when the original came out...man am I old!

In honor of Mr. Bowie, here's a great cover.

After listening to this five or ten... thousand times over the past few days, because best cover ever, I noticed something:

People talking without actually saying anything, the voice of reason being ignored... This song is about the internet. Paul Simon is a prophet.

From one of my favorite shows.

Ever come across something and think "I didn't know I was into that specific thing." Well, I've added "Israeli women playing drums" to my list, right next to "Mormon women playing violin to dubstep."

Speaking of Devo and covers, one of my all-time favorites.

Holy crap! David Lee Roth and that bluegrass band really rocked that shit! It kinds of reminds me of The Gourds covering "Gin and Juice" which BTW was NAILED by Richard Cheese.