BEST Cover Tune of ALL Time??

[mathman]

Pat Travers Boom Boom Out Go The Lights

[Bruiser Brody]

I'm prolly in the minority here but barring Turn The Page, I like McTallica's covers. Garage Days is one of my favorite albums by those guys. On the re-release of that album I was blown away by the Mercyful Fate medley. Killer!

I like Pantera's take on Cat Scratch Fever (like it better than the orig)

Motorhead's Louie Louie cover is fun and that was their first single wasn't it!ha

Johnny Cash's Rusty Cage cover

Willie Nelson's Kristofferson covers are MUCH better than Kris'..hey, KK's a GREAT songwriter but he can't sing too well...still a hero w/ an awesome story. Is his bio out yet? I'll check amazon.

Slayer's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida cover..excellent.

..too many to list.

[mathman]

Can't say it was the best but it sure is pretty unusual.

Strummin' With The Devil: Bluegrass Tribute to Van Halen

Take yourn pick.

[Disturber]

My Way - Sid Vicious covering the Italian classic made famous by Frank Sinatra

Although made famous by Sinatra who was of Sicilian extraction, "My Way" was written by Paul Anka, who was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, of Lebanese Christian parents.

Johnny, yes I know that it was Paul who wrote the lyric that made the song world famous. But the song itself is written by Claude Francois, Gilles Thibault, (Jacques Revaux Arranger). It was well known in europe before it became a hit with Frank Sinatra.

Another funny anecdote about the song is that Dawid Bowie, (long before he was a famous artist in his own right), was asked by his music publisher to write an english lyric to the song. This was before the P Anka/Sinatra version. He wrote a lyric that was rejected, and the Paul Anka instead wrote the lyric that Frank recorded. The rest is history as they say.

But then David Bowie was pissed of and in return sat down to write a better song. This turned out to be LIFE ON MARS, (which I indeed think is a better song). That is how it happens sometimes, all coincidence.

[blackfbiv]

Can't say it was the best but it sure is pretty unusual.

Strummin' With The Devil: Bluegrass Tribute to Van Halen

Take yourn pick.

+1 I just picked this up a couple weeks ago. I was pleasantly surprised. 'Unchained' is pretty cool.

Dion

[Craig]

Jorn Lande (Norwegian singer) does a cover album called Unlocking the Past with Sabbath, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Whitesnake and others that is simply killer. 5 stars - Jack Butler, go buy this.

King's X - Manic Depression

Dokken - Nowhere Man & From The Beginning

Billy Idol - LA Woman

RHCP - Love Rollercoaster

[DavidE]

You guys all missed it......the cover that started it all, with out this song we'd still be listening to Glen Miller

Hound Dog by Elvis .............Big Momma Thornton

The original was very cool, but I think I was 35 years old before I actually heard it.

[BLuesBuster]

Molly Hatchet - Dreams

[JohnnyB]

You guys all missed it......the cover that started it all, with out this song we'd still be listening to Glen Miller

Hound Dog by Elvis .............Big Momma Thornton

The original was very cool, but I think I was 35 years old before I actually heard it.

Both versions were written and produced by the same two white Jewish guys, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

[MTM105]

Why isn't Henrix Live at Monterey considered status quo?// Hendrix's rendition of Like a Rolling STone is 10X better than All Along the Watchtower, which to me is a joke. All Along the Watchtower didn't do anything but prove that electronics could be captured creatively in the studio, there isn't any genuine emotion in Watchtower except for a few creative leads.

Also, Wild Thing is the standard Rock mantra fused with so much creativity and emotion it makes my heart swell every time I listen to it. Both of those covers shook the entire Rock universe to the nth degree.

Like a Rolling Stone at Monterey took the entire baby boomer generation and stood it up on its toes; so that it could see over everyone elses shoulders, to include their parents patriartrical influences. Hendrix just SCREAMS poetry echoing throughout the entire song, to include guitar improvisations. This song meant, esp. the way Hendrix performed it, that no one who was alive and breathing, were able to go backwards in time, even if they chose to. I consider myself slightly privledged to have been able to listen to the vinyle and appreciate that album growing up during the 70's. (I am a borderline Baby Boomer/ Gen Xer).

http://www.amazon.com/Jimi-Plays-Monterey-...0855571-7738469

Hey Joe was another cover with no explaination needed. The only song on that side of the album was Rock Me Baby that Hendrix actually wrote from scratch. The other 3 were absolutley brilliant. I am not a Hendrix freak. He peaked during Are You Experienced, he only had human talent; IMO. Probably could have stood the test of time and continued with unsurpassed talent if he had lived and quit drug usage during the 70s. Probably because of the way he played lead guitar stretching his middle finger across the fretboard as if it were his ring finger.

Does everyone know that Elvis only did covers and never wrote a single song????

[Brooks]

I'm prolly in the minority here but barring Turn The Page, I like McTallica's covers. Garage Days is one of my favorite albums by those guys. On the re-release of that album I was blown away by the Mercyful Fate medley. Killer!

I like Pantera's take on Cat Scratch Fever (like it better than the orig)

Motorhead's Louie Louie cover is fun and that was their first single wasn't it!ha

Slayer's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida cover..excellent.

yep. my fave metallica is garage inc , esp the mercyful fate & sabs medleys!! the lizzy cover, too.

disc 2 w/ the '87 garage days revisited shit also takes me way back...

jr college; my 1st pad, pussy/metal/weed/beer, good times!!!!!

+1 on pantera/motorhead/slayer's covers, yep yep yep.

[MTM105]

Other stories say it was Brian Jones of the Stones that lobbied for Hendrix and the Experience to be added. Brian and Jimi became instant friends after he saw Hendrix perform in the U.K.

Anywho, they arrived in Monteray to perform with the likes of Janis Joplin, The Mommas and The Poppas, Grace Slick and The Jefferson Airplane, the great soul star Otis Redding and many others. So, as they were deciding which order the bands would play, Pete Townsend and The Who were slated to go on after Jimi.

Pete did not dig that. He had seen Jimi and The Experience play

in the U.K. and did not want to be upstaged by this dynamic group. There was a lot of backstage rangling and feuding about who would perform first. The promoter decided to flip a coin to determine who would go on first. Well, The Who won the coin flip, but suddenly, Jimi jumped up on a chair and loudly proclaimed, "All bets are off!" meaning, NO HOLDS BARRED. The Who did their thing and at the end they destroyed their instruments. The drummer, Keith Moon, was famous for obliterating his drum set after most performances. The Who was convinced Jimi and the Experience could not top them. Boy, were they wrong. Jimi and the Experince were introduced by Brian Jones to the Monteray crowd. Now remember, the only song the U.S. had heard from Hendrix was Hey Joe, so they really didn't know to much about Jimi or what to expect. They came out the box with a 45rpm

version of Muddy Waters' Killing Floor. The crowd was floored. They loved blues, but had never heard any blues played like this. The group proceeded thru the set brilliantly,then Jimi pulled the rabbit out of the hat. After promising the crowd he was going to "sacrifice something I really love." the group did a cover version of The Toggs hit, Wild Thing. Near the end of the set Jimi showed em' what he meant by the statement, "sacrificing something he really loved", as he kissed the guitar, set it down on the stage and began to douse it with lighter fluid. (the band didn't even know he was going to set it on fire.) He produced a lighted match and set his ax on fire. He carressed the flames on the guitar as if he was going to make love to the thing right on stage. The crowd was freakin' out. They had never seen anyone do anything this outrageous on stage. Dude picked that flaming guitar up and pounded the stage with the custom guitar until it was in various peices, which he distributed lovingly to the crowd down front. The whole place was in pandamonium, and we're talking about established stars who were watching in the audiance and in the wings off stage. Obviously, he kept his promise to The Who, "ALL BETS ARE OFF!" Jimi Hendrix and The Experience had blown them off the stage. These young upstarts, who do they think they are. Who's this black guy playing his type of Rock think he is. Rock was the domain of white groups primarily from the U.K. So, at this coming out party for Jimi and The Experience, you witness them graduating from "RUMOR TO LEGEND."