Covers that 'made' the Original

[bremen]

15 hours ago, casapete said:

 

The TL version sounds a bit like a pub band to me….

( runs for cover………)

Lol, I didn't realise you were allowed to think TL weren't all that. I can come out of hiding now  😍

Edited March 25 by bremen

[bremen]

And while I'm still getting dirty looks for that blasphemy, can I just add that I prefer Madonna's version of American Pie to the original...

[TrevorR]

15 hours ago, casapete said:

I prefer Seger’s version, more dynamics / groove and ‘soul’ to it.

The TL version sounds a bit like a pub band to me….
( runs for cover………)

 

37 minutes ago, bremen said:

Lol, I didn't realise you were allowed to think TL weren't all that. I can come out of hiding now  😍

 

34 minutes ago, bremen said:

And while I'm still getting dirty looks for that blasphemy, can I just add that I prefer Madonna's version of American Pie to the original...

 

As the film critic, Mark Kermode, has been known to to say, “Everybody is entitled to have their own opinion…     …it’s just that yours is completely wrong!” 😉🤣🤣🤣

[chris_b]

16 hours ago, casapete said:

I prefer Seger’s version, more dynamics / groove and ‘soul’ to it.

 

The TL version sounds a bit like a pub band to me….

( runs for cover………)

 

Even though he came from Detroit, Bob Seger was Southern Rock. Thin Lizzy was more top 40.

[casapete]

18 hours ago, bremen said:

Lol, I didn't realise you were allowed to think TL weren't all that. I can come out of hiding now  😍

I saw Thin Lizzy at Bridlington Spa in the late 70’s, and they were really good but just not my kind

of thing. Got tickets from their record company when I worked in record retail, so around that time

I went to loads of gigs I maybe wouldn’t have paid to see and that was one of them. 
Possibly one of the loudest gigs I’ve been to probably didn’t help either, my ears were ringing

for days afterwards. 

[bremen]

18 hours ago, TrevorR said:

 

 

 

As the film critic, Mark Kermode, has been known to to say, “Everybody is entitled to have their own opinion…     …it’s just that yours is completely wrong!” 😉🤣🤣🤣

I fully accept that I may be completely wrong on that one, though I stand by Madonna's version of American Pie.

 

Until, that is, A.Hitler comes along and says: -opinions are like testicles: everyone's got one.

[TrevorR]

29 minutes ago, casapete said:

I saw Thin Lizzy at Bridlington Spa in the late 70’s, and they were really good but just not my kind

of thing. Got tickets from their record company when I worked in record retail, so around that time

I went to loads of gigs I maybe wouldn’t have paid to see and that was one of them. 
Possibly one of the loudest gigs I’ve been to probably didn’t help either, my ears were ringing

for days afterwards. 

Lizzy was the first band I saw back in 81 (St Austell Colosseum). I asked for 2 gig tickets for my birthday. One week later I was back to see Elkie Brooks in the same venue. Ironically my ears rang longer and louder after Elkie - which was a shock to 3/4 of the audience who clearly only knew “Pearl’s A Singer” and “Lilac Wine” etc. She spent 30 mins at the start getting all the MOR pop hits out of the way then said “Well, that’s enough of that, let’s rock…” the following hour was full on Vinegar Joe, swampy blues and full tilt rock’n’roll. I may be wrong but I think Geoff Whithorn was her guitarist/MD…

Edited March 26 by TrevorR

[Paul S]

29 minutes ago, casapete said:

I saw Thin Lizzy at Bridlington Spa in the late 70’s, and they were really good but just not my kind

of thing. Got tickets from their record company when I worked in record retail, so around that time

I went to loads of gigs I maybe wouldn’t have paid to see and that was one of them. 
Possibly one of the loudest gigs I’ve been to probably didn’t help either, my ears were ringing

for days afterwards. 

 

I saw them at Wembley June 1978 and, for me, it set the bar for live music.  I was 20 and the gig completely resonated with the type of music I was into at the time - and poignant for so many personal reasons.  Great memory.🙂 

[casapete]

7 hours ago, TrevorR said:

Lizzy was the first band I saw back in 81 (St Austell Colosseum). I asked for 2 gig tickets for my birthday. One week later I was back to see Elkie Brooks in the same venue. Ironically my ears rang longer and louder after Elkie - which was a shock to 3/4 of the audience who clearly only knew “Pearl’s A Singer” and “Lilac Wine” etc. She spent 30 mins at the start getting all the MOR pop hits out of the way then said “Well, that’s enough of that, let’s rock…” the following hour was full on Vinegar Joe, swampy blues and full tilt rock’n’roll. I may be wrong but I think Geoff Whithorn was her guitarist/MD…

I saw Elkie in the late 70’s with a Geoff Whitehorn too, great band. I sold merch for her / A&M and got to meet

her afterwards. She played Hull a few times earlier in the 70’s with Robert Palmer and Vinegar Joe, but

I was a bit too young to get in the club they played at. A few of my friends said they were amazing gigs though. 

[LowB_FTW]

Alice Cooper's version of the Zodiac Mindwarp song Feed my Frankenstein.

 

Mark

[lozkerr]

A very belated +1 for Dylan covers. Peter, Paul and Mary's covers of Blowin' In The Wind and The Times They Are A-Changing are sublime.

 

Not forgetting Janis' cover of Piece Of My Heart.

[Leonard Smalls]

Always preferred the Subs version of "She's Not There" to the Zombies slightly wet original...

 

 

 

And Dead Kennedys' "Vive Las Vegas" is considerably better than Elvis's!

 

 

[lowdown]

On 02/03/2019 at 14:32, Al Krow said:

Any other examples of covers doing something to the original that completely made it their own in a good way?

 

I quite like this cover version of 'Lady Madonna' by Lenny White.

A young Chaka Khan on vocals along with a young Marcus Miller on Bass. 

 

They certainly made it their own...Some will say, in a good way, and I suspect some will say, in not such a good way:

 

 

 

[Al Krow]

Not sure this "made the original" by Stevie W, but great cover right?

 

 

 

[Bilbo]

I personally like a truckload of Beatles covers more than the originals. Examples include:

 

Got To Get You Into My Life by Earth, Wind and Fire.

Julia by Medeski, Martin and Wood.

With A Little Help From My Friends by Al DiMeola.

I Am The Walrus by Jim Carey.

It's For You by Cilla Black (not sure if this was a cover or 'written for'.

 

The list goes on and on. You can't say the covers made the originals, though. Very few could compete with the success of The Beatles.

 

 

[42Hz]

Santana's version of Evil Ways, Black Magic Woman, Jingo-lo-ba and She's Not There are stuck in my head as Santana songs.

[lowdown]

There have been so many (very good) covers of this tune I wouldn't know where to start. But Herb's version is the swinging 60's for me.

Incidentally, Herb Alpert starts a short tour tonight....at the age of 90!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[King Tut]

I regularly dep with John Verity who replaced Russ Ballard as singer/guitarist in Argent. There’s always some spiel in the set about how God Gave Rock and Roll to You was and Argent song before being picked up and made uber famous by Kiss!

[Paul S]

10 minutes ago, King Tut said:

I regularly dep with John Verity who replaced Russ Ballard as singer/guitarist in Argent. There’s always some spiel in the set about how God Gave Rock and Roll to You was and Argent song before being picked up and made uber famous by Kiss!

One of the things that puts me off seeing the Zombies again, tbh - Mr Argent's bitter and lengthy tirade.  Left a nasty undertone to the evening.  

[prowla]

Original.

 

Slade.

 

[prowla]

Original.

 

 

Nilsson.

 

 

[Mickeyboro]

15 minutes ago, Paul S said:

One of the things that puts me off seeing the Zombies again, tbh - Mr Argent's bitter and lengthy tirade.  Left a nasty undertone to the evening.  

Perhaps he’s bitter cos he didn’t write it😂

 

My beef with the latter-day Zombies (now retired of course) was they went stadium rock for US audiences with long solos instead of being a decent pop group. One of the worst offenders was Hold Your Head Up - again, not ‘their’ song. 

[Paul S]

1 hour ago, Mickeyboro said:

Perhaps he’s bitter cos he didn’t write it😂

 

My beef with the latter-day Zombies (now retired of course) was they went stadium rock for US audiences with long solos instead of being a decent pop group. One of the worst offenders was Hold Your Head Up - again, not ‘their’ song. 

 

Ballard!  Just looked him up.  Wow, he wrote some great tunes didn't he!  Couple of Ranbow's biggies!

[Mickeyboro]

1 minute ago, Paul S said:

 

Ballard!  Just looked him up.  Wow, he wrote some great tunes didn't he!  Couple of Ranbow's biggies!

Yes, Russ is a bit of an undiscovered gem. Glad you checked him out. 👍

[casapete]

7 minutes ago, Paul S said:

 

Ballard!  Just looked him up.  Wow, he wrote some great tunes didn't he!  Couple of Ranbow's biggies!

Also let’s not forget one of his best - Hot Chocolate’s ‘So you win again’.

 

Russ still does some live dates - he played a music venue near me last year. I was working so

couldn’t go, but guess it would have been a great evening.