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    I stumbled on this video while trying to learn to play "whipping post" by the Allman Brothers..........

    WOW, at 1st I though it was too fast and did not like it because I am so used to a slower bluesy feel to it but I let it go and was blown away. What a great cover, I figured why not start a thread where you can post live performances of cover songs that you really like. No Led Zeppelin jokes please

    So what are some of your favorites that you remember?

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    Zappa's whipping post cover is incredible. I saw him do it live in 89.
    I love when a cover changes the feel of the song rather than duplicate the original.

    Check out Chris Cornell's cover of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean". It has a whole different vibe.

    http://youtu.be/mn6yWwimVk4
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    I used to listen this when it came out back in the 80s


    Sometimes when a great artist does a cover they make the song their own as in Hendrix's cut of "All along the the watch tower". Judas priest " Diamonds and rust" Is another favorite.
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    Thin Lizzy's verison of Bob Seeger's Rosalie. Phil was a prodigious song writer. They were clearly not a band that was in short supply of good original material, and did not record too many songs by others, to my knowledge (Whiskey In The Jar being an original arrangement of a PD folk song). Always curious as to what led them to cover Rosalie.

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    Metallica-Turn the Page
    Iron Maiden-Electric Eye
    Shinedown-Simple Man


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    Maiden covered Electric eye? I gotta hear that, You gotta link?
    This one's cool.
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    Greg Lake of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Syclone View Post
    Metallica-Turn the Page
    Excellent choice. Another Bob Seeger tune !

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    NIN covering "Cars" with Gary Numan... I love this..

    https://youtu.be/6qlUFKFHNIU

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    Pagan's Mind covering Loudness
    https://youtu.be/lGikPCvTSlc

    Pagan's Mind David Bowie Cover
    https://youtu.be/oi1xnyVHNHk
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    Quote Originally Posted by Xeno View Post
    NIN covering "Cars" with Gary Numan... I love this..

    https://youtu.be/6qlUFKFHNIU
    That was awesome
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    Thought of another one..



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    I've been thinking of this for a few days. Not sure I have a favorite.


    But I like these.





    But ...If I had to pick a favorite. It would be this one without question.

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    Not exactly my genre of music but thought this cover was done very well.


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    Quote Originally Posted by wired View Post
    Maiden covered Electric eye? I gotta hear that, You gotta link?
    This one's cool.
    The link on YouTube has disappeared.


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    I had heard Iron Maiden do the Scorpion's "The zoo" and I think machine Head has a cover of electric eye. I just hadn't heard Maiden do it. But it wouldn't surprise me because that's one awesome song. I think Rob Halford done a pretty good job singing live with Sabbath on songs like "Heaven and Hell' but on others like Paranoid He kind of missed the mark. But I think this cover is pretty good.
    King Diamond is one evil dude. I never really liked his singing all that much. but he's always had terrific bands. and great songs.

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    I have the song in my collection. But how do I share it here?


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    You would probably have to upload to soundcloud or any other site that host audio files and then you just post the url address to it.

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    One of my favourite covers. Original song by Amon Amarth



    And another I like

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    This one's a classic.. Bon Scott in drag.
    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2e...-1975-hq_music

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    "No Led Zeppelin jokes please"

    You say -- but you posted a pic of the man who does the very best 'Stairways' cover ;-)

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    I have to say, i was quite disappointed with the NIN Cars, I personally don't think a cover should be just the same song played by different people, but that's a different convo.

    Two of Jimi's most famous songs where watchtower and hey joe, he liked to do sunshine of your love live a lot too. CCR's also did a bunch of good covers, especially midnight special. Lately, I really like Jack White's version of Love is Blindness...which leads me to this idea of hijacking the thread:

    Which cover versions are just way better than the original (e.g. Love is Blindness, Watchtower) and which are some just really bad covers done by otherwise good musicians. Let's disqualify covers that are mostly the same as the original (like NiN's Cars above).

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    The term 'cover' goes back to earlier days of the recording industry. If a record label was having notable success with one of their artists' record of a particular song, the other record labels would quickly get a singer from their roster into the studio, to record the same song, and get that record out a.s.a.p. It was very common back then to have multiple recordings of the same song, by different singers, all competing on the pop charts at the same time. Of course more often than not, these were songs written by professional songwriters, and not by the recording artists themselves. The song might become associated with who sold the most copies, not who wrote it or originated it.

    When the LP first came on the market, they were really just bonus records for die-hard fans. They would contain one or two of that artist's hit singles, and then the LP would be fleshed out with quickie recordings by that artist, of other people's hit songs. This was known as "filler material".
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    One of all-time favorite anecdotes :

    Big Joe Turner's original recording of Shake Rattle and Roll, began with the line "You wear those dresses, sun comes shinin' through" (a wonderful lyric, in my opinion). When Bill Haley and His Comets went into the studio to record their cover version, the producers though that line was too provocative for the intended white teenage market, and made Haley change it to "You wear those dresses, your hair done up so nice".

    But later in the song is the line "I'm like a one-eyed cat, peepin' at the seafood store".
    If you think about it for a minute, that line is far more suggestive and risqué than the other one. However, the double-entendré must have gone right over the producers' heads... because that line stayed in the Comets' version, exactly as is !

    Hilarious !

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