Got sent a MP3 copy of
Paul Gilbert's acoustic version of
Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (ex.
Gilbert Hotel, on which you'll also find a cover of
Abba's Dancing Queen!!!) - pity the sound completely disappeared after 200 seconds into a 5 minute track - however, what was heard was not bad. So it got me thinking, away from tribute albums who/what can be recommended as doing original interpretations of some other band's/artists prog tunes, say as a one off on an album? Personally very very few near copies appeal, rather I would hear somebody deconstructing, rearranging without totally disposing of all the essence of the original - in some respect the measure of a great musician is the ability to add something to somebody else tune (and then jazz musicians have been doing this forever and calling this stuff "playing standards").
Start point:
Jeff Buckley: Back in New York City (ex. My Sweetheart The Drunk)
Gary Lucas: Guerillas In The Midst (live recording on Skelton At The Feast, where one man music machine Lucas, reinvents Zappa's King Kong)
Glueleg: Red (ex. Heroic Doses - 90's Canadian brass rock group's reworking of Krimson)
Theo Travis: 21st Century Schizoid man (ex. Earth To Ether, done in the style of the Dave Brubeck Quartet)
/PAlogo_v2.gif "Progarchives.com Homepage")
Covers
Topic Options
