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Topic: Covers

Posted By: Dick Heath
Subject: Covers
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 08:39

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)

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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 09:45

Not strictly a prog tune I guess, but Peter Gabriel's version of "Strawberry Fields Forever" is recommended.

Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 11:00

Nemo have a short a capella remake of Dream Theater's The Glass Prison as a hidden track on their album Présages. It's hilarious.