Soft Machine and King Crimson covers

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   Amazingly no takers. While having my own ideas here, I was looking was some concensus from the experts.
So let's cover Machine first. Unsurprisingly the covers of their tunes are by friends of the band - and often with one or two players from Machine  present. With the large number of Soft Machine live albums out now, there are many band own versions of their compositions. But I believe from that and other artist's cover Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening wins - e.g. Caveman Hughscore, Keith Tippett Group (who used the song title for the album title).
Now Crimson. Red is probably the favourite - Niacin, Glueleg, Wood, Either Orchestra immediately come to mind. However, Court and 21st Century Schizoid Man may sneak in: (a bit of a cheat to include) 21st Century Schizoid Band, Greg Lake/Gary Moore Band, Steve Hackett. Then question comes up - what have I missed?
Oddest  cover??  Zappa doing Yes?

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Dick Heath Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12818	Posted: June 14 2004 at 08:47
	Amazingly no takers. While having my own ideas here, I was looking was some concensus from the experts. So let's cover Machine first. Unsurprisingly the covers of their tunes are by friends of the band - and often with one or two players from Machine present. With the large number of Soft Machine live albums out now, there are many band own versions of their compositions. But I believe from that and other artist's cover Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening wins - e.g. Caveman Hughscore, Keith Tippett Group (who used the song title for the album title). Now Crimson. Red is probably the favourite - Niacin, Glueleg, Wood, Either Orchestra immediately come to mind. However, Court and 21st Century Schizoid Man may sneak in: (a bit of a cheat to include) 21st Century Schizoid Band, Greg Lake/Gary Moore Band, Steve Hackett. Then question comes up - what have I missed? Oddest cover?? Zappa doing Yes?

Dick Heath Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12818	Posted: June 10 2004 at 09:50
	I'm looking for second opinions: What is the most covered tune, originally played by Soft Machine? What is the most covered tune, originally played by King Crimson? As both bands have so many live albums released nowadays, originally recorded many years ago (with live versions of studio recordings), that the cover has to be by bands not called respectively Soft Machine or King Crimson!