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    Posted: October 24 2015 at 18:22
Here's a thread I'm sure we can all apply our thinking caps to: great cover tunes. So many worthwhile songs that someone stole from the original composers, or at least offered a completely different take. I could post hundreds but I'll start with two, one old and one from this century:
 
To say Hendrix stole this one from Dylan is an understatement. The guitar sustain at the end is fabulous!
 
 
And this one from Rodrigo y Gabriela with a fresh take on Zeppelin (including Gabriela's percussion on the body and fret board of her guitar - how she doesn't have carpal tunnel is beyond me).
 
 
 
 
 
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Points: 6446 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2015 at 20:12
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

Here's a thread I'm sure we can all apply our thinking caps to:
 


Ha! Except it's Saturday night, it's raining outside and I'm what you could call 'not 100% sober'LOL I normally could think of a million...I'll come up with two and be back periodically.





Oh sh*t, I just remembered this:
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This one pooped into my mind at once...love this version.
 
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One of my favorite covers....
 
 
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Here's three offbeat ones.
 
In the first, Alice Cooper electrifies Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story:
 
 
In the second, the Cowboy Junkies do a wonderfully barbiturate-laced slow drag of a Velvet Underground tune:
 
 
On the far end of the drug spectrum, David Bowie's spastically cocaine-fueled take on the Stones:
 
 
 
 
 
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Just a shout-out to my almost-homeboys:

 
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A funkier, more metal version of Back in Black by Living Color.  The fact that the band is all black has some interesting lyrical implications too.
More heavy prog, please!
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BTW, love the Spooky Tooth Cover of "Walrus"
More heavy prog, please!
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I like the Fudge version of the Supremes hit....I still have that original vinyl.

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Buddy Miles
 
 
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Joe Cocker stole this so thoroughly, it put the original band, The Boxtops, out of business. LOL
 
 
One of my favorite Beatles covers:
 
 
One can't take away anything from the Al Green original, but Talking Heads do an interesting take:
 
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Speaking of the Fudge's "Hangin' On" cover, here's another that's slooooowed down:



This one's not so much slowed down, but it's heavy as hell:







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Juicy Lucy, the first band I saw at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in 1970.
 
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So many vids (as expected).


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Some of the greatest blues covers:
 
Zeppelin turned a Memphis Minnie acoustic blues into a prog-blues epic:
 
 
Ray Charles, meet the amplified mayhem of screaming Steve Marriot:
 
 
Elmore James would've been proud of these boys:
 
 
 
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