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(Roxy Music cover - just scroll down)

(Pink Floyd-cover)

Edited by Saperlipopette! - September 03 2018 at 00:16

moshkito wrote:

cstack3 wrote:

I always loved the cover tunes Yes did on their early albums, including the Beatles song "Every Little Thing" (with some amazing guitar work by Peter Banks). Yes did a lot of covers to fill up their shows in the early days from what I've read.

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Weird ... no mention of "America"? I think it was a Simon and Garfunkel song!

Thanks, good catch! I was focused more upon the early Marquee Club Yes, when they were just getting going. I've played in lots of bands, and we always have to do covers to fill in the time!!

Here, this interview with Pete Banks is must reading!

https://web.archive.org/web/20160106135712/http://www.themarqueeclub.net/interview-peter-banks-yes

You know, the band called Ambrose Slade, they had big boots, they were all tough guys from Birmingham with the shaved heads, a very aggressive kind of image. We changed to a little different because we didn't actually play that kind of music. Particularly when I joined we started doing... we did classic covers of West Coast American band and we used to listen a lot to The Lemon Pipers and The Love and that kind of stuff. And Moby Grape. It was a really skinhead kind of thing and I refused to get my hair cut cause I didn't like the look, I had pretty long hair by then. I didn't perform with the image of the band. I think I was still wearing kind of mod suits, you know, high button jackets, very narrow trousers and I was probably still wearing velvets (laugh). And eventually they got rid of me on my 21st birthday.

Edited by cstack3 - September 03 2018 at 19:00

I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!!

Zappa - Whipping Post (Allman Brothers)
Zappa - Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
Allan Holdsworth - Norwegian Wood (The Beatles)
801 - Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles)
Dream Theater - Odyssey (Dixie Dregs)

Manfred Mann's Earth Band deserves an entire post just to themselves. Between 1976-1986, they covered:

1) Bruce Springsteen ("Blinded by the Light", "Spirit in the Night", and "For You")

2) Bob Dylan ("Quinn the Eskimo/The Mighty Quinn" and "You Angel You")

3) The Brains ("Heart on the Street")

4) Al Stewart ("Eyes of Nostradamus")

5) The Police ("Demolition Man")

6) Bob Marley ("Redemption Song")

7) The Jam ("Going Underground")

8) Joni Mitchell ("Banquet")

9) The Beatles ("Hey Bulldog")

10) Eddie and the Hot Rods ("Do Anything You Wanna Do").

^ They also did a cracking version of the Paul Weller song Start on the album Masque - Songs and PLanets. The album has a tragically low rating on PA but still well worth checking out for that particular cover, its stunning.

Dellinger wrote:

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specially since LaBrie may technically be able to sing just about any song, but usually ends up lacking in the character singers like Freddy Mercury, Robert Plant, Jon Anderson, Dio, etc, have).

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Vive la difference!

JLB did The Who, on their tour with Queensryche. And it was magnificent, and I'm not sure many singers could hit that scream as well as he did. It echoed here in Portland, but everyone was here to kiss DT's shoes, and the ignored Fates Warning opening, and then Queensryche, which got a slim down applause compared to DT.

But DT has done many covers, in their earlier days.

Comparing JLB to Freddy, RP and/or Dio is kinda strange for me ... I do not compare voices or singers, since their material is always different and the tone with which it is delivered is very different. My thoughts are, however, that JLB would likely do better if he learned the songs and the music WITH THE BAND instead of long distance and then a rehearsal or two ... I think that there is a small amount of chemistry that is missing, and you can see this on any stage of operas with famous singers, they come in the night before have one walk through rehearsal (not complete rehearsal), and then the next night they show off their voice. In the case of rock music, the innate feeling that we like, the raw power, and pure feeling, is often missing, and I sometimes feel that way about some of the stuff that JLB does for the band ... I would like to see them improve that area some more, but this might be EASIER for me to see as a DIRECTOR of theater and film, where the chemistry is the difference between a good show and a great show. Not just a loud guitar!

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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richardh wrote:

^ They also did a cracking version of the Paul Weller song Start on the album Masque - Songs and PLanets. The album has a tragically low rating on PA but still well worth checking out for that particular cover, its stunning.

thank you for your recommendation , I did not know , is now noted!

Edited by mellotronwave - August 25 2023 at 09:13

richardh wrote:

Glass Hammer - It's All too Much (The Beatles)

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Hindu band Monsoon (Sheila Chandra early) also did Beatles ... Tomorrow Never Knows

Heck, so did Steve Hillage!!!!

Edited by moshkito - August 26 2023 at 06:24

Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
www.pedrosena.com

I like this cover of Wuthering Heights.

moshkito wrote:

richardh wrote:

Glass Hammer - It's All too Much (The Beatles)

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Hindu band Monsoon (Sheila Chandra early) also did Beatles ... Tomorrow Never Knows

yeah they were incredible and in later years Sheila starred at the WOMAD festival in my neck of the woods. Sadly she is no longer able to sing (dry vocal syndrome)