Which Kashmir?

The Belgian neo-prog band Now did a cover of Kashmir on their album Deep in 1992. I wasn't particularly impressed with it.

In 2003 I covered it myself, along with "Echoes" by Pink Floyd, and other songs that might be hard to imagine done any other way.

I vote for my own version

4 votes for Puffy... seriously?

Cristi wrote: 4 votes for Puffy... seriously?

It depends by what you mean by "seriously".

King Only wrote: There's going to be a new version released soon (this month I think), on the bonus disc with the new Physical Graffiti remaster.  It's from the original recording sessions and apparently it features more of the orchestra's performance.

So there's actually an orchestra on the original version of this song? I could not be sure if it was so or if the sound was made with keyboards, since they don't credit any orchestra as far as I remember on the album, and on the live version I've seen it is played with the keyboads, sounding similar enough. I guess it will be nice to give this new version a listen too.

King Only wrote: Dellinger wrote: So there's actually an orchestra on the original version of this song?    It's a mix of real <span style="line-height: 1.4;">strings, real horns and also John Paul Jones playing the Mellotron.</span>

Well, that's good to know. However, I do wish they had credited it in their album. It's always interesting to know such things. Just as I wish I knew who plays the flute/recorder or whatever at the beginning of Stairway to heaven.

Okay, voted for the original version but if one can ignore the "rapping" by Puffy his collaboration with Page on that one resulted in a massive killer groove that was very Godzilla-like .  Just sayin'...

Although I think only available on bootlegs Jethro Tull covered Kashmir, a slightly shorter version featuring their guest violinist.

I decided to vote for the Unledded version for the vast instrumental variety. Absolutely stunning in concert, probably the most superb orchestral moment in modern rock. But the original just has that immediacy and power from the start - the Bonzo drumming just makes it. The concert versions could be very good as well and occasionally feature a timing mistake throwing the band out of control. Not too easy in places.

I do have the Puff Daddy veriosn (it does feature JP). But the whole thing was recorded track by track and frankly if I heard the vocalist sing so far off the accents it would drive me mad (if I were in that band). Or any other. This is why I think Combs' version raises so much ire.

uduwudu wrote: Although I think only available on bootlegs Jethro Tull covered Kashmir, a slightly shorter version featuring their guest violinist. I decided to vote for the Unledded version for the vast instrumental variety. Absolutely stunning in concert, probably the most superb orchestral moment in modern rock. But the original just has that immediacy and power from the start - the Bonzo drumming just makes it. The concert versions could be very good as well and occasionally feature a timing mistake throwing the band out of control. Not too easy in places. I do have the Puff Daddy veriosn (it does feature JP). But the whole thing was recorded track by track and frankly if I heard the vocalist sing so far off the accents it would drive me mad (if I were in that band). Or any other. This is why I think Combs' version raises so much ire.

I still can't make up my mind if I like better the "immediacy and power from the start" (and all along the song) of the original, or the build-up, variaty, and more melodic nature of the Unledded version (I believe the second one is a more progressive version of the song, actually).

She's very high energy like Steve Howe was in 72".