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Spitfire7 
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Joined: July 04 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1 |
 Topic: Pink Floyd Stairway to Heaver Cover??Posted: July 04 2005 at 12:27 |
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Hi guys, great forum you've got here, I just signed up.
I have a query for you, I've just downloaded a cover of Led Zeps Stairway to Heaven by Pink Floyd,. Well apparently anyway. It certianly sounds like Floyd but I cannot find reference to them ever covering this particular song anywhere on the net, and it doesn't seem to feature on either of any of the two bands albums. It isn't live by the sounds of it (although there was a live version available that I haven't heard.) Can anyone shed some light on the subject, thanks. |
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Forgotten Son
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Joined: March 13 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1356 |
Posted: July 04 2005 at 13:15 |
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I think I have heard the version you are referring to I don't believe
it is Pink Floyd. It sounds a bit like them because of the backing
singers singing the "makes me wonder" bit, but the guitar playing
doesn't sound like Gilmours and the singing doesn't sound like Gilmour
or Waters which makes me believe that it isn't Pink Floyd.
It would be cool if Pink Floyd did cover it though. I'm itching to know how Gilmour would play that solo. |
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goose
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Joined: June 20 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 4097 |
Posted: July 04 2005 at 18:35 |
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If you got it on P2P it's almost guaranteed to be mislabeled
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boo boo
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Posted: July 04 2005 at 22:26 |
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it was ok, but the in version i heard, gilmour didnt do the solo...anyway, theres nothing like the original.
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Bryan
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Posted: July 04 2005 at 23:24 |
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Exactly. It's a fake, I'm 100000000% positive. |
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The Slime
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Joined: October 10 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 6 |
Posted: October 10 2005 at 06:08 |
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Hi, just wanted to say that it is a cover by pink floyd. In my search to an official cd with stairway to heaven by pink floyd I stumbled in Wikipedia. There it sais that stairway is covered by pink floyd and frank zappa. So if there is anyone who knows the origin of the recording, let me know! Greetings |
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Citanul
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Joined: June 14 2005 Location: South Africa Status: Offline Points: 430 |
Posted: October 10 2005 at 06:35 |
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According to Wikipedia, the version that is credited to Pink Floyd is
actually from Led Zeppelin's BBC Sessions album which was released in
1997. That's probably what you have.
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Be or be not. There is no question. - Yoda, Prince of Denmark
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 06:39 |
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i once found a cover of stairway to heaven by bob marley
 im sure it was fake but it was a good laugh
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Phil
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Joined: June 17 2005 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 1881 |
Posted: October 10 2005 at 07:01 |
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Rolf Harris did a version of Stairway to Heaven....allegedly.....
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iguana
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 07:14 |
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i only know one cover version of STAIRWAY TO
HEAVEN (a ghastly thought in itself) – it is by a studio project called FAR CORPORATION – led by german disco & pop producer frank farian who is responsible for such outrages as boney.m, milli vanilli, la bouche etc. it features TOTO's steve lukather and bobby kimball and actually became a chart hit in 1985 – and it rightly deserves every ounce of hate and detest one can muster for a piece of recorded music. |
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NutterAlert
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 07:30 |
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As a slight aside. May be worth checking out Dread Zeppelin (http://www.dreadzeppelin.com/ ) not a tribute band, as such, but they play Zep music in a reggae style fronted by an Elvis lookalike.
Saw them a few years ago, not for me, but know many who like them. |
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M. B. Zapelini
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 07:31 |
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Yes, the cover version mentioned here is probably Far Corporation's version - Robin McAuley, later lead singer for Michael Schenker Group, did his best Robert Plant emulation here. The aforementioned reggae version is probably Dread Zeppelin's version. Frank Zappa also did a live version of Stairway to Heaven - this one has his brass section playing Page's guitar solo.
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"He's a man of the past and one of the present"
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cobb
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 07:45 |
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There was comedy show that used to be on, where the artist they included each week had to do a cover of Stairway. This is where the Rolf Harris version comes from. It was an English show, I think. |
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Easy Livin
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 08:24 |
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I think that was an Australian show Cobb. It resulted in an entire album of covers of "Stairnway to heaven" (in a moment of madness I, I bought it Apparently Rolf Harris had never heard the song when he recorded it, he just used the sheet music. |
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krusty
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 08:32 |
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Yeah the Zappa version is so execlent, it's on "The best band you never heard in your life" well worth tracking down.  |
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Dick Heath
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 09:05 |
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Agree with earlier suggestions: Zappa's version with the guitar break replaced by trombone - or Dread Zeppelin's reggae with Elvis version. Edited by Dick Heath |
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Dick Heath
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Posted: October 10 2005 at 09:10 |
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Other covers
Dread Zeppelin's In-Led-Ed is almost essential - and approved by Page and Plant.
(Former RTF drummer) Lenny White does a superb jazz funk version of Kashmir (on his album Edge), but he also does a very debatable version of Black Dog with Larry Coryell and Victor Bailey on the recently released Electric. |
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oliverstoned
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 08:31 |
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Yes, there was also a piece on Kazaa with atrocious sound, called "Hendrix, Joplin and Morisson"!
But it was some kind of crap which had nothing to do! |
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cobb
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 10:23 |
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Far Corporation recorded a very passable version of it- lot of synth and drums. That high singer from Toto did the final section- sang it how RP would have liked to have sung it. Crap lead section though.
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goose wrote:
). There are country and western, punk, meatal etc. versions, you name it..., 21 in all if I remember.