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    Quote Originally Posted by Simplicity View Post
    Ok ,I've been following a long on this one for a bit.
    If you were in to grunge like I was and still am.
    I liked and still like a little grunge band from Sydney in the 90s.
    Called the Hard Ons.
    There AC/DC cover "Let there be rock"
    I think is pretty awesome.
    Now a little point ,Sally my dearest wife ,would happily call her self AC/DC biggest fan.
    But, can't stand the hard ons or there AC/DC cover.
    O well ,let there be rock...

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    Hard Ons were a great band. I'll have to look that version up.
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    Just lost 45 minutes of composing this post. Grrrrr

    So, "Baby Please Don't Go" through the years

    Big Joe Williams wrote it in 1935 (this is a bit lame though)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g22l1hnAnlA

    Then Muddy Waters did a better version in 1953
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EOwNItKOyo

    Then John Lee Hooker did a version in 1961, which is quite frankly, lousy
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGWHxgG0FA4

    Then Them did it in 1964, but I can't find it anywhere. It was the A-side of the single, but G.L.O.R.I.A. was the B-side and completely swamped the A-side, so the story goes.

    I thought that Golden Earring did it in the early 70s but I can't find that one either.

    Gary Glitter gave it his usual lame treatment in 1972
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2-1gOGMxQo

    And then finally, 40 years after it was written, Acca Dacca got hold of it to create the definitive cover of it.


    For some reason Aerosmith still thought it was worthwhile doing in 1980
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r25eLFBAc4

    And in 1992 Van Morrison and John Lee Hooker took it right back to it's roots again.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JShiWrqRgXY
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    AND...................................
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    Beatles Vs Blood Sweat and Tears
    Back in the hayday of the Beatles they released the song Got To Get You Into My Life. Paul, lead singer with a "big band" behind them. Blood Sweat and Tears did one also with their lead singer David Clayton Thomas. If you can listen to them "side by side" BS&T do a much more gutsy production. Beatles are good but the other fellas are better
    Just do it!

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    You weren't looking hard enough Brett

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    Brown Eyed Girl. First released by Van Morrison but done really well by Jimmy Buffet.

    Jimmy Buffet is in a long list of performers who do their own thing and not making music to be the same as the pack. You can add Billy Joel, Graham Connors, and so on. There music stands out as their own
    Just do it!

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    This will make you laugh....when I first heard Van Morrison I pictured, in my head, a tall thin Negro.....boy was I wrong. To see a large red headed, white, Irish man that looks like he would be at home in the front bar of a pub......Yeh I don't get out much
    Just do it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy John View Post
    You weren't looking hard enough Brett
    Great! Gracias Señór Gruñón. I think that was a great version by Them actually, especially for the time. Just as I REALLY liked the Stones "Not Fade Away" as a child. We happened to have a pair of Maracas on hand in the 60s, so I used to bop along to it with them.

    Well, spose I better post a link to it, having mentioned it, and given that it's a cover:

    The Buddy Holly version (yeah, not bad)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyTtFNGzFsE

    but The Stones nailed it


    and a somewhat smoother version from 1994, which I hadn't previously heard, but definitely worthwhile:


    Interesting and worthwhile version from Stevie Nicks (with Leland Sklar on bass):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbndfXPU6AU
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    Possibly the craziest thing I have EVER seen live is TISM.

    These dudes were so out there that even marginal esoterica was mainstream.... but their music was AWESOME. Even better live!



    The strangest performance was in the shittiest, mangiest, shithole of a bar here in Canberra, they wore bedsheets and pointed pillowcases on their heads with giant black ski goggles. For the whole thing.

    Their music was fabulous.

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    So this post is about bands that covered something, and then had one of their own songs covered.

    Starting off Cream's version of Crossroads (originally by Robert Johnson in the 30s??), a rock classic (only a VERY brave band would attempt it again):


    Cream more or less became Blind Faith (Jack Bruce left, Steve Winwood & Ric Grech joined), who covered Buddy Holly's "Well Alright". I was very fond of this at the time (Winwood's organ still gets me):


    Then Santana covered it in 78, and I LOVED it! Not necessarily to the detriment of BF version though. I just really dig the percussion in Santana.




    So Santana wrote (I think) "Samba Pa Ti" in 1970, and it was on Abraxas.


    Somehow, Abraxas was an album I didn't get to know too well, and my next exposure to SPT wasn't until 1994, when a mate brought around Ottmar Liebert's album Solo Para Ti and it blew my mind man! I have absolutely loved Flamenco since I was 12, then went on to Rock, and 70s Fusion, so when this cat is playing fabulous Flamenco with jazz fusion (beautiful upright bass) in there.....I was totally hooked from the get go! I've seen Ottmar at the State Theatre a few times.

    So, Ottmar does a cover of Santana's Samba Pa Ti, but with a master stroke - he invited Carlos on to do some electric lead. A few little licks at about 1 minute, which sound so unmistakably Santana (I knew before I looked at the cover notes). Bear in mind that this is a song/album that I have heard countless times. Absolutely one of my all time favourite songs:
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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    Possibly the craziest thing I have EVER seen live is TISM.
    When were they around?
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    Quote Originally Posted by FenceFurniture View Post
    When were they around?
    Mid '90's IIRC.
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    To complete that last post, although it doesn't seamlessly flow on, Foreigner recorded I Want To Know What Love Is in 1984, and as I recall it was a huge hit:



    Lou Gramm does have one the all time great voices, so when Tina Arena (another classic voice) did her excellent version in 94, she did what Ottmar did, and got Lou to do the background vocals. It works an absolute treat! Leland Sklar was the bassist on this album (as well as having played with EVERYBODY else). Tina's version is somewhat more brooding (helped by Sklar's bass), but IMO is the definitive version. Gramm can't really be heard distinctly until about 4 minutes.

    There is a version on Youtube, but this Souncloud link has fabulous sound quality:
    https://soundcloud.com/tinaarena/i-w...w-what-love-is

    Funnily enough it was the same mate who brought In Deep around for me to hear, and once more I was immediately hooked (he's a drummer, we go back a way, he knows what I'll like).
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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    Possibly the craziest thing I have EVER seen live is TISM.

    These dudes were so out there that even marginal esoterica was mainstream.... but their music was AWESOME. Even better live!



    The strangest performance was in the shittiest, mangiest, shithole of a bar here in Canberra, they wore bedsheets and pointed pillowcases on their heads with giant black ski goggles. For the whole thing.

    Their music was fabulous.
    One of all my all time favourite bands.
    Best seen in st kilda when it was still st kilda

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy John View Post
    This could be a pretty contentious thread.
    Put up cover versions you think are just as good, if not better, than the original.

    I'll kick it off with this one.


    To go back to the original post, The Small Faces original kills it. No contest. There are just too many things missing from the cover. Sadly I think only the drummer is still with us now.
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