Posted on 04/06/2011 8:48:39 PM PDT by MplsSteve
Saw Great White live at a suburban fest a few years back. Hubby said that year beforehand that we’re getting closer to the stage this time. Wrong year/band to do it cuz I swear I have some minor premanent hearing loss. They were really good but it was very, very loud:)
Live and Let Die?
Paul McCartney & Wings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7aGAIWe3uE
- or -
Guns N’ Roses
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D9vAItORgE
“Surfin’ Bird” - The Trashmen, The Cramps, The Ramones (The Trashmen by a nose over the Cramps)
“Signs”.....Five Man Electrical Band; popular acoustic remake by one of my favorites, Tesla...
..but you HAVE to go with the original. FMEB was so unbelievably underrated it’s criminal.
166 posts so this may be there:
Crimson & Clover — Tommy James and the Shondells
Crimson & Clover — Pat Benetar
Which of the DOZENS of versions of G-L-O-R-I-A
AGREE
vs The Yardbirds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd1gRHk28IE&feature=related
WOW, thanks for the memories! I was lucky enough to see them in 1968 in the Curry Hicks Cage at UMass along with the Association. (There is an odd matchup.)
Townes Van Zandt - Pancho & Lefty 1993 TV Performance
The rest is history ...
Arlo Guthrie /City of New Orleans
My favorite version:
Willie Nelson - City Of New Orleans
Bad Company’s “Bad Company... Great song, but....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww5GXbk58R0
I actually prefer 5FDP (Five Finger Death Punch)’s version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVo8g7T39A4
If you haven’t seen their video... It’s a salute to our troops!!!!
PFLR
"You are a very bad man."
Peter Frampton did a great instrumental cover of Black Hole Sun in 2006.
Phil Manzanera/801 doing Tomorrow Never Knows
Interesting to hear some original or earlier versions that weren’t too bad
Tainted Love—Gloria Jones 1964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U
I Got My Mind Set On You—James Ray 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuqGm6FwZgY
Toy Bell (aka My Ding a Ling)— The Bees 1954
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5IorPq8k2Q
You Need Love (Whole Lotta Love)—Muddy Waters 1960
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM8_HuQ0b34
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