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One of the greatest covers of a song ever
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Buckwheat Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Jan 30 2018, 9:45 PM EST
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY
jetblasted Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Jan 30 2018, 11:01 PM EST
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I think Aerosmith’s “Come Together” is better than The Beetles.

Rhonda Vincent’s “Driving Nails In My Coffin” is better than Ernest Tubb’s.

Then again, all of Rhonda Vincent’s covers are great ...

Drool Boo hoo!
tamapatom Offline
#3 Posted: Wed, Jan 31 2018, 8:54 AM EST
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Frijid Pink - House of the Rising Sun - 1969? Great guitar work with fuzzbox
kelly66 Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, Jan 31 2018, 9:06 AM EST
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Beatle's version of Twist and Shout compared to the Isley Brothers.
fenderbendertex Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Jan 31 2018, 9:32 AM EST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u-PjvRyr0I

I'm hard on cover songs - especially "Stairway to Heaven", but this one is so good Jimmy Page was smiling ear-to-ear and Robert Plant even had tears in his eyes... Hope those shots are on this video
fenderbendertex Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, Jan 31 2018, 9:37 AM EST
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This one's for Buckwheat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXJifYl_byU

Hey Buck, is it a cover if the original band is in on it?
w:d/
jetblasted Offline
#7 Posted: Wed, Jan 31 2018, 11:21 AM EST
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Lynyrd Skynyrd “T for Texas” is better than Jimmie Rodgers.
Palama Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2019, 8:34 PM EST
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I’m gonna go with “Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)” by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Not saying it’s better than Jimi’s original but man, does SRV play the heck out of his guitar!
mjrburn Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2019, 8:55 PM EST
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Tool's cover of No Quarter by Led Zeppelin is awesome. I was lucky enough to witness it live a couple of years ago in Charlotte, NC.
tailgater Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2019, 9:11 PM EST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFHLO_2_THg

The best cover in the history of music.


Still think zep should have kept the name Taurus.
tailgater Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2019, 9:17 PM EST
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I'm not sure which version is better.
Jake Holmes really rocked this for a folk singer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTsvs-pAGDc
Speyside Offline
#12 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2019, 10:40 PM EST
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Sound of silence by Disturbed, so different than Simon and Garfunkles version.
KingoftheCove Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2019, 11:15 PM EST
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Dancing days cover by STP
Sunoverbeach Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 1:25 AM EST
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I love Hellyeah covering Collins' I Don't Care Anymore
ZRX1200 Offline
#15 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 1:28 AM EST
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https://youtu.be/4zAThXFOy2c
Palama Offline
#16 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 1:39 AM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:
https://youtu.be/4zAThXFOy2c


Damn, that is good!

My favorite country cover:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qHctiUIqc7Q

Willie and George....
ZRX1200 Offline
#17 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 1:42 AM EST
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There’s another one with Chris and Justin Timberlake wihich is good as well.
jespear Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 7:44 AM EST
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ORIGINAL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LHNriPZf4

COVER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7B5jXYRy3Q

Tough choice.
MACS Offline
#19 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 7:57 AM EST
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^^Easy choice. GFR for the win.

I don't much like country music, but damn if that Tennessee Whiskey by Chris Stapleton isn't a damn good song.

Another one I liked was blue ain't your color by what's his face...

Awww, sh*t. I fkn like country music. d'oh!
ZRX1200 Offline
#20 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 9:51 AM EST
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https://youtu.be/7KJjVMqNIgA

https://youtu.be/HqwvNmG651Q

https://youtu.be/ARwlJPyuNQE

https://youtu.be/CGrR-7_OBpA

Some of my favorites.
teedubbya Offline
#21 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 10:08 AM EST
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Any Richard Cheese cover is worthwhile. I like down with the sickness or gin and juice..... but really all of them.
plinytheelder Offline
#22 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 1:17 PM EST
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV4_xaYynY

when the guy that wrote the song changes his arrangement to match the cover... legendary
dstieger Offline
#23 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 1:25 PM EST
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Jeff Healy's cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps was quite a bit better than the original

I've got a LOT of respect for Otis Redding, but Black Crowes' Hard to Handle was special

Haven't watched any of the links above, but one or more are almost certainly Johnny Cash....a phenomenon I will never understand....I'd rather hear William Shatner's idiotic recordings than listen to Cash's wretched 'Hurt' one more time
Sunoverbeach Offline
#24 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 2:04 PM EST
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^^ Agreed. I've learned appreciation for some covers over the years, but that one still angers me. Remember a reviewer at the time stating it was like it was written for Cash. No, azzhole. It's like it was written for Trent Reznor, by a songwriter that goes by the name of Reznor
teedubbya Offline
#25 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 2:37 PM EST
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the shats lucy in the sky is breathtaking
mjrburn Offline
#26 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 6:46 PM EST
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Gov't mule - she said, she said.
Luke753 Offline
#27 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 8:50 PM EST
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Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence

https://youtu.be/Bk7RVw3I8eg
Sunoverbeach Offline
#28 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2019, 10:04 PM EST
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Disturbed has a few covers that are pretty good.

Also speaking of the Hendrix/Vaughan crosses, I always loved SRV's version of Little Wing.
Speyside Offline
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Mad world, Adam Lambert.
Palama Offline
#30 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2019, 1:20 AM EST
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Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)

Hendrix - Woodstock 1969

https://vimeo.com/251578150

SRV - Austin City Limits 1983

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1rpis
Bumblebee395 Offline
#31 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2019, 8:21 AM EST
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dstieger wrote:
Jeff Healy's cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps was quite a bit better than the original

I've got a LOT of respect for Otis Redding, but Black Crowes' Hard to Handle was special

Haven't watched any of the links above, but one or more are almost certainly Johnny Cash....a phenomenon I will never understand....I'd rather hear William Shatner's idiotic recordings than listen to Cash's wretched 'Hurt' one more time



Two great examples IMHO.

Does a live cover count? if so... Cream's and Lynyrd Skynyrd's versions of Crossroads are better than Robert Johnson's.

Robben Ford's version of Politician is better than Cream's original. Of course JMHO.
RMAN4443 Offline
#32 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2019, 12:31 PM EST
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Bumblebee395 wrote:
Two great examples IMHO.

Does a live cover count? if so... Cream's and Lynyrd Skynyrd's versions of Crossroads are better than Robert Johnson's.

Robben Ford's version of Politician is better than Cream's original. Of course JMHO.

To be fair, Robert Johnson didn't have the technology Cream and Skynyrd had.

I think the Blues Brothers did some pretty great covers of everything they did...

Also Joe Cocker's cover of Ray Charles's Unchain My Heart was pretty good

and Santana did a pretty good job with Fleetwood Mac's(Peter Green's) Black Magic Woman


YMMV Herfing
tonygraz Offline
#33 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2019, 12:34 PM EST
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I think Al Yankovic does the best covers. Videos too.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#34 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2019, 12:58 PM EST
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That's right. I always forget BMW wasn't Carlos's
Palama Offline
#35 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2019, 1:37 PM EST
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RMAN4443 wrote:
To be fair, Robert Johnson didn't have the technology Cream and Skynyrd had.

I think the Blues Brothers did some pretty great covers of everything they did...

Also Joe Cocker's cover of Ray Charles's Unchain My Heart was pretty good

and Santana did a pretty good job with Fleetwood Mac's(Peter Green's) Black Magic Woman


YMMV Herfing


At best Johnson would have had an amplified hollow bodied guitar but no such animal as a solid body guitar like a Broadcaster, Strat or Les Paul till years later. On his recordings, he mostly likely used acoustic guitars with a microphone placed close by. Who knows what RJ could have accomplished on a solid body had he lived longer.

Love listening to the Blues Brothers but watching them was even better! Who’da thunk John Belushi could do those back flips?

I remember when I first head Joe’s version of “Unchain My Heart”. I was still working for Sony and in the Bose Store (...Hawaii had the first one...) when the assistant store manager put on the CD. I hadn’t heard any of Joe’s stuff since “Sheffield Blues” and I was totally blown away by his rendition. Was (...and still am...) not a fan of Bose speakers but after listening to “UMH”, for a brief nanosecond, contemplated getting a pair.

“BMW” - fo’ sure Carlos’ version has more flair and body to it but I love the simplicity of FM’s original.
RMAN4443 Offline
#36 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2019, 1:53 PM EST
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I saw the Blues Brothers(Belushi and Aykroyd) at the old Boston Garden in about 1979....Jphn Belushi came out running and did a double backflip....for real, I didn't see any ropes or pulleys...I couldn't believe he really could get his feet up over his head,twice, and land on his feet....Applause Applause
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#37 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2019, 2:31 PM EST
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teedubbya wrote:
Any Richard Cheese cover is worthwhile. I like down with the sickness or gin and juice..... but really all of them.

Hayseed Dixie did gin n juice better...
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#38 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2019, 6:36 PM EST
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