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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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Oct 22, 2011 - 08:02pm PT
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Back in the 80s we did a lot of quirky covers---Carpenters, "Brandy", "Edmund Fitzgerald", a "Goobers and Raisinets" jingle, etc. Here's "Spinning Wheel":
http://mervspiegel.com/media/mp3/MervSpiegelandthePenguinsSpinningWheel.mp3?link=1
Great covers I'll leave you to google: Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah", Eva Cassidy's ... well, everything, Husker Du's "Eight Miles High" and "Love is All Around (theme from Mary Tyler Moore)", Rufus Wainwright's "Across the Universe", Radio Birdman's "Aloha Steve and Dano (theme from Hawaii 5-0)", Randy Scruggs' "Both Sides Now", Ray Charles' "Georgia" and "America the Beautiful", The Who's "(Love is like a) Heatwave", The Animals "House of the Rising Sun", Fleetwood Mac's "Shake your Money-Maker",
Smashing Pumpkins' "Dancing in the Moonlight": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2OOtTBrxgE
And here's a pretty good Vlad Horowitz cover of an old Beethoven tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8o1P1wCmIQ&feature=related
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Off White
climber
Tenino, WA
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Oct 22, 2011 - 08:04pm PT
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And if you've made it through all that, here's a real thread killer, one of the most awful songs ever recorded: William Shatner covering Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Ar79f8aN8
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 25, 2011 - 02:56pm PT
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This is a fun thread if I do say so my own self.
So glad y'all are puttin' up some goodies!
That Gilbert Kashmir is cool! Good video too.
Buddy Guy and Tracy Chapman, doing Ain't No Sunshine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neFzQ-vBXm0&feature=related
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Oct 25, 2011 - 04:35pm PT
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This is sort of a reverse. Steve Miller's first recording of Mercury Blues, years before he recorded
it for a Steve Miller album.
Sound Track for the movie Revolution (1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC-AeW_B6HE&feature=related
I think this is Boz Skaggs on the vocal.
I've always been so disappointed by Miller's later recordings of this.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Oct 29, 2011 - 10:44pm PT
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It boggles the mind that nobody has referenced The Clash's cover of "Police and Thieves". Makes me wanna go into an old-fashioned rant.
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Reggaemylitis
Trad climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Oct 30, 2011 - 12:11am PT
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I love covers that go in a totally different direction, changing the mood, texture, or rhythm of the song. One of the best of those IMHO, is Crooked Fingers' cover of Prince's When You Were Mine. Still one of my favorite covers, up there with the Gin and Juice cover by The Gourds, Dynamite Hack's version of Boys In The Hood, and tons of Grateful Dead covers, of which my favorite is probably the Dead doing Merle Haggard's Sing Me Back Home.
Crooked Fingers doing When You Were Mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AYmzvSQ838
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