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steve wrote:Just Ducky (1978 - 80)
Human Fly - Cramps
Time Warp - Rocky Horror Show
Blitzkreig Bop - Ramones
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
Can't Explain - the Who

Surely this tests the limits of full self-disclosure.

Salut, Steve! Your honesty is admirable, if not your taste.

"Skulls" by the misfits-
We did this often in my first band, and then off and on for years to follow. Worth noting that we actually managed to play it quite wrong the first few years.

"In the Rapids" by Genesis-
Oh yeah, we were some proggy gumbies way back when. This was even more daunting as a three piece, with no keys at all. We only played it one time live, and man it fell apart. As it should have. I think we were playing with a Nirvana cover band called the "Sea whores". Oh man. Who was less cool? The audience... that's who.

"Red" by King Crimson-
Many years later the guitarist found the tabs for this and decided to make our drummer look bad. I had just gotten this great Fender bassman head with a 2x10 cab, that in conjunction with a so-ugly-it's-gorgeous baby blue and tortoise shell 70's J-bass I had at the time (my god I miss that thing) and added a wonderfully distorted bass sound to the mix. We managed a pretty damn good stomper out of that way too complicated tune. Even the drummer managed to keep up... We were always very proud of ourselves for this cover, even though no one we played in front of ever really knew what the hell it was. That and we all had to sit there and look dumb counting out the weird section in the middle where the guitarist hammers those chords over and over again. I think it was somewhere around 28 beats or so before the bass line started with that bowed bit on the record...

"Andy Warhol" By David Bowie-

We did a rocked out version of this song, which again, no one seemed to ever recognize where we used to play. I have since moved. We actually have a basement recording made of it on:

www.myspace.com/darlingsounds

Zephyr (1976):

Dead Babies - Alice Cooper
Hanky Panky - Tommy James and The Shondells
Bad Time - Grand Funk Railroad

Last night I covered 7 songs by Gary Numan for the annual Great Cover Up, at Kings, in Raleigh.

What a great time. There were seven of us, and we got the sounds right thanks to two MiniMoogs and a Polymoog.

I'm already looking forward to next year.

-A

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Anyway, I figured that we ought to throw the audience a couple of bones amidst the onslaught of two-minute piledrivers, so we worked up a few covers that we sprinkled into our set. We did not do these songs "hardcore-style" but reproduced them as best we could. The songs we covered were as follows:

"Louie Louie"
"Green River"
(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone"
"Down By the River"
"(I'm) Eighteen"
"1970"
"Fortunate Son"

There were probably more, but that's all I can remember.

I can remember one. You have a pretty killer version of Your Pretty Face is Going To Hell by The Stooges on yr new album.

Only ever covered a couple and only when we (the band) have agreed to play not having a full set.
Not good, I know.

From a Silver Phial - Gene Clark
She - Gram Parsons
Crystal Gypsy - Sebadoh

warmowski wrote:Forgot "Rema Rema"

Yes,
Big Black
Rema Rema - Rema Rema

Shellac
Heaven Tonight (with Scrawl as six-piece) - Cheap Trick
Public Image (with Scrawl as six-piece) - PiL

with Flour
Prime Mover - Leather Nun

I do not wish to remember more.

alex maiolo wrote:Last night I covered 7 songs by Gary Numan for the annual Great Cover Up, at Kings, in Raleigh.

What a great time. There were seven of us, and we got the sounds right thanks to two MiniMoogs and a Polymoog.

I'm already looking forward to next year.

-A

awesome. how's paul and cheetie? when are BoA coming back to RVA?

Hey I remembered another one, and it's even timely.

(Dug around in the vault...2001 I think...slightly marred recording...never released)

http://thesanandreasfault.com/audio/sugaplum.mp3

Get a little angry Russian in you this holiday season.

Merry Thingy,

-r

as camaro already mentioned in old band 'the hit commission' -

* rolling stones, "gimme shelter"
* the cars, "just what i needed"

in old band 'backdoor victory' -

* huey lewis, "i want a new drug"

solo stuff -

* kinks, "in the summertime"
* turtles, "happy together"
* joy division, "new dawn fades"
* donna summer, "hot stuff"
* didjits, "stingray"

really really old band that only played once and didn't have a name -

* crazy world of arthur brown, "fire"
* doors, "riders on the storm"

(there was a house party of preppy high school kids going on across the street. my two friends and i played/ruined these two songs over and over and over for the sake of annoyance factor. eventually we got bored of this and called the cops on the party. things were pretty stupid when i was 14.)