Are there any GOOD songs that you'd never cover?
I know there are plenty of BAD ones, I'm talking GOOD ones (in your opinion anyway)
Good songs you just won't cover?
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BloodyFingers
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Yea
Dinamo Hum - Frank Zappa
Plenty. BUT, at the top of the list, "Stairway to Heaven".
Some because of what was conveyed by the person/peole who wrote them
that no one else can do as well.
Biko-Peter Gabriel (Probably listened to this 1,000x...but can never just listen once. Always gets repeated...and repeated...and...)
Imagine-John Lennon
Sunday Bloody Sunday-U2
Some because of what was conveyed by the person/peole who wrote them
that no one else can do as well.
Biko-Peter Gabriel (Probably listened to this 1,000x...but can never just listen once. Always gets repeated...and repeated...and...)
Imagine-John Lennon
Sunday Bloody Sunday-U2
DaveP.
"You must be this beautiful to ride the Quagmire."
"You must be this beautiful to ride the Quagmire."
dudes, you don't have to cover "Dinah-Moe Humm" in all its sexually explicit entirety....just take "Roadhouse Blues" and work the Zappa-rap into the middle part and watch the female bovine perspiration build up on the dance flo....works like a charm....you'll have 'em buns-up-kneelin'!
"so I pulled on her hair, got her legs in the air, and asked if she had any cooties in there..."
"so I pulled on her hair, got her legs in the air, and asked if she had any cooties in there..."
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Or a little practice at timekeeping.It's not that tough of a song to play.Thought you cats were rockstars back in da day?songsmith wrote:Thin Ice used to attempt Rush's "Limelight" at rehearsals. We got as far as the off-time guitar break, and realized that only Rush should do that one. You need Alex Lifeson's hands to pull it off correctly.--->JMS
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Only fools stand up and lay down their arms.
Only fools stand up and lay down their arms.
That wasn't the problem. Our drummer was Mark Morningstar... he's not the 650mph blast beat monster, but his timing is impeccable. Plus, for that song, he had the sheet music, I remember. No, it was the bendy part of the guitar solo, the half-time segment... it came out sounding like a warbly 8-track tape, and we're all huge Rush fans... it seemed like sacriledge. It might not be a hard song to do, but it's a hard song to do right. If it was Poison or something, we wouldn't have cared.--->JMS
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In all honesty you're right Witch.For Queen you need a choir and that secret Brian May whatever it is.For Rush you need a drummer with 8 limbs and well i think we all know that so so bass player they have .Myself,i went through a huge Rush period back in the day.Unbelievable band,couldn't get enough of them,but,and i guess i'll sound like a dick,but i never found Alex's guitar parts to be overly difficult.Challenging,oddly timed and off kilter killer shit but never made me wanna throw the ax down in anger.I guess it was sorta of the music i was playing at the time heading into my Jazz phase.Sorry Song i wasn't trying to come off as a dick.iI know you've played an important part on area stages for years and my hat is off to you and all your endevors.Peace. 
.Myself,i went through a huge Rush period back in the day.Unbelievable band,couldn't get enough of them,but,and i guess i'll sound like a dick,but i never found Alex's guitar parts to be overly difficult.Challenging,oddly timed and off kilter killer shit but never made me wanna throw the ax down in anger.I guess it was sorta of the music i was playing at the time heading into my Jazz phase.Sorry Song i wasn't trying to come off as a dick.iI know you've played an important part on area stages for years and my hat is off to you and all your endevors.Peace. NailDriver
Only fools stand up and lay down their arms.
Only fools stand up and lay down their arms.
No offense taken by me. I think one of your talents is being able to emulate guitar parts, we just weren't that good at it. I wish I could do that better, it would help increase my musical vocabulary. We played together long enough to figure out what our strengths and weaknesses were... we weren't virtuoso's by any stretch, so we played up on the show aspect of it.whitedevilone wrote:.Sorry Song i wasn't trying to come off as a dick.iI know you've played an important part on area stages for years and my hat is off to you and all your endevors.Peace.
As for playing an important part on local stages, I dunno about that... I'm just lucky a couple of guys who used to see us play wound up on here. There were way better bands then, we just milked it better. Plus, I have a way of being in the right place at the right time, for cool music.--->JMS
I have to agree. Hybrid Ice did that one astonishingly well. I saw them once at the Engine Room, their second time there, and they just kept nailing songs for 3 solid sets, all this progressive 70's stuff, like Kansas, Yes (they did Yes especially well), Floyd, Styx. Every rock musician in town used to go see them.
I used to dig a band called Ice, from Ebensburg... they could nail Rush perfectly. We used to see them at Hill Valley Hotel, and there'd be 15 people there, and they'd be doing all kinds of Rush, even obscure stuff, and you could close your eyes, and swear it was the real band. The guitarist was so good at Alex Lifeson stuff, when they'd move on to other bands' material, he'd still sound like Alex Lifeson playing ZZ Top songs.
Which reminds me, does anyone remember when the Ozone Rangers played Old Sab's the first time? It was madness, a multi-thousand watt PA in a room the size of your living room and kitchen put together. It was packed to the rafters, and the Ozones even looked just like the real ZZ Top. What a great night.--->JMS
I used to dig a band called Ice, from Ebensburg... they could nail Rush perfectly. We used to see them at Hill Valley Hotel, and there'd be 15 people there, and they'd be doing all kinds of Rush, even obscure stuff, and you could close your eyes, and swear it was the real band. The guitarist was so good at Alex Lifeson stuff, when they'd move on to other bands' material, he'd still sound like Alex Lifeson playing ZZ Top songs.
Which reminds me, does anyone remember when the Ozone Rangers played Old Sab's the first time? It was madness, a multi-thousand watt PA in a room the size of your living room and kitchen put together. It was packed to the rafters, and the Ozones even looked just like the real ZZ Top. What a great night.--->JMS
songsmith wrote:I have to agree. Hybrid Ice did that one astonishingly well. I saw them once at the Engine Room, their second time there, and they just kept nailing songs for 3 solid sets, all this progressive 70's stuff, like Kansas, Yes (they did Yes especially well), Floyd, Styx. Every rock musician in town used to go see them.
I used to dig a band called Ice, from Ebensburg... they could nail Rush perfectly. We used to see them at Hill Valley Hotel, and there'd be 15 people there, and they'd be doing all kinds of Rush, even obscure stuff, and you could close your eyes, and swear it was the real band. The guitarist was so good at Alex Lifeson stuff, when they'd move on to other bands' material, he'd still sound like Alex Lifeson playing ZZ Top songs.
Which reminds me, does anyone remember when the Ozone Rangers played Old Sab's the first time? It was madness, a multi-thousand watt PA in a room the size of your living room and kitchen put together. It was packed to the rafters, and the Ozones even looked just like the real ZZ Top. What a great night.--->JMS
Man, I forgot about Ice. They were very good. I let Scott borrow my Rickenbacker for a week while his bass was being refinished. It about killed him to give it back.
"Death has come to your little town."
"I Stay Away" - Alice in Chains
"One" - Metallica. (One of my first bands had it down really close in rehearsals, but we didn't have the balls to try and pull it off live)
On a side note, when I was living and playing in South Carolina, there was a band called "Psych Ward." They pulled off "Spirit of Radio" to a T. It was quite impressive.
"One" - Metallica. (One of my first bands had it down really close in rehearsals, but we didn't have the balls to try and pull it off live)
On a side note, when I was living and playing in South Carolina, there was a band called "Psych Ward." They pulled off "Spirit of Radio" to a T. It was quite impressive.
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Of your shore until the tide comes crawling back
Songsmith,
The drummer from Ice, Leon Noel, is a friend of mine. He used to live in Ebensburg and now lives in Johnstown and I see him once in a while. He was a great drummer and he and I were in a band called Mojo in 1976 briefly and he did some work with me in The Alternative in the late 80's when our drummer was out of service after surgery. Leon does not play drums at all anymore and has not for a long time and that is too bad since he was very good and a nice guy to work with.
P.S. Notice that Leon's first and last name were the same in reverse. I always thought that was cool.
The drummer from Ice, Leon Noel, is a friend of mine. He used to live in Ebensburg and now lives in Johnstown and I see him once in a while. He was a great drummer and he and I were in a band called Mojo in 1976 briefly and he did some work with me in The Alternative in the late 80's when our drummer was out of service after surgery. Leon does not play drums at all anymore and has not for a long time and that is too bad since he was very good and a nice guy to work with.
P.S. Notice that Leon's first and last name were the same in reverse. I always thought that was cool.
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