Unusual Covers

[Drunk Monk]

Cantina Band on Pig Piano
Kaboom Percussion



May the Fourth be with YOU

Heh, I just caught that on FB. 

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What? I found it on a Sith Holocron.

No Jedi!

Jedi Holocron.

[thatguy]

Prince covering Radiohead's Creep



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[thatguy]

Toni Basil covering Devo



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[Drunk Monk]

Joan Jet
Have you ever seen the rain?

[Drunk Monk]

The Immigrant Song
Bebe Buckskin
In Cree

[Drunk Monk]

Take Five

Tamil Jazz Collective

[Greg]

Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding. Metallica does Elton John for Elton John.

[Drunk Monk]

Ice Nine Kills
Walking on Sunshine



This was just a mess live...

[Drunk Monk]

Theme from Enter the Dragon

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

[King Bob]

Joe Goldmark - Third Stone from the Sun

[thatguy]

What is hip? 
(I'm impressed by the bass player's prowess)



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[King Bob]

One of my favorite Tower of Power songs, maybe only outdone by Down to the Nightclub.

[thatguy]

This guy, JP asked me late on Monday last week if I wanted to help him cover The Great Curve at open mic on Wed. I was at work all day on Tues and then I went to an open mic after work, so I didn't get to start on it until Tues nite, when I made the backing track (which took an hour to get servicable...). I focused on the backing vocals since I didn't really know what all they are singing. It's really complicated. There are 4 different vocals going on at the same time. I printed them all out and tried to come up with some mix of all the different parts and learn the part. I only had a bit of time late Tues and Wed afternoon to come up with a guitar part that works given the small amount of gear I can bring (nothing close to Adrian Belew's rig). When I got to open mic, JP and I only ran thru the song partway one or two times before we went on.

It ended up being more "surfy" than I wanted. It's not good, but I am really impressed at how well it came out for how little we practiced and can only imagine how much better it would have been had we had more time.




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[King Bob]

Nice work. 

I would have gone with a different bass line - Tina's line and the vocal don't quite match up, which makes singing it difficult. I tried tapping the bass rhythm and singing and got messed up. (Plus I sometimes don't agree with her choices.) Or since it's all on the same chord, you could have programmed it and gone solo.

TG - you might check out Angelique Kidjo's version - she streamlines the vocal interplay somewhat.

[thatguy]

One of the first "one chord" songs I've learned. The other that comes to mind is Eddy Grant's "Electric Avenue".

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