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Re: Cover versions you like better than the originals

Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2019 2:45 am
by chankgeez

Re: Cover versions you like better than the originals

Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2019 9:19 am
by psycho*daisies
:freakout: from Christchurch, NZ

Re: Cover versions you like better than the originals

Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2019 9:21 am
by psycho*daisies
Written & originally recorded by John Lee Hooker

Re: Cover versions you like better than the originals

Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2019 9:26 am
by psycho*daisies
John Lee Hooker, 1964 Vee-Jay #575

Re: Cover versions you like better than the originals

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2019 3:20 pm
by chankgeez

Re: Cover versions you like better than the originals

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 11:05 am
by HorseyBoy
Rufus Thomas and company killing it with a cover of "Tutti Frutti". Great wah, great brassy-sounding fuzzy slide:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... uBaYWW4fMM

Re: Cover versions you like better than the originals

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:23 pm
by simonm
:headpop: i just heard this! it's pre Big Star but sounds like an out-take from Like Flies On Sherbert


Re: Cover versions you like better than the originals

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:39 pm
by HorseyBoy
simonm wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:23 pm :headpop: i just heard this! it's pre Big Star but sounds like an out-take from Like Flies On Sherbert
Dude, whatever you do, if you like "Flies on Sherbert", grab a copy of "Free Again: The 1970 Sessions". Absolutely KILLER. Some of my favourite Chilton stuff ever. :tu:

Re: Cover versions you like better than the originals

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:52 pm
by innerflight
^love that and cheers for the heads up Horsey

Heard this today on the radio, not heard it in years. 801 live :party:


Re: Cover versions you like better than the originals

Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:07 pm
by simonm
HorseyBoy wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:39 pm
simonm wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:23 pm :headpop: i just heard this! it's pre Big Star but sounds like an out-take from Like Flies On Sherbert
Dude, whatever you do, if you like "Flies on Sherbert", grab a copy of "Free Again: The 1970 Sessions". Absolutely KILLER. Some of my favourite Chilton stuff ever. :tu:
I've always been meaning to get it, is there a decent vinyl version?