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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    edited August 2021
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    https://youtu.be/b7MUcj312a0

    This is a wonderful cover of Have you ever seen the rain
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
  • msg
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    ^^^ wow.
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  • msg
    msg Posts: 10,634
    edited August 2021
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    Chris Isaak's Baja Sessions has a few covers on it. It's one of my favorite albums, one that never gets old. Not a bad song on it, super relaxing.
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 18,412
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    Maybe not the best cover but better to look at.. :smiley:

    https://youtu.be/G7pO0bBuK-M
  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,877
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    She's got some good videos. Some of those band members can shred drums, bass and guitars
  • msg
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    Lyle Lovett cover of Townes Van Zandt's
    If I Needed You with Alison Krauss on subtle harmony.
    Step Inside This House is the seventh album by Lyle Lovett, released in 1998. In contrast with his earlier albums, populated mostly by songs penned by Lovett, House is a double-length album of cover songs written by fellow Texans.

    https://youtu.be/_7_B0Svzgwg
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,550
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    stumbled across this last week. Nice cover of the late Ronnie Lane's beautiful song April Fool (which is originally found on his duet album with Pete Townshend, Rough Mix).


    https://youtu.be/lcrcXTQNjJs
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  • Milito
    Milito Posts: 2,003
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    Saw the Doobie Brothers and Chicago combine and do "I'm a Man" in a concert once, it was great.
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  • Milito
    Milito Posts: 2,003
    edited August 2021
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 18,412
    edited July 2022
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    Montrose I Got The Fire!!!!

    https://youtu.be/ccQRJJoW7TY

    Iron Maiden's cover..

    https://youtu.be/6n1XEzmPV10
  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,877
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    Two great singers from two great bands!
  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 18,412
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    Beckett Rainbows Gold..

    https://youtu.be/Yn9JcVGpFik

    Iron Maiden's cover..

    https://youtu.be/Zkse-6f93to
  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 27,877
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    I've got those IM B-side CD's. I really like them a lot !
  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 18,412
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    I never knew this existed till today!! Pretty Kick **** Job IMO!!

    https://youtu.be/bj5Nq3fhz7s
  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,878
    edited September 2022
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    Good but that is definitely different from the Stryper I knew from the 80's: "Honestly", "Always There For You" and the following tune:

    This song which Stryper covered reminds me of a song that Black Oak Arkansas covered at the opening of their set at the Winterland in SF in the early 70's.
    The lights were out, the only things visible on stage were the white lights from the Marshall (?) amps when....still dark...Jim Dandy, with his deep voice started into "Silent Night",
    A Cappella.
    The only sound you could hear when he finished was the sound of peoples' jaws dropping to the floor.
    IT..WAS...****ING...AWE ...SOME

    Amywho, Stryper's cover of this song is also AOK
    🤗✅👍
    Turn it up, share with the neighbors
    They deserve it or have it coming, either way.
    Volume....to....11 ! 💥⚡

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6MqK7NeqaQI


    Jim Dandy's voice was dandy.
    Michael Sweet's voice was
    sweet.
    Sal Palooza
  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 18,412
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    That was awesome..
  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 18,412
    edited December 2022
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    I love the Thunderstruck riff mixed in this as well..

    https://youtu.be/0D28i_Y40eo
  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 18,412
    edited December 2022
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    Good Times Bad Times..

    https://youtu.be/0pXxVm-hdEo
  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 18,412
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    I Don’t Care Anymore

    https://youtu.be/nYXYfdsaHxg
  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 20,350
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    I'm usually not one for cover songs but I recently discovered this tune. They have no instruments (which again, usually I do not like....unless it is a superb song/recording) . The band is Club for 5 from their live album "You're the Voice".

    It's track 13 "Brothers in Arms (Live). I included the You-Tube video to it but honestly, the recording on Qobuz is much better and on my main rig? It sounds incredible and I have found myself over the past few weeks, listening to it often. The dude has a deep baritone voice and they sang it tight.

    https://youtu.be/Gerr99h0nS8

    If I had never heard Mark Knopfler/Dire Straight's version? I don't know if I would like that one better or not. The two versions (and I'll very well concede that they may *both* be covers) aforementioned in this post are both completely unique. Club for 5 was definitely thinking outside the box with their cover and for once, I really dig this cover. They made the song their own.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,173
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    Tom, that Finnish group Club for Five’s cover of Brothers In Arms is special. Of course, Knopfler’s guitar solo is missing but that vocal work is really sweet. Thanks for posting
  • SIHAB
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  • machone
    machone Posts: 1,586
    edited December 2022
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  • dromunds
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    Very good Yes cover. I just recently saw Yes (Official) do the entire Close To The Edge album. Virtuoso playing (and singing)
  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 2,141
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    Neil Diamond fan here but….
    I really like UB40’s version of Red Red Wine.
  • machone
    machone Posts: 1,586
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    dromunds wrote: »
    Very good Yes cover. I just recently saw Yes (Official) do the entire Close To The Edge album. Virtuoso playing (and singing)

    Band Geeks is touring with Jon Anderson this spring
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  • dromunds
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    Yes, ( no pun intended) I watched the video of Jon with Band Geeks and I thought it was better than Yes (official) which were pretty good. Nobody is Jon Anderson except Jon Anderson, however. I’ve seen Jon many times, solo acoustic as well as with a number of others, including Jean Luc Ponty in a small high school auditorium. Jon is always excellent.