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A little different take on NWA's Straight out of Compton

Mr B the Gentleman Rhymer

The original song being covered violates many of the boards rules on language so you are on your own to find it.

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OK, there is also a group called 2Cellos that do some AMAZING rock covers

Here is Thunderstuck

www.youtube.com/embed/uT3SBzmDxGk

and then one of my all time favorite covers

Johnny Cash covers hurt

www.youtube.com/embed/3aF9AJm0RFc

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What a great idea. I actually do spend a fair amount of time going down the "youtube rabbit hole" finding covers of songs.

Many of my favorites have been posted in this thread already,such as the Sheryl Crow Walk away andVanilla Fudge's Keep me hanging on

Here are some of my favorites:

The one that got me started after watching the Concert For Bangladesh .. Leon Russel and with many others doing jumping jack flash:

How about the Temptations doing Eye of the tiger?

Or a very early Van Halen taking on Rainbow's Main on the silver mountain?

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I can not post here because of the language, but if you like Queen's Stone Cold Crazy, check out the Metallica version

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The Damned update The Stooges classic 1970 ( I Feel Alright ) :

Here , The Damned perform their take on a classic Arthur Lee & Love song Alone Again Or :

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Harry P.

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Is it possible to do a cover version of your own song?

Grace Slick wrote "Somebody to Love" (and "White Rabbit") while she was a member of The Great Society, a local San Francisco band. After The Great Society broke up, Signe Anderson, the lead singer of another local San Francisco band Jefferson Airplane, left that band due to the birth of her child. The Airplane asked Grace Slick if she would like to join the band and replace Signe. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Everyone knows the Airplane's version of "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit," so here's a "reverse cover"... the original version of "Somebody to Love" recorded by Grace Slick and The Great Society before she joined Jefferson Airplane and they had a big hit with the song...

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This will show just how far covers can go. (And no, the Animals were not the first)

Again my love of psychedelia rears it's ugly head.

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This gal was 15 when she recorded this. It seems that the future of blues lies with teenage white kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1KBkg_-EZo

One of my all-time favorite songs. Never heard it done like this! Pretty cool... B)

I read about her in Playboy (yes I said read ) and purchased the CD. I liked the CD. I was hoping to see her in concert. I went to Nashville for a concert weekend called River Stages and she was playing. After the show she was sighing autographs . I am standing there getting my autograph and her mom asks how I heard about Shannon. I told her about the review that I read in Playboy. I must have been beet red. Anyway she is a backup singer for Kid Rock now. She still does some some solo stuff .She has three or four CDS out now. Sorry about the long winded post but I like her music.

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Is it possible to do a cover version of your own song?

Grace Slick wrote "Somebody to Love" (and "White Rabbit") while she was a member of The Great Society, a local San Francisco band. After The Great Society broke up, Signe Anderson, the lead singer of another local San Francisco band Jefferson Airplane, left that band due to the birth of her child. The Airplane asked Grace Slick if she would like to join the band and replace Signe. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Everyone knows the Airplane's version of "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit," so here's a "reverse cover"... the original version of "Somebody to Love" recorded by Grace Slick and The Great Society before she joined Jefferson Airplane and they had a big hit with the song...

Oh Yeah, an artist can cover one of their own songs!

Here's Todd, with Nazz doing a song he later had more success with as a solo artist

Myself I prefer the Nazz version, but that's my take.

Modelbuilder Mark MCM Ohana

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Cabaret Voltaire perform their version of The Seeds No Escape :

The Damned update The Stooges classic 1970 ( I Feel Alright ) :

Here , The Damned perform their take on a classic Arthur Lee & Love song Alone Again Or :

Heck yeah, couple more of my kind of bands!

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I have a couple. I'll start with Lovemongers' (Anna & Nancy Wilson's) cover of The Battle of Evermore.

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afx

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Finally Jane's Addiction cover of The Grateful Dead's Ripple

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Then there's the Nitty Gritty Dirt Bands "signature" Song Mr Bojangles, written by Jerry Jeff Walker. Also Stevie Ray Vaughan did a version of Little Wing that would have had Hendrix nodding in approval.

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