• From: San Antonio, Texas
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Topic: Favorite Cover Songs/Bands

I know alot of you guys concentrate on your own originals, etc but some of us arent quite there yet tongue  What songs do you all like doing covers of?  What bands do you mosty do cover songs to? 

I love covering Social Distortion songs and I play the rhythm spot on ... it's the solo's etc that I'm trying to work on now ... I also love doing Iron Maiden, ZZ Top, Judas Priest, Green Day, Offspring and AC/DC covers as well ... for acoustic I love doing country

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Re: Favorite Cover Songs/Bands

i cover a lot of floyd, syd barrett, corries, pogues, stiff little fingers, the corries, john prine, eric bogle.

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending
  • From: Teesside
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Re: Favorite Cover Songs/Bands

I'm in the same boat mate, I just sit and cover other artists material while i learn.

I cover mainly:- (and here comes the list)

Avenged Sevenfold
Queen
Offspring
Atreyu
Guns n Roses
Jimi Hendrix
Clapton/Cream
AC/DC
Sabbath/Ozzy
Bullet for my Valentine
Danzig
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Nirvana
Paul Gilbert (bits of - mainly for technique)
Ataris - Boys of Summer
Trivium
Velvet Revolver
Stereophonics
Van Halen
Muse
Papa Roach
Metallica
Lit
Foo Fighters
Bon Jovi

Probably more i cant remember too lol

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Re: Favorite Cover Songs/Bands

Buffett
Cash
Nelson (Willie variety, not the hair pop group)

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Re: Favorite Cover Songs/Bands

I like to cover songs that might not be considered acoustic and then of course put my own "no actual talent" spin on them. My favorite covers are the ones that sound considerable different than the originals. Some examples:
Cake covering Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive
Chris Cornell - Beat It by Michael Jackson
Seu Jorge covering anything David Bowie (see the Bill Murray's The Life Aquatic soundtrack)
Johnny Cash-Loudon Wainwright's The Man Who Couldn't Cry
Ben Folds Five -Dr Dre's Bitches Ain't Shit
Laurie McKenna - Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees
...the list goes on and on.
This inspired me to cover lots of wierd songs. Some I love on acoustic and of course some still suck. It's cool to think that a ton of songs (no matter how over-produced) started life as an idea plucked out on an acoustic 6 string.

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  • From: San Antonio, Texas
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Re: Favorite Cover Songs/Bands

Zurf wrote:

Buffett
Cash
Nelson (Willie variety, not the hair pop group)

- Zurf

Thank God Zurf!  tongue

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  • From: San Antonio, Texas
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Re: Favorite Cover Songs/Bands

Wibble wrote:

I'm in the same boat mate, I just sit and cover other artists material while i learn.

I cover mainly:- (and here comes the list)

Avenged Sevenfold
Queen
Offspring
Atreyu
Guns n Roses
Jimi Hendrix
Clapton/Cream
AC/DC
Sabbath/Ozzy
Bullet for my Valentine
Danzig
Iron Maiden
Megadeth
Nirvana
Paul Gilbert (bits of - mainly for technique)
Ataris - Boys of Summer
Trivium
Velvet Revolver
Stereophonics
Van Halen
Muse
Papa Roach
Metallica
Lit
Foo Fighters
Bon Jovi

Probably more i cant remember too lol

Damn your a busy man Wibble ... I'm trying to learn Audioslave's "Cochise" right now

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Re: Favorite Cover Songs/Bands

Oh hell yes, seriously like 3-4 hours every single day for the last year I play my guitar and I try to learn 1 new song every day

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Re: Favorite Cover Songs/Bands

I cover allot of diffrent artist and a wide range of music but the artists that I cover most are Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Bob Marley, Donovan Frankenrieter, Sublime, Gratefull Dead, and Tom Petty. I'm starting to do allot of John Butler trio but can only play Zebra and Good Excuses by him at the moment but others are in the works.

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