Prog Cover Fight

HansGruber · Post by **HansGruber** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:54 pm

Leaf wrote:Neil Peart's drum parts are COMPOSITIONS. They were always the same. So I'm gonna honour that.

You risk exile from Canada otherwise.

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:01 pm

roymond wrote: The first time I saw Zappa, he played that cover of "Stairway to Heaven" (I think it's on the B'way the Hard Way disc) as an encore.

Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life. Wonderful disc. Also has send-ups of Ravel's Bolero, Sunshine Of Your Love, and Purple Haze.

The Jimmy Swaggart version of Lonesome Cowboy Burt is freaking hysterical.

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:28 pm

Phish doing Peaches En Regalia

tonetripper · Post by **tonetripper** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:02 pm

Well I think that's the general deal with doing prog stuff. The issue is that the shit is usually so complicated musically and so written in the sense of actual notation that it's difficult to translate. Doing YYZ by Rush would be difficult to translate, but I think the trick would be to definitely try. Maybe not in the actual parts, but definitely in the sonic nature....... added stuff perhaps. Maybe trip it out in the remix aspect. I'm looking forward to this.

Jack that link she no work for me..... page not found 404

HansGruber · Post by **HansGruber** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:07 pm

tonetripper wrote:Jack that link she no work for me..... page not found 404

Try this one.

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:39 pm

Damn you guys!!! Now I got Peaches En Regalia STUCK in my head all day....I suppose it could be a worse song.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed May 04, 2005 5:19 pm

ah, cool, this version is better than the other one i downloaded since i posted that (8/21/87).
thanks jack and hans.
however, i still like the original better.
-bill

MintyHandy · Post by **MintyHandy** » Wed May 04, 2005 5:50 pm

Okay, is this fight really happening? Because I am -all- about busting out of my cutesy-cute humorous standard songfight fare with a prog cover fantasy. Seriously. I am all up in that.

HansGruber · Post by **HansGruber** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:12 pm

Justincombustion wrote:Damn you guys!!! Now I got Peaches En Regalia STUCK in my head all day....I suppose it could be a worse song.

Me too. Click here to cleanse the pallete.

Minty wrote:Because I am -all- about busting out of my cutesy-cute humorous standard songfight fare with a prog cover fantasy.

Yay! Bring the uke! This thing is on, baby.

Here's something to get you in the mood

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:46 pm

gotta love google

ibellaluna · Post by **ibellaluna** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:11 pm

Minty Handy's wife here - he's away from his computer, so asked me to put in for Genesis' "Supper's Ready" (abridged).

MintyHandy · Post by **MintyHandy** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:12 pm

Wow. I clicked that MIDI link, and suddenly I'm playing sonic the hedgehog.

EDIT: Hey, wifey -- sorry, our dinner got delayed by 15min so I decided to check in. But yeah, I haven't even heard it, but I'm gonna do it.

DOUBLE-EDIT: Although, if I end up completely blowing it, I might do an ELO tune as a back-up. But only if I really blow it.

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:46 pm

MintyHandy wrote:I might do an ELO tune as a back-up. But only if I really blow it.

"fire on high". now thats prog rock.

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Fri May 06, 2005 9:24 pm

Leaf wrote:From a stylistic perspective... Neil Peart's drum parts are COMPOSITIONS. They were always the same. So I'm gonna honour that. As far as the otherparts go... I'm not so keen on singing like Geddy... so ....

I offered help on guitar and I suppose I could do vocal as well, it's one of Geddy's less clamped testicles songs, I think I could swing it. PM me if you're interested LEAF. I've never done a collab though so you may have to walk me through the process.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Sat May 07, 2005 4:27 pm

jack wrote:"fire on high"

only if you promise to do the WHOLE THING (intro included). it really irks me when they play it on the radio and leave off the first minute or so.

even better though (speaking of 'doing the whole thing'), would be for somebody to do all of ELP's 'karn evil 9'

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Sat May 07, 2005 6:54 pm

Not to be Rude Dan-O, cause your offer is very appreciated, and I 'm very fond of collabs..but I 'm probably gonna go solo on Tommy. My intention is to see how much of the tune i can pull of ala moi. However, a collab is a grand idea, and perhaps I'll change my tune and pm ya...or maybe we can do another thing. I'm already commited to YYZ with redcar for this thread idea anyway, and I've been itiching to do some "solo" things... so... if I feel like my cover is too narrow and needs another voice, on guitar, whatver, I'll pm ya., otherwise, suffer the agony of Geddy Leaf.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Sat May 07, 2005 7:56 pm

tonetripper wrote:The issue is that the shit is usually so complicated musically and so written in the sense of actual notation that it's difficult to translate. Doing YYZ by Rush would be difficult to translate, but I think the trick would be to definitely try. Maybe not in the actual parts, but definitely in the sonic nature....... added stuff perhaps. Maybe trip it out in the remix aspect. I'm looking forward to this.

Primus did a dead on cover of that song.

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:44 pm

Leaf wrote:Not to be Rude Dan-O

Not rude in the slightest man.

Leaf wrote:otherwise, suffer the agony of Geddy Leaf.

Geddy Leaf, that's the funniest thing I've read in a while.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Fri May 13, 2005 11:00 am

even better: Leaf garrett

Henrietta · Post by **Henrietta** » Sat May 14, 2005 7:21 am

Scott calls dibs on Cuckoo Cocoon.

!Viva el cordero!

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:51 pm

Someone needs to do a cock-rocking, finger picking, emotional 10 minute solo with this and sing about the Wizards of Blackmore Swamp...

HansGruber · Post by **HansGruber** » Wed May 18, 2005 4:03 pm

Holy CRAP that's awesome....