My two favorite Vanilla Fudge songs are that one, and "Take Me For a Little While". I can't guess the number of times that I listened to those two:
OT: Bands that you really like/love but never attained commercial
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This wasn't a commercial cover, but a cover by a huge group that covered a song from a music superstar and I think did just a ****ing fantastic job of it....... Maybe I am just partial to this song, which is awesome, but REM does a fantastic job here.
I've never heard that before, so thanks for posting it.
Similar but waaay different: the last two times that I saw The Zac Brown Band, they covered "Enter Sandman". I'd never heard a band, which is basically 'country' and 'gulf coast beach', do heavy metal before, but they actually nail it.
The Kinks certainly didn't have the commercial success of contemporaries like The Beatles, The Stones or The Who, but I think it is hard to argue they weren't successful.
Most of the groups I would list from the 60s or 70s didn't enjoy long lasting commercial success because they disbanded to form other groups. Sweethearts of the Rodeo, for example, disbanded after one album and its members went on to be part of The Byrds and CSN. The Yardbirds disbanded and its members formed the heart of Led Zeppelin, Cream, etc. Traffic was around for a very short time, but Eric Clapton and Stevie Wynwood had great commercial success subsequently. The members of Buffalo Springfield went on to be part of The Byrds, CSN, etc. Randy Meisner and Jim Messina, who were the founders of Poco, later were in The Eagles (Meisner) and the very much not missed Loggins & Messina.
The one great group I can think of from that era which didn't split up for a long time and never had great commercial success was Little Feat. Its members always got a lot of session work though, and it's piano player, a former client, now plays the piano for Jimmy Buffett, another former client.
Later, I would list The Cure, who are still around but never have advanced beyond playing small to midsize venues, and Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, who basically became irrelevant after Bruce Springsteen made the cover of Time.
After that, with very few exceptions I don't listen to enough modern music to have an opinion. I did like The Replacements though.
Music is to individual tastes but.... I hear what you are saying, but this isn't "under valued" I mean no one can say Eric Clapton and Cream or Steve Winwood and Traffic weren't "successes". Buffalo Springfield, I mean the members were Stephen Stills and Neil Young. There are few groups that had two guys of that stature in their group. The Cure? Well they weren't as successful as U2 or REM in the 80's, but they weren't that far behind.
Oh and a question about Loggins and Messina? Was Kenny Footloose Loggins the "Loggins" in that duo? I really don't know and being too lazy to look it up, just asking for my own curiosity.
FYI...I saw the Cure at the Civic Arena. I think they are very much in line with the other bands I listed both in quality and in success. Great band!
BTW, I have a zillion artists that I like but I don't know anyone else who does?
One that comes to mind is Gregory Pepper and his Problems. I really like this Canadian dude's sound but I'm not sure many people appreciate how brilliant he is?
Here's a sampling of his work:
One that comes to mind is Gregory Pepper and his Problems. I really like this Canadian dude's sound but I'm not sure many people appreciate how brilliant he is?
Here's a sampling of his work:
I saw them there as well. My wife (girlfriend at the time) loves them. So I bought front row center tickets to take her. While I'm not a huge fan, I did gain an appreciation for them that night. And I was so close that I could hear Robert Smiths individual amp. He is a much better guitar player than he gets credit for. And to top it off, he played to the crowd by coming out for the encore in a Lemeiux jersey.
FWIW, Kenny Loggins is the same Loggins of "Loggins & Messina" fame -- not to be confused with Dave Loggins (a 2nd-cousin) who also achieved great success as a singer/songwriter.
Sidebar- Kenny Loggins performed at my neighbors' wedding. They were both in the talent agent business out in LA before eventually settling down here in metro Detroit, and Loggins & Messina was one of their clients. Loggins was a dear friend of theirs. Emmylou Harris amd Elvis Costello were also friends of theirs and at their wedding, and Emmylou had dinner at their house-3 doors down from mine-last year when she was touring with Rodney Crowell. My wife and I were at that show and found out the next day that Emmy had been at their house the night before.
How bout them apples!
That's awesome-there are so many great covers I wouldn't know where to start, but here's a personal fave-a great cover of a great song, by a legend, of a legend. Watch those hands of his. One gifted MFer right here:
Ok what the hell here's another one-Wilco and Billy Bragg covering Woody Guthrie's California Stars. That whole Mermaid Avenue album Wilco amd BB did of all Guthrie covers is just exquisite:
Love that song. But it really isn't a cover. Mermaid Ave was an album where Wilco and Billy Bragg took lyrics that Guthrie wrote and put music to them.
Yeah that's true. Still think of it as a cover but maybe wrongly so. Didn't Guthrie's daughter hand pick Wilco and BB for the project?
The wild moods swings tour was great...
No opening act.
Just 3 1/2 hours straight .
Good story. I always liked Elvis Costello. Got to see him at Star Lake the last time that he was out there.
His marriage to Diana Krall is an interesting one; talk about different musical styles.....
I like both versions, but at the point in time when Cash covered Hurt it was surreal. He also had did a good cover of Personal Jesus.
One other cover that I love is Country Roads by Toots & the Maytals.
Every Yinzers choice!
In Cleveland, their Donny Iris is Michael Stanley, who I also liked, Saw DI and MS do an outdoor concert together in the summer around 1985 or so at Boardman High football stadium near Youngstown, really enjoyed it! Another popular group, that was popular in Baltimore, but was from Western PA I believe, was Crack the Sky.
Being someone who mainly listens to Punk most of the bands Im really into qualify. A few that I fell deserve to be on the list would be .....
Alkaline Trio, Authority Zero, Strung Out, Yellowcard & Pittsburgh's very own Anti Flag.
Alkaline Trio, Authority Zero, Strung Out, Yellowcard & Pittsburgh's very own Anti Flag.
