The KFC cover of Sweet Home Alabama is crap... I think its a smart move, as far as marketing goes, familiar tunes spark recognition and therefore immediate attention in the brain. What I hate is that it reduces well constructed songs to cheap jingles, doing no justice at all to the work behind them.
101 2009-05-02 16:15:01
Re: Good songs that may have lost some meaning (9 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
102 2009-05-02 16:11:09
Re: Just For Fun Favorite Covers... (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
SouthPaw41L wrote:
last_rebel wrote:Zurf wrote:Johnny Cash's cover of 9 Inch Nail's "Hurt"
Luther Allison's cover of The Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Dr. John's cover of Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Cold Shot"
The Duhk's cover of Sting's "Love Is The Seventh Wave"
Joan Jett's cover of the theme song to the Mary Tyler Moore Show
Bonnie Raitt's cover of John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery"
Willie Nelson's cover of Billie Joe Shaver's "Fast Train to Georgia"
Ray Charles' cover of the classic "Georgia", also covered by Willie Nelson
Mavis Staple's cover of Bob Dylan's "You've Got to Serve Somebody"
And since we've got Bonnie Raitt and SRV mentioned in the same post, I'll add her version of "Pride and Joy" for consideration.Self-Covers:
Jimmy Buffett covered his own song "Son of a Son of a Sailor" on his album "Take Me To Margaritaville", and I like it far better than the original.
Eric Clapton did an acoustic cover of his own "Layla" (from Derek and the Dominoes period), which I like very well.I'm sure I'll think of some more. I love covers. It's always fun to hear how someone else interprets the same lyrics and brings an entirely different style and feel to it.
- Zurf
Who actually wrote the song 'Georgia' anyway? And I agree about the acoustic version of Layla, very nice.
That'd be Hoagy Carmichael;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_on_My_Mind
Oh cool! Thanks for the link! You learn something every day hehe. Doc, I almost put All Along The Watchtower up there too so I'm glad you said it its a big one.
103 2009-05-01 22:34:04
Re: Just For Fun Favorite Covers... (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Zurf wrote:
Johnny Cash's cover of 9 Inch Nail's "Hurt"
Luther Allison's cover of The Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Dr. John's cover of Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Cold Shot"
The Duhk's cover of Sting's "Love Is The Seventh Wave"
Joan Jett's cover of the theme song to the Mary Tyler Moore Show
Bonnie Raitt's cover of John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery"
Willie Nelson's cover of Billie Joe Shaver's "Fast Train to Georgia"
Ray Charles' cover of the classic "Georgia", also covered by Willie Nelson
Mavis Staple's cover of Bob Dylan's "You've Got to Serve Somebody"
And since we've got Bonnie Raitt and SRV mentioned in the same post, I'll add her version of "Pride and Joy" for consideration.Self-Covers:
Jimmy Buffett covered his own song "Son of a Son of a Sailor" on his album "Take Me To Margaritaville", and I like it far better than the original.
Eric Clapton did an acoustic cover of his own "Layla" (from Derek and the Dominoes period), which I like very well.I'm sure I'll think of some more. I love covers. It's always fun to hear how someone else interprets the same lyrics and brings an entirely different style and feel to it.
- Zurf
Who actually wrote the song 'Georgia' anyway? And I agree about the acoustic version of Layla, very nice.
104 2009-04-30 23:20:20
Topic: Just For Fun Favorite Covers... (15 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
So alot of well known songs are actually covers of old ones, and I was just wondering what some of yall's all time favorites were. My list could be ten miles long but I'm gonna go with just a few for conversation's sake:
1) Bobby Bland and The Blues Band do T-Bone Walkers 'Stormy Monday': Wayne Bennets guitar work on this version of the song is a hugely significant musical nugget and the ABBs Live at the Fillmore East performance of it was based on this one, so its definately a favorite of mine being a big fan of both bands
2) The White Stripes do 'Your Southern Can is Mine' by Blind Willie McTell: I can actually hear how Willie probably influenced Jack White's vocals, and this version is a nice tribute that doesn't stray all too far and is alot of fun to listen to (I like it when they did Son House's 'Death Letter' too as far as that goes)
3) Lynyrd Skynyrd does J.J. Cale's 'Call Me the Breeze' : Steve Gaines was mostly responsible for this one if I'm not mistaken. This version is so much more well known than the original which I think is interesting, just a good song anyway and it was fun to find out it was a cover
Like I said I could do alot more, but lets start off with those what do yall think?
105 2009-04-30 23:07:03
Re: Play Name That Tune! (43 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Ooo is that that new Willie Nelson one about the hurricane?? darn it the name escapes me....
106 2009-04-30 00:44:59
Re: Just moved to Texas (11 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Not close enough to jam, but welcome to Texas!
107 2009-04-27 01:51:50
Re: Vanishing picks...Where do they go?? (23 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
No not yet, Ive got my eye on one at the Guitar and Banjo studio but I'm trying to wait till I have enough for an amp too because otherwise it would be pretty pointless. Its an epi dot archtop, but the higher end one gold hardware and humbuckers and a rosewood fretboard which I like...the one in the pic is a remake of the Byrdland, because its my dream ax lol.
I haven't been on as much because of school, getting close to graduation and everything's getting pretty busy but I still pop in and see whats going on now and then.
108 2009-04-27 01:20:59
Re: Vanishing picks...Where do they go?? (23 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I've had one dunlop light for so long that the paint on the front is all worn off and the tip is completely flat... because I hate going to buy picks. I get used to one ya know?
109 2009-04-24 23:12:53
Re: country music (13 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I love to pick out I Saw The Light, and its always a favorite with country fans... and should be easy enough I do it by ear but I'm pretty sure you can find music with no problem. Bobby Bare's Marie Leveaux (or however you spell that) has a real basic boogie guitar part thats not too hard to learn, and that ones lots of fun. One of my favorite songs to play is called Standin' On The Rock, its by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils but it has a very country/folkish sound. And of course anything by Johnny Cash is great to play, Walk the Line and Give My Love to Rose are both really just bouncing chord songs but you can add the bass part yourself if you like pick and fingers stuff and its alot of fun.
Hope that helps some!
-Hannah
110 2009-04-23 19:28:05
Re: Texting (25 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
There's no such thing as moderation? I beg to differ... because I practice it and enjoy texting without being rude or absorbed 
111 2009-04-21 19:44:14
Re: Texting (25 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Well one good thing about texting is, to me anyway, that you CAN do something else and still visit with ur buds at the same time, instead of just being tied up talking on the phone for hours, which is nice. I think the key with it, as with anything, is moderation, and good manners of course: its ALWAYS rude to use a cell phone, talking or texting, at the dinner table or in front of guests.
112 2009-04-18 16:39:16
Re: THE GOLDEN 60TIES and EARLY 70ties (2 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Well personally I'd say Zeppelin just cuz I'm such an avid fan... but I really think the Kinks were a great band who aren't remembered as well as some of thier contemporaries and probably should be.
113 2009-04-11 15:04:25
Re: Roy D Mercer (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Yes! He's hilarious.
114 2009-04-08 21:22:26
Re: ****LOOKING FOR CHORDS**** (18 replies, posted in Song requests)
D C G over and over. It sounds better if you use the power chords and pick the lead part...
115 2009-04-06 23:17:10
Re: METALLICA (6 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
Hmmm... well I like some Metallica. There's quite a few ppl here who probably do too, but I don't think you can get thier tabs for free anymore so they don't come up as much over here.
116 2009-03-30 20:40:04
Re: Just need an idea!!! (5 replies, posted in Acoustic)
Old Friend- Shooter Jennings... kind of a mexican sounding one but the chords are really simple and its sort of appropriate. Can't post the lyrycs cuz of the forum rules but you can probably find it pretty easily... or if not just download the song because its not hard to figure out by ear.
Hope that helps some!
- Hannah
117 2009-03-28 22:55:05
Re: John Lee Hooker (9 replies, posted in Bands and artists)
tubatooter1940 wrote:
John Lee is playing in E with standard tuning but his rhythm is odd.
He got worse as he got older because playing alone too much allows us to develop bad rhythm habits.
I find him dropping or adding beats to measures - especially as he got older.
It wasn't a problem for him but it had to drive his sidemen nuts.
I love the way he plays though... he just kind of chills and waits, like hes too cool to just come in on time, then out of nowehere an explosion of thumpy electric hammered on goodness.Its actually endearing I think, and blues music in general leaves alot of room to be loose.
118 2009-03-28 22:51:18
Re: What's in your set list? Artist A-Z (47 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Green River- CCR... just learned that one. I do it on acoustic so the thumpy slidey stuff sounds pretty cool. I also like to do Gone to Carolina by Shooter Jennings.
119 2009-03-26 16:14:31
Re: Potentially The Greatest Movie of ALL TIME!!! ( Nuk, nuk) (21 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I don't know... you can't mess with perfection you know. The stooges were just great, but I'm not sure if anyody can pull it off in our modern age.
120 2009-03-06 00:29:33
Re: Road songs (40 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
at the dark end of the street- percy sledge
and theres a skynyrd album called Street Survivors
121 2009-03-05 17:55:49
Re: Road songs (40 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
i thought of another one...
This Old Road- Kris Kristofferson
122 2009-03-05 17:46:54
Re: Count to a Million!! (38 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
25 minutes to go... at least i THINK it was 25. Johnny Cash did it on one of the live prison albums i dont remember which.
123 2009-03-05 17:44:38
Topic: open tunings and scales (3 replies, posted in Music theory)
So the regular old pentatonic wont work right of course when Im in an open key, and I need something to work with because picking is alot of fun that way. Anybody know of there's a set of scales I can learn in an open tuning?
124 2009-03-04 22:19:54
Re: Count to a Million!! (38 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
7...
hey we should have done this where we had to name a song that had the number in it and see how far we could make it.
(if we decide to seven nation army is mine! lol)
125 2009-03-02 21:47:41
Re: Songs in Open E tuning? (15 replies, posted in Song requests)
zeppelins got one called 'in my time of dying'... i think its technically in D but the tabs are pretty easy and you can do it in E.