New spin on favourite songs

Have any of you guys played some of your favourite songs but put your own spin on it ?  Last night I was playing "Runnin' Down a Dream" by Tom Petty ... since I had my Les Paul plugged in I said let me see if I can play this via powerchord formation ... and it actually fit, albeit a more harder version ... it actually sounded really good (so my friend told me)

Has anyone else done this, not specifically powerchords, to a song they like?