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Cover versions of 60s classics - Paul Rigby - 29-08-2016
First, an iconic tune, as the appalling cliche has it:
[video=youtube_share;eHQzHb9DVmQ]http://youtu.be/eHQzHb9DVmQ[/video]
And now for Blitzkreig Pop's heart-felt tribute to the above, which features the entirely memorable line: "If you go to San Francisco...you will meet a lot of weirdos there."
In short, everything you might hope for from a record first performed at the Speedway Hotel, Middlesbrough.
[video=youtube_share;3B4DtXh0zso]http://youtu.be/3B4DtXh0zso[/video]
Cover versions of 60s classics - Tracy Riddle - 29-08-2016
Led Zeppelin used to add Scott McKenzie's song to their on-stage medleys, changing the lyrics: "You're gonna meet a lot of devil people there" instead of "gentle people."
Cover versions of 60s classics - Cliff Varnell - 29-08-2016
For soon-to-be Prez Hillary.
"I don't need your war machines
I don't need your war machines
I don't need your war machines
I don't need your war-war-war-war...."
Cover versions of 60s classics - Paul Rigby - 30-08-2016
Chris Farlowe does the Stones-penned song in 1966:
[video=youtube_share;HLaB8FQv8FY]http://youtu.be/HLaB8FQv8FY[/video]
The Manic Street Preachers' James Bradfield in 2004:
[video=youtube_share;ZDzoFFxQy5E]http://youtu.be/ZDzoFFxQy5E[/video]
Cover versions of 60s classics - Magda Hassan - 30-08-2016
Speaking of Jools Holland I love this George Harrison cover with Sam Brown:
Cover versions of 60s classics - Cliff Varnell - 30-08-2016
Quote:"If you go to San Francisco...you will meet a lot of weirdos there."
Quote:"You're gonna meet a lot of devil people there"
Weirdos? Yeah, we still got them.
Devils? Got them, too.
What we don't have anymore are great rocknroll bands putting The City on the map.
The dot-com invasion in the late 90's and techie-influx this decade has made the town too expensive to attract new generations of musicians and artists, alas.
Here's two great San Francisco bands from another era covering the Rolling Stones, and Dylan.
Cover versions of 60s classics - Charles Keeble - 31-08-2016
With the Black Flag version of Louie Louie up here, I couldn't resist putting the Toots & The Maytals version up.
Cover versions of 60s classics - Tracy Riddle - 31-08-2016
Flamin' Groovies covering another 60s classic:
Dead Kennedys doing Viva Las Vegas
Cover versions of 60s classics - Tracy Riddle - 31-08-2016
Close to my neck of the woods, Orange County's very own Agent Orange
A nice cover one of my favorite Syd-era Pink Floyd songs:
Cover versions of 60s classics - Tracy Riddle - 31-08-2016
I always liked what Van Halen did with this Kinks song:
Cover of The Sonics' tune:
Johnny Thunders was so cool, heroin sucks