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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: PegLeg45 on October 07, 2018, 08:35:02 PM
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There used to be a music video thread on here years ago but it hadn't been posted on in eight years. So instead of resurrecting that thread (which had a bunch of 'invalid' youtube links) I'll just start a new one.
As a longtime insomniac, when I get tired of reading in bed at night, I turn to music videos on youtube. One of my favorite things is finding good covers of songs I like or unique (but good quality) versions of favorite songs. I also still like to see the originals as well.
Post your favorite videos and see where it goes. ;D
Here's a couple to kick it off.
Check out Frog Leap Studios channel on youtube. The guy is pretty talented (plays all the instruments and does vocals) if you like loud rock. He does covers of a wide variety and makes them rock.
The Gat Brothers performing Pink Floyd on the street in Jerusalem. Excellent version.
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That reminds me, I have a CD called The Banjos That Destroyed The World. It has 16 songs. Here's how it starts. And how it ends with a Ray Charles song. No video but I'd like to see it if there was any.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed-eDo-0WLk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qlx-OjfS-c
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Have you seen any of the literal videos? Hilarious. This one's my favorite.
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The whole Wish You Were Here album, especially Shine On You Crazy Diamond, was a tribute to Syd Barrett. He was a founding member of Pink Floyd, lead singer, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist at times, principal songwriter, and is credited with naming the band. After playing that great version of Shine On You Crazy Diamond on YouTube I listened to the last "Echoes"performance ever with Richard Wright.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrProK5R7ms
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The whole Wish You Were Here album, especially Shine On You Crazy Diamond, was a tribute to Syd Barrett. He was a founding member of Pink Floyd, lead singer, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist at times, principal songwriter, and is credited with naming the band. After playing that great version of Shine On You Crazy Diamond on YouTube I listened to the last "Echoes"performance ever with Richard Wright.
Yep. And Barrett was crazy as a sprayed roach too.
If you like to read, Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey is pretty good.
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When Syd Barrett went solo he made 2 studio albums and had one single. I bought a CD of his first album and didn't think I should buy the second. Since I can play music online now maybe I'll listen to it. Here's his single.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wLbi3NX0Q0
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I was listening to YouTube while I was on another forum and only played songs they listed to the right of the video. One was Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-IX, all together in a single video. Since I already listened to the rest of the album, I listened to that, but I didn't watch the video.
There was band called Steel Breeze that got their name from something about a steel breeze in Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Wikipedia says that they had a popular video on MTV with You Don't Want Me Anymore in 1982, but I wouldn't know about that. I was more or less incommunicado that year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOXTdFbjtSg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaAgAYHugpI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsUdIw2RhW0
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https://youtu.be/JRY27Z5d1Ok
Came through on my Pandora stream this morning. I don't know why but I've never thumbed this one up before. Something about Chris Stapleton's voice gets me on almost all of his music.
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I thought this was a very good remake...
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Heh, I posted this one on the wrong thread (Movies) yesterday so I moved it today. :D ;D ;D ;D
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Days of the New only made 3 studio albums. All 3 had a tree on the front, and all 3 were titled Days of the New, but had different colored artwork so you can they them apart. Travis Meeks was on lead vocals and guitar. After the first album he fired the whole band. After he got a new band and recorded the second album, he fired everyone again. So he put together another band for the third album, and he fired them too. He finally started touring with the first band, who hadn't played together in over a decade, but he was too drunk and/or stoned to play, and the band broke up for good. They fired themselves that time. Altogether there were 25 other band members that played with him. There's a video for The Down Town too if you want to see it. It's a live version that's different from the album version but I haven't seen it. These 3 songs are from the first album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg-HZd4Lb2Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhCgjhZ2yw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw6bgdJlth0
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For thos who like "Southern Rock" styled music, check out Blackberry Smoke. They have their own music, but do really strong covers of old tunes too.
A tribute/cover of a Tom Petty song:
FFWD to 1:58 mark for the music....
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Great version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Warren Haynes original with a hat-tip to Prince thrown in for good measure:
Two versions of the same song:
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I've seen both of those Thunderstruck videos before. Not bad. I also like some of the Harp Twins stuff. They do Metallica, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and more music you wouldn't expect on harps. I haven't listened to much yet and just started listening to this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U7TDOtfxts
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Not my typical music style - but this guy is AMAZING - if nothing else watch the first 2 min to see how he does all of his music by voice only
Less talk more Sax
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"https://youtu.be/qd79mrNr9oM?t=3"
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Not my typical music style - but this guy is AMAZING - if nothing else watch the first 2 min to see how he does all of his music by voice only
Less talk more Sax
He doesn't make all of his music using his voice only. I watched enough to see him explaining about turning on some effects. Using the right effects a voice can be made to sound like music, or music to sound like a voice.
On a related note, most beat-boxers use nothing more than a microphone to make their music, but many of them use the hand that's not holding the mic to pretend they're scratching on an invisible turntable, which is just stupid.
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Here's a music video in the form of a commercial I keep seeing on TV and hearing on the radio, and the song that inspired it.
ETA: Side-note: I think I bought fabric softener once in my whole life. When my clothes come out of the dryer they're soft and they aren't wrinkled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTeDJNPDEwU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N1iwQxiHrs
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Gretchen Wilson with Alice In Chains performing Barracuda..... pretty good version.
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I never was much of a Michael Jackson fan, but I kinda like this version Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm.
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All these good covers, here's a little interruption to make the ears bleed.....listen, if you dare....
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I don't know anything about Gretchen Wilson but that was great. She actually sounded like Ann Wilson which isn't easy to do. Having Nancy Wilson and Alice in Chains backing you up isn't bad either. I need to hear that again. I just ordered a Heart CD last night that has Barracuda on it.
I always liked Alien Ant Farm's version of Smooth Criminal better than the original. I haven't listened to the other video yet.
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Darn you PegLeg. I've half a mind to post It's So Cold in the D by T Baby. It's bad, but don't take my word for it. Please don't. ;)
Or I could post literally any song by IceJJFish. https://www.youtube.com/user/IceJJfish
But here's possibly the worst cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb ever recorded. They also covered Eric Clapton's Cocaine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj7pDNDuoJ0
If you can stand any more punishment here's a "band" covering Europe's The Final Countdown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjeMDvCdrtc
And if you want to hear something funny, here's Ken Lee, a version of "Mariah Carey's" song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUAaHkGpJy8
Until I saw Ken Lee I didn't know Mariah Carey covered Badfinger's Without You. I think she copied Harry Nilsson's version of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR-tl7gCSfQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaOVulXU4vA
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Yeah, I'd seen the Pink Floyd cover before....... that has all the elements of a group of drunk/stoned friends sitting around playing for fun and one of their even more wasted friends saying, "You guys ought to make up a band!"
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Romance and Bald Eagles
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The 10 CDs I ordered were in Wyoming, MI early in the afternoon and should be here tomorrow. The Heart CD has Barracuda as the first song. Not a bad playlist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playlist:_The_Very_Best_of_Heart
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Here are some one hit wonders from the '80s. I can't remember who it was but someone told me he was in a bar and one of the members of Vixen was the bartender there. I just read that the drummer is from the Detroit area.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNFSED77-GM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8CcTYsMHYU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQOmDUnt8Hs
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That guy runs a studio in Norway but sings in English pretty well. He plays everything himself as well as recording, mixing, mastering, shooting and editing the music & videos. I like his music but not enough to buy it.
As far as the number of instruments on a song or album I think Mike Oldfield has him beat. On Tubular Bells he plays grand piano, glockenspiel, Farfisa organ, bass guitar, electric guitar (including "speed guitar", "fuzz guitar", "mandolin-like guitar" and "guitars sounding like bagpipes"), taped motor drive amplifier organ chord, assorted percussion, acoustic guitar, flageolet, honky tonk piano, Lowrey organ, tubular bells, concert tympani, Hammond organ, Spanish guitar, plus he does some of the vocals. He did a series of overdubs of himself playing a bunch of instruments but it sounds like a whole band instead of one person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBiQPZxd81s
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I don't really care for the way he sings but it's still much better than a lot of other bands that just grunt and growl, and I still like his music. His cover of Highway Star wasn't the first metal version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R15vgoKk7K8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHGpz5rIXQE
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Fleetwood Mac's version of Black Magic Woman from 1968, 2 years before Santana covered it. It was a single a year before this album came out in 1969.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSbjNWPAMdo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg
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In 1980 when The Empire Strikes Back came out "Weird Al" Yankovic made a parody song called Yoda about it to the tune of Lola by the Kinks. He recorded a version of it that Dr. Demento played on the radio but it took 5 years to get permission from Ray Davies to release it on an album. Weird Al asked Ray Davies' management and they said no, but when they met in person years later, Davies said no one ever asked him before and he said yes. Unfortunately there's no video but the song sung from Luke Skywalker's point of view was prophetic when Weird Al wrote toward the end:
Well, I heard my friends really got in a mess
So I'm gonna have to leave Yoda I guess
But I know that I'll be coming back some day
I'll be playing this part 'till I'm old and gray
The long-term contract I had to sign
Says I'll be making these movies till the end of time
With my Yoda
Yo-yo-yo-yo Yoda
Mark Hamill is now old and gray like Weird Al said. He's a 67 year old senior citizen, and when Star Wars: Episode IX comes out next year Mark Hamill will still be playing Luke Skywalker 39 years after this song was written. When Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace came out in 1999 Weird Al made a parody song of American Pie by Don McLean called The Saga Begins. It sums up the plot of the movie and the video for it is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZGDlhgAxV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEcjgJSqSRU
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I recently heard the Red Hot Chili Peppers song Give It Away on the radio and couldn't help thinking of Weird Al's Bedrock Anthem. It's parody of Under the Bridge and Give It Away, from his 1993 album Alapalooza. That was 5 years before he had LASIK for his nearsightedness. I forgot how big his glasses are and don't blame him for not wanting to wear them anymore. The Bee Girl tap dancing is the same girl from the Blind Melon video for No Rain. Here are the videos for all 4 songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvohMXgcBo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr_uHJPUlO8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtV_nQKhkdY
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I didn't know it but Lindsey Buckingham plays guitar with his fingers most of the time, not with a pick. That's somewhat unusual for electric guitar players. On this song he taped a 4 second loop of the drum track by his Fleetwood Mac bandmate, Mick Fleetwood. Some guy named George Hawkins is on bass guitar and chorus. And Lindsey Buckingham himself is on guitars, keyboards, drum overdubs, percussion, lead and backing vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lagpYLwnSd8
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Yep.
He and Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits are two of the more famous of finger pickers, but use somewhat different techniques.
The live version of 'I'm So Afraid' from The Dance reunion concert is one of my favorite Fleetwood Mac songs with quite a solo.
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Wow! That was really good. I don't remember ever hearing that song before but that was great guitar playing. Much better than the song I posted. Here's some OLD Fleetwood Mac from 1969. It was the third studio album and the last with founding member Peter Green. I posted this before but can't remember if it was here or on another forum. For years I heard part 1 without part 2. Here's Joe Jackson's version from 1991 too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQmmByJwKFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHVm0Gk6YC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwU9KlS1qBE