philbymon wrote:
Others are "America" by Yes, "Get a Job" (Oh Bladdee Oh Bladah) & "Feelings" by Offspring, "The Letter" by Joe Cocker (or any other cover by him LOL), "Jesus Came Down To GA" by Phish. Sid Viscious' "My Way" is worthy of mention.
Hey Craig - Cake also covered "Guitar Man" (Bread) & "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps," (Doris Day) 2 more quite unusual covers.
Ok, some of those I haven't heard, gotta check them out.
btw...
Here's an interesting tidbit for you... My wife's dad, was a member of the band, that became "Bread". He co-wrote their first hit single, but when the band split in half, he had no idea they would get a couple new members, and then become "Bread" one of the most successful bands of all time! I think their previous name was "The Eleventh Hour" or something like that. They had parents in the military, so they got some big gigs on Military bases because of it. At one of those gigs, they opened for someone they never dreamed possible... Jimi Hendrix!!!
Hendrix heard them getting a sound check and came over to my wife's dad, and introduced himself, and said "You got a really good voice man. Mind if I play with you guys on your set?" - "Uhh.... sure Jimi" ... "Cool man, what's the first song on your set list?" - Her dad, choked a little when he looked at his set list and set... "It's your song" - Jimi asked "Which one?" and he responded "Foxy Lady" - Jimi said "Cool" and her dad said "But you sing it... that's your song!" and Jimi said "No man, that's your set, and you got a great voice, YOU SING IT! And I'll play along!" Her dad nearly sh*t his pants!!!
He never got into a full time band after that, but hey, can you beat that for a memory of playing in a band? Playing with Jimi Hendrix, and he wants YOU to sing "Foxy Lady" while he plays guitar with you?
Wow!
But when "Bread" started gertting hit after hit, I bet he'd wish he stayed in that band!
He had always showed an interest in my band before, and then I learned why.... cause it was close to his heart, from his own experiences. I had known about Hendrix playing with him, but it was only after being married to his daughter for a few years that he opened up about how the group he was in, was the foundational members of what would become "Bread". Even my wife didn't know about that. He's ex-military, one of those guys who holds things close to the vest, and doesn't brag about stuff. It blew us away, when he started telling us some of those stories!
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