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Date:         Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:24:58 CDT
From:         U17801@UICVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Covers and other trivia

On Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:16:04 EDT Michael H. Bloom said:
>From:         MCINTYRE@MSUPA.BITNET
>Subject:      re: favorite German bands
>
>> Yep, Popol Vuh was another one I forgot to list.  To my surprise they have
>> a fairly recent CD out on the Milan label distributed by BMG so it should
>> be available.  The title is _For You And Me_ and the copyright date is
>> 1991.  My early impression is I don't like it as much as their Herzog
>> soundtracks, but I am glad to know they are still carrying on.
>
>My opinion is, it's largely New Age twaddle, although it's got a little bit of
>interesting Celtic influence. I'd like to start a thread on the topic of why so
>many musicians from the '70s progressive rock area opted to debase themselves
>by going new age. There's got to me more to it than the incidence of arpeggios,
>hasn't there?
>
>From:         MCINTYRE@MSUPA.BITNET
>Subject:      re: Steve Howe
>
>> Other Tomorrow trivia: "My White Bicycle" was covered by Nazareth.  The
>> drummer for Tomorrow was Twink who went on to have an obscure solo album,
>> play funeral drum on Bob Calvert's _Captain Lockheed And the Starfighters_,
>> did three (I think) albums with the Pink Fairies, and was in Syd Barrett's
>> extrememly short-lived post-Pink Floyd band.
>
>There's a more recent "My White Bicycle" cover, by that faux hippie clown who
>calls himself "Neil." I don't remember enough about the album, I only got to
>hear it once, but it's also got covers of Traffic's "Hole in my Shoe" (one of
>Dave Mason's tunes, not Stevie Winwood's) and Caravan's "Golf Girl" (hooray!).
>Dave Stewart worked on the record, and I wonder whether the Caravan tune was
>his idea; he bristles at being called a Canterbury player, but he really was
>Mike Ratledge's best disciple ever... this is (obviously?) the keyboardist
>Dave Stewart, not the Eurythmic.
>
>Nazareth was really funny with their choice of covers. I remember their
>version of Joni Mitchell's "This Flight Tonight," with a headbanger train
>rhythm, really remarkably silly...
>
>From:         Gary Hanley <ghanley@DG-WEBO.WEBO.DG.COM>
>Subject:      Re: "My White Bicycle"
>
>> 	OMC II - Whilst on the subject of covers, I finally heard
>> Primus's cover of XTC's "Making Plans For Nigel," which I had long
>> desired a hear. Interesting, but not exciting.
>
>Did you ever get to hear "Making Plans for Bison" by Shonen Knife-- who, it is
>alleged, have just signed a major label deal with (I think) MCA...
>
>From:         "OUT,
>              OUT - YOU'LL NOT FEEL THE FALL-OUT..." <OLIVOTTO@ITNCISCA.BITNET>
>Subject:      Re: favorite German bands
>
>>         There is an obscure (now) German band that apparently no-one named:
>> EMBRYO. They were quite popular (well, all is relative...) in the 70s, and
>> I even had the chance to see them live in my hometown when I was 14 more or
>> less.
>
>Charlie Mariano played with these guys, right? And I vaguely recall that a
>number of jazzmen, various American expatriates, sat in with them from time
>to time. A friend of mine is a big Mariano fan, and probably has every album
>Embryo ever made, or anyone who was ever in Embryo, or anyone who ever played
>with any band member... he was even more obsessed about Focus.
>
>From:         Gary Hanley <ghanley@DG-WEBO.WEBO.DG.COM>
>Subject:      Re: Train Kept A-Rollin covers
>
>> 	Foghat did a, well, shall we say an incarnation of the song,
>> and I think the name was called "Honey Hush", if I remember correctly,
>> and I don't usually.
>> 	Anyway, it was basically the same song with different lyrics.
>
>I was always under the impression that "Honey Hush" was the original song as
>Johnny Burnette wrote it, and the Yardbirds wrote the "Train Kept a-Rollin'"

Indeed, the Yardbirds' version is excellent, but my all -time fave is the very
long cover on the obscure (and of course legendary) Haymarket Square band which
 kicked around this area in the 1968 era. It's a positive monster. Thanks for t
he info. My list is getting longer...

Renato Barahona
History, UIC
>lyrics so the song could get included in the soundtrack to the movie _Blow Up_
>without certain legal hassles.
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