Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hou2h.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!houxm!hou2h!hhs From: hhs@hou2h.UUCP (H.SHARP) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: More Interesting Cover Versions Message-ID: <1002@hou2h.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 15:59:56 EDT Article-I.D.: hou2h.1002 Posted: Fri Aug 9 15:59:56 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 02:28:11 EDT References: <954@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 26 I once caught an encore Tom Verlaine did in Atlanta at the 688 club (I was at a Jerry Jeff Walker concert before), where he played "Marquee Moon" and then a great cover of "Wild Thing." Good old foot-stompin' rock and roll (and after "Marquee Moon" too). Also, if you are ever in Atlanta and the Swimming Pool Q's, Night Porters, etc. are playing, you have a good chance of hearing a rocking cover of "Gloria" (as in Van Morrison, not U2), with no telling who jumping up on stage from other bands who happen to be in the audience. Then there is REM who might do anything in concert including "Moon River." I have heard them mentioned as the inheritors of the Grateful Dead tradition. Who else walks onto stage in their street clothes? I also have a tape of Tim Curry ("Rocky Horror") coveing "Summer in the City" (John Sebastian). How about Junior Walker and the All-Stars covering "Hot Blooded" (Foreigner). Of course there is always the Portsmouth Sinfonia Orchestra. (Did I hear Frank Zappa on the radio doing a commercial for dental floss?)