Thursday, April 01, 2004
also in my republic, incubus would be dragged from the poetic contests along with homer and hesiod to be flogged.
so i was driving today and some radio station had on this special covers segment (unfortunately, they didn't play 'a whiter shade of pale' by willie nelson, which i now know is a COVER). first i heard the ramones do 'what a wonderful world', which was sweet. then i heard a live recording of bush covering 'just what i needed' by the cars. this was so awful that i can't describe it. old gavin was approximately a half step flat on each note. there was one spot, at a completely random moment in the song, where gavin gratuitously shouted 'PHILADELPHIA!' this was the only part of the song i liked. i go in big for stuff like that.
but THEN, after jimi hendrix doing his version of 'all along the watchtower', i heard the most totally awesome cover song (except it was only SORT OF a cover) i've ever heard. it was from this 30th anniversary party columbia (or colombia?) records threw for bob dylan at madison square gardens--a version of 'my back pages', written by dylan but made famous by the byrds. to do this tune, they had on stage nothing less than the following list of people who are sweet: roger mcguinn, tom petty, neil young, eric clapton, bob dylan himself and george harrison. i know that matthew would think this is almost as sweet as i do. in fact, he probably heard it a long time ago. but i hadn't. and it rocked my face.
so i was driving today and some radio station had on this special covers segment (unfortunately, they didn't play 'a whiter shade of pale' by willie nelson, which i now know is a COVER). first i heard the ramones do 'what a wonderful world', which was sweet. then i heard a live recording of bush covering 'just what i needed' by the cars. this was so awful that i can't describe it. old gavin was approximately a half step flat on each note. there was one spot, at a completely random moment in the song, where gavin gratuitously shouted 'PHILADELPHIA!' this was the only part of the song i liked. i go in big for stuff like that.
but THEN, after jimi hendrix doing his version of 'all along the watchtower', i heard the most totally awesome cover song (except it was only SORT OF a cover) i've ever heard. it was from this 30th anniversary party columbia (or colombia?) records threw for bob dylan at madison square gardens--a version of 'my back pages', written by dylan but made famous by the byrds. to do this tune, they had on stage nothing less than the following list of people who are sweet: roger mcguinn, tom petty, neil young, eric clapton, bob dylan himself and george harrison. i know that matthew would think this is almost as sweet as i do. in fact, he probably heard it a long time ago. but i hadn't. and it rocked my face.
