Ok -straight off from the bat - wandering tangentially but will try to pull it back...
... and Dave, is there something about DP that I need to know...?
Stunned - I didn't even know he had past on... occasionally saw Boz Burrell in a pick-up band in West London pubs, called Chuck Farley - even did a private release vinyl that I've got lurking around somewhere - Steve Simpson (Mealticket - anyone remember "Flash Fearless" feat. Entwistle and Alice Cooper - most of it looped back to this London pub band... I kid you not), Geoff Whithorn (replaced Kossoff in B S Crawler) and I'm sure I saw them one time with Chris Slade (MM's Earth Band/Firm/AC-DC) - all in a pub oin a Saturday night - cracking good gigs...
Bad Co was the third band I saw live... what a loss...
Brought us round to the Who, and Bad Co...
Got that Young cover - excelent track... how about Young's "Alabama" covered by Eltons earlier musicians (Caleb Quaye, etc) and credited to Nigel Olson - another cracking cover...
What about those who get forgotten and someone else's name gets tagged onto a song that is not theirs... one time I saw Nils Lofgren (Jim Scott Honeyman came on - remember him - stunning player when he got going, just too much chemical intake
played half the main set and 2 encores) and for the third encore he covered Danny Whitten's "I Don't Want To Talk About It" by himself on acoustic - anyway, some total imbecile reviewed the gig in NME saying, "Lofgren was so desperate he even covered the old Rod Stewart song, "I Don't Want..." - I guess he had no right to cover the number, considering that he played on the original recording, with Whitten & Crazy Horse...
or most outlandish cover that works... Alice Cooper - "Sunarise, she come every morning..."
Now comes the thin ice... I have the songbook for the Joan Baez lp that featured that track, because I consider it to be "something else..."
Cracks starting to appear - ... and I really, really like Judas Priest's cover of it...
(don't hit me, don't hit me...)