Post your favorite Bob Dylan remakes

Freuds_Cat · March 24, 2009, 08:47:19 PM

Quote from: T' BaRD '59 on March 24, 2009, 07:37:31 PM
Mr Hughes, ........... no idea what he does these days...

He is performing in my fair city late next month.
In fact he is doing a world tour which includes the US, Australia, Germany and the UK over the next few months.

http://eventful.com/performers/glenn-hughes-/P0-001-000041641-3/events

Dave W · March 24, 2009, 10:10:56 PM

(Dave tries to steer conversation away from DP)

An old friend of mine believes that Neil Young must know something highly incriminating about Crosby, Stills and Nash for them to have ever agreed to let him join them.

Freuds_Cat · March 24, 2009, 11:09:38 PM

Did DP or connections thereof ever do a Bob Dylan song?

Easy with that wheel Dave

eb2 · March 25, 2009, 12:08:23 AM

I have always enjoyed Solomon Burke's version of Maggie's Farm more than any other Dylan cover.

OK - let's start the Randy Newman cover thread.

uwe · March 25, 2009, 09:33:33 AM

Quote from: Freuds_Cat on March 24, 2009, 11:09:38 PM
Did DP or connections thereof ever do a Bob Dylan song?

Easy with that wheel Dave

Good that you asked:

I shall be released - sung by Boz (Burrel), the late Bad Co bassist, in the late sixties in a Derek Lawrence session featuring Blackmore, Lord and Paice as session musicians.

Boots of Spanish leather - sung by Nazareth lead voc Dan McCafferty on his first 1975 solo album, it featured Roger Glover on bass. He also sang Young's Cinnamon Girl on the same album.

And of course Blackmore and his yankee missus put their minstel paws on The times they are a-changing as linked earlier in this thread. They also did a version of Joan Baez' Diamonds & Rust, her name needs honorary mention in ANY Dylan thread:

From Young to Hughes to DP to Joan Baez, man, we really outmanoeuvered old Herr Westheimer on this one!

ramone57 · March 25, 2009, 04:17:52 PM

yeah I know, not a real Dylan song but funny none the less

Highlander · March 25, 2009, 04:29:57 PM

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...)

uwe · March 25, 2009, 04:40:47 PM

Judas Priest is worthy of a mention in Dylan thread, they got their name off a Dylan lyric!

Dave W · March 25, 2009, 06:09:56 PM

Quote from: T' BaRD '59 on March 25, 2009, 04:29:57 PM

... and Dave, is there something about DP that I need to know...?

No, it's just that a certain ~~Kraut~~ person around here is always looking for excuses to steer the conversation toward DP or Priest.

Even in a Dylan remake thread.

I'm not naming any names.

lowend1 · March 25, 2009, 06:19:36 PM

Quote from: Dave W on March 25, 2009, 06:09:56 PM
No, it's just that a certain ~~Kraut~~ person around here is always looking for excuses to steer the conversation toward DP or Priest. Even in a Dylan remake thread.

I'm not naming any names.

I'd count my blessings, Dave. At least he doesn't go off on rants about Accept and Scorpions.

Highlander · March 25, 2009, 06:34:29 PM

I quite like the Scorpions... "Coast to Coast..." from Lovedrive...

Explorers and V's...

gweimer · March 25, 2009, 06:58:48 PM

How about a more recent Dylan cover?

uwe · March 25, 2009, 07:07:34 PM

Who says you can't be a (former) Scorpion and play Dylan?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijB-4C4fD9M&feature=related

lowend1 · March 25, 2009, 07:16:29 PM

I want to hear Dylan cover a Scorpions tune.
Maybe (Rock You Like A) "Hurricane"

uwe · March 27, 2009, 09:00:03 AM

From the enlarged Purple family comes to you
Graham Bonnet's Baby Blue!

(That rhymed. And how it did.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y9gkQFnz_Y&feature=related

Bonnet's turbo charged voice will probably prove divisive here, but I liked that version though it already sounded a little dated when it came out in 1977. That's him singing live over a backing track btw., great set of pipes. Roger Glover once said about him: "Graham is a strange case. It's like God said to him, I will give you this wonderful voice, but take away everything else."