Modern Vespa

I've been following a Russian band called Leonid & Friends for years as they've done incredible Chicago and Earth Wind & Fire covers. But now they've branched out into Steely Dan and I think I just a died and went to heaven!

This Blue Cheer cover is far from unknown, but I like it.

And now for some Italian:

Good
Great

Cover of a Fine Young Cannibals song

Even though the originals of these songs were by legends, I still love these two covers:
My Way by the Sex Pistols
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00
Blinded by the Light - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdHtCtRABWs

This is great. Hot 8 Brass Band's cover of Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing:

My favorite version of this gem.

Dust off the platform shoes.

Love me some ukefunk!

Watch RT's great cover of this classic from "1000 Years of Popular Music"

Doctor Who

or

or maybe this remix of ABC Australia news theme

and the original

As a wrinkled rocker with some guitar-playing history, the "fingerstyle" guitar playing of the current generation of musicians is mind-blowing...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1bzUaf_gvU

In total contrast to a guitarist playing multiple melody lines with just two hands,
here is the same song played by 5 people on one guitar...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kk-RKo7214

Totally agree. Lots more Tommy Emmanuel style stuff out there. Makes me want to make a bonfire out of all my guitars. Very cool stuff. I need more talent.

They are fantastic. I've also been following them for a couple years. Ksenia is also easy on the eyes...😁

Bob

Sure beats looking at Donald Fagan.

Here's one where she's featured. This is also a cover.

Bob

I'll put them in rotation with Puddles!

Must be my Germanic background, but the Heimatdamish do some pretty interesting covers....

While I'm at it, Playing for Change is always at the top of my list for covers....

Exquisite. Love the sax out the window.

Thank you Buddy Holly

If you are ever planning a trip to the US midwest try to time it for the end of July when my little town of Nashville Indiana plays host to an international fingerstyle guitar competition called the Indiana State Fingerstyle Guitar Festival. Mrs. stickyfrog and I couldn't attend this year but we for sure will next year.

https://indianastringfest.com/competitor-info/

I was listening to this on the way up to a Mountain Goats concert with a friend. She was surprised to hear a cover of it and I was surprised to learn it was a cover.

Like a slow. motion. train. wreck.

Linda Ronstadt does a good job, but she just isn't as twisted as Warren.

David Lindley is, though.

Personal Jesus, as interpreted by the surf band "Los Banditos":

I thought I shared this already, but apparently not.

And I can't believe I forgot this one. Probably my favorite ever. For reasons.

And I'll leave you alone with one of my favorites. And an apology.

My music partner and I have been playing together on and off for over 50 years. I am an old rock 'n roller, he is a talented musician. Prior to the vaccine being released, we did this cover of a Dolly tune, with Mark's clever lyrics...

And before that, when the pandemic was causing lockdowns, this parody of the Willie Nelson song, On the Road Again...

Parodies isn't our thing; mostly covers of rock songs and originals. We are 1400 miles apart, but technology makes it easy to collaborate these days.

And I still do plenty of solo things...

Oof. You got that right. Can't believe I sat through the whole thing. Perhaps in hopes of watching Bowie's wardrobe collapse.


Hey, I'd thought Imbruglia had dropped off the face of the earth after her first CD like a hundred years ago.....

Some ACDC

This is so good. Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through the Grapevine, completely re-orchestrated around the original vocal track: