what are you listening to at the moment?

[Moonglum]

Here is 17 minutes of guitar heaven from the Dave Matthews Band featuring Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule and The Allman Brothers) performing Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer"...

https://youtu.be/lYrD2SthaMU?feature=shared

Mick @Newportnobby might like this as well as John @Trainfish .

Cheers,

Tim

[crewearpley40]

Nice choice Tim

[Newportnobby]

Interesting, Tim @Moonglum 
That's one of my all time favourite Neil Young tracks. It's different but, as I often say about music, unless it's a radically different version, I always prefer the 'originals'..
Witness 'House of the rising sun' from the Animals to the Frijid Pink effort, and Melanie's 'Ruby Tuesday' as opposed to the Stones

[Malc]

Zuma and Harvest are my two favourite Neil
Young albums.

[Moonglum]

I guess that if you really like the original version Mike @Newportnobby , a cover version may or may not work for you. My very first single was "House of the Rising Sun" by Frijid Pink and I had never heard The Animal's version. Likewise, I had CCS's version of "Whole Lotta Love" as a single before I heard Led Zeppelin's original version and for a while preferred it! This might split opinions but I thought it was pretty good. Here is Gov't Mule's cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman", featuring Grace Potter...

https://youtu.be/A13tUxH09SI?feature=shared

Not so sure about Grace Potter's other work though.

Cheers,

Tim

[Bealman]

Ooh, fighting words.

When we first moved into a posh new council house in 1964, the next door neighbour's son played the Animals over and over.

I think at the time, it was the longest single ever played on radio!

Anyway, ever budding guitarist learns to play that, even today. I know I still play it!

And as for Led Zeppelin's Whole lotta love being the best, I ain't even going there.

[Moonglum]

Just for the record (boom-boom) I was only 13 years old in 1970!

Cheers,

Tim

[Newportnobby]

Plenty old enough to appreciate decent moosic

[port perran]

I'm with Tim @Moonglum on this.
I rather prefer Frijid Pink's version of House of the Rising Sun.
There are also plenty of cover versions of other songs that I prefer, including pretty much all cover versions of Dylan songs.
The Hollies Sing Dylan album is an excellent example of this.
I've just got in from a long day returning to our old cottage in Cornwall but I'll try to post some examples of great cover versions over the next few days.
As a starter for 10, which is the best version of Black Magic Woman written by Peter Green?

Cheers
Martin

[Moonglum]

For me it has to be Santana's "BMW", again I heard this before the Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green) original. Looking on the net there are many many covers of it and I do have this rather fine cover by Patricia Barber on her live CD "Companion"...

https://youtu.be/d8laNBfDJms?feature=shared

Sonically and recording wise it is an exceptional live CD from 1999. The guitarist though is not Santana.

Cheers,

Tim

PS Martin @port perran , I struggle with anything Bob Dylan unless Hendrix has a bash at it!

[Graham63]

I once gave a CD copy of the Hollies sing Dylan to an avid Dylan fan, don't think he's ever got over it

[port perran]

I agree regarding Santana Tim, I believe it to be superior to the original.
I've never heard the Patricia Barber version before but I'm quite taken by it.
This is a jazz version by Janice Hagan that I rather like :
https://youtu.be/pY0y_1cKhxI?si=OeNXmf0juLqbqhXW

[Moonglum]

Wow Martin @port perran , that's good and the band swings! Patricia Barber does a cool sultry jazzy cover of The Doors' "Light my Fire"...

https://youtu.be/NQXjJdwQ2E4?feature=shared

Cheers,

Tim

[joe cassidy]

I prefer Neil Young's version of "Four Strong Winds" to the original.

Also, I prefer UB40's versions of "Kingston Town", "Red, Red Wine" and "Impossible Love" to the originals.

[Newportnobby]

For 'Black Magic Woman' it has to be Santana for me every time.
I find Dylan a bit like 'Marmite'. I tend to like him overall but some is pretty dire.
His 'Tweeter and the Monkey Man' on the 'Travelling Wilburys' is a wonder both musically and lyrically.
Biryani Ferret's (thanks to Charles Shaar Murray of the NME for that) album 'Dylanesque' varies from excellent to awful dependent on the track