| Author | Message | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 2026 Registered: 10-2006 |
So, what's your favorite cover of a Simon & Garfunkel song? I'm torn between (oddly enough) The Bangles and Johnny Cash Peter (who may need something constructive to think about...) | ||
| keith_h
Senior Member Username: keith_h Post Number: 2394 Registered: 2-2005 |
I don't know that I have a favorite S&G tune but I recently watched one of their concerts and remembered how good many of their tunes were. While not a Simon and Garfunkel tune I have always associated Scarborough Fair with them. Sea Level does a good instrumental cover of the song on an Alembic to boot. David Bowie did a cover of America. This is his version with Tin Machine. And I will leave you with the one and only Frank Sinatra. ;) Keith | ||
| pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 1622 Registered: 6-2006 |
Simon and Garfunkles version of America has a beautiful bass line to it. | ||
| ed_zeppelin
Advanced Member Username: ed_zeppelin Post Number: 322 Registered: 2-2010 |
My favorite ballad is "The Only Living Boy In New York." My favorite rocker is "Keep The Customer Satisfied." I'm not sure it's ever been covered, but I think it'd be great with a kind of slower Otis Redding feel (like "Try a Little Tenderness.") | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 12084 Registered: 5-2002 |
Keith; while that was a great Sea Level cover that your link points to, and I enjoyed muchly, it didn't really sound much like Scarborough Fair.  | ||
| smokin_dave
Senior Member Username: smokin_dave Post Number: 448 Registered: 10-2002 |
I've always loved this cover by Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYRM3BN6Mkg | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 12085 Registered: 5-2002 |
Dave; I like the live one on Keys to Ascension even better. | ||
| keith_h
Senior Member Username: keith_h Post Number: 2395 Registered: 2-2005 |
Big oops as Dave so kindly pointed out. Here is the correct link for the Sea Level tune. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItVlxV3vt4s Keith | ||
| smokin_dave
Senior Member Username: smokin_dave Post Number: 449 Registered: 10-2002 |
Wow.I may have to put my Amazon prime membership to good use and get this.Never heard this before.I mean just listen to Squires live bass tone. Thanks for the turn on mod Dave. | ||
| jcdlc72
Senior Member Username: jcdlc72 Post Number: 486 Registered: 11-2009 |
*1 on the Yes version (Got in love first with the old studio version, but the Keys to Ascension one is great!!!). | ||
| ed_zeppelin
Advanced Member Username: ed_zeppelin Post Number: 323 Registered: 2-2010 |
I must acknowledge that I misunderstood the question. Imagine that, a married man misunderstanding the question. And I think we can all agree it's a pretty damned easy question, too. And nobody pointed it out. I'm going to tell the Foghorn, so she can point it out to me. She seems to enjoy that. I think it's because I can't think of any S&G covers, to be honest. But it was fun hearing Chuck Leavell(sp?), because my high school garage band was really learning to play from Allman Brothers records, and it was such a sad time for people who loved their music. We were all hurting together. Then the guitarist brought Little Feat's "Waiting For Columbus" album over and we veered off that way for a couple of years. Listening to Sea Level was like visiting with a long-lost friend. I really enjoyed that. Thank you! | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 12086 Registered: 5-2002 |
Emmylou does a nice version of The Boxer. | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 2273 Registered: 5-2002 |
Not quite S&G but when I started engineering at a recording studio in the 80s, a band came in and did a punk version of Kodachrome and put it out on a 45. It might be my only work that was ever released on vinyl. It had awesome energy. I think I have a copy of it somewhere. | ||
| andy3hal
New Username: andy3hal Post Number: 4 Registered: 6-2014 |
Just watched the S&G cover by a band called Disturbed, IMHO superb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4an6DwWeo0w | ||
| rustyg61
Senior Member Username: rustyg61 Post Number: 1822 Registered: 2-2011 |
andy, you beat me to it! I don't normally listen to bands like Disturbed, but a guy I work with plays this kind of music at work all the time & I heard Disturbed do Sounds Of Silence & loved it! When I was in Jr. High band we played "The Sounds Of Simon & Garfunkle & the sheet music came with an electric bass part so my band director let me play bass on it. He put me up in front of the band at our concert so I was like a featured performer which was both scary & cool! | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 6409 Registered: 7-2004 |
I don't think I have any recordings of it, but my favorite S&G cover, (well, actually a S cover), was a band I was in back in 1989 that did "Late in the Evening". Bill, tgo | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 2028 Registered: 10-2006 |
Whoa. I saw the name "Disturbed" & the dude's pic on YT & said "Nah - don't think so..." Saw your link and decided to have my hand on the "Back" button while I gave it a second. Holey moley, that puts boot to buttocks! Still like the Bangles better, but man, that cat's got pipes! Peter | ||
| rustyg61
Senior Member Username: rustyg61 Post Number: 1823 Registered: 2-2011 |
Peter, Disturbed is an appropriate name for this band, his vocals are "disturbingly" haunting, but like a car wreck, you just can't turn away from them! | ||
| slawie
Senior Member Username: slawie Post Number: 863 Registered: 8-2002 |
Thanks Andy for the link, Peter for the endorsement and Rusty for the teaser. What a vocal range?!?!?! I'll be Googling for the rest of the day. | ||
| pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 1623 Registered: 6-2006 |
Yep, that DISTURBED version was really solid. The delivery really makes the songs message stand out well. | ||
| hankster
Senior Member Username: hankster Post Number: 444 Registered: 6-2004 |
The bassist on "only living boy" and many others for S and G was Joe Osborne - great and creative player. You'll have to listen to a lot of covers before you're finding a bass player s good as the original. | ||
| tncaveman
Advanced Member Username: tncaveman Post Number: 315 Registered: 2-2011 |
Cool thread. I'd say Yes' America is first to come to mind. I actually never herd S&G's version until at least 10 to 20 years after the Yes version. In fact, I think it is one of their best "jamming" songs. Chris and Bill are so inter twinned and Steve Howe is rocking it in 4/4 like never before. Here's a new cover by a very talented guitarist from Atlanta Ede Wright. Been wanting to see him for some time now. Road trip??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpQNbfE90fI&nohtml5=False | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 12088 Registered: 5-2002 |
Thanks for the Ede Wright. I listened to some more; very nice! |
