@pennstac - Nice. PF’s Echoes is one of the greatest songs ever.
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Nothing like an album title that’s elliptical & mysterious…
R.I.P. Toots Hibert. Loved his music from day-1.
His album, “Toots in Memphis,” is all covers. This is my favorite:
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Just stumbled on this thread. So glad to find it.
Here are some covers that IMO try for something musically new & different.
I never liked Nirvana, never “got” Kurt Cobain–until I heard Little Roy’s album of covers, “Battle for Seattle.” One cover is better than the next. Here’s “About a Girl” … love the vaguely menacing vibe:
Scary Pockets’ & Judith Hill’s “Walk This Way.” It takes stones to cover this at all, much less at 1/2 speed…the secret sauce is Judith’s fabulous R&B voice:
I wasn’t a fan of Fleetwood Mac or “Never Going Back Again.” But this cover by Pomplamoose’s Nataly Dawn & the Sheriffs of Schroedingham makes it a slinky, sexy lounge tune (IMO it kills):
I first heard this “Parker With Strings” cover of "Just Friends in childhood & went cracy for it. The way Parker floats around his alto is amazing…it took me years to understand “Just Friends” is an old tune that many great singers have covered:
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Had to click on the Natalie Dawn. Wowza! Like you I never cared much for the Fleetwood Mac version.
Another Fleetwood Mac cover 
Just happened across this, and I really like it. Was at the Mac, which I had just updated to Ventura. ROON didn’t start, and the Mac was reporting that it was broken. More likely it needed to be updated for Ventura, so I force-opened it. After resetting some of the zones so I went to test it, listening to the Sennheiser HD-6xx coming from the BiFrost 2/64 into the Lyr 3 with LSSST.
Of course, I became somewhat intrigued with the sound, as usually happens when I pick up a less used but well-known chain. And with the update, ROON had magically found an old iTunes library and started displaying some favorite albums that I had put into the library as MP3 back in the 90’s I guess. So I was checking the versions in Qobuz, and and and.
Well here it is:
Never saw Traffic, but I have seen Dave Mason do this live before Covid.
Back in '73 pr 74, Traffic’s album Low Spark was a favorite during party days (about 7 per week) on 4th floor Ewing hall at Penn State, and across the drive on 3rd and 6th floor of Beaver hall (Get your minds out of the gutter - there’s not much room left there). And it was popular most likely in all the rest of the dorms there.
Back then, I think I was playing it on my AR 1a turntable with the Shure V-15 type 3 cart, But the amp was either my 40 watt Lafayette or a 60 watt Sansui. I was speaker-poor that year, with some “Realistics” from Rat Shack (Radio Shack), not the good ones. I was coveting smaller Advents, but had blown my budget. The following year, I moved to Nittany Halls, and had upgraded to the modified Rectilinear IIIs I still have. And various bits of amplification. A Dynaco PAS-2 (tube preamp) for a bit, then the PAS-3x (solid state) pre-amp. Twin 125 watt TigerSaurus mono amps. For a while Dynaco Mark III (tube) amps. Wish I still had those. Much better sound. But much better luck with coeds the year before.
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Those were the days. I ungraded from a AR XA ( sn XA66731) to a Linn Sondek LP12 in the mid 70’s. Lightning took out the AR in late 60’s. That’s when I got the Linn. Still have the AR in a box. Now i have a VPI classic
Now I have a VPI Prime Scout with a few upgrades
VPI awesome turntables with great customer service.
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I see that a new 4 hour compilation of some fine Zappa has been released December 16th, called Waka/Wazoo. Lots of out-takes, alternate mixes, and some fine vintage Zappa. Why am I posting it here? Well, ROON tells me there are 27 different versions of Montana. While half of them are Zappa, there’s a Zappa/Beefheart live version. Also some other jazz groups, some deep synth (on Kocmoc) and just general fun. I mean, who wouldn’t have fun.
Keep the wax
Melt it down
Insert some floss
And swish it around
Is there still life left in this old thread?
The comments are almost as good as the cover