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16 - I wanna be somebody
Yes !!!! I just gotta be, up high where the whole worlds watching me. I've got the guts to be somebody.
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Given the talent, variety and extremity of the bands represented even in the songs we recognize I'd say any cover band attempting all these would either be so unmissable as to be stars in their own right or absolutely awfull which is much more likely. One of the reasons that Metallica remain a legend and G'n'R have a huge fan base after producing nothing for 13+ years is that what they do is unique, it can't be replicated or surpassed by others let alone a cover band. So no I would not go to see a cover band fail to live up to the performances required to emulate these greats, but if somebody trully could, you couldn't drag me away. :)
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
Well, the Metallica song is a cover.... The reason those bands are huge is that they WRITE amazing songs. Being able to play them is not a great feat by comparison. Playing them well requires practice, that's all.
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6. Airbourne - Too much, too young, too fast.
Yes. I love that line, it makes me think those guys may be literate after all. I got the DVD version of Running Wild, and it has three clips, including that song. Excellent. I saw them open for Motorhead, the best opening band in history, ever.
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5. Judas Priest - Electric Eye 12. Helloween - I want out
"impossible" is just an opinion.
Yep. I love 'I want out', that's a really fun song, and a great song to play.
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I'm off to a meeting now, so here's the first 3 that jumped out at me. 3. Faster Pussycat's Poison Ivy. Not their best track, but a real good one. 7. Hells Bells - AC/DC. 21. Metal Health - Quiet Riot.
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Now, the big question, if a cover band was going to play those songs, would you go and see them ?
Yes.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
Well done. I don't think anyone else got three, and I was amazed that Mick got the Angels and not the AC/DC song ( surely one of their biggest songs ? ). What's your fave FP track ? I have the tab book for the second album and I have all but decided to learn poison ivy ( it's the only song on this list I don't already play ).
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6. Airbourne - Too much Too Young Too Fast. 16. I wanna be somebody - WASP (one of my all time faves). 17. Crazy Train - Ozzy 18. Balls to the Walls - Accept (god bless Udo Dirkschneider for having one of the best names in Rock). 19. Teacher Teacher - Skid Row 20. Wild Side - Motley Crue
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
Not bad..... 19 - wrong. Do Skid Row even have a song called that ? ( I am reminded that Doctor Doctor should have been one of these songs tho ). Yeah, I love Udo, he has a cool name and a very cool, if unusual voice.
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I'm not suprised though, you hear nothing but metal while I don't listen to metal at all.
Cheers, Vıkram.
Stand up to be seen. Speak up to be heard. Shut up to be appreciated.
Well, this is all metal, b/c it's songs I play, but I don't ONLY like metal. (close tho)
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Number 20 is Motley Crue - Wild side.
Yes, it is :-)
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7. AC/DC - Hell's Bells
Smokie, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. www.geticeberg.com
Yep.
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Maybe 10 could be Poison, Alice Cooper
_____________________________________ Action without thought is not action Action without emotion is not life
Sorry, no.
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7. hells bells, ac/dc 10. round n round, ratt
Correct. :-)
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I would go and see that cover band! The first gig I ever went to was a friends band doing covers, and they did Am I Evil. To be pedantic Am I Evil is by Diamond Head; Metallica just covered it for the B-side of Creeping Death. I think Metallic are one of the best covers bands in the world. They started out doing some obsure covers when they didn't have many songs of their own, and just didn't introduce them so people would assume they were their songs. (I remember reading that in an interview with Hetfield in Kerrang in the eighties). I first got into quite a few bands by tracking down the originals of some of Metallica's covers like Killing Joke (The Wait) and The Misfits (Green Hell / Last Caress).
Words fade as the meanings change, but somehow, it don't bother me.
Yeah, I accepted Metallica for Am I Evil, b/c that's the version I play ( Kirks solo is tighter and just different in places, and the arrangement is also different in a few places ). Yes, I got all the Diamond Head albums, and I also got into Budge via Metallica.
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8 - I raise a glass to all of us, who are breaking our backs every day
Nothin' but a good time.
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10 - I knew right from the start, she put an arrow in my heart
Round and round.
"Love people and use things, not love things and use people." - Unknown
"The brick walls are there for a reason...to stop the people who don't want it badly enough." - Randy Pausch
Yep, that's right.
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18 - Accept, Balls to the Wall 21 - Quiot Riot, Cum on Feel the Noise?
-Sean ---- It's not that I like expensive things, it's just that the things I like are expensive. - My Wife
18 is right. 21 is Metal Health.
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7 - I'm coming on like a hurricane
Hells Bells AC/DC
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10 - I knew right from the start, she put an arrow in my heart
Round and Round Ratt
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21 - Got the boys, to make the noise.
Mental Health Quiet Riot
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5 - my tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
Electric Eye - Judas Priest
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19 - Park Avenue leads to skid row
Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row [edit] yikes, I didn't see all the other relies first, sorry most of these are duplicates. [/edit]
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That's OK, it's more fun to try and guess first and then see if you were right ( you were, of course ), except that its' metal health, not mental health
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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That's OK, it's more fun to try and guess first and then see if you were right ( you were, of course ), except that its' metal health, not mental health
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Well, the Metallica song is a cover.... The reason those bands are huge is that they WRITE amazing songs. Being able to play them is not a great feat by comparison. Playing them well requires practice, that's all.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
I disagree it's not merely playing the notes correctly but emulating the performance that is required for a successful cover. The whole thing with songs like Sweet Child Of Mine is not that the lyrics are particularly great or clever or that the music can't be played by anyone else but that the original performance is simply unrepeatable, no one talented enough is both mad enough and motivated enough nor ever likely to be. the sheer manic extremity of great heavy rock performances is what sets these songs apart, not the lyrics or the written down music, for all that many Metallica songs can be very intellectual, they're the exception that proves the rule.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)