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Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on April 05, 2016, 03:40:54 PM

So, what's your favorite cover of a Simon & Garfunkel song?  I'm torn between (oddly enough) The Bangles (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrwImCJCqk) and Johnny Cash (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omxAjFFnrLk)
 
Peter (who may need something constructive to think about...)

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: keith_h on April 05, 2016, 04:45:09 PM

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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RgEmGZCueY) does a good instrumental cover of the song on an Alembic to boot.  
 
David Bowie did a cover of  America (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMnm69s-rtg). This is his version with Tin Machine.
 
And I will leave you with the one and only Frank Sinatra (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szLD-XYQL5g). ;)
 
Keith

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: pauldo on April 05, 2016, 05:04:11 PM

Simon and Garfunkles version of America has a beautiful bass line to it.

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: ed_zeppelin on April 05, 2016, 05:31:05 PM

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.)

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: David Houck on April 05, 2016, 05:34:14 PM

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.  

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: smokin_dave on April 05, 2016, 05:43:22 PM

I've always loved this cover by Yes.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYRM3BN6Mkg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYRM3BN6Mkg)

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: David Houck on April 05, 2016, 05:52:29 PM

Dave; I like the live one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y9oDPUASTA) on Keys to Ascension even better.

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: keith_h on April 05, 2016, 05:55:19 PM

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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItVlxV3vt4s)
 
Keith

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: smokin_dave on April 05, 2016, 06:07:04 PM

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.

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: JuancarlinBass on April 05, 2016, 06:18:00 PM

*1 on the Yes version (Got in love first with the old studio version, but the Keys to Ascension one is great!!!).

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: ed_zeppelin on April 05, 2016, 06:31:07 PM

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!

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: David Houck on April 05, 2016, 07:19:29 PM

Emmylou does a nice version of The Boxer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNMBI9dutlM).

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: edwin on April 05, 2016, 09:30:21 PM

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.

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: andy3hal on April 05, 2016, 09:39:08 PM

Just watched the S&G cover by a band called Disturbed, IMHO superb.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4an6DwWeo0w (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4an6DwWeo0w)

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: rustyg61 on April 06, 2016, 02:44:07 AM

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!

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: lbpesq on April 06, 2016, 11:51:34 AM

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

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on April 06, 2016, 12:05:36 PM

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

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: rustyg61 on April 06, 2016, 12:55:34 PM

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!

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: slawie on April 06, 2016, 08:24:05 PM

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.

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: pauldo on April 07, 2016, 05:19:12 AM

Yep, that DISTURBED  version was really solid.
The delivery really makes the songs message stand out well.

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: hankster on April 07, 2016, 11:34:48 AM

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.

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: tncaveman on April 09, 2016, 06:48:01 AM

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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpQNbfE90fI&nohtml5=False)

Title: Best S&G cover?
Post by: David Houck on April 09, 2016, 07:30:59 AM

Thanks for the Ede Wright.  I listened to some more; very nice!