Sgt Pepper

[jburton042]

Some of my favorite Metallica covers are by Rodrigo y Gabriella. They cover other bands like Metallica, too. Amazing to see them live!

One of the weirdest cover artists, even if it's borderline parody, is Richard Cheese. Rock songs done in a Vegas lounge singer style.

Closer to back on topic. I wasn't much of a Beatles fan, until being exposed to more of their music by a cover band that bounced around my area 15+ years ago. They would alternate a Beatles song and a Ramones song. Was a good show!

 

[jomar]

I saw that after the fact-I was fairly young when he was killed-but it didn't take a genius to know he was a fraud. He was a drug addict, a liar, an abuser and copped an image to make himself some type of guru.

Fact is its one of those things that's very unpopular to say publicly, but he deserved what he got and it should have been sooner.

Ouch! Yes, a bit harsh.

 

[SimonDoom]

I saw that after the fact-I was fairly young when he was killed-but it didn't take a genius to know he was a fraud. He was a drug addict, a liar, an abuser and copped an image to make himself some type of guru.

Fact is its one of those things that's very unpopular to say publicly, but he deserved what he got and it should have been sooner.

Come on. No one deserves to be killed for being a "fraud", whatever that means. The Beatles, like a lot of 60s artists, got caught up in the hypocrisy of preaching 60s values while collecting Bentleys and big houses. They took drugs; so did everyone else. That's not a reason to want them dead. That's an indefensible position.

 

[afriendg]

I saw that after the fact-I was fairly young when he was killed-but it didn't take a genius to know he was a fraud. He was a drug addict, a liar, an abuser and copped an image to make himself some type of guru.

Fact is its one of those things that's very unpopular to say publicly, but he deserved what he got and it should have been sooner.

I love Lennon...taking into account that a lot of what he said and did was self serving BS...no matter, there was no reason for him to be gunned down like an animal on the way into his apartment building...why wish that on anyone? I wasn't a fan of Tupac Shakur...his parents were Black Panthers, many of his relatives were convicted of serious criminal offenses and imprisoned...that doesn't mean I thought he should die at age 26 in a drive by shooting. Who knows what we missed in the deaths of either of these talented men..

 

[sr71plt]

I didn't pay much attention to the personal lives of the Beatles--I still don't do that with musicians or other forms of entertainers, and I was into Folk when the Beatles were at the top. It's that years later, I'll hear a tune (like I do with Rice and Weber) that will make me think "that's fundamentally a really good tune" and so often it's been a total remix of the Beatles. I don't think anyone can say their music hasn't endured. We're discussing it here 60 years later--and some are taking it beyond that, talking about their personal lives as well.

And, no, on "Imagine," I look at the lyrics of that and at the musicians themselves and I say "what hypocritical tripe," but the song just keeps popping up here and there being used for this and that. Can't deny its endurance.

 

[Bramblethorn]

No, I saw him with Paul Kelly - same Concerts on the Green series, different state. I also saw him on the last leg of his last world tour -same band but a different guitarist. The Webb Sisters and Sharon Robinson would have to be one of the greatest line of backing singers ever.

Now you jog my memory, Paul Kelly was also at the gig I saw. I think Steve Kilbey was playing with the Triffids, too. But how could I forget Paul Kelly?

The thing that really surprised me was how much enthusiasm LC had. Famously melancholic guy in his mid-seventies who'd only come out of retirement because his manager stole his savings, but more energy than most kids a third his age.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Now you jog my memory, Paul Kelly was also at the gig I saw. I think Steve Kilbey was playing with the Triffids, too. But how could I forget Paul Kelly?

The thing that really surprised me was how much enthusiasm LC had. Famously melancholic guy in his mid-seventies who'd only come out of retirement because his manager stole his savings, but more energy than most kids a third his age.

Steve Kilbey with the Triffids? Maybe a guest spot, he's The Church. Have you seen his funny as acceptance speech several Aria's ago? He started riffing on about Oz music and just kept going, had the audiences in stitches. Very very funny.

Yes, Leonard - "Last time I was here, I was a foolish young man aged sixty-five, I'm older now." I love his gentle humour at his own expense - there are some beautiful interview clips on YouTube where he is talking about his song writing, Hallelujah, and so on. A wise man, indeed.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Steve Kilbey with the Triffids? Maybe a guest spot, he's The Church. Have you seen his funny as acceptance speech several Aria's ago? He started riffing on about Oz music and just kept going, had the audiences in stitches. Very very funny.

Yes, Leonard - "Last time I was here, I was a foolish young man aged sixty-five, I'm older now." I love his gentle humour at his own expense - there are some beautiful interview clips on YouTube where he is talking about his song writing, Hallelujah, and so on. A wise man, indeed.

Yeah, Kilbey was a guest appearance. Triffids' singer was David McComb but he died in 1999 so AFAIK it's all been guest singers since then.