Axel Rudi Peel is really excellent in covers, remember of a nice version of "Forever young".

G'Day!!! An early, early morning meeting with a client lasted waaaaaaay too long, but I am back on track and jammin' to the great cover tunes. Starting off with Scorpions' cover of The Who's classic tune in honor of their show on Friday night here in The Twin Cities -- It was UN-F'N-BELIEVABLE!!! It was the best show I have seen in a long time. High energy, great set list & top notch performances by everyone in the band. I have been crunched for time lately, but I WILL get a full review in the next day or so (with a link to a ton of pix I took...and a video clip, too, hehehe). Scorpions are AWESOME!!!
From:
Diamond Dave


I was wondering if you were still recovering - can't wait to see the review. Glad you had a grreat time!!!

Wes Kimbell - Nothin' But A Good Time (3:57)
(By Request)

From: Name Your Poison - Tribute To Poison

andie, it's not really poison, so don't yell at me ;-)
From:
z2h

I will just hiss a little -

PS: notice Poison'd got all used up over the weekend - someone had a ploy . . . . he was real tricky.

saw that too - pretty funny - hee hee

> G'Day!!! An early, early morning meeting with a client lasted waaaaaaay too long, but I am back on track and jammin' to the great cover tunes. Starting off with Scorpions' cover of The Who's classic tune in honor of their show on Friday night here in The Twin Cities -- It was UN-F'N-BELIEVABLE!!! It was the best show I have seen in a long time. High energy, great set list & top notch performances by everyone in the band. I have been crunched for time lately, but I WILL get a full review in the next day or so (with a link to a ton of pix I took...and a video clip, too, hehehe). Scorpions are AWESOME!!!
> From:
> Diamond Dave
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>
> I was wondering if you were still recovering - can't wait to see the review. Glad you had a grreat time!!!



Yeah I had a great time. I can't wait to share my review and all the pix -- took about 100 (no joke) AND a got about a 3 minute video clip of the opening tune, "Hour 1". I just got a new digital camera and added a 4GB memory card, so I went nuts with pix. I am really happy with 75% of the pix since at first, I was trying to figure it out and it was alot of "trial & error". But then I found the best settings and went from there, hehehe...

DD

Ted Nugent - Baby Please Don't Go (5:58)
(By Request)

From: Great Gonzos

Song Dedication
Here's a cover. No idea who did it originally.
From:
Mr.Slash


An old blues song originally done by Big Joe Williams. Sometime in the 30s, as I remember.

Stryper - Shining Star (4:23)
(By Request)

From: Against The Law

Wow, been a bit busy today (it's either a feast or famine)..gotta get at least one cover in. Here is one of my faves, Stryper kicking this EW&F tune up a notch!
From:
Ironskulls


'Skulls, this album is without a doubt my fave. The guitarwork on this song is one of the reasons why.

Mr. Big - 30 Days In The Hole (4:13)
(By Request)

From: Mr. Big

Song Dedication Rockhead had a Humble Pie cover, so it reminded me of this. Great cover.
From: Walt


agreed. I've kind of forgotten about these guys, but played "green tinted" the other day and it reminded me of some great memories. Gonna be requestin' some more of these guys.

Gary Moore - Wishing Well (4:06)
(By Request)

From: Corridors of Power

Rockhead, can't believe I beat you to this one!
From:
Walt

Walt,
We must have hit it at almost the same time. I requested it about an hour ago, and it went through. Now it's lost in the shuffle for sure. Maybe I'll play Blacklfoot's version later.

never heard the Znuff version of Yankee Rose before. That was pretty cool.

Cold Gin (4:20)

or how 'bout some vodka & orange JOOOSE?!

(fans of live KISS should get my drift)

Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love (alternate intro) (4:20)
(By Request)

From: Too Fast For Love


I hit the wrong button. It was supposed to be "Tonight".

I knew what you meant :wink:

(it's also cool that we got 3 crue covers in a row)

Jo de La Rosa - Letting go

Next in line:
Ram Jam - Black Betty

cool - all 5 of my requests made it in b4 we all get a chimp hairball

A female singing a GnR tune?
From:
Mr.Slash

Christina Kartsonakis - Civil War (4:56) (By Request)
From: A Rock Tribute To Guns 'N Roses

Pretty damn good - nice voice - great pic Slash!!

Since I have the double shot of Joel about to play this article make a good read while jammin out to the Cats In Boots and Heavy Bones tracks:

ANOTHER MUSICIAN ACCUSES BON JOVI OF PLAGIARISM:

August 10, 2008

After posting a report by Chris Faraone of Boston Magazine in which Bart Steele accused Bon Jovi of ripping off one of his songs, Sleaze Roxx received an email from former Cats In Boots and Heavy Bones vocalist Joel Ellis claiming that a similar thing happened to him. Joel's email can be read in its entirety below:

"It was back in the 1980's when Denny Holan and I were recording our pre-production demos for Atlantic Records with Merri Hoaxx. We had just finished tracking a studio session that included our original song "I'll Be There For You". We left Paramount Studios in Hollywood with a cassette tape of rough mixes and headed straight for The Rainbow Bar & Grill on Sunset. When we got there we gave the tape to Michael to put on the Bar's sound system, it was the classic "Is It Worthy" test for demos and mixes that a lot of bands used to gage their nights work. We'd always pop on the song and listen for the sounds then we would watch to see if people were digging the songs. The place was definitely digging the songs that night.

I ran into Sam Kinison who asked me to come back to his table and hang out. So while our tape was playing, we sat at the table in the back with Sam, Jon Bon Jovi, Peter Aykroyd (Dan's brother) and Doc McGee, etc... Johnny gave us this line of BS that if we gave him this tape he would take it to his uncle at Polydor Records and try to get us out on tour with him.

I somehow felt like I was going to regret that, but we agreed to take a chance and trust him, so we gave Jon Bon Jovi the cassette that night and we never heard back from him. A short time later we heard the chorus for our song "I'll be theeerrre for youuuu" as JBJs next big hit. My manager at the time wanted to sue his ass but we were doing well and were very busy with all the Atlantic developments going on that I didn't want to cause problems for our momentum that we had going at the time. I hated when people would note the resemblance between Jon Bon Jovi and me at the time and I didn't want to give the world any other reasons to compare me to the Golden Boy Johnny. We were in no way similar to each other and strongly resented any comparison...I wasn't pop singer, I was a rock singer and I wasn't a self righteous frosted hair perm boy with relatives who paved my way so I could steal songs from real artists and get rich off of ripping them off. I was a self made true rocker from the streets to the stage to the studio to the stores, with no help from daddy's friends & relatives and we rocked without the posing. Whatever successes or short comings I had were of my own making, but it was real. So I didn't care about that song.

Later on during the Heavy Bones days, I was dating a girl named Lehua Reid, who was previously engaged to Richie Sambora. While she lived at Richie's house, she told me about how she remembered the nights that Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora would sit at Richie's piano with boxes full of tapes they had collected from trusting aspiring musicians who trusted them with their creations for a shot at success, how they would play through tape after tape looking for catchy songs to rip off all the while laughing at the suckers who gave them their tapes. When she heard my demo recording of "I'll Be There For You" she sat back, eyes wide open, saying "NO WAY!!! This is YOU??", and went on to tell me about the night that they were so excited to be ripping off this song and how Johnny had always wanted an excuse to rip off John Lennon for his vocal in the verse of "Don't Let Me Down" by the Beatles. They worked on that song for hours playing my demo over and over again and it stuck in her head.

Of course I had already known where their recent huge hit single had come from but hearing her tell that story was like salt in the wound...I've always felt that people should know about this and I still have the original demo. If anyone in the world wants to hear it I'll be happy to put an Mpeg up on my website so they can hear it too.

I wonder how many other guys are out there right now feeling the same burn from the Golden Boy Jon Bon Jovi and his trusty side kick Richie Rich."

Sincerely,
Joel Ellis of Merri Hoaxx, Cats In Boots and Heavy Bones.

Read this yesterday, I have no doubt that Joel is telling the truth. He sounds sincere and not the least bit bitter. This isn't the type of thing I like to hear however. How other people have had their songs "borrowed" in this way by JBJ? If what Joel says about the "box of tapes" is correct, probably quite a few.

Im driving into work this morning and I usually take the country roads by my house rather than the beltline. Im following a pickup pulling a horse trailer. I have all my windows down and the sunroof open. All of a sudden I notice some kind of liquid dripping under the horse trailer. I didnt give it a second thought until it wasnt just a drip but its pouring out the back of the horse trailer and its splashing all over my car. I actually had to turn my wipers on to see where I was going, it was like driving through a downpour when I realized this is F'n horse piss! They all must have went at the same time, its splashing in my windows & in my sunroof! So I had turn around and go home, change my shirt, wash my face & take the hose to the car. Nasty way to start the day!
From:
Slick


too f-n funny - sorry it had to happen, but thanks for the laugh!!!

holy shit slick! or should I say holy piss!

that sucks!