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Saturday, August 27, 2005
Songs in the key of leave it alone
More bandstand blues: there is a band playing there at the moment, and the noise of a very, very bad cover of Hey Joe is floating over to my window. I want to shout: guys, guys, not even Hendrix wanted to play this song, and he owns it. Leave it alone.
The bass player seems to know what he's doing (which is essential on a song like Hey Joe - it's the bass player who controls the pace of that song), but that's about it.
Next up: a 'cover' of Sunshine Of Your Love. The vocalist is too shouty for stuff like this (and the guitarist stayed well away from the blue-moon-esque guitar solo in the middle).
I predict at least one of the following songs before they end their set:
posted by Michael at 8/27/2005 06:00:00 PM |