Oct 092012
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Don’t know if this is the proper venue for this query but it just popped into my head. And I’m too polluted and it’s too depressing for me to pursue right now, especially considering all the Motown machinations that disinterest me…
Who are the extinct rock and roll bands? The ones that can’t even trot out one original member? Even the “Ramones” could go out with a drummer, correct?
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LD
Great topic. Should be a main thread. Of course it could be a very short thread. Even the Blue Caps could go out with a drummer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQnxlHZsjY
The thread will be up very shortly.
On a tangent to that subject, I was thinking about bands that have re-recorded their own material – not an entire album, maybe just one song. And not recordings made for copyright or licensing reasons (because they’re trying to make those sound like the originals anyway). I mean recordings made because the band felt something was lacking in the first recording or perhaps it had evolved from playing it live.
For example, I prefer the White Album version of “Revolution” to the harder, more distorted version. Or for a more softball example, “Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86” or whatever year it was.
So what I want to know is, is there a re-recorded/updated version of a song that you think is better than the first recording?
Go record shopping with Ian Hunter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rq_GLaa-xBo