Many artists are known for having a specific cover song as part of their nightly setlists. Sometimes, however, a curveball is thrown at the audience, and they serve up a very unexpected (and rockin') surprise.
Have you ever been privy to such a thing, and if so who was it and what was the cover?
2007-10-03 08:02:20 · 27 answers · asked by Deke 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Kansas City Philharmonic, "Trampled under Foot" about twenty years ago. It was the first time I had heard a symphony doing Led Zepplin.
2007-10-03 08:08:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Pearl Jam, covering Dead Moon's "It's Okay".... I'd heard this cover as a end tag to "Daughter" a few times on bootlegs but finally got to hear it live in 06 when PJ played Cleveland... I don't know what it is about the song but it's very powerful and uplifting and makes you want to dance.
Pearl Jam plays an average of two to three covers at each show so it's always a pleasant surprise when they kick out a good one. Other favorites are The Dead Boys "Sonic Reducer", The Who's "Baba O'Reilly" and Dylan's "Masters of War".
2007-10-03 09:14:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Silver stole my first thought... I saw Stevie break out "I Need to Know" at a show n Birmingham.
It wasn't really a surprise, but I did enjoy a Skid Row / Pantera encore jam on five or six old Kiss tunes.
Other than that, I can't think of any covers being done by any band that I've seen that weren't already part of the discography.
NP: "I Don't Believe in Love" - Queensryche
2007-10-03 09:02:35 · answer #3 · answered by Mike AKA Mike 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never seen any myself {only ever been to 2 concerts :( }, but I think the audience was pretty surprised in 1981 when Stevie Nicks {on her first solo tour} launched into her cover of Tom Petty's 'I Need to Know'. It quickly became a crowd favourite, performed on every tour since.
I know that she now covers Led Zep's 'Rock and Roll', but I don't think she has the voice for it anymore. If only she had done that in '81!
2007-10-03 08:32:37 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Silver Rose * Wolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
properly, i'm a brilliant Disco Biscuits fan and as quickly as I first began to get into them i found out the do a Beatles/ pink Floyd tribute band handle a band referred to as Umphrey's McGee referred to as strategies broken Eggmen. They have been taking part in in Chicago on the Vic so we desperate to flow. i became so inspired with the Umphrey's McGee contributors, besides because of the fact the Disco Biscuits, that I grew to become an instantaneous fan. UM is now one in all my well known bands ever.
2016-10-06 01:05:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heart does a great cover of Led Zeppelin's "Rock & Roll"
Jeff Beck does a sensational cover of The Beatles "A Day In A Life"
2007-10-03 08:21:45 · answer #6 · answered by Peepaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You won't know the band as they were a local punk outfit from the 90s, but they covered Bryan Adam's. I forgot which song, it was at least 10-11 years ago. They dominated!
2007-10-03 09:45:18 · answer #7 · answered by Master C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I went to the punk band Rise Against, they broke out a cover of Minor Threat's "Minor Threat". Bodies were flying in every direction and everyone was singing along.
2007-10-03 08:12:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went to see, I think Peter Framptom in about 1976 and it wasn't a song he did but it was in his opening act. Edgar Winters opened the show and during the concert he broke out the first performance that I had ever heard of "Frankenstein". It was fantastic! He played it with some kind of electronic keyboard that hung around his neck and all the electronics and lights were unbelievable. For days me and my friends talked about that concert but it wasn't the headliner we were talking about, it was Edgar Winter and his amazing performance of "Frankenstein" on stage.
2007-10-03 10:30:06 · answer #9 · answered by Jaye C 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The stereophonics cover of the Hand bags and the Gladrags was superb Kelly Jones voice was made for the song
2007-10-03 08:19:03 · answer #10 · answered by SAOIRSE 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Heart did Led Zeppelin's Rock n' Roll. They did it after John Bonham died. Since then, Heart has done a number of Zep covers, all sounding as good or better than even the originals.
2007-10-03 08:12:12 · answer #11 · answered by commonsense 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋