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01-15-2008, 06:44 PM
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What are your thoughts on this Led Zep cover by Godsmack ? I think it is pretty METAL.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgmv4XAJMbo
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01-15-2008, 06:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: WI | | | I thought they did a pretty good job of it.
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01-15-2008, 06:54 PM
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My thoughts on covers...
If you can't best the original, or do a completely different spin, then don't embarrass yourself.
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01-15-2008, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by canshaker no soul.
My thoughts on covers...
If you can't best the original, or do a completely different spin, then don't embarrass yourself. | Amen to that...At the LEAST try to CHANGE SOMETHING I mean if you're going to play the thing live exactly the same as the original thats obviously fine but to release it as a single and put it on your album? Please.
And as far as how they did covering it sure they did a decent job...But so can half the random cover bands I run into in X bar that happens to have that on their set list. |
01-15-2008, 08:26 PM
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The Song was OK. Not great, not bad.
Here's better quality audio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAYts...eature=related
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01-15-2008, 08:47 PM
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Nuclear Assault did a better one.
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01-16-2008, 01:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Hobart, Australia | | | Well, its better then the Snowblind cover by SOAD, thats for sure.
On second listen, its actually a pretty decent cover, they didn't go over the top metal like KSE did with Holy Diver and they didn't speed it up/try to make it unique like SOAD with snowblind, so its quite good really.
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01-16-2008, 02:16 AM
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01-16-2008, 10:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Denver, CO | | I really dig it. I'm not a big Zepplin fan, and I like the Godsmack version more than the original. Quote:
Originally Posted by Blisshead Nothing special. not the worst cover I've ever heard, but far from the best.
Nuclear Assault did a better one. | There's a band I haven't thought of on YEARS. I love Nuclear Assault!!! Quote:
Originally Posted by Supa Scoopa Well, its better then the Snowblind cover by SOAD, thats for sure.
On second listen, its actually a pretty decent cover, they didn't go over the top metal like KSE did with Holy Diver and they didn't speed it up/try to make it unique like SOAD with snowblind, so its quite good really. | Snowblind by Styx??? I've got to hear that!!! |
01-16-2008, 10:30 AM
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02-17-2009, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Martinez Snowblind by Styx??? I've got to hear that!!! | If you're serious... no, by Black Sabbath off Vol. 4.
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02-17-2009, 11:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Columbus, OH | | | The fact that they did it at all speaks volumes of slumping record sales, and record company pressure to get back on track. It's an old, well-known industry trick.
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02-18-2009, 11:57 AM
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02-21-2009, 03:28 PM
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02-21-2009, 03:31 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Gravity Picks | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ohio/West Virginia | | | Hmmm. Repz Zep pretty well, I think.
I personally liked it.
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02-21-2009, 08:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: northeast Ohio | | | oh man that holy diver cover is freaking horrible!! Godsmack could have done worse, at least they played it in E instead of downtuning it to D or something. Glad to hear the drummer replicated those kick triplets with one foot ala Bonham.
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02-22-2009, 01:56 AM
| | | | I was really digging that cover of "GTBT", seemed like a faithful rendition. But when the first bass break approached the bassist's tone was nice and fat and bassy (like it should be), and then in a blink of an eye it totally changed to a thin tinny sounding thing that totally ruined it. Why on Earth did they do that? |
02-22-2009, 04:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Glasgow, Scotland, UK | | | If it was a cover band in a bar I would think it was great, but from a band releasing it as a studio song I expect something a bit more than an almost note-for-note lift of the original. Good playing certainly, but I won't listen to it again after hearing it this once – it just doesn't offer anything over the original. Also because I hate the bass tone. |
02-22-2009, 08:30 PM
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02-23-2009, 12:43 AM
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