Most obscure cover you've ever done

[BigBobbyBass]

I'm in a punk band and we just started doing Dead or Alive's "Spin Me Round" and people go crazy.. I love it.

 

[rufus.K]

Funny, we did "Barbecue" from the same show for our Christmas gig last year. I was trying to get the band to do River Bottom Nightmare Band, but Barbecue won out.

Well, for XMAS this yeat, do Nightmare Band.

 

[Texan]

Dead Skunk- Louden Wainwright

 

[Bunk McNulty]

Lancaster, Pennsylvania's gift to rock and roll. From 1983

That's What I Like

 

[tpaul]

Not exactly obscure, but I was in a band that covered this Bill Haley song (I was the guitarist... it wouldn't have been so interesting to the bassist I imagine...):

 

[Bunk McNulty]

Then there was this...Jesse Ed Davis. If you remember Jackson Browne's "Doctor My Eyes," that was Jesse's guitar solo. The solo album's sales started out kinda slow and then tapered off. There was some good greasy funky stuff, though...

 

[PortlandBass77]

I don't do many covers, so out of Message in a Bottle, YYZ, and Massacre, Massacre is definitely the most obscure....

 

[hrodbert696]

I'm in a punk band and we just started doing Dead or Alive's "Spin Me Round" and people go crazy.. I love it.

I am seriously planning on doing that one in the new band.

 

[Dana R Gregory]

We did "Ballad of The Hip Death Goddess" by Ultimate Spinach at a jam once. Very weird. Another one that was popular in the Boston area in the late 60s was the Jordan Brothers version of "Gimme Some Lovin". We played it a lot.

 

[Joe Nerve]

Happy Phantom by Tori Amos done with The Nerve.

 

[fishdreams]

I played in a blues project with which we did I'm Still In Love With You by T-Bone Walker, and What's With You by Mose Allison. The same singer (also my wife, not quite coincidentally) in a project that I was (and still am) the main composer for, did a Kinks tune that I have never ever heard anyone else do. (this is not me on bass or in the picture) .

 

[McFarlin]

"Scorpio's Theme" from Dirty Harry?
Here's our version:


Or "Vertigo", on the same album. That one's from...Vertigo.
I guess we have a lot.
"Citta Violenta" is on our Volume I.
A lot of Elfman stuff
We do different arrangements of a few Juan Garcia Esquivel tunes as well, but those aren't yet recorded.

 

[bassrich]

Tiny bubbles

 

[AndyPanda]

I used to do Oingo Boingo covers from the earliest albums (when they were still somewhat obscure) but here is a tune I did a cover of - something that I'd be surprised if anyone had ever heard of (ah, the 80's):

 

[sandman357]

Duke Jupiter, obscure, but a drinking crowd likes it

 

[Duder]

Here's one from my VERY FIRST PUBLIC GIG (open-mic at an ice cream place - they let my duo play three songs, and this was our second - and they cut us off before we finished the third). You can see me staring at my neck almost the entire time. The is an old 60's song called "Phantasmagoria in Two" by Tim Buckley, a somewhat obscure artist who died of an overdose at age 28. He's more famous for being the father of musician Jeff Buckley, who also died too young. Here's the original, and mine:

My favorite song by Tim Buckley! Well done!

 

[smileybassman]

I also get requests at every single gig to play "Dead Skunk". I'm fairly sure that's what's gonna be on my headstone- the guy who played Dead Skunk.

 

[9M2E]

I will dare by the replacements, lipstick vogue and I don't want to go to Chelsea by Elvis Costello, pretty boys by Joe Jackson, old friend by rancid to name a few my old cover band snuck in there.

 

[God's Favorite Bass]

"The Facts of Life" TV show theme song...punk...at break Richard speed.

 

[Bassman822]

"Chiquita from Chi-wah-wah", originally recorded by Chris Connor and/or Ella Fitzgerald!