Most obscure covers your band plays

[roccobass]

Just one more to the thread......Did anybody else have Earache My Eye in their set list besides us?
(by Cheech and Chong for the nubes)

 

[rasicci]

Sure Know Something- Kiss

Have to admit,people seem to love it.

 

[McFarlin]

Most of what we play might qualify as obscure covers (see signature), but I'll say "Space Patrol" by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra.

Or maybe the theme from Hitchcock's Vertigo.

Or the theme from Dead Alive.

Or maybe the theme from Citta Violenta.

Magnum Force?

"Backstrokin'" and "Secret Song" by Mr. Bungle

"Temptation (In 3 Movements)" by Juan Garcia Esquivel

Depends on one's idea of "obscure", I guess.

 

[Hotblack]

Discipline - King Crimson

 

[Matthew Fisher]

This is as obscure as we've gotten so far in my 50s rock 'n roll band:

Stagger Lee (Lloyd Price, 1959)

I'm working on them!

 

[Spent]

Tunes by Hermano and Kyuss. The vast majority thought they were originals, but it was awesome when someone recognized them.

 

[PlanetNewJersey]

My band does video game covers sometimes, so I think that's a bit obscure in general. Green Hill Zone gets a lot crowd reaction, as does Mortal Kombat.

 

[waveman]

Say what you will -Fastway

I love that song

Ours :

Hurt So Bad - Susan Tedeschi

 

[carsbybigd]

Obscure:
B-A-B-Y
Carla Thomas - One of the Fillies in the Stax stable

Murder in my Heart for the Judge
Moby Grape

Not obscure but mostly forgotten:
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Human Beinz (Which is their cover of the refrain of the original Isley Bros. song of the same name)
So, we're doing a cover of a cover

Killing Floor
Electric Flag
To tell ya how old this song is, the beginning of the song has a snippet of the current president speaking,
Lyndon B. Johnson

+5 for the Moby Grape , my older brother played them all the time in the 60's

 

[pglaser01]

Man in a box - Alice In Chains

We also do Man in the Box

Other ones we do no one else tries around here...

Hey Man Nice Shot-Filter
Breed-Nirvana
Say Hello to Heaven- Temple of The Dog
You-Candlebox
Tribute-Tenacious D

 

[SLO Surfer]

Toxic - Britney Spears
Jockey Full of Bourbon - Tom Waits
Buona Sera - Louis Prima

 

[nixdad]

We do Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da by The Beatles and Laid by James. May not be the most obscure, but I don't see a ton of bands doing them. Hell I didn't even see a Beatles cover band do Ob-La-Di.

We do - almost every performance. That, and a ton of others.

Then again, Beatles is ALL we do!

 

[nixdad]

We used to do Smoke from a Distant Fire. Had a singer who just nailed it.

I've always liked the bass line in that tune - nice choice!

 

[nixdad]

My son's band Saloon No. 12 does some cool obscure tunes, including:

Valerie - The Zutons
Cult of Personality - Living Color
The Real Me - The Who
Hey Bulldog - The Beatles (although they do it more like Toad the Wet Sprocket)
Since I've Been Living You - Led Zeppelin
I Should Have Known It - Tom Petty
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo

 

[waynobass]

"Monkey Magic," the theme of an 80's Japanese TV show.

 

[10cc]

The Ocean - not your typical Zep cover.

Or Velvet Underground.

 

[10cc]

We don't do obscure covers, as we don't see the point.

You should think about it. The only cover bands that get more than a walk away from me are the ones that go the obscurity route. I can't be the only one. Or am I?

 

[10cc]

"Holy Muscle of Love" by Alice Cooper.

Hell yes!

 

[Chad Bennett]

Maybe not too obscure for the genre, but little known by a lot of people:
Slaid Cleaves- Hard to Believe
Doug Sahm- Give Back the key to my heart
Townes Van Zandt- White Freightliner Blues

 

[10cc]

Every time we've done this one. Which was only twice in a few years it was hit.