Hello music lovers! 🎵🎧🎵
I usually start listening to music early in the morning on my way to work. About 35 to 40 minutes usually. Well, a couple of days ago, on Thursday last week, I was driving, as usual, listening to a local radio station and I heard a very well-known song (I'll tell you which one later), a cover, and I couldn't figure out who the artist was. And I got the idea for today's #threetunetuesday, started by @ablaze. Covers and adaptations.
We probably all agree that the originals are the best, but sometimes musicians, either lacking ideas or creativity or wanting to do someone an honor, perform songs that are not their own and adapt them in their own way.
And even young people who are just learning to play different instruments start with covers.
the btw: I also played bass guitar when I was a teenager (because it was the easiest thing to learn without musical training) and the first song we played in a band was Smoke on the water by Deep Purple :) 😁
OK, I'll come back to the subject, which is covers of well-known songs that have stuck in my mind.
Beta Hector - Angie
Well, I was listening to this song that day on my commute to work and I couldn't find the artist, but I finally found him :) How? I know that radios make playlists and I found an online tool, maybe it will come in handy, OnlineRadio Toolbox, where I found my local radio (Val 202) and the playlist for that day and by the airtime, I found out who was the band who cover Angie.
I had never heard of Beta Hector, but I quickly found him on the web. It's the band behind musician, producer, and DJ Simon Hill. The singer is Dione Charles, well known UK soul singer. Not to put too fine a point on it, at that moment in the car, in a slow-moving motorcade (and I'm late for work...), I thought it was an extraordinary cover of the Rolling Stones classic Angie.
Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp - Venus In Furs
You probably all know Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp, the former, in my opinion, one of the best rock guitarists still alive, the latter a big movie star. What possessed them to come of age and cover Venus In Furs, the classic of the Velvet Underground, the controversial band that made rock music history, especially alternative, modern art, and much more.
What do I know? Probably money and fun.
I like the cover, it's very appropriate for the times we live in (released in July this year), I've featured it on #newtunes, even though some music critics claim that Johnny Depp is not exactly a good singer...
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Every time I listen to this song I get chills. "Hurt" is a song by the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, written by Trent Reznor, in 1995, and the song received Grammy Award for best rock song in 1996. Johnny Cash, a country singer, and songwriter covers it in 2002 with a help of producer Rick Rubin, seven months before he died.
Album "American IV: The Man Comes Around" where he covered songs by contemporary rock artists; among his most notable covers were "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails, "Rusty Cage" by Soundgarden, and "Personal Jesus" by Depeche Mode. The video for "Hurt" won many awards.
Trent Reznor praised Cash's interpretation of the song for its "sincerity and meaning", going so far as to say "that song isn't mine anymore" (Wikipedia)
In conclusion:
Basically, there are a lot of covers, new musicians always recycle something old at the beginning. This, the adaptation and interpretation of old, forgotten tunes, is always a kind of spiral that goes higher and higher and leads to creativity that gives birth to new qualities.
Kirby Ferguson, an independent video director, has (in my opinion) explained this very well, if anyone is interested you can watch his video Everything is a Remix.
Thanks for your attention.
The cover image is mine, created in NightCafe AI Creator and edited with Photoshop.
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