Constructive Criticism

i absolutely love this

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do you feel it's great, alright, or turns you off? and naturally if so, why

It's a fun version - especially when you know the original. If I hadn't had an old relationship with the Shad's version, I doubt that I would've listened to it twice. Brian is a great player though.

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Tear it to shreds, why not :lol: Tele?

It's a fun version - especially when you know the original. If I hadn't had an old relationship with the Shad's version, I doubt that I would've listened to it twice. Brian is a great player though.

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I love all the synchronized movements and glossy suits.
The song itself is alright, both versions

It's not great but it's 'fun'?

You've both hit a nail on the head

personally, i think i like fun more than great

Can't hold a candle to the original. Horribly cheesy sound and he didn't do a favor to the repetitive riff by playing it even longer.
Fun is a good word to describe the original, or charming.

The Brian May version is a hideous, dog's breakfast.

I thought they were both great, two different eras two different interpretations.

Pretty good for an astrophysicist.

This is by far my favorite version of FBI.Raw Rock and Roll by a true Master.
Rats,still can't figure out how to post a youtube link!

This is by far my favorite version of FBI.Raw Rock and Roll by a true Master.
Rats,still can't figure out how to post a youtube link!

click on the youtube button in the 'reply to thread' box and copy and paste the series of characters after 'v=' into the gap between [YOUTUBE]

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far out version

someone once said, maybe Fuseli, there's no invention only re-invention

i think i think i agree

I like the covers just fine, but it's just not the same without the distinctive whammy work.

Speaking of Hank Marvin, can anyone recommend a Shadows album? I know that Marvin, as one of the first major UK Strat players, was a big influence on one of my all-time favorite guitarists -- Mark Knopfler* -- but my Shadows knowledge is woefully limited. What should I listen to?


*I think Hank was a pretty big influence on my other rock hero, David Gilmour, so I'm doubly interested in the Shadows -- and doubly embarrassed that I haven't heard more of them.

Speaking of Hank Marvin, can anyone recommend a Shadows album? I know that Marvin, as one of the first major UK Strat players, was a big influence on one of my all-time favorite guitarists -- Mark Knopfler* -- but my Shadows knowledge is woefully limited. What should I listen to?

This should about cover it I guess ...

http://www.amazon.com/50-Golden-Greats-Shadows/dp/B00004U9MR/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1342596187&sr=1-2&keywords=the+shadows

..oops.

This should about cover it I guess ...

http://www.amazon.com/50-Golden-Greats-Shadows/dp/B00004U9MR/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1342596187&sr=1-2&keywords=the+shadows
Thanks! :grin:

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yeah pretty sure i was playing something like just a hour or so ago. yep. the shadows type, mixed with some of that other, first, one. yeah, i don't care for the first at all now...unless it's holdsworth or ...something. all happy now :mrgreen: am i.

I quite like Dr. May's take on the tune (N.B. not "song"), which captures a lot of the spirit of the original and adds a leavening of May-isms. Not so the IMO rather horrid Ronson version.

BTW, I'm at present looking at being both "Bruce" and "Cliff" ("Briff"?) in a Shads-type tribute band that's re-forming. Felt a bit of a twerp at my age singing "The Young Ones" at a first rehearsal last week, but it and the rest of what we ran through (including "FBI") sounded good. Seems promising so far.

Thanks Tony, beautifully put

Yeah, to me it's not about originality, as i said re-invention

nobody invented anything

You may enjoy this. Song starts at 2.07. Note the thumb over the top A note played By Hank and Skunk.

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yep.

That's pretty cool. I dig stuff like that.

Cover songs are an interesting dilemma-you have to show respect for the song by copying enough of it for identification purposes yet still bring something new to the table-else why do it at all? I think Mick's take succeeds more on finding the balance-more about the song-whereas Brian's is a bit more self-directed. But that could be a live band vs. studio thing too.

click on the youtube button in the 'reply to thread' box and copy and paste the series of characters after 'v=' into the gap between [YOUTUBE]

[YOUTUBE]_x82WOBP7tY

far out version

someone once said, maybe Fuseli, there's no invention only re-invention

i think i think i agree

Thanks Fuzz

Without cover tunes you wouldn't have folk music or blues grass, would you ?

yep. the same thing can't be done twice, even if you wanted to, that's why tape recorders, photocopiers etc, were invented; to prove even a machine can't do it. The nature of art is to influence, not to reproduce, for want of a better way of saying whatever i'm trying to say.

& Great clip Chez