Van Halen - Bluegrass Variations...

[CountryShawn]

This you may find very interesting -

John Jorgenson has even teamed up with David Lee Roth to do a couple of these cuts.....

Actually not that bad - quite listenable....

http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7007352/a/Strummin'+With+The+Devil:+The+Southern+Side+Of+Van.htm

Shawn

 

[chickenpicker]

I wonder if Hayseed Dixie could claim royalties for having the idea in the first place? (if indeed it was them?)

Pretty interesting tracks anyway - Eruption on banjo? Great!

You might like to check out Paul Anka's "Rock Swings" CD - Rock standards turned into swing songs - very good.

 

[MartinLesCaster]

very interesting and yeah amazingly not that bad

 

[Nub]

That kind of follows in the footsteps of the "Pickin' on..." CD's of a few years ago, although they didn't have any vocals. I have Pickin' On Santana, and I love it.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/series/-/89638/ref=pd_sr_ec_ser_m/103-6733150-9423832

 

[BLACKCAT69]

How about Luther Wright and the Wrongs "Rebuild the Wall" album. Brilliant!

 

[geddyleedog]

Thanks for the link. It looks and sounds pretty cool.

 

[Vincent Caster]

Hey

Don't forget "Van Hayride" with our own Jim Campilongo!

 

[Stiles]

I wonder if Hayseed Dixie could claim royalties for having the idea in the first place? (if indeed it was them?)

Pretty interesting tracks anyway - Eruption on banjo? Great!

You might like to check out Paul Anka's "Rock Swings" CD - Rock standards turned into swing songs - very good.

LONG before Hayseed, the Bad Livers started the rock-meets-banjo thing. Wish they we're still around...

 

[BLACKCAT69]

The Bad Livers were great. In the same vein check out Splitlip Rayfield.

http://www.splitliprayfield.com/

Sadly the guitar player has recently been diagnosed with esophageal cancer.

 

[collinsman]

I wonder how Tony Rice licks would sound on electric ?

 

[Stiles]

The Bad Livers were great. In the same vein check out Splitlip Rayfield.

http://www.splitliprayfield.com/

I know them well. We we're on tour together in '99. But the Bad Livers would kick all of our asses put together!

 

[Steveinthesticks]

This you may find very interesting -

John Jorgenson has even teamed up with David Lee Roth to do a couple of these cuts.....

Actually not that bad - quite listenable....

http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7007352/a/Strummin'+With+The+Devil:+The+Southern+Side+Of+Van.htm

Shawn

The Austin Lounge Lizards have been doing a great blue grass cover of Pink Floyds Dark side of the Moon. I think the first time I saw them do was at least ten years ago at the Kerrville Folk Fest.

There is a great video on google video of a British Ukalele orchastra covering Nirvana's Teen Spirit, really cool in a very quirky brit sort of way, not sure wether Kurt was smilin' or spinning at the thought of 7 ukes and an acuostic bass covering his tune.

Steve

 

[nick_g]

While we're on the subject, here's a great cd
dub side of the moon

A reggae version of dark side of the moon.

 

[CountryShawn]

I think what makes the Van Halen bluegrass stuff interesting is that it's David Lee Roth actually singing on a few of them.

 

[GlennLewis]

and lest we forget......

The Mighty Wind/Spinal Tap guys doing the country/folk version of the Rolling Stones "Start Me Up".

Ayup, that one belongs here sure enough.

 

[Honga Man]

I'm buyin' it.

Call me a sucker for this type of marketing but Van Halen was the soundtrack of my youth and I love country music that isn't done by "pure" country artists...Stones, Byrds, Eagles, Neil Young, etc.

While I'll love it and be pickin' on acoustic guitar learning these tunes, I'll bet my wife will hate this album even more than the first two Dread Zeppelin albums.

Thanks for the link, Shawn.

 

[teledude66]

Acoustic Syndicate????

They weren't really rock meets banjo but they did a lot of Dead tunes and some WHO they are broken up now, but man they were a great group kinda jam grass or new grass ( some more names for the "aaaah genres" thread. No banjo but also "Tater" does some heavy bluegrass covers. Both these bands are from right around here in Shelby N.C.

 

[guit145]

Random Thought...

Remember that SNL skit for the "Smidt's Gay" beer? They used VH's "Beautiful Girls" for the scene around the pool. Now, what if they used a bluegrass version and...

Nevermind.

 

[cowboytwang]

So anyone chatch David Lee Roth on the "Tonite Show with Jay Leno" doing "Jump".
His back up band was "The John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band" with John Jorgenson on mandolin, Rob Ickes on his Scheerhorn Resophonic Guitar, Brad Davis on guitar, Scott Vestal on banjo(one of my favorite banjo players), Charlie Chadwick on bass, I don't know who the other guitar player was and it looked like Glen Duncan on fiddle.

So for the 6 6 6 show they did a song from the "Strummin' with the Devil" album.