Willie just played here a couple of weeks ago. I didn’t go (can’t stand C&W) but those who did said he had to talk his way through most of his songs. The old throat is mostly gone.
You were probably a big Archies fan, too. I can’t tolerate ABBA. About the closest I could ever get to that kind of stuff was Heart doing Dreamboat Annie.
Its interesting to me that when Pat Boone turned over his heavy metal leaf that he didn’t attempt any Frank Zappa; nothing too heavy, maybe Zombie Wooff or something easy like that.
Hmmm. From what I hear I doubt whether you could have got the owld candelabra man interested in schoolgirls - not even raunchy Catholic ones (of the kind I consorted happily with meself in my misspent youth).
The Flaming Lips have covered Kylie Minogueologuyehe ‘s (how do you spell that) "I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Head.’
When I was a teenager, 2 friends of mine and I briefly had a garage band . I could do a decent Johnny Cash impression. So, the whole premise was Johnny Cash covers Black Sabbath. (“What is this that stands before me?” “Hello, I am IRON MAN!”) It was good fun. But then, years later, Cash, of course, did so some unlikely covers, most notably the afore-mentioned “Hurt.” That recording is WONDERFUL and the video is, as I have proclaimed before, the finest music video ever created.
