Hi All, sounds mighty fine to me.

Rik

Thanks to everyone for the nice comments. Also, a special thanks to Ed for asking me to be on this. I hadn't recorded anything in quite awhile, and at our lunch in L.A., Ed mentioned he might want to take a crack at this song someday. I don't thing either of us thought it would be this soon. Along with the vocal tracks, I also sent him 4 electric guitar tracks and an acoustic track. I can hear most of them weaving in and out with James's track, and it sounds really nice to me. Thanks again everybody. Randy

I think if you are going to cover a song, that you should at least have the courtesy to the original artist to at least listen to their version. It's a matter of respect, even if you aren't going to sound the same.

Have these people done something to offend you personally? Because that's how it looks... You should lighten up a little pete. Nobody died? And no one said anything about anyone's mother. And an argument can be made that they do sound pretty good. So to argue too aggressively against that is to present either an unbalanced/unstable (FROM ME!?) image, or one that is vindictive for some reason. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuna_matata

jamesg1213

The Band19


However, I also appreciate people who do covers, and add "something original?" to the cover. Again not having heard the original, I am not making a comparison either way. 

Thanks for that Robby. If I get asked to provide a solo, I like to try and put something of myself into it, so I didn't pay much attention to the original in this case, whereas with the Pink Floyd spoof, doing the 'Money' solo note for note was the only way to go.

pistolpete


I think if you are going to cover a song, that you should at least have the courtesy to the original artist to at least listen to their version. It's a matter of respect, even if you aren't going to sound the same.

Mr. PP,

I happen to know that both Randy and I have seen John Hiatt live at least five time each and I know we both own CDs by him. Given that this song is one of his staples (IOW, I've seen him 8 times live and he has never once NOT played this song) I'm pretty sure Randy has heard it live more than once too. I also know that James and Randy are fans of JH and therefore even if they've never played the song in a band both jumped at the opportunity to play the song on this collab (out of being fans of JH's work).

As I see it, you seem to have taken James highlighted (bold in red) statement above as "never heard the song" when in fact I'm pretty positive he has since he asked me (before providing any tracks and hearing the project at that point) "who's doing the delayed guitar?" Well, did James ever listen to the song? UH DUH-UHHH!!!! How would he know about the delayed guitar?

Bottom line is, we all three have listened to the song (at least once but I'm sure quite a few times each) and decided to do a different take on it. I did not play any of the original bass lines in the song, by choice. The drums are not the same, by choice. We wind the song on chorus soloing, by choice, but the original song ends on verse soloing. The original song fades in the soloing and we end on struck chord, by choice. I believe it's call interpretation.

I'd like to suggest if you want to hear an exact cover of the song HERE IT IS but DO NOT go to John Hiatt concert expecting to hear an exact cover as I can tell you I have heard him do it differently EVERY TIME I have seen him. Dang his eyes, what's he thinking?

Earlier you commented on the production. I'll not agree or disagree. You're opinion is yours to share. And I respect that you shared it.

But when you twist facts, with no knowledge, such as implying some (if not all) of us "having not listened to a song" that's just plain rude, IMHO.

Yeah, it's a good thing that it's a forum? <<>>

The Band19


Have these people done something to offend you personally? Because that's how it looks... You should lighten up a little pete. Nobody died? And no one said anything about anyone's mother. And an argument can be made that they do sound pretty good. So to argue too aggressively against that is to present either an unbalanced/unstable (FROM ME!?) image, or one that is vindictive for some reason. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuna_matata

Yeah, a few of us seem like the flame to his moth. Best thing is to ignore him, otherwise you end up with a thread full of nonsense.

jamesg1213

The Band19


Have these people done something to offend you personally? Because that's how it looks... You should lighten up a little pete. Nobody died? And no one said anything about anyone's mother. And an argument can be made that they do sound pretty good. So to argue too aggressively against that is to present either an unbalanced/unstable (FROM ME!?) image, or one that is vindictive for some reason. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakuna_matata

Yeah, a few of us seem like the flame to his moth. Best thing is to ignore him, otherwise you end up with a thread full of nonsense.

Well said. Advice taken.

Hey Baps,

 Mr. H gave one of my buddies a perfectly good guitar once.

 We still got it hanging out if you ever need the authentic vibe of a Korean Epiphone Les Paul.


 :-)

 No kidding.



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Apparently you guys are confused as to who has heard the cover or not. As for Mr. H's Les Paul, hopefully he signed it and you got a picture of him with it.