A brave cover of a lesser well-known track from what I consider to be their golden era of the early to mid 70's.
There was a cohesive synergy between Alan Lancaster who's bass-lines always seemed to have a lagging 'shuffle' feel to them, John Coghlan was super tight and nailed everything completely together with Rick Parfitt providing the foundation of the guitar wall with Rossi providing simple but effective melodies over the top.
I was there at one of the 'Piledriver' gigs I don't remember where but within a matter of seconds of them starting everyone was standing to their seats heaving to this relentless
'me neh, me nah, me neh, me nah' type rhythm. Every seat in that house was destroyed within the time it took them to play the first track. Not by malice or ill-intent either just the sheer force of a bunch of humanity being instantly whipped up into having a really good time.
They we're an unstoppable force during that time and you could not keep still once they got going. They became more commercially succesful later on but for me by the time 'Rocking all over the World' came out they'd lost 2 thirds of that magic.
This cover reclaims something of that magic they themselves lost years ago, but I'd like to hear a little more cohesion between the component parts, this vocal is also good enough I think giving it some more prominence by use of EQ around the 1k and 3k areas will get it competing with the rest, it's a pretty quiet vocal on the orginal so again I think it's just a case of getting to gel tonally with the rest of the track a little more.
A great attempt though and the performances are cooking.
btw....noisy bugger!...
