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Haha CC!! ^ Completely agree, not a fan of that nasal, synthesized manufactured singing voice. Not really a fan either, of mainstream pop although there are some catchy beats that will stick in my mind against my will. lol

Sorry, didn’t mean to delete the video - I was glancing back on my phone last night and wanted to add to my post, backspaced the link and thought I’d deal with it in the morning.

Here’s the cover that is far slower than the original. You may like it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Zugm6S_Mcw

My ideal conception or preference for the size of a band is 4 members: A guitarist, a bass (guitar) player, a drummer, and a front man/woman. I don't hate additional guitars, keyboards, strings, horns and the rest -- but I want the minimalism, where the individual expertise can stand out, as well as the challenges of playing a wide range of music.

Granted, reducing it to three would be even better in terms of such wickedness, by having one or two of the instrument players also being the primary vocalist(s). But not being saddled with an instrument (full time, anyway) frees the singer up to engage in all sorts of strutting, gesticulations, theatrics, or choreographed antics that might amuse the crowd.

You definitely want the latter along with the rest of the competency if you're a cover band, because the people at whatever event slash occasion actually do want to be entertained. They're not fans and groupies attending just to be in the same building or outdoor concert with their billboard chart idols. Thereby arguably not caring how sloppily or dead-tired from touring their legends might play for an hour.

So given the above, it's easy to figure out why the guys below stood out to me. I mean, who else would be remotely intrigued by a professional cover band that could be playing on a cruise line ship, at a business party, a wedding, a sporting event, a club, etc? 

Reptyll can play the whole gamut from hard rock to easygoing stuff, and they do it well. The reason I'm largely posting instances of the former is because a good part of the latter seemed to be sung in French (because that's where they abide), under their other name of "Sharewood". (I guess that title scares their prospective light-pop and country music clients less than Reptyll le crocodile)

I included their Led Zeppelin cover because LZ was an archetypal band of four, too. The Fab Four (Beatles) don't count for this template because they had two guitars and really no frontman. (Yeah, yeah -- the singer for Reptyll has a guitar in one vid -- but used sparingly. So that she's at liberty to perform satire most of the time.)

Born to be wild - Reptyll cover of Steppenwolf https://youtu.be/7hMLZ0UmGiI


Rock n roll - Reptyll cover of Led Zeppelin https://youtu.be/JxLKm8Rghl0


Tainted Love - Reptyll cover of Imelda May, Gloria Jones, Soft Cell, etc https://youtu.be/WxFm-5LBnpc

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Reptyll le crocodile
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgTvEka...wFw/videos

Sharewood74
https://www.youtube.com/user/Sharewood74/video

^Love that song. For the longest time I thought it was Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star. Probably came out around the same time.

You're not alone. lol

On YouTube, ''Mazzy Star'' has been mistakenly tagged as the artist on a few ''Wild Horses'' videos, sung by The Sundays. Love Mazzy Star, too - definitely hear the similarities.

Quevedo's latest vid released near the end of last week.

I first learned about artificial harmonics years ago in some old tablature books of Chet Atkins's arrangements, that my brother had.

Quevedo employs those in this Bon Jovi cover. They're the "bell" like notes, whether artificial or the "natural" ones located at their usual fretboard spots. 

Gabriella Quevedo: cover of "It's My Life" (Bon Jovi) https://youtu.be/dIladgomlDA


In comparison, below is a retrospective grunge cover she did 10 years ago, when she was maybe 14 or 15. Note that she was a using a thumb-pick and Alaska piks back in those days, rather than fingernails.

Remember that Quevedo, as even a teen solo instrumental artist, was doing everything: Playing the melody against those power chords[1] and bass patterns, any additional riffs, the harmonics of the original (not every player includes those), along with regular chords or fragments of them. Here's Maxwell Hugh's humorously exaggerated take on what happens (yeah, right, sure) when a guitarist does that. Go to around the 2:20 mark of the video if you want to bypass the preliminary skit of ineptness: https://youtu.be/2bUPLRq54nY

Gabriella Quevedo (2011): cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Nirvana) https://youtu.be/bWjvw0hPl_A


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[1] "Power chords" are nothing more than two-note harmonic intervals composed of a root and a fifth, though you can add their octaves to increase the number of notes/strings. You can use sixth harmonic intervals, too -- those aforementioned, old Chet Atkins tab books featured them in one arrangement, where he played the whole sequence of a melody based on them.

CC - I’ve posted this before and thought it would serve as a good refresher since you brought up Fleetwood Mac, recently. They’re a good cover artist in general, imo.

^Man, she started off so good, with her own take on Stevie Nicks. But then she goes off on her own thing and lost me.

(Aug 20, 2021 10:36 PM)Leigha Wrote: [ -> ]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8MFHw4RiYrY

CC - I’ve posted this before and thought it would serve as a good refresher since you brought up Fleetwood Mac, recently. They’re a good cover artist in general, imo.

Great minimalism, with good audio equipment. I'm keeping that as the representative of that song (cover-wise).

I'm often startled by how difficult it is track down a good duo or a single performer for a particular song. I mean, the vocals might be good but the sound will be faint and washed-out; or the guitar playing might be good but the singing is lousy not sufficient.

Yes. Actually going down that dreaded road, here...

With the LZ song that is second only to the main riff of Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water" in terms of being banned in public places [wink]. Due to both the monotony of its rate of occurrence and the frequent ineptness of the performances: Wayne's World movie clip.

Many solo instrumental, non-gimmick covers of STH stop short. They don't seem to even bother trying to replicate its incrementally accelerating stages, that might be considered to necessitate at least another player if not a band to successfully pull it off. Instead, choosing to hover around the opening medieval folk phase in pace or arrangement, to avoid embarrassment.

But this is (once again) championship guitarist Lucas Imbiriba. Who damns the torpedoes and goes all the way beyond the seven-minute mark. Taught by various Mediterranean and Latin American schools slash masters of the instrument. 

Regardless of any varying subjective opinions about the results, give Imbiriba an "A+" for effort. Sungha Jung is the first person in the comments section to laud the cover (he's at the top of it, anyway). And ILCR had no hesitancy in using Imbiriba's video to retrospectively showcase STH. (RELATED: Imbiriba's tutorial video, P1)

Lucas Imbiriba: cover of "Stairway to Heaven" (Led Zeppelin) https://youtu.be/o0U3mVKLTOk

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The following is an example of a gimmick version, though by no means do I intend that as derogatory (all the power to innovation and resourcefulness):

Luca Stricagnoli: cover of "Stairway To Heaven" (Led Zeppelin) https://youtu.be/8bawRnTYGb8