Just in case you never fully grokked how good and innovative a guitarist Jimi Hendrix was, due to device modification and distortion of the electric guitar maybe obscuring such an enlightenment at times... Here's Corey Heuvel once
again (and
again), who can play his style to a T on the acoustic guitar (and sing to boot).
The studio original is here:
https://youtu.be/iaE4s3m8UOQ
A behind the scenes dialogue about it is here:
https://youtu.be/ENXDNjROZSM
Corey Heuvel: cover of "Little Wing" - Jimi Hendrix ...
https://youtu.be/Xf7_iWWRb_U
Ufret has a current 132,000 subscribers for a reason. His voice is remarkably versatile (seems to adapt to the style of any _X_ singer), and his guitar has a very robust sound. Rhythmically fills the background, even if it's largely chord accompaniment much of the time. (There are riffs and instrumental work, but not wall-to-wall like, say, Corey Heuvel. This song is arguably an exception in the "more" sense.)
The original is here:
https://youtu.be/rm9coqlk8fY
The "Guns N' Roses" cover is here:
https://youtu.be/f8OHybVhQwc
Fernando Ufret: cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Bob Dylan (Guns N' Roses version) ...
https://youtu.be/Vs3izMXiwWg
The sixth installment of the so-called philosophical song series. The previous was here:
https://www.scivillage.com/thread-2918-p...l#pid46536
What's Up?
Like "
Mr. Jones", at first glance this might be a stretch even in the everyday person, non-academic school of thought camp. But "brotherhood of man" and "revolution" are directly mentioned, so intellectualized radicals do have something to project upon.
The feel-good, saccharine quality of the song is a big reason why it became and remains globally popular.
However, bear in mind that songwriter/singer Linda Perry hated the studio demanded presentation and performance of it in that context, as well as the rest of the album:
"I’m not supposed to tell you this and my publicist said to me ‘please don’t say this’ [...] I didn’t like the record at all. ... I did love ‘What’s Up?’ but I hated the production. When I heard our record for the first time, I cried. It didn’t sound like me. [...] I wanted to say, ‘We’re a f#cking, bad-ass cool band. We’re not that fluffy, polished bull#hit that you’re listening to.’ It was really difficult." --Linda Perry Forms New Band, Admits She Never Liked 4 Non Blondes
The original is here:
https://youtu.be/6NXnxTNIWkc
An acoustic version by Linda Perry
is here, but it involves multiple instruments.
Below is arguably the best,
minimalist vocal cover of it I could find -- yet it's not like I dug to the very deepest bowels of the results. (Well, there is
this one with Linda Perry herself playing a lone acoustic guitar and Pink singing, but non-celebrity or lesser celebrity covers are usually my embed game here, if possible.)
The Running Mates: cover of "What's Up?" - 4 Non Blondes ...
https://youtu.be/ntM5jkJwI6s
Below is Quevedo's solo guitar instrumental version of it. The melody part stands out as articulately as it did in her cover of Wonderwall -- as clearly as if those notes were being sung or played on a piano.
Gabriella Quevedo: cover of "What's Up?" - 4 Non Blondes ...
https://youtu.be/9D7cJMzK4G8
That original version of "What's Up?" has a billion views on Youtube. I see I'm not the only one in love with that song!