LB Big Yellow Taxi

[AbbiJoy78]

Thank you SadAngel and lbfan!!! I think the only one I have not heard on that list is "Blue Monday"??

Here Comes The Sun....wow that is SO Lindsey...like he could probably just take anyone's song and turn it into that. Even if he never opened his mouth on there to sing, you'd KNOW that was him..all those classic guitar things he does. There were moments in that song that reminded me of other songs of his. In one specific part I even heard elements of his live version of Shut Us Down. When he would go "as loooong as I can". And then when he would yell as "LOOooOOOoooOOONG", LOL it's too hard to explain on here.

[lbfan]

If you watch the video of Here Comes The Sun, performed in tribute to George Harrison who passed away earlier that year (this was a New Year's Eve special), there is a hole in LB's guitar. The ABC network executives heard LB's planned version and tried to cancel his appearance, at which point LB threw his guitar across the room. The network executives later acquiesced, and LB performed as scheduled. Peter Jennings introduced LB by saying it was his version of the song. Temper, temper.

[elle]

Originally Posted by lbfan

If you watch the video of Here Comes The Sun, performed in tribute to George Harrison who passed away earlier that year (this was a New Year's Eve special), there is a hole in LB's guitar. The ABC network executives heard LB's planned version and tried to cancel his appearance, at which point LB threw his guitar across the room. The network executives later acquiesced, and LB performed as scheduled. Peter Jennings introduced LB by saying it was his version of the song. Temper, temper.

love that story, it's pretty hilarious. still as much as it pains me, i'd have to side with those network execs on this particular song interpretation. it has all typical LB elements that we may know and love like Abbi said, but they are all used somehow soooo wrongly for that one.

i generally have great love for his covers. i think Love Minus Zero and To Try For The Sun add so much to those songs, for example... but Here Comes The Sun... uhm, no.

[WildHearted]

Originally Posted by elle

love that story, it's pretty hilarious. still as much as it pains me, i'd have to side with those network execs on this particular song interpretation. it has all typical LB elements that we may know and love like Abbi said, but they are all used somehow soooo wrongly for that one.

i generally have great love for his covers. i think Love Minus Zero and To Try For The Sun add so much to those songs, for example... but Here Comes The Sun... uhm, no.

Here Comes The Sun just seems uninspired to me - like he just took his typical fingerpicking stuff and threw it under the song with no particular real rationale behind it. And I don't like the way it sounds, so there's that.

I love his covers of Big Yellow Taxi, She Smiled Sweetly, and To Try For The Sun, though.

[AbbiJoy78]

That's kinda what I meant...like he can take anyone's song, and just add those things that HE does, and then boom it's a Lindsey cover Meanwhile the rest of the song gets pushed to the background. At least in this one. But what he did with it, I feel, could be tacked on to any song. And then it sounds like typical linds

[SadAngel86]

Originally Posted by lbfan

Here are the songs that Lindsey has covered that I am aware of (solo, with
FM, bootlegs, and live):
September Song - L&O
A Satisfied Mind - L&O
It Was I - L&O
Django - BN
Blue Monday - Mirage Outtakes
Cool Water - B-side
Teen Beat - FM 25 Years
All My Sorrows - OOTC
This Nearly Was Mine - OOTC
Love Minus Zero/No Limit - SYW Deluxe
I Am Waiting - UTS
To Try For The Sun - UTS
Gotta Get Away - GOS Demo
Blue Turns To Gray - GOS Demo
She Smiled Sweetly - GOS Demo
Singer Not The Song - GOS Demo
Blue Letter - FM (not LB solo)
Farmers Daughter - FM
Big Yellow Taxi
Here Comes The Sun - Live TV show
Louie Louie - live radio show

Feel free to add any that I have missed.

Thank you SOO much for this! This is exactly what I was looking for searching through the archives yesterday. Not people's covers of Fleetwood Mac songs, but songs they've covered!

[AbbiJoy78]

Where might I hear Blue Monday?

[Lindsfan]

Originally Posted by AbbiJoy78

Where might I hear Blue Monday?

Blue Monday:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/aeqzhp

And for the record, I like Lindsey's Here Comes the Sun cover The first time I heard it, I was, um...not sure what to make of it. I heard it again, maybe a year later though, and, kind of enjoy it now

[AbbiJoy78]

Originally Posted by lbfan

Here are the songs that Lindsey has covered that I am aware of (solo, with
FM, bootlegs, and live):
September Song - L&O
A Satisfied Mind - L&O
It Was I - L&O
Django - BN
Blue Monday - Mirage Outtakes
Cool Water - B-side
Teen Beat - FM 25 Years
All My Sorrows - OOTC
This Nearly Was Mine - OOTC
Love Minus Zero/No Limit - SYW Deluxe
I Am Waiting - UTS
To Try For The Sun - UTS
Gotta Get Away - GOS Demo
Blue Turns To Gray - GOS Demo
She Smiled Sweetly - GOS Demo
Singer Not The Song - GOS Demo
Blue Letter - FM (not LB solo)
Farmers Daughter - FM
Big Yellow Taxi
Here Comes The Sun - Live TV show
Louie Louie - live radio show

Feel free to add any that I have missed.

Apparently Heartbreak Hotel was covered? On TV or a radio interview??

[PenguinHead]

Originally Posted by Lindsfan

Blue Monday:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/aeqzhp

And for the record, I like Lindsey's Here Comes the Sun cover The first time I heard it, I was, um...not sure what to make of it. I heard it again, maybe a year later though, and, kind of enjoy it now

Same here! I found myself really enjoying the clip posted here. I have never seen it before. This is different, and actually better than the performance from the George Harrison tribute.

I had watched that live on TV, and after the song, the show hosts were surprised, stunned, speechless, and didn't exactly know how to respond to what just hit them. It was quite funny.