LB Big Yellow Taxi

[David A]

Hello

Can someone, and I know it’s been posted before, Lindsey’s version of Big Yellow Taxi please, as I am making a LB Compilation CD

And maybe any other LB tid bits would be great as well

Thanks in advance

David

[SadAngel86]

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You'll have to convert it to an MP3 using something like http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

[Jondalar]

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You'll have to convert it to an MP3 using something like http://www.youtube-mp3.org/

I love this!!!!!!!!! thank you!

[Lindsfan]

BIG YELLOW TAXI is the bottom link of this post:

http://ledge.fleetwoodmac.net/showpost.php?p=975118&postcount=1

[AbbiJoy78]

OhmyGod. I'm ashamed to admit that just NOW was my first time hearing this, and it was a GREAT present today!:woohoo: This song never really did much for me, but I LOOOOVE this, and what he did with it. What prompted this recording, and when was it from? Tell me all about it!!:D

[elle]

this is as great of a cover and adds to the song as Here Comes the Sun is horrible and takes away from that song.

imo, of course. :laugh:

[lbfan]

OhmyGod. I'm ashamed to admit that just NOW was my first time hearing this, and it was a GREAT present today!:woohoo: This song never really did much for me, but I LOOOOVE this, and what he did with it. What prompted this recording, and when was it from? Tell me all about it!!:D

Going from memory. This cover was recorded about 10 years ago and was supposed to be part of a Joni Mitchell tribute album that got shelved for a number of years. When it resurfaced, the LB cover was not included. There was only a snippet available for the longest time, but eventually a Ledgie provided the entire track (maybe 5 years ago). I think Mick played drums on this track.

[Dex]

^ Just as well it wasn't included. That tribute album was plain bad. Not good company for LB to be in.

Although I'm still not 100% sure I like this cover either. The original is just too special to me, maybe. Interesting to listen to though! Thanks for posting, SadAngel86! (And whichever Ledgie posted here it 5 years ago!)

[michelej1]

this is as great of a cover and adds to the song as Here Comes the Sun is horrible and takes away from that song.

imo, of course. :laugh:

Chili has funny things to say about Here Comes the Sun.

Michele

[shackin'up]

Chili has funny things to say about Here Comes the Sun.

Michele

I love it. love it. Love it.

[chiliD]

Chili has funny things to say about Here Comes the Sun.

Michele

Oh, c'mon...I just ate dinner (late)...don't spoil it by mentioning Lindsey's abomination of George Harrison's magnum opus.

[AbbiJoy78]

Whaaaa? There is another song I don't have? "here comes the sun?" I am intrigued. Someone give it to me as a b-day present! Haha:woohoo:

[SadAngel86]

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@AbbiJoy78 Was it this one? Not sure....still new to everything that's LB.:shrug:

[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.

[lbfan]

Above list does not include covers of other FM songs, such as Oh Well, Hypnotized, Green Manalishi,etc. and possibly others that Lindsey may have sung lead on. I know LB performed I Want You on Mick's solo album, but I don't know if LB wrote that song.

[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]

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. :shrug: :p :sorry:

[WildHearted]

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. :shrug: :p :sorry:

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. :lol:

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]

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]

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 :p 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 :shrug:

[AbbiJoy78]

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]

Blue Monday:

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

And for the record, I like Lindsey's Here Comes the Sun cover :p 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 :shrug:

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.