Music differently

[handslive]

This post requires explanation, or possibly a time line.  Boing boing linked to a John Scalzi post of Dec 18th.  This post includes a YouTube link to a music video.  Imagine that the Beatles had written and performed Stairway to Heaven in the mid 60s.

That made me laugh (also -- head: spinning).  But if you go down the list of comments in the Scalzi blog post, there's Ozzy Osbourne and Slash performing In My Life.  Damn.  There's a link to Beatallica, who I think I'd heard of but never heard.  Problem solved.

Then there's sort of a jackpot comment in the original blog post with Scalzi replying to someone else.  A link to 101 versions of Stairway to Heaven.  You'll need to roll sanity checks on some of these.  I haven't listened to all of them, but this one caught my ear, by Dixie Power Trio.

I mentioned this to a guy at work (all of it).  When I mentioned Dixie Power Trio, he said, "Have you heard Hayseed Dixie?"  So, now we get to the real purpose of this post.  If you've listened to 70s and 80s metal and never heard of these guys, I'm about to injure your brain.

Highway to Hell (originally by AC/DC)
Ace of Spades (originally by Motorhead)
Walk This Way (originally by Aerosmith)
Hells Bells (originally by AC/DC)
War Pigs (originally by Black Sabbath)
Dirty Deeds (originally by AC/DC)
Black Dog (originally by Led Zeppelin)

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Somewhere we have a CD that has about 20 different Stairways to Heaven from the Australian TV show that had a different version (Doors style, opera style, Goth style, Rolf Harris etc.) every week. They're... unusual.