...who then divorced him and married Johnny Cash, she'd be Helen Reddy Petty Cash.
Okay, lame joke, but it will have to do as a lead-in for this interesting clip of Petty and the Heartbreakers (in 2006) taking on one of the greatest but never-covered records of the 60s, to wit Them's astounding proto-psychedelic Mystic Eyes.
I'm not sure this really gets to the heart of the original in the way most of Petty's 60s covers do, but like I said, this is one of the greatest songs that nobody has ever (to my knowledge) remade, so I guess I appreciate the effort.
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Great covers on that Petty retrospective DVD...I found the whole thing quite moving. "Mystic Eyes" was featured as the music for some heavy scenes in T.C. Boyle's Drop City, about a '60s commune that moves to Alaska with ugly results. A brilliant usage that made me go running to hear it.
Any number of obscure 60s R&B groups took a swing at "Mystic Eyes" such as the great New Zealand band Chants R&B.
KC --
I stand corrected. I'm guessing none of them were as good, though...
True, Steve. I wanna say the Shadows of Knight did it too, but I can't find evidence of that.
I heard Tim McCarver say this one on a Mets broadcast sometime in the Mookie Wilson years:
If Tuesday Weld successively married and divorced Bobby Orr, Rick Monday, Ray Knight, and Frederick March III she'd be...
Tuesday Orr Monday Knight March the Third.
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