...and his kick-ass cover of NRBQ's great "I Want You Bad."
I have no idea why this one popped into my head unbidden today, but it did -- maybe because I've been thinking about songs to cover the next time I get together with my garage band chums The Weasels. I should add that the Q's version is considerably more shambolic -- in a good way -- than Robison's relatively straightforward take on the song, and it definitely behooves behearing.
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Sorry. Doesn't hold a candle to this version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lORhgEHnPa4
I hadn't heard that before, but I love Baird. Thanks for the link.
It's just a flat-out great song. Robison's version is really good, Dan Baird's version IS great, as is the version by The Long Ryders. And just this year, The Clarks (Pittsburgh's great roots-rock band) placed a version on its REWIND album, a collection of covers (a la PIN-UPS) that influenced the band. It's one hell of a great rock album for folks of ... ahem ... our ... ahem ... demographic. See the track listing at http://www.discogs.com/Clarks-Rewind/release/7112489. I WILL DARE, BLOOD AND ROSES, BY THE WAY and A MILLION MILES AWAY are especially good versions. No drastic changes to anything on REWIND; just high-quality bar-band-type covers that remind you how good these songs are.
That Clarks album sounds like fun -- just ordered a copy, and thanks for the tip.
There's also a good version of I WANT YOU BAD up on youtube now by the Flamin' Groovies (from an April 2013 rehearsal). The guitar solos aren't as stinging, or as fleet-fingered, as Al Anderson's on the Q's original (the Flamin' Groovies' sound a bit more Merseybeat) but I like the FG's take on the song - I'd call it a bit ragged but right.
J. Lag
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