For those of you who don’t know, Califone are an incredibly interesting experimental Americana band. Check this out, from their latest album, Roots and Crowns, on Thrill Jockey records:
Anyhoo, in 2004 the band got together and did a short set of Stones songs. Yesterday, we posted round one of this week’s cover wars. Round two begins with this great Califone set. The really cool thing about it is that instead of covering the tunes everyone else covers, they chose an Exile-heavy set list and really rocked out. I love this show. Quality is pretty good, too. Hope you dig it. No zip file this time because there’s only seven tracks.
Street Fighting Man
Ventilator blues
Turd on the Run
No Expectations
Rocks Off
Miss you
Bitch
So, who has done a Springsteen tribute show? Well, I don’t have a whole show, but I do have two songs. Adam Duritz makes two manly mournful songs into two plaintive whines. But if you’re gonna listen to whining, it might as well be Counting Crows, one of my all-time favorite mainstream rock bands.
Atlantic City
Thunder Road-Counting Crows
And the winner is . . . The Crows do a great job, but there’s only two songs here. Califone are truly ambitious, and it’s pretty ballsy for a small-time band to take on the world’s biggest rock band. Hmmmm. I’m tempted to call it a draw, but that’s the pussy way out. So, I’m giving round two to . . . Califone. And, therefore, The Rolling Stones win it.
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January 8, 2008 at 1:30 pm |
dude
i have been downloading miss you for the past 15 minutes
you need to get with rapidshare
thanks & peace
kylis
January 8, 2008 at 1:46 pm |
Thank you so much, I have been trying to get hold of these for ages
you have just made an old dog very happy
cheers
January 9, 2008 at 9:11 pm |
This maybe a little off course on your point, but Marah does a pretty fucking delicious Streets Of Philadelphia, but I think my all time bestest favourite is Book of Dreams by Dion. Something entirely heart queezing about that version.
‘fess up, though: I don’t really rate ‘teen. He certainly aint the Boss of me, but I can see & understand why people go ga-ga o’er his ol’ boots.
Good postings as per, Mr. E.
DC
January 9, 2008 at 9:12 pm |
This maybe a little off course on your point, but Marah does a pretty fucking delicious Streets Of Philadelphia, but I think my all time bestest favourite is Book of Dreams by Dion. Something entirely heart queezing about that version.
‘fess up, though: I don’t really rate ‘teen. He certainly aint the Boss of me, but I can see & understand why people go ga-ga o’er his ol’ boots.
Good postings as per, Mr. E.
DC
January 13, 2008 at 11:40 am |
nice posting– its too bad you only included a short clip of the counting crows doing thunder road– i saw them do it live in the middle of rain king and it was epic!
January 16, 2008 at 5:10 pm |
hi
although i am not the original taper, but the person who uploaded this lately to some well known torrent tracker i am not very fond that YOU distribute the original flac files ( lossless) as lossy mp3
for people who can handle torrents here is the link
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=174405
if i could i would request you to take it down from your page or upload the flac files… but probably you do not care..
January 16, 2008 at 9:50 pm |
if you cannot access the torrent link go here instead
http://www.owlandbear.com/2008/01/15/hosted-live-download-califone-september-24-2004-stones-covers/
thank you for avoiding MP3
January 25, 2008 at 10:02 pm |
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February 15, 2008 at 9:49 pm |
Counting Crows did a great version of Sandy in the middle of sullivan street. (Ashbury park is the springsteen song). I can’t find it anymore on the net though! It was very good.