Who Did It Better???

[davismanLV]

FOUND IT!! My local band from LV. The killers do a KILLER version of this song!! See what you think!!

 

[James Hart]

 

[James Hart]

 

[HeyMikey]

FOUND IT!! My local band from LV. The killers do a KILLER version of this song!! See what you think!!

Absolutely Tom. This is a better cover than Dierks. The Killers are all very talented and their passion comes through. Still, I need to go with Petty.

 

[davismanLV]

Absolutely Tom. This is a better cover than Dierks. The Killers are all very talented and their passion comes through. Still, I need to go with Petty.

I'm kinda with you on that one, Mike. But they do really well... but for sure TP for me!!

 

[Bernie]

Interesting version of 'Working Class Hero' up there (but I still like John Lennon's version better).

Great songs with three chords definitely take even more than talent...Maybe not genius, but quite something !

Tino Dico is good and she sings the song with a lot of heart. I think I heard her somewhere before but I didn't know her name...Thanks for letting us know her.

Marianne Faithfull's version is good as well (but this may have been posted already)...

 

[chazmo]

Dierks is very talented, but I found his version..... uninspired. So Tom Petty all the way. I bet someone could come up with a really good version of this song!!!

I agree... Definitely this could be covered really well! But, I think Petty's is awesome, Tom. Tough to beat Petty's original, anyway, IMO.

[edit: I see you posted another version... will have to give it a listen when I'm back home, Tom]

 

[Rocky]

Absolutely Tom. This is a better cover than Dierks. The Killers are all very talented and their passion comes through. Still, I need to go with Petty.

A fine energetic performance, but they don't really bring themselves into it - which is appropriate in that setting, seeing as it's a tribute to the original. So I gotta go with TP.

 

[James Hart]

Tino Dico is good and she sings the song with a lot of heart. I think I heard her somewhere before but I didn't know her name...Thanks for letting us know her.

Always glad to share!

I discovered her years back via Zero 7, instantly found and bought her back catalog and everything since. She is a great songwriter... in my top 5. Her 2007 "Count to Ten" was probably her biggest album, in 2017 she did acoustic stripped done versions of each song, definitely worth a listen

 

[Bernie]

Cool...Excellent guitar player too.

Do you know which make/model she plays ? Might as well be a Martin, but I am not sure at all

Danish girl (because of tour dates at the end...) ?

On 'American Girl' I liked Dierks Bentley and friends best

And on 'Working Class Hero', some live version exist which are good too (here M.F. is not the young girl she used to be, but more like a big fat mama, but she still can sing and the band is good )

 

[James Hart]

Cool...Excellent guitar player too.

Do you know which make/model she plays ? Might as well be a Martin, but I am not sure at all

Danish girl (because of tour dates at the end...) ?

On 'American Girl' I liked Dierks Bentley and friends best

And on 'Working Class Hero', some live version exist which are good too (here M.F. is not the young girl she used to be, but more like a big fat mama, but she still can sing and the band is good )

Definitely knows her way around the fretboard! She has / plays many guitars, Gibson and Martin are standards. That Martin is her main acoustic the last bunch of years, I don't know their models enough to guess which one. Yes, she is Danish, spent time in London early in her career, now married to a bandmate with a house full of kids living in Iceland (were her husband is from).

Never been a fan of Marianne, but haven't ever turned her off either... interesting take on the song!

 

[geoguy]

Heard this tune on an indy radio station recently (Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer). The lyrics & the vocals gave me chills, so I had to look it up:



This one turned up while searching for the version above (Aoife O'Donovan):



And just for reference, a version by the original songwriter:

 

[James Hart]

Aoife all the way, I've had a lifetime opinion that the absolutely BEST Bob Dylan tunes are ones done by other people

Speaking of Aoife, she does a great Joni

 

[Prince of Darkness]

 

[GGJaguar]

All three "Homework" versions are really fine. I'll go with Fleetwood Mac.

 

[Bill Ashton]

Agree...if I had a garage band, I would wish we could do the tune as well as Chicken Shack, but I have to go with Peter Greene's Fleetwood Mac, they kinda own this song. If there was an earlier version done by Otis Rush, I could go with that, but to me this video shows him kinda doing a "filler" in a show...great, but not his real stuff. (Now someone can sucker punch me and say this was his original tune )

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Agree...if I had a garage band, I would wish we could do the tune as well as Chicken Shack, but I have to go with Peter Greene's Fleetwood Mac, they kinda own this song. If there was an earlier version done by Otis Rush, I could go with that, but to me this video shows him kinda doing a "filler" in a show...great, but not his real stuff. (Now someone can sucker punch me and say this was his original tune )

He didn't write it, but the first version was by Otis Rush in 1962

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Just found this version.



Which led me to this.

 

[davidbeinct]

Of the three Homework versions I’d give it to Otis Rush but this one is my favorite.

J. Geils-Homework

 

[FNG]

Of the three Homework versions I’d give it to Otis Rush but this one is my favorite.

J. Geils-Homework

One of the best shows I've seen back in the day, opening act the James Cotton Blues Band. J. Geils just blew it out!