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Group: rec.music.progressive · Group Profile
Author: Tracy_Barber
Date: Sep 12, 2008 21:14

On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:30:47 -0700, poisoned rose
usenet.com> wrote:
>Tracy_Barber@frontiernet.net wrote:
>
>> I wonder how many people have tried to cover Led Zeppelin, other than
>> Frank Zappa?
>
>Here's a bunch.....
>
>http://www.coversproject.com/artist/led%%20zeppelin/
>
>I doubt I own more than 8-9 Zep covers, myself. Though to the above
>list, I could add "Stairway to Heaven" versions by Tiny Tim and Redd
>(Ledd) Kross.
>
>I didn't realize *Dolly Parton* also covered "Stairway." Wow.
>
>This list frustrates me in one small way, because they list a Fetchin
>Bones cover of "Whole Lotta Love" that's a CD bonus track on an album
>which I only have on vinyl. Phooey. (Incidentally, Fetchin Bones has
>gotta be among the most forgotten, historically obsolete acts I own
>something by...maybe I'm the last person outside of North Carolina who
>still bothers to own the group's albums. ;))

Heh!

"Kashmir," from the Led Zeppelin album "Physical Graffiti", was
covered on the Dixie Dregs album "Bring 'Em Back Alive."

I saw them do that at The Chance in Poughkeepsie. hehehehe... Jerry
Goodman (of Mahavishnu) was playing violin.
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