{"id":1898,"date":"2008-12-30T01:16:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T06:16:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-30T01:16:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T01:16:29","slug":"covers-versions-of-songs-that-have-no-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/covers-versions-of-songs-that-have-no-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"Covers Versions of Songs That Have No Business Being Longer Than 3 Minutes in Length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7sNSduf7Gc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not such a dogmatic old fart that I can&#8217;t occaisonally dig hearing a 3-minute rock &#8216;n roll chestnut elongated to an epic rock jam of some degree, but the era of Festival Rock coupled with excursions into The Power and Glory of Rock &#8216;n Roll kicked off a spate of these overblown, drawn-out cover jams. The bombast of <strong>The Who<\/strong>&#8216;s version of &#8220;Summertime Blues&#8221; actually holds up over the course of its extended sections, but the Dead&#8217;s epic butchering of &#8220;Not Fade Away&#8221; and <strong>Quicksilver Messenger Service<\/strong>&#8216;s similar drawing and quartering of &#8220;Who Do You Love&#8221; spring to mind when I think of cover versions of songs that have no business being longer than 3 minutes. The other night a Townsman dropped a jump drive&#8217;s worth of hairy rock obscurities on me. I&#8217;m just digging into these treats, and I&#8217;m trying to determine whether a 6:30 version of &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Judge a Book By the Cover&#8221; by <strong>Cactus<\/strong> has any business being committed to wax. It&#8217;s sure got the necessary bombast to even make it worth accepting!<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re thinking of covers that have no business being more than 3 minutes in length as well as those rare instances that justify the additional jamming, let me know what side of the ledger you place <strong>Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/strong>&#8216;s version of &#8220;Suzy Q.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not such a dogmatic old fart that I can&#8217;t occaisonally dig hearing a 3-minute rock &#8216;n roll chestnut elongated to an epic rock jam of some degree, but the era of Festival Rock coupled with excursions into The Power and Glory of Rock &#8216;n Roll kicked off a spate of these overblown, drawn-out cover <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/covers-versions-of-songs-that-have-no-bu\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}