Zac Brown Band covers "Black"

pjhawks

ledvedderman said:

People who claim they've never heard a band do a great cover of a Pearl Jam song have obviously never heard Gaslight Anthem do State of Love and Trust. 

Aaron Lewis doing Black, Seether doing Immortality and Prince doing just the music for Even Flow I think are pretty good ones in my opinion,

HesCalledDyer

green_girl said:

ccoll said:

green_girl said:

"Legs spread"?? 

Nevertheless... a great cover! Can this be our holiday single? I'd like that.

Come on!  That would be the most disappointing holiday single since the Beyoncé duo.  
Ive heard better covers of this song from PJ cover bands..

Really? Because this is the ONLY good Pearl Jam cover I have ever heard. Except for the Chilean Eddie Vedder, of course.
And I'm not a fan of that duet either. 

Look up Billy Strings' cover of In Hiding.  It's phenomenal.

HesCalledDyer

This is how you do a cover song:
https://archive.org/details/BS2017-07-15.bs2017-07-15flac16mg21/bs2017-07-15t08.flac

wall232

pjhawks said:

ledvedderman said:

People who claim they've never heard a band do a great cover of a Pearl Jam song have obviously never heard Gaslight Anthem do State of Love and Trust. 

Aaron Lewis doing Black, Seether doing Immortality and Prince doing just the music for Even Flow I think are pretty good ones in my opinion,

Glad you mentioned these, all great covers. The Aaron Lewis cover of Black is pretty damn awesome. 

Spiritual_Chaos

Tori Amos doing Black had potential. I don't know why she removed the bridge..?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khvMzzdC5ag

mcgruff10

HesCalledDyer said:

I can't get into country voice Pearl Jam.

And did he seriously sing:
"Her legs spread out before me as her body lie still"??

Those aren't the words?!

Spiritual_Chaos

mcgruff10 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

I can't get into country voice Pearl Jam.

And did he seriously sing:
"Her legs spread out before me as her body lie still"??

Those aren't the words?!

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did

hihobibo

pjhawks said:

ledvedderman said:

People who claim they've never heard a band do a great cover of a Pearl Jam song have obviously never heard Gaslight Anthem do State of Love and Trust. 

Aaron Lewis doing Black, Seether doing Immortality and Prince doing just the music for Even Flow I think are pretty good ones in my opinion,

Willie Nelson kills it on "Just Breathe".

evsgjamm

hahaha... no fuckin way..... I've always sang it as "Her legs spread out before me as her body once did."  haaaaa. ... the only thing I can say is...."and part of every day..."

HesCalledDyer

hihobibo said:

pjhawks said:

ledvedderman said:

People who claim they've never heard a band do a great cover of a Pearl Jam song have obviously never heard Gaslight Anthem do State of Love and Trust. 

Aaron Lewis doing Black, Seether doing Immortality and Prince doing just the music for Even Flow I think are pretty good ones in my opinion,

Willie Nelson kills it on "Just Breathe".

That is a damn good cover!

Stickman24

Its better than that one country singer that butchered Betterman.  

I Do like Sugarlands cover. (Betterman)

mcgruff10

Spiritual_Chaos said:

mcgruff10 said:

HesCalledDyer said:

I can't get into country voice Pearl Jam.

And did he seriously sing:
"Her legs spread out before me as her body lie still"??

Those aren't the words?!

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did

I wonder if ed knows the official words lol. 

Cliffy6745

I enjoyed this.  I feel like I am supposed to hate Zac Brown Band, but their covers are all really enjoyable.  I don't know much of their music, but have come across a lot of their covers and all a lot of fun.

helplessdancer

here's my take on the zac adjustment
the dude is talented x 10. love his music and love his choice of covers. he closed with paradise city when i saw him on this tour!
when he recorded jason isbell's dress blues he changed the lyrics slightly. it caused a bit of an uproar within the dbt/isbell community as people thought it changed the whole meaning of the song, by zac changing just a a few words
100% for sure zac knew the exact words for dress blues and imo made a conscious decision to adjust for reasons unknown
he did the same with black here. why? we might never know but if i was to guess it's a bit of a poke to all of us music lovers and to the many lyrics of songs that are commonly known that we think/sing are right, that are not. black and this lyric is a perfect example. i bet only a very small % of people sing the actual words to this line in black. most sing what zac sang.

ledvedderman

HesCalledDyer said:

hihobibo said:

pjhawks said:

ledvedderman said:

People who claim they've never heard a band do a great cover of a Pearl Jam song have obviously never heard Gaslight Anthem do State of Love and Trust. 

Aaron Lewis doing Black, Seether doing Immortality and Prince doing just the music for Even Flow I think are pretty good ones in my opinion,

Willie Nelson kills it on "Just Breathe".

That is a damn good cover!

Yes it is. I think I prefer Willie's take more than the studio cut from Backspacer.