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Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:36 am
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
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Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:36 am
When I first started playing I figured if I could learn this most kick arse of rock songs, I'd be a badass.

Learning the song was easy enough ... but being a badass? Not so much.

Anyway, for anyone else out there who loves hearing or playing the damned thing, I'll post some of the gazillion covers that have been done since the dawn of R 'n R.

Beginning with Alvin Lee:
LINK
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:39 am to
John Cippolina, with the song's purported writer, Billy Roberts:
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Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:39 am to
Roy Buchanon:
LINK
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
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2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:43 am to
The Byrds:
LINK
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:45 am to
The Leaves:
LINK
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
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2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:46 am to
Love:
LINK
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
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2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:48 am to
Deep Purple:
LINK
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:50 am to
ZZ TOP:
LINK
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:55 am to
Tim Rose:
LINK
Posted by Shockthamonkey
BR
Member since Jul 2016
818 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 9:34 am to
Behind Hendrix, Love's version is my favorite.
Posted by urinetrouble
Member since Oct 2007
20659 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 9:45 am to
The chord progression for this kinda blew my mind when I first learned to play it.
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 10:00 am to
quote:

Behind Hendrix

Hendrix? Who's he?
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Posted by tarzana
TX Hwy 6-- the Brazos River Valley
Member since Sep 2015
32788 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 10:32 am to
The Leaves' version was the most commercially successful of this rock and roll warhorse but personally I like the versions by the Byrds and by Jimi Hendrix the best.
Posted by Poodlebrain
Way Right of Rex
Member since Jan 2004
19860 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 10:59 am to
Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush.

I saw Roy Buchanan live over 20 times, and he played Hey Joe every performance. No two versions were the same. He would invariably end the song with a transition to Purple Haze or Foxy Lady. He also did a cover of Hendrix's If 6 Was 9.
Posted by Pepe Lepew
Looney tuned .....
Member since Oct 2008
39061 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 11:34 am to
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:24 pm to
Might as well throw in Zappa's 'Flower Punk" take on Hey Joe:
LINK
Posted by Mars duMorgue
Sunset Dist/SF
Member since Aug 2015
2816 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 12:29 pm to
quote:

The Leaves' version was the most commercially successful of this rock and roll warhorse

It was the first chart making version I believe.
Posted by Treacherous Cretin
Columbus, OH
Member since Jan 2016
1503 posts
Posted on 9/5/16 at 5:37 pm to
Spirit/Randy California
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Posted by Kajungee
South ,Section 6 Row N
Member since Mar 2004
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Posted on 9/5/16 at 6:45 pm to
Posted by Kcrad
Diamondhead
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Posted on 9/6/16 at 9:52 am to
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