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Subject: Re: *Still More* Cover Songs...


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Kevin
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Date Posted: 02:14:16 08/15/03 Fri
In reply to: Stacie 's message, "*Still More* Cover Songs..." on 04:02:37 08/13/03 Wed

>Since we spend alot of time on this message board
>complaining about cover songs...
>
>I thought I'd share a 'good' cover band experience...
>
>'Me First and the Gimme Gimmes'. (...and you're all
>going ...'who?') If you don't know, the Gimme Gimmes
>are made up of members from other punk bands (NOFX,
>Lagwagon, No Use For a Name, and the Swingin' Utters),
>who get together for fun to play cover songs.
>
>Yes, they're a cover band. They cover the cheesiest
>songs of the past 40 years...but three times faster.
>Oh, you haven't lived until you've heard the punk
>cover of 'Mandy' by Barry Manilow...
>
>I've always thought they were kinda funny, but I saw
>them (for the third time) at Warped Tour last week,
>and had a blast. Hawaiian shirts, day-glo glittery
>guitars, beach balls, water hoses, and a tiki bar.
>(Did I mention they bring their own bartender to serve
>cocktails?) I know, it sounds like the Beach Boys on
>crack... Kitsch-y and fun. Whooo-Hooo!

Sounds interesting.

A friend and I were talking today about Sugar Ray's recent cover of Joe Jackson's "Is She Really Going Out With Him?"

Any thoughts?

Kevin

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