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Music Appreciation

ProfessorGAC

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2. Covered This, Back Then

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Oct 21, 2024, 07:24 AM

Oct 2024

'80 & '81.
Had a woman singer in that band, so we did a few early Pretenders songs.
We (meaning I) changed this song to make it rock a little harder, because I didn't find it fun to play it their way. I wasn't good enough then to take that tack, but I did it anyway!

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The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing (live, 1981, on German TV's Rockpalast) + FULL Rockpalast concert (1:20:35) [View all] highplainsdem Oct 2024 OP

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Covered This, Back Then ProfessorGAC Oct 2024 #2

I love their cover of that Kinks song. But I understand wanting to make a song rock harder. There's an Adele classic highplainsdem Oct 2024 #3