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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: _tom_ on October 27, 2006, 08:53:29 PM
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One of my mates sent me a cover of Word Up by a band called Gun, sound like they could be pretty good from what I hear on this cover. Cant seem to find any of their stuff to sample on limewire, so does anyone have a recommendation for a good album by them? Thinking about just getting their greatest hits type thing as its only £6 on play..
Anyone got any songs by em they could upload or send me via msn?
Cheers
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I think their second album Gallus was the best - features a really good guitarist called Alex Dickson who was only in the band briefly but went on to work with Bruce Dickinson. And, err.... Robbie Williams.
The first album Taking on the World is good too.
Haven't got anything I could upload for you, unfortunately.
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their Word up cover sounds WICKED. i play it all the time :D
but it's the only song i heard from em
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Yeah, its great. Miles better than that shitety cover that Korn did of it (what can you expect from that band though :lol: )
They sound like a great rock band.
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they're great, I've got said best of, after a friend of mine recommended it.
I hear gallus is their best album, but that's hearsay...
the best songs (in my opinion, lol), if you want to youtube them (if they're even on there or had videos) are
taking on the world,
word up,
Better Days,
Don't say it's over (i think- that may be one of the cr@p ones... )
Higher Ground
Steal your fire,
Inside Out.
A couple of the others on the best of might be good, but I can't remember- it's a while since I listened to it.
There's also a good chance you'll have heard some of those songs before- I think the BBC used to use them a lot for adverts for programmes.
:drink:
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they were a good band, Scottish, weren't they?
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I watched Gun on You Tube - Awsome stuff; Word Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VlSE4OpKDU
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they were a good band, Scottish, weren't they?
yeah, i think so.
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Meh Word up is a backstreet boys song? No cover of this could ever be good and definately not that "GUN" cover, pants
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＾Cameo
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indeed, backstreet boys were but a bad dream when Gun's cover came out, never mind the original.
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^ the original though was a pretty bad dream. I still have nightmares when I think of that red codpiece... :evil:
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^ the original though was a pretty bad dream. I still have nightmares when I think of that red codpiece... :evil:
I remember laughing myself sick at that appearence (my Dad went mental and was going to complain to the BBC & everything)
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^ :lol:
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^ the original though was a pretty bad dream. I still have nightmares when I think of that red codpiece... :evil:
thankyou... i was trying to forget that part
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^ i'd post a pic if I could be bothered...
:lol:
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Saw Gun Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back when , when taking on the world came out.
Bout same time got into Quire Boys and Thunder.
Thunder are still goin and kick ass too, for a good ole Rock band.
Try and find some Waysted _tom_, or (heck,tbc,brainfart).
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Have only heard one Thunder song (Backstreet Symphony) which is great, and I love The Quireboys, they're awesome :D
Will have a look out for Waysted as well.
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Larry Blackman and his red codpiece! I bought that Cameo album on the strength of that song, the rest of the album was shite and i used to play it on repeat when my brother was a doley dosser to get the lazy git out of bed! :lol: In the end he snapped it in half! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Edit, Cameo were big in London for a while. They made an appearance on The Tube, on Channel 4. There were loads of them in the band, they may have been into George Clinton and that Parliment/Funkadelic thing
The Gun version was a cracker, way better than the original but someone had to write for them to cover it!
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When we finally get a new singer we're gonna cover Word Up in the cover band hopefully :) Will have to rock it up even more than Gun, maybe even with some wah and pinch harmonics :twisted:
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and you in codpiece :lol:
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and you in codpiece :lol:
Have you not noticed his gender reassignment he is now a MTF
Rob...
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and you in codpiece :lol:
hahahah! No thanks..
Kilby - MTF? I never changed my gender :lol:
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I have a couple of their albums - they were a good band - saw them live a few times.
Joolz Gizzi was the main guitar guy and featured on an early Texas record (Dont need a lover)
They did pretty well and toured supporting the Stones and Def Leppard
Alex Dickson who had been in Heavy Pettin and Midnight Blue joined for the second album - later playing with Bruce Dickinson, Robbie Williams and Emma Bunton (Baby Spice)
Their version of Word up is fab, as is the album it came from : Swagger
Do a search on ebay for them - they come up often
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Saw Gun Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back when , when taking on the world came out.
Bout same time got into Quire Boys and Thunder.
Thunder are still goin and kick ass too, for a good ole Rock band.
Try and find some Waysted _tom_, or (heck,tbc,brainfart).
thunder are great! :twisted:
The Gun version was a cracker, way better than the original but someone had to write for them to cover it!
seconded! :drink:
When we finally get a new singer we're gonna cover Word Up in the cover band hopefully :) Will have to rock it up even more than Gun, maybe even with some wah and pinch harmonics :twisted:
I thought the gun version was already pretty rocky?
Nice new avatar, by the way. :D
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Yeah, but even more rocky than Gun :P
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Yeah, but even more rocky than Gun :P
unpossible. :lol:
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Yeah, but even more rocky than Gun :P
Go for it Tom, you have the playing ability and the gear to get a great sound for that song! 8)
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When we finally get a new singer we're gonna cover Word Up in the cover band hopefully :) Will have to rock it up even more than Gun, maybe even with some wah and pinch harmonics :twisted:
Tom don't forget to put a link to the song up here when you complete the cover.
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Yeah, we are eventually gonna get some free studio time to do some good quality recordings, we just need a good singer first. Thought our last one was gonna be the one, then he bloody quit for no reason 2 weeks later!
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will you have the laney by the time you record word up? that'd be awesome. :twisted:
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Most likely, yeah :twisted:
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^ \m/ :twisted: \m/