I cover this with my band at our restaurant residency. Funnily enough, ours is based on the Shirley Bassey version, so closer in tempo to the Jose Feliciano version. We slow it down and make it dirty, groovy and funky with some slightly different chords to the original.
However, out of these two - well, out of every version I've heard - it's the Doors, every time, no question. They wrote it. The others are great interpretations, absolutely, and Jose Feliciano's is awesome, but other versions have limited scope - in that they're trying to take a bastion of one musical canon (psychedelic rock) and re-craft and re-contextualise it in another (Latin, or jazz/big band, or whatever). That means there's slightly less room for original expression, and it never quite sits right.
I cover it because 1) people like it; 2) there's no attempt to turn it into much more than what it is (background music); and 3) we like it and are paying tribute. Sure it's stylistically different, and probably something Henry wouldn't like ( ), but it never would be and never attempts to be a patch on the original.
I like Jose's version, as I've said on other C2C threads, I prefer it when artists take a song and make it their own. This is a classic example. However, the Doors version is simply iconic.
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However, out of these two - well, out of every version I've heard - it's the Doors, every time, no question. They wrote it. The others are great interpretations, absolutely, and Jose Feliciano's is awesome, but other versions have limited scope - in that they're trying to take a bastion of one musical canon (psychedelic rock) and re-craft and re-contextualise it in another (Latin, or jazz/big band, or whatever). That means there's slightly less room for original expression, and it never quite sits right.
I cover it because 1) people like it; 2) there's no attempt to turn it into much more than what it is (background music); and 3) we like it and are paying tribute. Sure it's stylistically different, and probably something Henry wouldn't like (
Sacrilege to say it no doubt, but the Doors could lose half of that instrumental break for me.
The Doors get my vote.
another one next week
Is Diane Abbott the scrutiniser?
Anyway, I'm spending the rest of the afternoon watching the new Valley Pass website. Brilliant content.
However. 50-50 on this. Always loved the HF version.