This is one of the best I have seen.

Not claiming it's a best, just one I enjoy.

Amazing guitar solo.

I'm gonna rep couch riffs again.

These guys from the Phillipines have a lot of pretty great covers.

I love these two

Don't Let me Down


Hotel California

Funky Winkerbean said:

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Came here to post this one. Outstanding!

Duckhook said:

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For me it's the best cover ever done. I had posted it in the covers thread, I would also put it up there as one of the best live performances ever done. The occasion was the Kennedy Center Honors, and they made the song such a complete over the top celebration, the choir the full orchestra etc…While still being completely respectful of it, it was just perfect for the occasion. Nancy and Ann crushed it. A couple of other points on it:
The reaction to Jason at the beginning was because Plant wanted him there and Jason told him he already had a booking and couldn't be there. he was thrilled to see him.
Nancy flubbed the one rehearsal they had with the entire group, and look what they pulled off when they were live. And doing it in front of them?
The Jason Bonham hats were such a great touch.

Robert Plant said he usually hates covers of the song, but this was his reaction to this one:

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I've left so much of it all behind. And that night I was watching a reenactment clever, well intentioned, and respectful. I was in the gallery peering and following an excellent display. Me and my contribution to it all were hung out to dry in the land of timeless tributes, so far from the cover and the scene, and so far from the home that we've given it. I felt estranged from the whole deal, from the song, and the fact that the years did carry it through. It had its own impetus. I watched it go. It was like a beautiful feather, balloon, or bubble. Something out of a clay pipe that had been blown with soap.

It was just something that I'd never, ever thought I would look at from this gallery. I didn't ever see myself as smarting around seeing an artist's impression of it. I knew it was coming the Kennedy Center told us to expect something but I didn't know how it was going to be. It was a spectacular performance. I'm now a voyeur. I'm not responsible for it anymore. I'm not in guitar shops being told not to do it. I'm not going down the aisle at a wedding playing it with a flute. I love the song. It came upon me and stripped away all the years of being a part of all that. It just rubbed it right back to the bone. Because maybe it was all over for us a long time before it was all over. It was definitely all over without John. I mean that. We're talking here about one song from 50-plus years ago. It's just a magnificent performance to watch and it kills me every time. It kills me in two or three different ways. It's just like, Oh my God.
Some people are completely trapped in their achievements, and that must be real hell. But perhaps one of the things about "Stairway to Heaven" was that the development of the song was exactly that. Somehow it was something very, very special, which I don't really have a great connection to. But that night at the Kennedy Center, it made me remember that I had some responsibility, for better or worse, for that song. It wasn't really about who did a great job, although Ann's a spectacular singerIn addition to Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson is there on guitar, as well as John Bonham's son, Jason, on drums. About 100 singers and instrumentalists also supported them onstage. Vulture previously talked to Ann about the performance, and you can read that full interview here.. The whole choreography of it was blindingly sort of a "we're not worthy" moment.

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So if you can get that out of Plant after pretty much making him cry. you've done something.

https://www.vulture.com/2023/01/robert-plant-led-zeppelin-best-music-superlatives.html

Southern Cross

Can't resist posting Broken Peach cover of Don't You Want Me. Sorry.

Anything Mike Masse does. Was a public defender in Utah playing gigs at a pizza restaurant. Here's a couple.