Simon Price has done an excellent interview with Greg Dulli for The Quietus about the upcoming Afghan Whigs reunion gigs. Great answers from Dulli too. This is probably the only reunion I've ever heard about and was immediately excited. I was lucky enough to see The Whigs twice when they were still going, including an amazing performance on Valentine's Day 1999 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, MA. Dulli on Valentine's Day, completely in his element. Lots of people hold Gentlemen to be their masterpiece but for me it's always been Black Love, which I think is one of the best records ever made. And Summer's Kiss one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, such passion in everything about it. Original version here.
Great live version by Dulli in Philly on October 20, 2010:
From An Evening With Greg Dulli & Mark Lanegan, São Paolo, Brasil, 1/7/09:
And don't forget what an amazing covers band they were!
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Monday, 5 March 2012
Sunday, 6 November 2011
Afghan Whigs covers...
Yesterday I mentioned that The Afghan Whigs are my favourite covers band. Their takes on other people's songs are almost always a delight, often matching or outdoing the originals for quality. The recorded versions are mostly Motown and soul but live Greg Dulli would launch into seemingly whatever crossed his mind at any given moment (a tradition he continues to this day). Some of my favourites:
A perfect version of "Band Of Gold":
An astoundingly lovely "True Love Travels On A Gravel Road":
Dulli often changes major key classics into more menacing minor key versions, as is the case with "Come See About Me":
These three above are all on the highly-recommended Uptown Avondale E.P.
I've been looking for them doing the Stones' "Beast Of Burden" for a while, knowing it'd be great, and here it is live in Montreal '98:
"Dear Prudence" was always a treat live. Evidence at the beginning of these two of what a great frontman Dulli is.
The Twilight Singers doing "Hey Ya":
A soul-aching "Dark End Of The Street":
And if you can find the Beautiful Girls soundtrack, the Whigs' cover of Frederick Knight's "Be For Real" is excellent (done here by Leonard Cohen).
A perfect version of "Band Of Gold":
An astoundingly lovely "True Love Travels On A Gravel Road":
Dulli often changes major key classics into more menacing minor key versions, as is the case with "Come See About Me":
These three above are all on the highly-recommended Uptown Avondale E.P.
I've been looking for them doing the Stones' "Beast Of Burden" for a while, knowing it'd be great, and here it is live in Montreal '98:
"Dear Prudence" was always a treat live. Evidence at the beginning of these two of what a great frontman Dulli is.
The Twilight Singers doing "Hey Ya":
A soul-aching "Dark End Of The Street":
And if you can find the Beautiful Girls soundtrack, the Whigs' cover of Frederick Knight's "Be For Real" is excellent (done here by Leonard Cohen).
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