This is not ____, a daisy chain of covers

"Dusty Ventures" (dustyventures)
06/30/2019 at 13:38 • Filed to: None

Let’s play a game.

Here’s how it works. In the comments you post up a video of a non-cover band doing a cover. Someone will respond to the comment with a second band covering one of the songs from the first band. Someone else responds to that with a third band covering the second, and on and on and on. Along with the cover each comment must have the phrase “This is not [name of band being covered].” This is to help keep track of who is responding to who. The goal is to see just how long of a chain of bands covering bands can be made. Longest daisy chain wins.

Example. I start with Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower,” someone posts Devo covering Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced,” someone else posts Moby covering Devo’s “Whip It,” etc.

Ready? And go!

DISCUSSION (30)

Dusty Ventures > Dusty Ventures
06/30/2019 at 02:02

Starting the first daisy chain off with Chains. This is not David Bowie.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Dusty Ventures
06/30/2019 at 14:06

(edit ) oh shit... this is not alice in chains

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Dusty Ventures
06/30/2019 at 14:06

i think ill start my chain of like this

(edit) this is not whoever the fuck did la bamba

and 100 more > Dusty Ventures
06/30/2019 at 14:06

This is not Alice In Chains.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
06/30/2019 at 14:31

(Edit): this is not Manic Hispanic

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
06/30/2019 at 14:35

damnit.... im sorry for killing the chain

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
06/30/2019 at 14:41

Nah, I got the rules wrong way round

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Dusty Ventures
06/30/2019 at 14:52

This’ll be difficult:each chain is going to steadily dive into more obscure bands. Sort of the inverse of the Wikipedia Philosophy effect.

Dusty Ventures > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
06/30/2019 at 14:57

Exactly. At some point they all have to dead end, it's just a question of how long they can be carried until that point

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Dusty Ventures
06/30/2019 at 15:06

I have a feeling somehow this will end with Kevin Bacon.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > Dusty Ventures
06/30/2019 at 15:13

Ok, then let’s start an easy chain, also with chains.

Objective here is to find the biggest band you can who covered the previous band.

Here are some guys who aren’t the Everly Brothers, and who have been covered occasionally themselves:

Dusty Ventures > and 100 more
06/30/2019 at 21:33

Oof, I think we’re about to dead end. This is not Incubus.

Dusty Ventures > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
06/30/2019 at 21:36

This is not Rancid

Dusty Ventures > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
06/30/2019 at 21:53

So many options. Literally have to choose between Aretha Franklin, Fats Domino, Elton John, Aerosmith, Soundgarden, The Supremes, Celine Dion, Ray Charles, Tom Jones, Little Richard, Alice Cooper, Peter Frampton, Jimi Hendrix, the Bee Gees, Deep Purple, Tina Turner, Dolly Parton, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Willie Nelson, James Brown, Bob Marley...

Almost went with Michael Jackson, but decided to go with the other king. This is not The Beatles.

CaptDale - is secretly British > Dusty Ventures
07/01/2019 at 13:12

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Dusty Ventures
07/02/2019 at 12:55

This is not Elvis.

(Technically Head Cats, but Lemmy - Motorhead qualifies)

Also, this is an evil sub-fork of unexpected covers.

Chariotoflove > Dusty Ventures
07/02/2019 at 13:08

Let’s try this.

WilliamsSW > Dusty Ventures
07/02/2019 at 13:16

This is not Memphis Minnie

this may be harder than it seems - because so much of their catalog isn’t original...

DrunkenGator > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/02/2019 at 13:19

Seems like some mindless fun. Let’s do this.

This is not Motorhead/Lemmy:

t0ast > CaptDale - is secretly British
07/02/2019 at 13:31

EDIT: slightly better pick for chaining than Relient K

This was harder to come up with than expected. Why are there not more Cake covers out there? Anyway, this is not Cake:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > DrunkenGator
07/02/2019 at 13:34

We’ve actually gone backwards from the easy one, which is Motorhead covering Metallica.

Eh, here have some this-is-not-Metallica:

functionoverfashion > Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
07/02/2019 at 13:35

But in the music world it’ll end with Bob Dylan

t0ast > Dusty Ventures
07/02/2019 at 13:50

This is not Bob Marley and The Wailers.

VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely > Dusty Ventures
07/02/2019 at 13:53

Instructions unclear, posted dunkey

in all seriousness this is pretty cool, I just don’t have anything for it. I hope everyone has fun.

Shane MacGowan's Teeth > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/02/2019 at 15:12

This is not Motorhead

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
07/02/2019 at 15:17

Now you’ve dived into metal it’s gonna be pretty hard to get out - not many big mainstream bands do metal covers. Here’s a start though:

This is not (quite) Motörhead

I figured it counts coz they’ve done it on their own, but how could I not link to this version once I found it.

Also, TIL: iPhone autocorrect knows Motörhead has an umlaut.

Edit:someone else already got it: oh well.

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > DrunkenGator
07/02/2019 at 15:28

And in the unexpected covers department: This is not Metallica.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Shane MacGowan's Teeth
07/02/2019 at 15:30

This is not the Ramones.

Dusty Ventures > t0ast
07/02/2019 at 16:21

Super tempted to go with Pennywise, but for the sake of maintaining the chain this is not Sublime

Dusty Ventures > t0ast
07/02/2019 at 17:09

Turns out that while there are a lot of covers of Imagine Dragons they’re pretty much all by cover bands. I basically had two options for original artists.

This is not Imagine Dragons