Post by vonearschplitten on Sept 21, 2007 17:44:55 GMT -5
Notice a pattern? In addition to Blue Cheer and The Who's rendition of "Summertime Blues"--Led Zeppelin, Humble Pie, UFO and Sid Vicious all covered "C'mon Everybody", Led Zeppelin and Sid Vicious covered "Somethin' Else". Probably more songs than I can think of right at the moment, but it seems to me that more well-known hard rock/heavy metal bands through the years have covered Eddie Cochran than any other rocker from the 50s. Was there something about Eddie Cochran's style to be so much more adaptable to heavy metal music and lyrically to be more rebellious than--say, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, or Little Richard? Cochran doesn't seem to get the name recogntion that all the others from the 50s had, but apparantely to a lot of heavy metal rockers to come--his music meant an awful lot!