Cover Wars: Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking is a bangin’ tune off of the 1971 album Sticky Fingers. The song didn’t really get into the live rotation until the Forty Licks tour. Check out this excerpt from According To The Rolling Stones about the song selection process for that tour and how Keith supposedly thought a previous live attempt at the song was a total trainwreck. The middle Santana-flavored-section just begs for jambands to cover this song.
Checking in on last week’s Ballad Of Curtis Loew edition, Phish has emerged victorious. Hopefully this means it comes off the shelf. Hey, it could happen, it worked for A Day In The Life.
moe.: moe. has played this 21 times but it has not hit the live stage since June of 2007. This is a great sounding tape from moe. down V in Turin NY. Source: 9-4-2004
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Outformation: This is solid effort from the Atlanta-based Outformation. The strong guitar work makes up for some subpar vocals. Source: 3-20-2009
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Turkey Bouillon Mafia: Our final two contenders both have the advantage of having a sax player in the mix. Dave “The Truth” Grippo plays this entire show with the Turkey Mafia folks and Seth Yacovone is also on additional guitar for this performance. Source: 9-2-2005
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Umphrey’s McGee: UM debuted this cover during the 2007 NYE Run and welcomed Jeff Coffin (doing the multiple sax thing) to the stage for the debut performance. It has been played a total of six times, the most recent rendition featured Luther Dickinson on additional guitar at Ram’s Head in Baltimore. Source: 12-30-2007 via Podcast 62
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While Phish never played CYHMK full-on, they dropped jams of it a lot. Here’s a great one from the 11-4-1994 Weekapaug Groove.
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VIDEO from 2003:
July 27th, 2009 at 11:06 am
moe. wins hands down. UM is a close second.
June 4th, 2009 at 4:20 am
[...] and also welcomed Warren Haynes to the stage to close out their set with a rocking version of Can’t You Hear Me Knocking. The selections featured are both tunes off of the new album. UM plays Friday at Wannee Music [...]
May 20th, 2009 at 10:50 am
I don’t know what it is about the mid-Atlantic, CYHMK, and the North Miss boys (maybe it’s just the North Miss connection) but the last two times I’ve seen CYHMK covered, it was Umphrey’s with Luther Dickinson at Ram’s Head in BMore and moe. with Luther (and Cody) Dickinson at Wolf Trap (6/10/06) in Vienna, VA. For the record, moe. rocked it harder.
May 13th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
didnt even have to listen to it and i know moe did it the best
May 12th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
The use of this song in Casino has always made me want to form a street gang