"Pipeline" covers
Philip Lydon
>Anyone who collects rock-n-roll instrumentals (as I do) is bound to have
>run across numerous covers of "Pipeline," written by Spickard and Carmen
>and originally recorded by their group the Chantays. It is undoubtedly
>the consensus choice as the single greatest surf instrumental of the
>early '60s.
>
>I wonder whether anyone can direct me to covers of "Pipeline" that I
>haven't heard. Here's a list of the covers I am now aware of:
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>What covers am I missing? There must be more ...
Johnny Thunders - on his "So Alone" LP, 1978. A great album, featuring
excellent covers of "Pipeline", "Great Big Kiss", "Daddy Rolling Stone",
"She's So Untouchable" and another that escapes me right now. Thunders was
a member of the New York Dolls and then the founder (along with Richard
Hell) of the Heartbreakers. "So Alone" was his first true solo album.
Other neat notes: former Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook play on
this version of "Pipeline". Thunders also has a bunch of live albums from
the mid to late 80s, and "Pipeline" turns up on a few of these.
Hope this helps. "So Alone" is well worth your $15!
--Philip
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Velipekka Rasanen
don't remember what album is it in. By the way, can anyone give me
information about the Challengers. Members, records, songs, hits, etc....
Velipekka Rasanen veli...@evitech.fi
Lennart Hedenstr|m
: Johnny Thunders - on his "So Alone" LP, 1978. A great album, featuring
: excellent covers of "Pipeline", "Great Big Kiss", "Daddy Rolling Stone",
: "She's So Untouchable" and another that escapes me right now. Thunders was
: a member of the New York Dolls and then the founder (along with Richard
: Hell) of the Heartbreakers. "So Alone" was his first true solo album.
: Other neat notes: former Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook play on
: this version of "Pipeline". Thunders also has a bunch of live albums from
: the mid to late 80s, and "Pipeline" turns up on a few of these.
: Hope this helps. "So Alone" is well worth your $15!
: --Philip
The late Philip Lynott of Thin Lizzy appears on four of the tracks on
"So Alone". He sings some lead on "Daddy Rolling Stone" for example.
Lynott and some guys from Lizzy had a hobby band with some guys from Sex
Pistols and a few others called "the Greedies" (also known as "the Greedy
Bastards"). They did some live gigs in 1978 and they played "Pipeline"
live.
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Philip Lydon
>Philip Lydon (crom...@minerva.cis.yale.edu) wrote:
>: Johnny Thunders - on his "So Alone" LP, 1978. A great album, featuring
>: excellent covers of "Pipeline", "Great Big Kiss", "Daddy Rolling Stone",
>: "She's So Untouchable" and another that escapes me right now. Thunders was
>: a member of the New York Dolls and then the founder (along with Richard
>: Hell) of the Heartbreakers. "So Alone" was his first true solo album.
>: Other neat notes: former Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook play on
>: this version of "Pipeline". Thunders also has a bunch of live albums from
>: the mid to late 80s, and "Pipeline" turns up on a few of these.
>: Hope this helps. "So Alone" is well worth your $15!
>: --Philip
>
>The late Philip Lynott of Thin Lizzy appears on four of the tracks on
>"So Alone". He sings some lead on "Daddy Rolling Stone" for example.
STRANGE BUT TRUE:
Philip Lynott (died 1986) sings lead along with Steve Marriott (of
the Small Faces and Humble Pie, died 1991) and Johnny Thunders (of the New
York Dolls and the Heartbreakers, died 1991) on "Daddy Rolling Stone". As
the CD liner notes say, "...the black crepe hangs heavy around this jam."
I'm glad to find someone else who's aquainted with this album..!
--Philip
Larry White
> I guess you've all heard of cover made by the Anthrax. Unfortunately I
> don't remember what album is it in. By the way, can anyone give me
> information about the Challengers. Members, records, songs, hits, etc....
Actually, no, I'd never heard of the Anthrax cover.
The best source for info about the Challengers is probably the chapter
on them in Bob Dalley's book "Surfin' Guitars: Instrumental Groups of
the '60s." I believe that it is still available from the author at
1312 W. 8780 S., West Jordan, UT 84088, USA. Price is something like
US$35. For Challengers' CDs currently in print, see the surf music CD
discography that Al Kossow posts to this newsgroup around the first of
each month.
Anyway, here's a thumbnail sketch. The band was formed in late
1962 by the drummer Richard Delvy, who had just split from the Belairs
(of "Mr. Moto" fame). Other original members were Randy Nauert, bass;
Glenn Grey, lead guitar; Don Landis, rhythm guitar; Jim Roberts, piano;
and Nick Hefner, saxophone. Their first LP was "Surfbeat" in 1963, one
of the first surf music LPs, which sold an amazing 200,000 copies
(amazing because sales were pretty much limited to southern California).
Their second LP was "On the Move: The Challengers go Surfing Around the
World."
The group's line-up then changed. New members: Art Fisher, lead
guitar; Ed Fournier, lead and rhythm guitar; Phil Pruden, saxophone.
This line-up was the house band on an LA television show, "Surf's Up."
Many more albums followed. The best, most would agree, is the one
entitled "Surf's Up: The Challengers on TV," which covered lots of hit
surf tunes in the distinctive Challengers' style (high production
values, clean guitar playing, saxophone playing drawn-out major-chord notes
as an underpinning).
Their best original tunes, IMHO, are "K-39" and "Channel 9." They did
excellent covers of "Telstar," "Mr. Rebel," and "Pipeline." A while
back, in this newsgroup, someone listed their cover of "Foot Tapper" (a
Shadows tune) as among his ten most favorite surf tunes. They never had
a "hit" by national standards, but their singles and albums sold well in
the LA area.