I remember a thread a long time ago where someone wanted to ask Charlie to cover a James song. This evokes the same feeling from me. While it would be cool to hear, I feel it would be a little awkward at best and insulting at worst.
This exactly. It would be pretty fucked up.
Depends how it's done.
There would be something very tragic about Charlie releasing "his" version of BCSL, himself singing over the stems or whatever, but on the other hand we've got his version of Metropolis and that's genuinely just a cool tribute.
I'd be dead interested in, say a few years down the line - should a CD release coincide with their 30th anniversary, they could get a bunch of ex-contributors together on a bonus CD, and ask 'em to cover songs from after their era?
So you could have Charlie Dominici singing a stripped down Hollow Years, Dug Pinnick covering Misunderstood with King's X, Kevin Moore doing a dark electronic version of A Rite of Passage (which I think is simultaneously hilarious, pretty damn cool, and never going to happen, but I now want someone to do this in his style), a spiky virtuoso rendition of Overture 1928 from Derek Sherinian with Planet X... Mike's only got a choice of OtBoA right now, but I bet it'd sound pretty cool played by Transatlantic.
Bit of a silly idea, but a roundabout way of saying: the line between "celebrating the past" and "clinging to the past" is thin enough to go both ways, and it's an interesting enough hypothetical that I wouldn't like to write it off. Charlie covering a James song isn't in itself a fucked up thing... it just kind of is in a vacuum.
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