Heart Covers Stairway To Heaven

Asked myself to what level would it be good for a certain musician or a band to cover "Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin? I have seen live many artists playing the song and heard the song by different musicians, pros as well as amateur, but no one put it like the way Heart did at the Kennedy Center Honors on December, 2nd - broadcast two days ago on CBS television channel.

This event is an annual ceremony to recognize celebrities in the United States and honor them for their contribution to the culture and art. Honorees this year included actor Dustin Hoffmann, late night host David Letterman, Russian Natalia Makarova, music legend Buddy Guy, and the three surviving members of Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones.

In addition to Ann and Nancy Wilson, drummer Jason Bonham joined and played the song on stage, accompanied by a big number of musicians on strings and horns sections, as well as vocal choir.
 
It was fantastic performance, Ann's singing was wondrous from the first beginning of the song. You can see a big smile on the faces of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Johns while they were watching the performance. nodding with approval to what they were seeing. It was a sensational and an emotional. The way they arranged the song was like adding a religious touch to it. It was so good that It was so good that t almost brought Robert Planet into tears. 

Queensryche New Album Coming Out In 2013

Below a teaser trailer of the upcoming album by Heavy Metal pioneers, Queensryche, with their new singer Todd La Torre. The whole metal community witnessed the unpleasent and frustrating (sometimes called violent) departure of legendary Geoff Tate from the band.

I was surprised a couple of months ago when I heard Tate's solo album. Immediately ordered it and was very pleased with every single song. Basically my surprise was to hear real metal contrast to the last Queensryche album Addicted to Chaos, which was to me the most disappointing album in thier career.

Now and after hearing the teaser trailer of the upcoming album, I can't make up my mind who is right and who is wrong, because I like what I heard from Tate solo work, as well as I love what I heard on this teaser trailer.

Similar Arrangments

One might notices the similarity between this song:



and this one:

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Accoustic Melody Cover

This is the only way to play Sabbath Bloody Sabbath on semi-acoustic guitar.

Dio Singing Backing Vocals

Many knows that the late Ronnie James Dio did backing vocals (or featured) on a number of tracks. He can be heard on Ian Gillan's 40 years anniversary album, Gillan Inn, singing "Day Late and Dollar Short".
The other time was with Queensryche, when he Leant vocals as  Dr.X on the Operation Mindcrime II album.
But it was a big surprise when came to my knowledge that the legendary musician did backing vocals on the song "Give Me Kindness", from David Coverdale's second solo album, Northwinds.
More interesting is that Ronnie's wife (and later his manager), Windy, is singing backing vocals on that song too.
I would love to hear the full story of how all his come around! During that time Dio was part of the first reincarnation of Richie Blackmore's Rainbow.
By the way, Northwinds is a great album, more blues than rock. Some critics considers the music from that album is the early trademark to Whitesnake MKI sound we all used to listen to in the years that followed.