Guns In the Sky - Beck

"Record Club No. 4 is here! Joining in this time we had three of [Beck's] favorite bands— Liars, Annie Clark and Daniel Hart from St. Vincent, Sergio Dias from the legendary Brazilian band Os Mutantes, as well as RC veteran Brian Lebarton, just back from the Charlotte Gainsbourg tour. The record covered this time was 1987 blockbuster Kick by INXS. The record was chosen by fellow Aussie, Angus from the Liars. It was recorded in a little over 12 hours on March 3rd, 2010. It was an intense, hilarious, daunting and completely fun undertaking. Thanks to everybody for being there and putting so much into it. Many classic moments, inspired performances and occasional anarchy. Well post the songs consecutively in the albums original sequence. First one up is Guns In The Sky."

Bass: Aaron Hemphill
Drums: Julian Gross
Effects: Annie Clark, Brian Lebarton
Guitar (Electric): Annie Clark, Beck Hansen, Daniel Hart, Sergio Dias
Original Performance: INXS
Percussion: Beck Hansen
Vocals: Angus Andrew
Vocals (Background): Annie Clark, Beck Hansen, Brian Lebarton, Daniel Hart
Written by: Andrew Farriss, Michael Hutchence

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Entertainment

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• beck
• hansen
• Record
• Club
• INXS
• kick
• guns
• in
• the
• sky
• video
• cover

[lepxs]

Very Cool :)

[E139486]

Too REGRESSIVE! Come up with your own shit

[lastrockgod]

2:46 was the cutest thing i've ever seen:))

[wanchastu]

Wow, beck doesn't suck!

[MrEliotnex75]

Dicen,..... los que saben de música.....que versionando otros grupos es que llegas a la esencia misma de tu sonido como banda ..... y si alguien sabe de música y de sonidos propios es beck....buenísimo. ...y buena elección ... el mejor disco de inxs y para mi esta es la mejor canción del disco kick " 'cause I love the shit"

[johann99]

So this is what Scientologists do with their spare time?

[ACDCoverdose]

@letshakehands i know its been 9 months but i think its a Gretsch

[chayhurst]

The lead signer sounds like he would rather be doing something else.

[inxsstribute]

check out our tribute version of guns in the sky :)

[LIFEONPLANETBECK]

Sponttaneous combustion......

Expect the unexpected

Beck represents....

Amen

[LIFEONPLANETBECK]

@suricatafari YES!!

[ziggyhorn1968]

Cool, awesome!!

[hastycolours]

haha, saying "you could just record your own album" is like there's a guy who goes and works on a movie because of his history credentials, so they pull him onto the project for his help. and yousay "you know, you could just work on your own movie. No crap, anyone can do many things. They've decided to do this.

watching a bunch of people "just fuck around" is nothing wrong. Look how popular the grateful dead got. But the velvet underground one is aamazing. like wow amazing.

[hastycolours]

The idea is self proclaimed creativity, at its origin brew, just like how inspiration itself is. Check the record club site, the way it explains its intent is perfect. Don't frown on people doing stuff like this, and covers aren't supposed to always be a direction recreation. renditions of songs is awesome. that's what folk is all about, and mostly all these people are folk musicians.

[basspowerable]

Buenísimo Beckman. Gran cover de los grandes Inxs.

[suricatafari]

masters @ work

[nettabits]

Not a good 'interpretation' from the singer. Just reciting lyrics. Does he even care what the song means?

[inxsstribute]

Anyone want to check out our tribute version of Devil Inside and Taste It ?

[letshakehands]

what guitar is that at 34 secs, looks flippin nice.

[TWolf7000]

@beckmangroup ...Funny you should say this, seeing as you have an assload of Beck videos on your page... I guess the moral is: getting a bunch of random musicians together to cover a random song doesn't always work out that great. HOLY REVALATION BATMAN!

[beckmangroup]

Most people are turned-off to these covers because, as RaygunShaun said, they don't spend time practicing and most of the videos they put up are the first takes.

[TWolf7000]

@beckmangroup ...Ahhhhhhhh.... I..... see... thanks for the information, form-letter generating robot. ;) (considering the idea of replying to an internet drone before continuing...) See, I do covers myself, which is why I'm interested in this concept that The Record Club is doing...only, I cover unpopular songs. Also, I am man enough, and fan enough, of INXS to be mildly put off by the half-assed rendition of their classic tune.

[beckmangroup]

@TWolf7000 The concept of the Record Club is mentioned on Beck's website. The Record Club has also covered Leonard Cohen's "Songs of Leonard Cohen", Velvet Underground's "Velvet Underground + Nico", and Skip Spence's "Oar."

[TWolf7000]

@RaygunShaun

I guess its awesome, depending on what you think "awesome" means. My point being, its somewhat interesting to watch a bunch of people mess around with a song that they don't even seem like they really like, but you can kinda tell they

aren't really into this song. What else have this club done, anyway? I was aware that Beck was covering entire albums, but is that the same as this "club"? BTW, how do you know what the concept of this club is exactly? -PEAZE

[RaygunShaun]

@TWolf7000 The concept of Beck's Record Club project is to "interpret" the album. Basically, they listen to the album, then spontaneously record their own version, without any arrangements being made beforehand. So, in a way, yes, they're just fucking around.

That being said, this is awesome.