World of Weird Al Yankovic

dr.worm @ Sep 10 2006, 03:58 PM wrote: no way. that is DEFINITELY the real version of Black Dog. i've heard it a billion times. i don't even think they could reproduce it to sound old.

Take it from a musician, the band re-recorded it. I can tell right off the bat that it wasn't the original. First, Jon's hi hat's were open, where as John Bohnam kept his more closed. Jim didn't triple track his guitar like Jimmy Page did, and the sound on it is more like they stuck a mic in the middle of the room and recorded all the instruments that way. Not to say it's a bad thing, cuz it sounds awesome, but it is definitely not the original version.

Al confirmed it was rerecorded in an interview with Rolling Stone

I hope they did record it that way where they just stuck a mic in the middle of the room and recorded it that way. It gave a nice ambience to it, room bleed, so to speak. It just sounds great.

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spacedingo @ Sep 25 2006, 06:06 PM wrote: Al confirmed it was rerecorded in an interview with Rolling Stone

Where is it? If it was posted on this forum then I can't find it...

An idea about this song live (this is just speculation, but it's in spoilers so that people who haven't heard it won't be spoiled):
SPOILER During the radio part, it would be funny if he actually had a radio on the stage and like... turned it on at that part.

Ahem... can you say... "They Might Be Giants"?

Al probably won't do that.

weirdojace @ Sep 26 2006, 03:06 AM wrote: Where is it? If it was posted on this forum then I can't find it...

I just found it - it was posted last week on their blog. Here's the link.

I'm not even done with the whole song yet and it's the best Weird Al song I've ever heard. Absolute classic.

This parody was possibly Al's most creative and most dead-on satire of the original ever.
Very very very impressed, Al. And the Zep cover was an awesome touch.