How's the Tom Sawyer cover?

**lumberofthebeast** · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:09 am Post subject: How's the Tom Sawyer cover?

I ask because it's in the demo, and I have a friend who's threatening to boycott Harmonix if they mangle Geddy's voice.

I don't even know who Geddy is.

**SheWantsReven** · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 4:16 am Post subject: Re: How's the Tom Sawyer cover?

**sinimax** · Joined: 16 Jul 2007 Posts: 272 Location: OHIO

The cover is great and sounds as close to Geddy as I think possible.
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**SpoonMan** · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 3631

tom sawyer is on the demo. the cover is excellent. i suggest you find a demo and rock the shit out of it.
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**TigerHawk310** · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 254

The musicianship and vocal ability are good; my one complaint is that they messed up the rhythm of the line, "the world is, the world is..."

**SheWantsReven** · Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:56 am Post subject:

Thank god! Harmonix probably dumped Wave Group, when figuring out their cover sucks. Too bad they didn't dump Made in Mexico.

**FrankieB** · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 3413 Location: Lexington, KY

When I played the demo at Best Buy and had played drums on Hard for about the 5th or 6th time on Tom Sawyer, it was then that I realized it was a cover. I had no clue up until the point where I saw something along the lines of, made famous by, or something.

Song is spot on, vocals is very, very close. Overall fantastic cover.

And speaking of covers, the Paranoid cover on RB is a lot better than the one on GH3, in my opinion.
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**Finalizer** · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 1413

Mother, Killing in the Name, Laid to Rest... Harmonix has had their share of questionable covers in the past too. ('Course, it's mostly in the vocal performance; The guitar work is pretty much spot-on every time)

Gotta get my hands on this demo, damnit.
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**dascripter** · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 74

Well just to throw it in WaveGroup did the covers for both GH3 and I am not sure about Rock Band, but I know they did them for GH3 I saw it in the credits.
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**Finalizer** · Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 1413

I know WaveGroup did the covers, but they were in Harmonix's games (GH1 & GH2), so I was simply making that distinction.

Does anyone know whose doing the covers for Rock Band?
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**RLKDragon** · Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 2253 Location: Chicago, IL

Being probably the biggest Rush fan on the boards, I must say the cover is good, but if you play the cover and original side by side, you can tell that the vocals are different. The vocals weren't as high pitched as Geddy's voice is. It's still a good song for the game, but I guess they had to make the vocal range a little more realistic to the user.

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**wesjett08** · Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 323 Location: Ohio

I would say wavegroup...But who knows,I did notice alot of the people listed in the GH3 credits are different people from wavegroup...Mainly not Marcus henderson.The covers are pretty subpart on GH3 IMO...Seemed rushed... no pun intented.