Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Driving, freedom, and the road.

The road has been on my mind a lot lately.The first Audioslave album remains among my favorite driving albums of all time. So many of the songs on that album speak of the joys of the road. Included in this entry are the originals and some of my favorite covers from that album as well as some of my favorite driving tunes. enjoy.

First off, here's The original version of "I Am the Highway"


A while back, I was listening to a pandora channel based on the band "Apocalyptica" and found a group called "The String Quartet" who does classical covers of a lot of different bands. They did a great cover of "I Am the Highway". here it is:


Gasoline. This song pretty much nails what I expected when I heard "Chris Cornell" and "Everyone except Zach from RATM". You have the drums and bass from Rage, the "Soundgarden" vocals... and it's one of the few Audioslave tunes where Tom Morello really does his thing on guitar. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of his other stuff with the band, but just listening to the guitar on this song and say "bulls on parade" or "testify" and you can tell it's the same musician.