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Topic: Mannish Boy - Hindu Love Gods...

- caught the end of Joe's show on Planet Rock Saturday evening, - he played a great version of Mannish Boy but not sure who it was by, - might be wrong but vocals sounded like Muddy but production was way too modern. Lead me to do a bit of searching and came up with a version by the Hindu Love Gods which sounded very good and to my surprise the band combined a couple of my fav's Warren Zevon on vocals and some little ol' band called REM without Mr Stipe...

So couple of questions; - as above anybody know the version that Joe was playing Saturday? And, - anybody else got anything to pitch in about the Hindu Love Gods?

Ian

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Re: Mannish Boy - Hindu Love Gods...

Old 1990 album, out of print here in the U.S. Got alot of airplay with their cover of Rasberry Beret when it first came out.

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Re: Mannish Boy - Hindu Love Gods...

If you go back and replay Joe's PR Show, joe mentioned the album "Electric Mud". Just found the track on Last.fm.

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Re: Mannish Boy - Hindu Love Gods...

thanks guys, - Brack I did a bit of research on the Electric Mud album, - it's now in my Amazon basket!

Looks like the Hindu Love Gods will have to be an i-Tunes download as looks like it is out of "print" here. Surprised a few more people have not commented on their pedigree, - some good blues songs on their album played by some fine artists. I guess the band name put a lot of people investigating it, sounds a bit "world" music-ish, - what a useless name for a music genre!

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Re: Mannish Boy - Hindu Love Gods...

I've been a huge fan of the late, great Warren Zevon since high school (late 70's, early 80's).  Got Hindu Love Gods when it came out.  Yeah, it was a studio project with WZ and a couple of guy from REM.  There was some kerfuffle over it, as I recall.  I'm not sure if the REM guys knew for sure it was going to be released, etc.  Can't remember exactly.

But it's a neat album.  All covers, and some good hard blues songs.  An interesting cover of Raspberry Beret, but Warren was always one for irony.

Ian, if you can't find a copy, since it is out of print, and not likely to be released by the Zevon estate, I can see about sending you a copy.  Email me if you're interested.