Posts Tagged ‘Jeff Hall’

Three Guys In A Pizza Parlor Cover U2’s “Red Hill Mining Town”

Thursday, June 9th, 2022

We interrupt our regular book geeking to bring you Mike Masse, Jeff Hall and The Phil’s extremely credible cover of U2’s “Red Hill Mining Town”

(Previously.)

Two Guys In a Pizza Parlor Nail Toto’s “Africa”

Friday, March 14th, 2014

I saw this on John Skipp’s Facebook page, and it came up at the SDC, so despite it already having 3 million hits, here’s two guys in a pizza parlor doing the best cover of Toto’s “Africa” you’ll hear, well, probably ever.

Mike Massie seems to have done a lot of other impressive covers, like this one of U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”:

Or this one of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”:

And even Genesis’ “Home By The Sea”:

Indeed, it’s hard to go through this guy’s YouTube list and not find a great cover version.

Want to feel old? “Africa” came out in 1982, or 32 years ago. Go back 32 years before “Africa” and “Rock Around the Clock” was still 5 years away…