Songs you originally liked because you thought it was somebody else singing them

[chefcraig]

I first heard this while driving a truck with a crummy radio sometime in 1982 or 83. I really couldn't make out much of it, but I thought "How cool, Aerosmith covering Prince." A short while later that week, I found out it was Mitch Ryder from the Detroit Wheels. Wish I could find a good quality clip of the original video. You can see it 2nd below, but it's a truly ghastly copy. It featured the astonishingly well endowed Kitten Natividad.

[kwame k]

PONTIAC SILVER DOME 1988.....so much traffic downtown I got out of the car...walked 2 blocks to the liquor store & bought a case of beer...walked out and jumped back in the car!!!

Also advoided seeing KINGDOME CLONE......they sucked DOG BALLS....


went in to see METALLICA DESTROY the place....should have left right then!

Ha! Were were there

[SNIPER]

Other than the opener and the headline act it was a good show........

Metallica blew everyone's mind here in Detroit.....Pontiac Silver Dome, to be exact!

I saw that at the L.A. Coliseum. Fuck yeah, Metallica killed it. They were playing shit from Justice before the album was out. Epic..

[hambon4lif]

For some reason, I used to think this was The Tubes (even though it sounds almost nothing like Fee Waybill). It wasn't 'til years later that I found out it was this dork.
Plus I've been in 3 different relationships with women named Leah, so this song kinda goes into remission for awhile, but it always comes back to haunt me. Like terminal herpes.......

[DONNIEP]

For some reason, I used to think this was The Tubes (even though it sounds almost nothing like Fee Waybill). It wasn't 'til years later that I found out it was this dork.
Plus I've been in 3 different relationships with women named Leah, so this song kinda goes into remission for awhile, but it always comes back to haunt me. Like terminal herpes.......

Fuck! I could have went my whole life without seeing that video! I've always dug that song and now it's ruined. Oh, who the hell am I kidding - I'll crank this thing up every time I hear it

[diamondsgirl]

I thought this was Freddie Mercury but then I remembered he was dead.

[Unchainme]

always thought this was something off "In through the out door", or "Coda", before I realized it was kind of a cheesey knock off the Zeppelin sound.

[Unchainme]

Ah sweet an Eddie Van Halen solo without Sammy Hagar, this is awe....oh wait, it's the guitarist from billy idol.

[sadaist]

I'll be honest, a song in the late 80's or early 90's that sounded EXACTLY like ABBA. Wasn't them. I like ABBA cause I heard it everyday in moms car.....on her 8-track. LOL. I guess it was the same way she liked VH cause of me.

[sadaist]

Oh, I also liked a Kingdom Come song cause I thought it was zeppelin. Mid-80's when they first came out.

[twonabomber]

Ah sweet an Eddie Van Halen solo without Sammy Hagar, this is awe....oh wait, it's the guitarist from billy idol.

i am a big Steve Stevens fan and am always amused at how many people confuse Stevens' playing with Ed's.

[FORD]

I thought this was Freddie Mercury but then I remembered he was dead.

Looks kinda like Freddie had a child with Gary Cherone. Wonder who they used for a surrogate?

Seriously though, he really did capture that mid 70's Queen vibe fairly well.

[FORD]

Everybody thought this was a Prince song (singing about Sheila E)......

[FORD]

And of course then there was the Duran Duran wannabe band...... (though this song was actually more tolerable than anything Duran Duran did in the second half of the 80's)

[FORD]

These guys wanted to be the Rolling Stones so bad, they somehow talked Jimmy Miller into producing their albums......

They should have called this one "You Can't Get Sympathy For Shining A Light"