Month: September 2025

It seems like everyone and his grandmother recorded “Hey Joe.”  I don’t know who wrote it or who did it first, but the single we had lying around the Renfield household was by the Leaves. That’s the template for the garage-rock take on the song.  The Standells are also in that vein.  The Byrds cleaned it up a little.  Love recorded a more garagey and psychotic take on the Byrds’ version ( I’m assuming Love’s came afterwards).  Everyone knows Hendrix’s cover, which stands in its own category.  As does the Mothers’, which came at the height of Zappa’s hippie-skewering phase.  After all these years I still find this hilarious, especially the dueling monologues, one in each channel, during the closing mayhem.