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.
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