Talk:The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)

Manowar cover you can hear here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM4JwtEEHG0. I think we can't use boothleg link in the article as source. But this cover exist ;). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.131.21.220 (talk) 21:16, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

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What is "manalishi"?
Presumably it means "money", but if so that should be made explicit. People are bound to ask, what does this word mean, what is its etymology, where does it come from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.252.90.131 (talk) 03:36, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Origin of the Longer Live Version?
The original single was 4:36 in duration. This is apparently the version (duration 4:43) used in the 1998 compilation album The Vaudeville Years and on Disk 2 of the 2005 compilation Men of the World: the Early Years. However, there is also a much longer live version (duration 15:15) that appears on the 2001 compilation Show-Biz Blues, and also on Disk 3 of Men of the World. Does anyone know the details of the genesis of this longer version? Did it ever appear elsewhere before these compilation albums? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.209.173.58 (talk) 17:06, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The first long live version appeared on the Live in Boston bootleg. Other similar recordings also surfaced on bootlegs, and these were the only releases prior to the compilations you mention. I imagine it was just a track chosen for jamming purposes during some concerts - another one was "Rattlesnake Shake". Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:43, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

The Velvet Underground
In the mid 1980s someone I was aquanted with played a recording of The Velvet Underground covering Green Mamalishi. It was an older version than Judas Priest, so in my openion, I think they heard this version before recording it. They sound quite alike. I can't seem to find this recording. I supose it was not sold to the public. I worked in the music industry, and I heard lots of unreleased music. I would like to find where to get this recording if anyone knows where to find it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gregor666 (talk • contribs) 18:50, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
 * It's not on YouTube (you probably already know that) so it probably never saw the light of day, at least not officially. Best bet is some kind of VU fansite - somebody there will know whether it exists or not. Bretonbanquet (talk) 19:39, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Hey Bretonbanquet
You said "(a band can't really cover its own song)". I'm curious why not? The band's frontmen after Peter left, all "covered" (that's why I put it in quotes) the tune live, but obviously none of them Wrote it. So, as much as it is a Fleetwood Mac song, it's also a Peter Green song and after he left the band, each subsequent Frontman did a version of it.

No biggie, really. I put it in quotes because it's kinda a "cover" of the song in some ways and definitely a cover if you consider it was performed by a new singer of the band and likely the new arranger of it. ;)

albabe -  The Writer /Artist Formally Known as  Al Gordon 20:58, 29 August 2013 (UTC)


 * Regardless of who the frontman or singer might be, it's the same band. Green Manalishi is a Fleetwood Mac song rather than a Peter Green song, so another version by Fleetwood Mac is not a cover, it's just another recording or performance. If a guitarist writes a song and leaves the band, and the band carry on doing the song with a new guitarist, it's not a cover. Singers are no different. If you said that AC/DC went out every night and covered "Highway to Hell", it would sound ridiculous, even though they've changed singers since the original was recorded. Bretonbanquet (talk) 21:14, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
 * whoa - it's a Peter Green song - he wrote it - easy there, pard'na
 * He wrote it for Fleetwood Mac. He didn't take it with him when he left. Bretonbanquet (talk) 21:18, 19 March 2021 (UTC)