Nightwish's cover of Gary Moore's Over the Hills and Far Away is really good
On one of the Blackk Sabbath tribute albums, Bruce Dickinson goes as really great cover of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, much better than the original.
there are more, but it's late and i don't want to think anymore
To improve technique and of course trying to keep all as clean as possible. I know my own limits and speed limits and so on I never play anything I'm not capable of. That wouldn't make any sense. After three years of playing I tried to play everything as fast as possible and that sounded, I would say, like shit, and I didn't realize that if I'd play bit slower things than I was capable of playing then everything would sound much better.
--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By
--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By
