Joe Bonamassa has hooked up with Los Angeles funk band Scary Pockets for a cover of AC/DC's Back In Black, and it's nothing like the original. The Gibson SG msay be in place, but gone is Malcolm and Young's razor-edged riff, gone is Phil Rudd's monster backbeat, and instead it's all very smooth. Very tasteful. Very restrained. And undeniably funky.
For the uninitiated, Scary Pockets are a group of players who regularly record covers of well-known songs. In the past they've come up with funkified versions of Coldplay's Clocks, Iris by Goo Goo Dolls, and an unlikely, stripped-bank canter through Radiohead's Creep.
