Highway Star (song) - Covers

Covers

Because of its fast tempo, "Highway Star" is covered by numerous bands in the speed metal genre as well as other bands from other genres.

  • Night Ranger covers a portion of this song live during their song, "This Boy Needs to Rock". The album version of "This Boy Needs To Rock", from their Seven Wishes album, contains a lengthy guitar solo that is essentially exactly the same guitar solo found in "Highway Star".
  • Faith No More has covered at least one verse of the song, which can be heard on the second disc of their greatest hits album Who Cares a Lot?.
  • X-Cops, a GWAR side project, covered the song (with slightly different lyrics to better reflect the theme of the band and album) on their only album, You Have the Right to Remain Silent....
  • Metal Church covered the song on their self-titled debut album.
  • Australian classical guitar band Saffire perform an equally fast but acoustic cover of Highway Star on their 2004 CD Nostalgica.
  • Serbian band Cactus Jack covered the song on their 2003 live/tribute album Deep Purple Tribute.
  • Alter Bridge covered the song several times on their concerts with Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy playing both guitar parts.
  • Les Fradkin recorded a instrumental MIDI Guitar version for his solo album "Hyper MIDI Guitar" in 2010.
  • Type O Negative has a version of the track on 'The Best of Type O Negative'.
  • Dream Theater performed the song as well as the rest of the Made in Japan album on 13 January 2006. It was subsequently released as an official bootleg on Mike Portnoy's Ytse Jam Records.
  • Bugotak band from Novosibirsk made their Men Chuguruk cover with throat singing vocals in Buryat language and instruments of Siberian indigenous people.
  • Do As Infinity covered the song on the last live from "Need Your Love Tour". It appears in their "Live in Japan II" DVD.
  • Quintorigo covered the song in their album Grigio.
  • The New Jersey band Project EriE has covered this song numerous times sans keyboard player, instead having lead guitar player Nikk Cubillos play the organ solo in addition to the guitar solo.
  • Supergroup, Chickenfoot, have performed the song live.
  • Buckcherry recorded the song for NASCAR and included it on the 2009 re-release of their Black Butterfly Album. They have also been performing it live while currently on tour opening for KISS
  • A DJ named Speedmaster recorded a faster eurodance remix of the song for the 2001 Dancemania compilation Speed 6.
  • East German band Puhdys recorded a cover of this song on their English-language album Far From Home.
  • Stryper covered the song on their 2011 release, 'The Covering'.
  • Truckin' Little Hankies covered the song in their live show in March 2011.

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