After an excessive period of guitar stagnation I decided I wanted to spend the Summer making some real progress for a change. I recently started playing around with Reaper, trying to recreate songs from scratch. Most of these projects didn’t get far since songs generally have solos, and those solos involve bends, neither of which I could do. So, I found my focus for the next few months. 
I’m not really into ballads but this song has interesting parts to it… a picking pattern which can be played finger style, a chorus using heavy power chords, and solos that are relatively slow and not too bend-heavy.
So, here’s my full cover. Obviously the guitar parts are me playing. The bass and drum parts were made in Reaper using Modo Bass and Modo Drum respectively. I tweaked the picking pattern slightly because I just prefer the sound of it this way, and there is a minor tweak to one of the solos to make it more playable for me.
Timestamps are in the YouTube description if you don’t want to listen to the whole song, as the verses are a bit long and repetitive without vocals.
Despite being a fan of rock from this era, I hadn’t heard it either before a few weeks ago. It just popped up in a search for songs containing chords I know.
I see (hear) what you mean now… they sound almost identical. Did a little digging but nobody (on the first page of Google) seems to know if they had permission or just straight copied it.
