What 1968 Hard Rock song has been rerecorded by at least 20 other bands and performed live by an additional half dozen or so? This is so easy and yet, maybe not. Clues will follow if you haven't figured it out in a couple of hours.

Q magazine ranks it in its top 50 guitar tracks of all-time.

Hmmm, knee-jerk answer for me would be something from Hendrix, except I can't come up with many covers of his tunes.  Clapton doesn't quite fit either.   Gotta be something by the Beatles or the Stones, and when you say guitar track I'm leaning towards a Stones tune.  Jumpin' Jack Flash?  Lot of covers, not sure about the exact year it came out though.  Need more clues before I'd bet money on my guess.

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Slim,you must be a carpenter,because I think you nailed it with Jumping Jack Flash.

he said hard rock though. he might have picked cheap trick :)

Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf

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Very good.

None to all the above, but it started warm. And with each new comment, you seem to move farther away.

One last clue - it was written as a kind of response to "I Can See For Miles" by the Who.

Gonna have to go with one of your personal faves then...Helter Skelter?  (If it is I would guess a lot of the bands that covered were heavy metal bands.)

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Good man hfx. Figured someone had to catch on to that considering I started a thread on this song last year. But was cpvered by bands not in the Metal genre:

• In 1975, Aerosmith recorded a cover of "Helter Skelter", but it was not released until 1991, on the Pandora's Box compilation. The cover charted at #21 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
• In 1978, Siouxsie and the Banshees included a cover of this song on The Scream. A live version of the song appears on their 1983 album Nocturne.
• In 1980, Dianne Heatherington included a significant rearrangement of the song on her Epic album, Heatherington Rocks; the song was also released as a single.^[20]
• In 1981, Pat Benatar released a cover of "Helter Skelter" as the final track on Precious Time.
• In 1983, Mötley Crüe recorded their version of this song on their Shout at the Devil album (1983). It has also appeared on their 1999 and 2006 live albums, Live: Entertainment or Death and Carnival Of Sins Live, respectively, and again on their 2005 compilation album, Red, White & Crüe.
• In 1983, The Bobs released an a cappella version on their eponymous album. It earned them a 1984 Grammy nomination for best new arrangement of an existing song.
• In 1985, Mari Hamada released a cover of this song on her Blue Revolution album.
• In 1988, U2 released a live cover version of "Helter Skelter" as the opening track on their Rattle and Hum album (see below).
• In 1989, Skinny Puppy released the song "Worlock", which includes a movement where samples of Charles Manson singing the first verse of "Helter Skelter" are played on top of samples from The Beatles' song. A music video exists and features short clips of Lennon, Manson and McCartney.
• In 1989, Gillan released a cover of "Helter Skelter" as a bonus track on the reissue of Magic.
• In 1989, Vow Wow recorded "Helter Skelter", released it as a single and named their album after the song.
• In 1997, Dimension Zero included a cover of the song on Penetrations from the Lost World.
• In 1997, Skrew included a cover of the song on Angel Seed XXIII.
• In 1999, Joe Lynn Turner release a cover of the song on his fifth solo album Under Cover 2.
• In 2000, Oasis released a studio version which was released as B-sides to "Go Let It Out" and "Who Feels Love?".
• In 2007, the Stereophonics release a cover of the song as a bonus-track on the Japanese release of Pull the Pin.
• In 2007, Dana Fuchs performs the song in Across the Universe.
• In 2008, Autolux released a cover of the song as a B-side on their single "Audience No. 2".
• In 2009, Thrice released a cover of the song as a bonus track on their album Beggars.
• In 2011, Thrice's cover version of the song was used with the Red Faction: Armageddon trailer.

Husker Du, U2, Urban Dance Squad, Pat Benetar all released a version of Helter Skelter on live albums.

i was gonna say that, but i didn't.  so obvious!  i even read that backstory about it being in response to the who in the beatles book i'm reading last night. 

following a review of the who: "Forget Happy Jack sitting in sand on the Isle of Man, this marathon epic of swearing cymbals and cursing guitars marks the return of the Who as a major freak-out force.  Recorded in America, it's a Pete Townshend composition filled with townshend mystery and menace, and delivered by the emphatic Mr. Roger Daltry."

Paul says "I thought, 'That's a pity.  I would like to do something like that.'  Then I heard it and it was nothing like it.  It was straight and sophisticated.  So we did this [Helter Skelter].  I like noise."

I love how that quote ends.  I like noise.  Ain't it the truth?

I think jkjband's answer 'Born to Be Wild' may also have been correct.  A quick perusal of Wikipedia shows about 20 cover versions.

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Hmmm...looks like it was first recorded in 1967 but first released in 1968.
   

Now which song was harder - Born to Be Wild or Helter Skelter?

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Helter Skelter

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Absolutely - if this was not a proto-type of what was to become Metal, then I don't know. it was as heavy as anything Blue Cheer did, IMO.

This 60's Bubblegum song's title can be found in your grocery store in many different forms.  Name this non-hard rock tune.

 Lollipop

 

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Sugar Sugar

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Gerbs, very good.

What 1968 Bubblegum tune sang about an emotion being in the digestive part of the body?

Yummy Yummy Yummy??



Yummy yummy yummy I got love in my tummy.....

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EnjoyEverySandwich, Excellant deduction.

The title of this 1966 Bubblegum song, about a girl, sounds like the name of a vegetable.  Name that tune.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick
Jack Flash, sat on a candlestick
Cuz, fire is the Devil's only friend. - Don McClean

Yes, its THAT Jack, that some have called Mick.