An Outkast in Arizona

What do you get when you mix a hippie with Andre 3000 in the desert? A great cover of Outkast's Hey Ya. We've been checking out the best of the best for our Arts and Entertainment section of our new Southern Arizona guide that should be out later this week and came across this amazing video of Mat Weddle from the local band Obadiah Parker playing in Tempe, Arizona. Enjoy.

(thanks fosfor)

Update: Torrent link for mp3 file

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Comments

[m]

nice post - just to nitpick, he's name is spelt 'Mat Weddle' - i only mention it so people searching for him find the right guy. tchuss, m.

[keith]

thanks - it's been corrected

[Pat Phelan]

Really nice post, he sounds great.

[Edith]

Fantastic cover. I used to hate this song, but now I'll have to revise my opinion.

[eric]

that's a pretty badass acoustic version of hey ya.

[vemrion]

Amazing cover! That was actually a really faithful cover of a kickass song. We gotta get him and Andre 3000 on stage together!

[Jackson]

That's... beautiful.

[Bjppolo]

Great Cover! Is there a way to download the MP3?

[fotizmo]

@Bjppolo: message the guy that uploaded the video to youtube (me), and he'll (i'll) send you a link to the mp3 :) Thanks everyone for your support!

[Joe]

Greatness!

[Dennis]

great cover!!! Can you please send me the link to the mp3.

thanks

[Derek Buranen]

I won't discriminate. I'll take a .ogg or .flac as well ;)

[Joshua]

This is absolutely awesome! keep up the good work man.

[mattso]

ya i definately need the link to the mp3 as well

[Tom]

I'd like a link to the mp3 as well

[jonezy]

that is absolutely awesome!

[Trevor Wermund]

I would love a MP3 as well

[Linda]

interesting. and this guy has a pleasant voice. but outkast countrified isn't my idea of awesome. so this basically sucks for me.

[spisska]

Linda, you're useless. Until you learn how to play and sing, and until you learn to differentiate what is good from what your idea of awesome is, please spare us your needless commentary.

Hats off on the performance. Very, very well done.

[Alek]

Very nice. Most well popular tunes can are usually overproduced, but if they have a solid melody and lyrics then you'll always get great covers in various guises from all over the world.

[NEW GHOSTFACE]

You know what, "spisska"? Before you start throwing around terms like "useless," just settle down with your badass internet self, before the realization dawns on you that just because someone has a different opinion than you, that doesn't mean it's wrong -- & just because some dude with a beard makes a pop top 40 jingle accessible to you doesn't mean that he's cracked the 2 minute mile.

This version is OK. In fact, it's pretty generically bland. But expressing the opinion that it's just "OK" & not "EARTH-SHATTERINGLY AWESOME BECAUSE IT'S SO SO GOOD RIIITE??" is just as valid as posting it on the internet in some kind of context of "hey, dudes, here's a 'real' version of that pop song we all disdain for its superficiality."

& if you deny that that's what this shit is all about, then address any rebuttals to your own conscience & ego, homes. This is some seriously dumbass exalting of mundane cover-version "check-me-out" bullshit. Change Linda's "countrified" assessment to "wankified" and she & I are 100% in agreement.

So right on! Let's tone down the radio & bring everyone into the idealized bohemian coffee-shop of the mind! Or, you know, whatever's cool with the uninformed hipsterati this year.

[Al]

Here's another interesting accoustical, Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A, as done by Nina Gordon. BTW, language warning. After all, it is gangsta rap.

[Al]

Oh sorry about that. Here's the URL, http://www.ninagordon.com/sightsandsounds.html

[sixu]

very impressive! Love it

[Dajale]

Very cool rendition, he did it justice, he should do a bunch of other Hip Hop covers it’s an untapped market