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roachboy: It's been probably 15 years since I last heard the Kronos Purple Haze cover, so I, er, "checked out" a copy from the "internet library". Ahem. So, I feel that, in general, a cover needs to strongly reflect the group that is performing it, and therefore the song should not sound identical to the original. However, I think it can be done while keeping all the original notes. I still believe that this version "feels like" the Kronos Quartet, and even if the notes are a direct transcription, the feel is different enough to make this song work. This may partly be because I don't really listen to string quartets (I have a Turtle Island String Quartet album, but that's it).
I personally don't include jazz when I'm discussing covers, because that is an entirely different world of song reimagination; but, that appears to be your consideration for what makes a good cover. What would you consider to be a good rock cover?
(We're now discussing covers by string groups in a thread about whether or not people are bad singers. I'd call that a pretty good threadjack.)
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