Ramp up the BPM, add a pleasant chorus and slap the crash test dummy head.

That was Icky Blossoms’ recipe for covering Capgun Coup’s “Twist and Shout” at The Waiting Room last month. Take Cover Omaha was the first of two Hear Nebraska fundraisers at which a dozen or so Nebraska artists covered each others work.

Watch Sarah Bohling, Nik Fackler, Derek Pressnall and Graham Ulicny reinterpret Capgun Coup below:

Cameras: JP Davis and Marco Meyer
Editing: Marco Meyer

(Special thanks to Jeremy Wurst for helping us with the audio after the fact.)

Here’s the original, if you’d like to compare: