As is the case with many tax professionals, I consider it a treat when I come across a version of George Harrison’s classic TaxMan song that I haven’t heard before.

Sherry has a friend whose husband is in the Wisconsin band Boney Fingers.  They are known mainly as a Grateful Dead tribute band, but also do creative covers of other artists’ songs and some completely original music as well.  They sent us some CDs and I couldn’t wait to play the one from Summerfest 2002 after I saw the song list.

Their version of TaxMan is an excellent funky one with a lot of instrumental breaks.  We received permission to post a copy of the song here.  I was going to make my own easier to download MP3 copy, but as I was browsing around the group’s website, I noticed that they already have several MP3 versions of their music available for free downloading, including my two favorite tracks from the Summerfest 2002 CD:

TaxMan 

Brick/Shakedown – An excellent mashup of Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall and the Grateful Dead’s Shakedown Street.

They also have several performance videos posted on YouTube that I will be checking out.  Sadly, TaxMan isn’t one of them.

I recently came across this torrent of a Beatles tribute concert called A Walk Down Abbey Road, featuring Jack Bruce, Christopher Cross, Mark Farner, Todd Rundgren, Alan Parsons, Godfrey Townsend, Steve Murphy, John Beck.

For those who haven’t heard of the musical group, Blue Floyd, they cover Pink Floyd songs in a blues style. I’ve downloaded and listened to several of their concerts over the past few years.

I was browsing the new concert torrents and found this one from 1/17/2002 of Blue Floyd playing 16 different Beatles songs, including the one many of us tax pros have obsessed over for decades, George Harrison’s TaxMan.

The entire concert is in the FLAC format and is a 675 mb download.

I used my Nero software to make an MP3 conversion of the TaxMan song that is only 5 mb and sounds exactly like the 52 mb FLAC version; at least on my computer speakers.

[Update] – There are some very interesting facts about this iconic song on Wikipedia that I hadn’t heard before.