Monty Got A Raw Deal

I wasn't going to cover this because I couldn't play the intro part - which I believe is played on  a bouzouki (not a mandolin like I had previously thought). It was suggested to me that I loop the part from the original recording but I wasn't going to go down that road, I've done that before for drums a few times but didn't want to start doing that for other instruments as it kind of defeats the object of a "cover".

Anyway, thanks to YouTube, I managed to find out that the bouzouki is in open G tuning for Monty Got A Raw Deal so I tuned my guitar the same way (with limited success) and found I was at least able to play the riff as it would be played by the bouzouki even if the sound was never going to be quite right.

I'm pleased with the results, I've always liked the song, it's one of the stronger "album tracks" on Automatic For The People and it's a bit of a crime that most people would never have heard the song if they hadn't bought the album.