Comments on: Are You Gonna Go My Way

Are You Gonna Go My Way

mexican — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:32:16 -0800

A few days ago I had a vision that my band did a cover of Are You Gonna Go My Way. Then my band did a cover of Are You Gonna Go My Way. This is that cover.

I usually use programmed drums for Los Muchachos Mexicanos songs because they're easy to record, but Lenny didn't use a click track on his recording so the time was all over the place on my reference. This meant I had to schlep down to my local studio to record real drums. The base concept for this cover was no bending strings on guitar and a dork-ing up bass part. Just shitty playing in general.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:01:01 -0800

You're sick, mexican. Wonderfully sick.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:13:50 -0800

Ha, I hate this song. So. Much. But I like this. It's just perfectly lousy. In a good way.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:38:03 -0800

Your cover is bad and you should feel good for posting it.

By: melissa may

melissa may — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:05:55 -0800

Wow, you actually made me like that song. Thanks -- ?

By: potch

potch — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:32:59 -0800

This is fantastic. Fan-tastic.

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:46:37 -0800

At first I thought, "Hey, I kinda liked that song," and then I thought, "Hey, wait, I think it was only because Cindy Blackman has an awesome afro," and then I thought, "man, I needed to do something tonight... what was it."

Oh, and this is great.

By: infinitewindow

infinitewindow — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:27:27 -0800

Reminds me of this. Nice!

By: mexican

mexican — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:43:12 -0800

The Legion of Rock Start is indeed awesome. I was thinking of them some while I was working on this. It's hard to be as shitty as those guys, though. They are truly masters. I did take a little direct inspiration from them and put my cover behind the video for the original song.
Also, thanks for reminding me that Danzig exists.

By: mediocre

mediocre — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:17:02 -0800

This is amazing musical satire. The only thing that keeps it from being perfect is the vocals, I just feel like they should be attacked as WILDLY over the top David Lee Roth style to contrast the super vanilla musicianship.

Man, that's a great idea, taking all the bending out of a song that so depends on it for feeling.. Kudos!

By: mexican

mexican — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:07:05 -0800

I didn't really have a strong idea for what i wanted to do with the vocals. I rented a studio to record the drums for an hour and had 4 or 5 OK drum takes with 20 minutes left and decided to try and get the vocals with my left over time. If anyone wants to try and put better vocals with this song, I've put the GarageBand file up on my S3 account.

By: February28

February28 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:50:55 -0800

demented. beautifully, terribly demented.

By: micayetoca

micayetoca — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:58:53 -0800

You make Kravitz listenable. This doesn't seem to be a bad song played like this.

By: Jofus

Jofus — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:33:37 -0800

I FUCKING LOVE THIS.