This song has been stuck in my head since we walked by the (former) Waverly Theater in Greenwich Village last week.
I had to exorcise it today with some sloppy, mistake-filled guitar-playing.
posted by chococat
on Apr 2, 2013 -
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Discovered that my new Focusrite will covert old cassettes to digital. This is from around 1978, my friend Karen and I covering a Lowell George and John Sebastian song that I learned off a Valerie Carter album.
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posted by Danf
on Apr 1, 2013 -
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You've probably heard DragonForce's highly entertaining power metal
piece de resistance before (maybe in Guitar Hero III). This is like that, only not.
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posted by ZsigE
on Mar 24, 2013 -
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I thought I had uploaded this 1998 live living room recording but I guess not. Yet another example of my old band's Bee Gees fixation.
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posted by litlnemo
on Mar 8, 2013 -
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This — and not
my post from a year ago — was actually the first sketch of my cover of "Keep Your Hands To Yourself". Be warned, this is not pretty, more like a scribble on a wet napkin than a drawing. It's first-take everything, rushed, and I think it was my first stab at using GarageBand. (Everything before that had been made with Audacity or 4-track.)
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posted by not_on_display
on Mar 4, 2013 -
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A cover of Radiohead's H&D on resonator guitar in open G, for the minor/major challenge. I originally intended this to be a shitkicking country stomper but it turned into something quite different.
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posted by unSane
on Feb 23, 2013 -
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Take
Another Brick in the Wall parts 1, 2, and 3, jam 'em all into one quick bluegrass shitkicker, throw it into a major key, and you get this.
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posted by cortex
on Feb 20, 2013 -
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Surf-electro?
Cover of the Jan and Dean song.
posted by dacre
on Feb 17, 2013 -
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As made famous by gloomy pirate Jimmy Bummer. E minor with ukulele and guitar.
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posted by cortex
on Feb 16, 2013 -
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This is a cover of Bishop Allen's "Butterfly Nets." While the song is a favorite of teenage girls on with ukeleles on Youtube, I am instead a 34-year-old baritone with Garageband and an OP-1.
posted by Sokka shot first
on Feb 8, 2013 -
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Despite my lack of religion and the fact that this song has been done to death, I thought I'd give it a shot.
posted by chococat
on Dec 21, 2012 -
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Need a little help. Here's a nice little cover I did with a good old friend I've been playing with since highschool. Need some help. Using a logitech usb mic which I generally like the sound/versatillity/ portability of. Trying to figure out how to cut out the high-pitched noise it comes with.
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posted by es_de_bah
on Dec 3, 2012 -
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The 1980s friendliest theme song (with some odd verses that don't get played during the show's intro).
Played with my firefly banjolele.
posted by Sreiny
on Dec 2, 2012 -
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I know this is completely not what the challenge is but I couldn't help myself. My sincere apologies.
posted by chococat
on Nov 8, 2012 -
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I'm stuck at home with a cold, so I thought I'd comfort myself with this cheesy old song and learn to sing in harmony using GarageBand.
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posted by Pallas Athena
on Oct 6, 2012 -
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Last minute entry. This was supposed to be, and will eventually be, an a capella/choral twofer with
Fitter Happier, but I wasn't able to finish it in time.
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posted by askmeaboutLOOM
on Aug 31, 2012 -
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Oh shit. I lost the power supply to the br-532 in the move, so to be econimical i got a br-800 which arrived this week.. i recorded all this within the last 2 hours and about a half hour ago realized i had no idea how to get it off the damn thing. turns out it was the same way as the 532 but to make a short story short used the mixing on the 800 and um.. here we go.. straight off the br-800.. also played bass for the first time in 500 years
posted by xorry
on Aug 31, 2012 -
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Like all supergroups, the OK LA MeFi Action Band sometimes pares itself down to a solo performer and producer arrangement. Nobody leaves the room, you understand, but everyone takes a drink and everyone but me holds their breath.
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posted by carsonb
on Aug 20, 2012 -
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Still on the horse, this time with a Beirut cover! This one took a lot longer, 3 nights of iPad work. Beirut usually has a lot of brass instruments, so this one was a real challenge, but I'm proud of how it came out.
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posted by lazaruslong
on Aug 9, 2012 -
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Performed by the
OK L.A. MeFi Action Band: speicus, mandymanwasregistered, scody, holyrood, klangklangston, weston, carsonb, and The World Famous
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posted by The World Famous
on Aug 8, 2012 -
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This is a Posies cover a few of us did for a Dear 23 list (Posies fan list) compilation in the late 1990s. Personnel: Me, vocal and maybe guitar; Chris Otto, background vocal, guitar, autoharp; Terri Doherty: bass.
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posted by litlnemo
on Aug 2, 2012 -
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The epic second track off the Roddy's O-Face record. It's pretty hefty compared to the rest of the songs, so make sure you can handle a solid minute and forty five seconds.
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posted by cortex
on Jul 31, 2012 -
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It's well known that Radiohead went to Bob Dylan for inspiration on the title of Subterranean Homesick Alien; it's less well known that they actually lifted the song structure and lyrics themselves from this rare demo recording.
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posted by cortex
on Jul 26, 2012 -
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