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My Lord, Whatta Moon (after "Oh Darling!")
stole some chords and rhythms from the beatles in honor of the lunar love i feel e'ryday
churchCover_Jan28_2022
Here's a cover based on a song by The Church that I recorded in Logic Pro. Drum track is from apple loops. This is a pour-a-glass-of-wine or pack-a-bowl and kick back kind of song.
silhouettes
Cover of a Postal Service song. I'm pretty sure the song is ~actually~ about nuclear war, but the lyrics are weirdly appropriate for the pandemic. [more inside]
Christmas Vacation
Looks great. Little full. Lotta sap.
I Never Dreamed Someone Like You Could Love Someone Like Me
Happy Halloween!
Here's me doing that song from the film "Carrie" where she gets to dance at the Prom.
Maybe it's not a trick and Tommy really likes her? It seems as though things are finally looking up for Carrie. Oops, nope.
CARRIE WHITE BURNS IN HELL! [more inside]
Anabelle
Cover of "Anabelle" by Gillian Welch.
Bass, guitar, accordion, lots of reverb. [more inside]
Blackbird (cover) - Voice Memo Recording 24 SEP 2021
Well it's been a minute since I've posted anything here. This is a "one take" cover of the Beatles song "Blackbird". Sung while playing on my old upright church piano in my living during a lunch break. [more inside]
Daylight Again
Still in a Stephen Stills mood, I guess. Video.
4 + 20
A song about a nice Jewish girl
This is my second pass (previously) at the Bach/Gounod “Ave Maria,” this time with acoustic guitar accompaniment. Video.
Sandstorm
So I play in this cover band back home that is a bit heavier in terms of sound and we have a keyboard player so I keep saying we should do a metal version of Sandstorm. No one believes me that it will work so I decided to make a quick demo to show them what is possible. A super metal lead guitar takes the place of the lead synth, the chords are from my dad's old Roland JX-8P, bass is my Stingray 5, and the drums are factory keyboard drums performed live on the Roland DP-90. sandstorm Great song!!!!
That's All It Took
With five of us living in a small downtown Toronto house, I don't get a whole heck of a lot of music recording time. I recently had a few days all alone for the first time in over a year (ch-ch-changes!) so me and the dog lit a fire and recorded a cover of a Gram & Emmylou song by way of the George Jones & Gene Pitney original, featuring some guitars and the old family Heintzman piano. [more inside]
Lucky
Did not wake up this morning expecting to record a Britney Spears song.
Fortunate Son
Here's another cover, this time it's CCR's anti-war/anti-classist classic. We slowed it down quite a bit and changed the rhythm to a lazy shuffle lilt. Took it to the swamp a little. Added a bridge, too, which the song kinda cried out for, I thought. Once again, brought to you by Covid-19's insistence that me and my musical partner not play in the same room, but still play together, you know, live and all. Video of this performance at YT here. [more inside]
The Let Go
Another request from my three-year-old grandson, this is Elle King's "The Let Go." Video.
To Make You Feel My Love
Another cover tune, brought to you by remote recording: two guys in their socially distanced rooms making music together. This one isn't a tune I would've leapt on to do as a cover, but... it was a request! And being essentially a show biz animal eager to please, I decided to do my entertainerly duty and give it my best shot. Video of the performance (zoom zoom zoom) is at YT here. [more inside]
If I Can't Have You
Cover of the Yvonne Elliman song. [more inside]
Mercy Now
This moving song by Mary Gauthier is one of my favorites. Everyone needs mercy. Video.
Moonshadow
The Cat Stevens classic is a favorite of my grandson, so I recorded it for him.
Here Comes The Sun
2020 has been a hell of a decade, and George Harrison's classic is a great expression of relief over the election outcome. Acoustic guitar, recorded on iPad Pro. Video.
Nemesis
Spooky music for a spooky night. Lossy video here.
A Whiter Shade of Pale
The Procol Harum song on solo acoustic guitar and voice. Recorded as an iPad Pro video, reverb added with MicSwap Video Pro, then exported as audio.
Fifth take, as evidenced by the exasperated opening.
Some Of Shelly's Blues
I've been playing around with a different feel for this Michael Nesmith classic. Recorded on iPad Pro, first take, rough vocal.
The End of the World
Music: Arthur Kent
Lyrics: Sylvia Dee
Originally Recorded by: Skeeter Davis [more inside]
Time (the Revelator)
More microKORG experimentation, this time a Gillian Welch cover. I've finally gotten around to listening to this album recently, and a lot; it's really latching on to me. The title track is gorgeous and where I can't match Welch's vocals I can get weird instead, so: vocoder time. [more inside]
The rain again, again.
Almost a cover, but not really.
everything i wanted (Billie Eilish cover)
Thought I was writing my own song with these chords today, but realized I had stumbled on everything i wanted, and decided to embrace it.
Hey It's Okay cover
I've been playing with armoured-ant's excellent Hey It's Okay, and I liked this little short version.
Make Right the Time [Danny Schmidt cover]
A different draft of the song rangefinder 1.4 introduced me to, having been given her basic tracks and having added my noodling. This is the one with the piano. And the kitchen sink. [more inside]
cover of Freedom '90 by George Michael
I’ve been working on a musical collaboration with a fellow musician friend of mine during these crazy coronavirus times, in hopes of generating something fun and creative while we have all this spare time not working or gigging. Here's the second song from that collaboration.
cover of Galileo by the Indigo Girls
I’ve been working on a musical collaboration with a fellow musician friend of mine during these crazy coronavirus times, in hopes of generating something fun and creative while we have all this spare time not working or gigging. Here's the first song from that collaboration. [more inside]
You Can Make Me Feel Bad (Arthur Russell cover)
I've been listening to this song a lot recently, and admire Russell's sort of ambiguity. Featuring authentic San Francisco rain and street noise.
Make Right the Time
This is my synth-based anthem cover of the song by singer/songwriter Danny Schmidt. This version is an earlier draft from 2018, mostly from a whirlwind month when I was trying to get as much done before my trial of Ableton Live ended. Me on vocals, synth/loops. Many thanks to not_on_display for the arrangement idea and feedback through multiple iterations. Basically I made this to help myself feel better, and I figure it's something I could share especially now. [more inside]
Head Like A Hole
You know how you were thinking the other day "I really love Nine Inch Nails, but I'd really love Nine Inch Nails if they were Sufjan Stevens"
Yeah, me too. Also for the first time shot video as I was recording.
Letterbox (TMBG cover)
A hushed but nonetheless exuberant take on a very good song from They Might Be Giants' album "Flood," recorded at my kitchen table [more inside]
SKA/BAND - Caledonia Mission
The first track I've finished in a project of doing ska covers of The Band songs [more inside]
This Woman's Work (Kate Bush cover)
Very late to the game on this, but here's a cheeky contribution to the Kate Bush challenge :D
Manhattan Skyline
Some recent discussion on MeFi about the band a-ha reminded me that I'd recorded this acoustic cover of one of their songs a long time ago. This is actually based on an arrangement by Kings of Convenience, who made some interesting changes to the original song structure. Me on vocals and guitars (nylon-string and steel-string). [more inside]
Both Hands - cover (Ani DiFranco)
Acoustic guitar and voice. Pretty straight as far as my memory of the proper song goes. [more inside]
F9mily (You & Me)
A multi-tracked violin sketch/tiny cover of an excellent song by Lil Nas X that I can't get out of my head.
Third King From the Sun
A cast-off 30-second demo of a Christmas tune you might recognize. [more inside]
How Far I'll Go
I had the drums and amp mic'ed up anyway, so I decided to lay down this track from Moana.
Forget About (Sibylle Baier cover)
Cover of this beautiful song by Sibylle Baier. Guitalele, flute/clarinet/marimba/wurlitzer piano synths. [more inside]
Come To Me
björk cover [more inside]
Theme from the television series Star Fleet/X-Bomber/Ｘボンバー
When the Curtains of Night
I'm happy to present my collaboration with not_on_display: this is our version of a neat little tune that was included in The American Songbag (a 1927 folk song collection by Carl Sandburg); the song there was itself derived from a late 19th-century song by William S. Hays. [more inside]
Good So Bad
This is my take on a song by one of the hosts of [dopey podcast](http://dopeypodcast.com), the one they close out every episode with. Came out kinda like a ska tune somehow. Got my daughters doing a little background vox.
True Love Will Find You In The End (Daniel Johnston Cover)
If you know of him, you may have an opinion that Daniel Johnston is a outsider genius, a troubled victim of hipster exploitation, or simply a not-so-typical independent musician who found his audience. If nothing else, his work is irrefutably full of sincerity and emotion.
This little piece of his is one of the great American songs. [more inside]
The Leaving of Liverpool
I had a great time collaborating with billiebee on a cover of this traditional folk song/sea shanty. The goal was to record a simple arrangement that was different from the more lively covers out there -- to borrow billiebee's phrase, a gentler version. I'm hoping our rendition highlights the lovely melody of the song. [more inside]
Doc McStuffins Theme
I have a cheap, cruddy second-hand drum kit and a two-year-old. [more inside]