Doesn’t it seem like milestones come in bunches? We can only hope this is the beginning. With Chris and Jeff nearing 50,000 YouTube views and Jim just over the 100k mark, there seems to be a a trend towards new records and a great success.
Just days after Jim reached the 100k YouTube view plateau, he received his 300th YouTube subscriber. Actually, last night the count stood at 298 and this morning the number was at 301. We’d like to formally thank you for the support and Jim can’t wait until he reaches 1000 YouTube subscribers. It seemed so far out of reach before, but in early May, Jim only had 100 subscribers and now has tripled that in just over four months. If he triples this number in four months, we should be talking about 900 subscribers by January!
That’s why they started this music video blog. They knew the possibilities were endless; that there was no ceiling to how many views or subscribers they could get. And now that the numbers are pouring in, it just makes everyone at the Laptop Sessions want to work harder and achieve even more.
Congrats to Jim on his latest milestone and everyone at the Laptop Sessions can’t wait to see Chris and Jeff reach their next goals, as well!
Hey HEY! Welcome to your, as Jeff put it, Fantastic Friday edition of the Laptop Sessions here with me, Jim Fusco! Glad to be here today, but I’ve been incredibly sick the past few days. I have the worst head cold… I’ve already lost two nights’ sleep to it. I was actually saving this video because we Mike did a BNL song recently, but I put this one first because I’m not sure how well I’ll be by Monday when we’ll be doing “New Bands Week” here. I have a new band video already recorded and ready to go, so I bought myself until Thursday when I have to record another video. I can only assume I’ll be better by then! Actually, I have literally sixteen or seventeen songs ready to record. I’ve been practicing like mad over the past month and these videos, once recorded, will provide me with almost two full months worth of videos. In that pool of songs, there’s also TEN new bands! So, I’m working hard every day to bring fresh viewers to the music video blog and to keep all the regular viewers excited.
Today, I bring you a song that I really love called “New Kid On The Block”. What perfect timing, too, as the “classic” early 90s band “New Kids on the Block” is in the middle of their “anticipated” reunion. They have a new album out and everything. This song is literally about being a member of the band. Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies wrote this song for their first album, “Gordon”. What a great satire. At the time (1992), the New Kids were both “new” and “kids”…well, not really, as you’ll hear in the lyrics of the song. But, they were popular, nonetheless, and Page must’ve thought it would be funny to write a song from the point of view of one of the band members.
Some of my favorite all-time BNL lines are in this song, including “Well we may not write the songs we sing, but look at Elvis, he sold his soul and you crowned him King.” The New Kids are pretty much everything I hate in a band, and BNL is truly everything I love in a band. That’s why this song is just about perfect in my eyes.
One of the other parts of the song I love is at the end with the inclusion of a few New Kids on the Block songs. I don’t know how I did it, but I managed to incorporate those parts into my solo acoustic cover version here, and all on the first try!
Enjoy the video — recorded just before New Bands Week here on the Laptop Sessions acoustic cover and original songs music video blog!
Hello and welcome to my favorite day, a day that comes only once every three weeks for we songwriters of the Fusco-Moore Productions music blog… Original Wednesday! Today, I took a trip down memory lane to my last solo release before joining the band MoU (Masters of the Universe with Jim Fusco, Mike Fusco, Becky Daly, and Cliff Huizenga). Today, I recorded “All the Days,” the penultimate track off my EP Love Out of Fashion. (Using “penultimate” in my post is my answer to Jim using — honest to God — the word “leviathan” properly and casually in a conversation the other day. I didn’t even know how to pronounce the word… :-))
This was the first time I really experimented with such recording techniques as lead vocal doubletracking and sound effects such as my ZOOM guitar pedal. I have a lot of fond memories of rushing home after school or work during the summer to record this album in the basement of my parents’ home. I finally felt like I had mastered the computer program I used to record at the time, and I can’t count the number of mix CDs I made. Each time I would finish the recording of tracks for a song, I would burn a CD and listen to it in my car wherever I went — to work, to school, to the store. I’ve written on the blog here before about pulling over late at night to listen to the songs as loud as the volume would go, making mental notes of changes I would make to the final mix the next chance I got. Lots of fond memories.
My only regret, particularly on a track like “All the Days” that I felt had a lot of promise, is that I didn’t have a way to record drums. It’s a well-known fact that a drumbeat never hurts, especially when it comes to my playing… It was as a result of this regret that I’ve made the resolution to never record another album unless a drummer is available and raring to go.
So, I hope you enjoy this little trip down memory lane for me; I probably haven’t played this track since I recorded it. Well, that’s not true — I think I’ve played it once or twice, but over several years…
Oh, and I hope you’ll take a listen to the recorded version so you’ll understand why this music video starts differently from any other cover song session I’ve recorded.
Okay, that’s all for me. Don’t forget to hurry back tomorrow for another all-new acoustic rock cover song session from Jeff. And now, I should check on the Mets who were winning by a lot earlier, then tied, and just pulled ahead… (Come on, Mets!!)
Welcome to your Tuesday edition of The Laptop Sessions on the best video blog on the planet- that’s right- the planet! And the views don’t lie- we’re growing every single day and we’re showing no signs of stopping.
Tonight, I bring you a song from yet another new band to our list of cover songs, the Bee Gees, one of the most popular bands of all time. Of course, this song is from the period before the disco stuff. My parents used to love to see the Bee Gees in concert- I wish I got to see them before one passed away.
This sin’t even my favorite song from them. I guess I’d have to go with “Nights on Broadway”, but that’s quite a bit more difficult to do acoustically than this one.
“I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You” is actually a morbid song. It’s about a man being sentenced to death and on his way to be executed, he pleads to get one more message to his loved one. There’s even a mention of the famed “Green Mile”. Growing up, I had no idea that’s what the song was about, but you learn quite a bit when you learn how to play a song.
Cover Songs & Original Music Videos By Laptop Sessions Songwriters
The Laptop Sessions music video blog is a great combination of acoustic cover songs and original music. This website features cover songs from many of rock music's greatest bands, including the Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Bob Dylan. The blog archives hundreds of acoustic cover videos, how-to videos, and articles about music.We only play the best cover songs from the best rock bands of all time.
Here at the Laptop Sessions, we don't just sit down and do a bunch of cover songs- we make them our own. Yes, each cover will sound like the original, but it will also have a new, fresh sound to it. One of our specialties is taking a song from say the eighties and stripping-away the production. Then, we're left with just the song- simple (and most times, much better). We then record an acoustic version of that song and put it on this music video blog for all music fans to watch.
But, Laptop Sessions Music Blog is much more than just videos. There are informative blog posts, including the chords and lyrics to your favorite songs, recording tips, and much more. Plus, you can buy Jim Fusco's original songs right here on the music blog!
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