So tonight I wanted to put up a video from Toad the Wet Sprocket. I made it 35 seconds into the song before going to the wrong chord. I then decided to strum the strings very hard and mute them.
In doing that, the G string broke.
And i’m out of replacement strings (yeah, some guitar player I am).
So naturally, I will have to delay this evenings’ video until I get new strings.
Until then…
By Jeff Copperthite:
Welcome to a special Tuesday edition of The Laptop Sessions. This song is so popular among FMP, we’re giving you THREE editions of it! We’re calling it “So You Say You Lost Your Tuesday”.
Ok, that’s not fully true. Turns out Jim & I had recorded this song on video, and rather than one of us getting to post it, we decided to ask Chris if he’d join in and all of us post.
This is a short and great song from the awesome Gene Clark. While the recorded version sounds somewhat different, this version is based off of his acoustic sessions’ recordings.
I wanted to cover this song because I always liked the version Jim did on his album “That’s all…”, which was released in 2003. Gene Clark has been one of my favorites since Jim introduced me to him and Byrds’ music.
We hope you enjoy the hat trick!
Destroyer Of The Void (Blitzen Trapper, 2010)
(June 8, 2010)
Review:
This summer, I wrote off Destroyer of the Void for sounding too much like a throwback to seventies rock, but I dropped the ball on this one: beyond the obvious comparisons, it has a strong instrumental foundation, creative lyrical sense, and adds up to a strong album.
Top Two Tracks:
“Below the Hurricane” & “Love and Hate”
By Chris Moore:
I expect that most people haven’t heard of this song from one of my favorite songwriters, Warren Zevon. “The Envoy” is the title track from his poorly-received 1982 album that led to his record label dropping him. Supposedly, he found out that he had been dropped by reading the article in a magazine. This, of course, led to a period of drinking and self destruction.
But I really love this album! Perhaps it’s because this is one of those albums that I feel very personally about, as though I’m one of the few to ever really appreciate it. The songs may not be his best, but there are certainly some fun ones, like “The Hula Hula Boys” and “Let Nothing Come Between You.”
Without further ado, here’s my acoustic cover song version of “The Envoy,” a song that is sadly still relevant, over twenty-five years later…
See you next session!
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