By Chris Moore:
This session pretty much speaks for itself.
“Crayons Can Melt On Us For All I Care” (Relient K Cover)
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“Someday” (Sugar Ray Cover)
By Chris Moore:
Hello and welcome to your Columbus Day offering from the best acoustic cover song blog in the universe! For all you loyal Laptop Sessions surfers, I’m taking you back to the late nineties, a time of great musical awakening for me. As I’ve mentioned before, I went through an oftentimes embarrassing phase of musical exploration that took me from sixties rock to then-contemporary nineties alternative rock, and everything in between. Nearly a decade later, I’m still very interested in sixties rock and nineties rock band, but it’s the aforementioned “everything in between” that’s embarrassing. I’m talking disco, eighties dance tracks, and some really cheesy soundtracks.
Oh, I tried it all…
But that’s not what I’m bringing you tonight. Rather, I’m bringing you a new band to the music blog, a band that found mid-nineties success with their Billboard Hot 100 #1 “Fly” — Sugar Ray! I remember buying their third album, 14:59, for the songs “Every Morning” and “Someday.” And I never really understood the title of the album, but I just read the Wikipedia post about the band tonight and found out. And now I’ll share… isn’t that the beauty of these posts?
Apparently, critics suggested that Sugar Ray would be a one-hit wonder after “Fly,” and that they would never have success again. As a tongue-in-cheek response, Mark McGrath and the boys of Sugar Ray titled their album 14:59 to refer to the fact that their “fifteen minutes of fame” were not up quite yet. And right they were! “Every Morning” was a #3 hit and “Someday,” the song that I recorded for tonight’s Laptop Session, reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. This song really took me back, and it is actually one of the reasons that I chose another turn-of-the-millennium track for my next music video, namely John Mellencamp’s “Your Life is Now.”
So, can you believe it? I’m on track for three new bands in a row by Thursday. And it’s a good thing that I have my John Mellencamp video recorded and ready to go, since I don’t want to miss a moment of the post-Bound for Glory TNA Impact! They really “crossed the line” and “sacrificed” their safety and well-being to bring the fans a “respect”-able Pay-Per-View on Sunday… (If you watch TNA, then I hope you enjoyed those quoted keywords…)
Well, that’s all for me for now. I look forward to possibly seeing you again on Thursday, after you’ve hurried back for Jeff’s Tuesday session and been amazed and inspired by the musical stylings of Jim Fusco on Wednesday (and NO I am NOT trying to suck up to Jim because he spent a half hour talking about my upcoming album tonight, which he will be producing and maybe even writing for!!).
(Okay, maybe it is…)
See you next session!
“Long Long Time” (McGuinn, Clark, & Hillman Cover)
By Jeff Copperthite:
Happy fantastic Friday to you! It’s Jeff Copperthite with – yet again – another new band. That’s twice this week! It must be an unofficial “new bands” week here at guitarbucketlist.com.
While today the band isn’t “new” person-wise to the sessions, it still counts. The band is three members of the Byrds Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, and Chris Hillman. I am covering their song “Long Long Time” from their self-titled 1979 album. It is a short and sweet song. Very easy to play, very easy to bop your head too.
I first heard of this trio thanks to (who else) Jim Fusco. He played a song from this band on our very first show to our better halves called “BSYNHO”, which stands for “Best Show You’ve Never Heard of”. We even sound it out. I’ve been digging into these shows the past few months or so for songs I can cover. I’m at the point where i’ve covered most of my favorite songs, so now I have to dig a little deeper to make it through the final 5+ months of Laptop-Session-a-day. Glad I found this one, and I hope you are too.
Stay tuned this weekend for the next acoustic cover song by Jim Fusco. He never waits a long long time between his videos!
Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, Jeff’s acoustic cover song music videos are no longer on YouTube, but we decided to keep his cover song blog posts up. We figured these music blog entries would be good for posterity’s sake and because Jeff always gave such insightful posts each Session. We hope to see Jeff’s impressive catalog of acoustic rock songs here on the Laptop Sessions cover songs and origianal music blog again in the future. But, for now, please make sure to check-out hundreds of other acoustic cover songs from all of your favorite bands here on the Laptop Sessions music blog!
“Hang On To Yourself” by David Bowie – Chords, Tabs, and How to Play
“Hang On To Yourself”
(David Bowie)
F#m
Well, she’s a tongue twisting storm,
A
Come to the show tonight,
Bm
Praying to the light machine.
She wants my honey not my money;
She’s a funky thigh collector,
Laying on electric dreams.
CHORUS:
C D C D
So, come on, come on… We’ve really got a good thing going.
C D C
Well, come on. Well, come on — if you think we’re gonna make it,
A D – C – D – C
You better hang on to yourself…
We can’t dance; we don’t talk much. We just ball and play.
But then we move like tigers on Vaseline.
Well, the bitter comes out better on a stolen guitar.
You’re the blessed; we’re the spiders from Mars.
CHORUS
SOLO (over A – D – A – D)
CHORUS (repeat)
A D
Come on, come on…
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