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“Tryin’ To Get To Heaven” (Bob Dylan Cover)

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By Chris Moore:

Welcome to another Laptop Session! I had such a good time recording “Love Sick” for my last post, that I decided to do another song from Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind. Ironically, shortly after the album came out, Dylan had a near-death experience after he contracted an infection of some sort. And, oh yes, the headlines followed quickly. “Dylan ‘Tryin’ to Get to Heaven’?” and so forth. They were predictably cheesy, but I suppose the journalists found them irresistible…

Speaking of headlines, it sounds like Jeff and Jim are going to be making headlines soon with Jeff’s new EP and Jim’s album Halfway There. I haven’t written any songs since the summer, and even though I have three other projects I’m finishing off, chipping away at, and envisioning (respectively), I’m going to be very jealous of these projects! In a good way, too — that’s how we writers work, I suppose. Anyway, I wish both of my Laptop Session colleagues the best and offer my services. Jeff: If you need an electrifying guitar solo… definitely go to Jim, that’s definitely out of my league. And Jim: If you need another drummer to mix things up… you can just give Jeff a call, since I’m still on page one of my “Drumming for Idiots” guide. lol Seriously, I’m looking forward to both projects.

Check back in a few days for my next post, and I’ll share some more about my upcoming contribution to the guitarbucketlist.com/Fusco-Moore.com UNIVERSE!

“One Headlight” (Wallflowers Cover)

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By Chris Moore:

Okay, so I have good news and bad news. Good news — MoU has finally released their highly anticipated second album, Homestead’s Revenge. It’s really the next step up from the more “live-in-the-studio” sound of our debut. And the songwriting includes all members. Not only do Jim, Mike, Cliff and I have our own songs, but we co-wrote three as a full band! I hope you’ll listen to album and purchase it at http://jimfusco.com/albums.html !

Now, for the bad news… While it’s been a lot of fun to record these Laptop Sessions, I’m afraid I’ve become far too busy to keep fitting them in. So, today I bring you my final, my farewell Laptop Session…

This Wallflowers song, “One Headlight,” is the first song I ever truly loved. I was in 7th grade, and whenever my dad and I were in the car and heard this song, we would crank the volume. This is saying something, because music wasn’t all that important to me back then. I never did buy the album, as the Sam Goody’s store in my local mall only had a copy with a cracked case. I couldn’t bring myself to spend what was then a lot of money for me on a less than perfect product. Ironically, I would go on to listen to songwriter Jakob Dylan’s father (yes, Bob Dylan!) and he would become my absolute favorite artist.

When I eventually did buy the Bringing Down the Horse album, I fell in love with not only this song, but the band. And I recently recorded “Sixth Avenue Heartache,” another BDTH alum, for a previous Laptop Session.

All right, I can’t go on with the lie — April Fool’s! This is far from my final Laptop Session, as Jim, Jeff, and I continue to record a new session-a-day for all of 2008. That’s right, all 366 days! I hope you’ll come back to https://guitarbucketlist.com tomorrow for a new session from Jeff!

See you next session!


“You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” [Bob Dylan Cover)

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By Chris Moore:

If it was an honor to bring you “Getcha Back” three days ago, it is even more of a pleasure (it that’s possible!) to welcome you to the best cover song video blog in the universe tonight with Bob Dylan’s “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”! This cover song video has the added bonus of my collaboration with not only fellow songwriter Jim Fusco but also his girlfriend (fiancee to be more precise!) Becky Daly.

Several years ago, before the band Masters of the Universe was even an idea, we toured and recorded briefly as “Chris, Jim, and Becky.” This was probably my happiest musical collaboration, my first recording that I was really proud to be a part of (Click here to listen to Live in the Studio), and if we could have devoted more time and energy to the act or even just found a venue that appreciated what we were doing, I would have wanted Chris, Jim, and Becky to go on for a good long time!

But, alas, all good things come to an end. Now, years later, “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere” is such a comfortable classic to us that we sat down and tore through it in one full take. I think it comes across on the video just how comfortable we are and I can at least speak for myself when I say this acoustic cover was a ton of fun to record. I hope it is the first of many collaborations to come, and although I’m out of them for a while, I know Jim still has some from that night’s recording session in his back pocket. Now, that’s something to look forward to…

I have one more major announcement before I rush off to my favorite weekly television event — TNA Impact!, my favorite and simply the best wrestling program out there. I’ll be going to the Bob Dylan concert tomorrow night, and as with the Brian Wilson concert last month, I’ll be posting the set list online immediately after the show, if not actually updating it DURING the show! I don’t know if it will be that cool, but it will be up immediately with a review shortly after and I hope all you Bob Dylan fans will hurry back for both the set list and the review!

You can also look forward to an all-new acoustic cover song from Jeff tomorrow…

See you next session!



“The Man in Me” (Bob Dylan Cover)

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By Chris Moore:

I’ve been on a 70’s Dylan kick recently, and I thought I’d present to you one of my favorite overlooked Dylan songs of the decade. “The Man in Me” is from what was initially my least favorite album from his catalog, 1970’s New Morning. I listened to this album around the same time I was listening to Desire, so there really isn’t a comparison to be made, and I wrote off most of the songs on the album. When I went back to it years later, I found some really great songs, such as this one.

It may not be “Like A Rolling Stone” or a song of that caliber, but I hope you’ll take it for what it is — a really sincere, fun Dylan love song. I hope you enjoy it!

I hope you’ll come back to guitarbucketlist.com again tomorrow for yet another all-new session as our One-A-Day marathon continues throughout 2008! And, if there’s not enough Fusco-Moore to please here, then check out the all-new Fusco-Moore.com that Jim just put the finishing touches on. If you’re in need of any audio, video, or graphic services or just looking for a new song to listen to, FMP is the place to go! Okay, enough plugging for one day… 🙂