By Jeff Copperthite:
What can I say – I just enjoy clicking the “add new category” button to the right of me when I write my posts every three days.
Jeff Copperthite introducing a new band to the sessions? Again?
Yes! Yes! And yes! Chris may kill me…
I am proud to introduce one of the greatest rock acts of all time to the Laptop Sessions. I think they’re so great, that i’m going to be doing 2 more sessions from them for my next two. In fact, if you request a song from them, I just might change the songs I have in mind!
Pink Floyd is the band today, and i am performing a song from their bestselling, multi-platinum 2-CD album “The Wall” called “Comfortably Numb”. You may know that “The Wall” is considered a rock opera, and if you are a fan of any of Pink Floyd’s songs, or classic rock at all, you would do well to get your hands on this album. This song is in the middle of the 2nd half of the album. It is a slow song with two awesome guitar solos, and a spacy synthesizer. None of those things are on this performance, however. Just me and my acoustic, like usual.
I think I really did a good job on voice switching. Roger Waters has many singing styles and uses two of them in this song – his evil, sneering voice, and his kind, smooth voice. Not to mention the “scream” in the song. I try to replicate that in this performance, but again – it’s one of me on the video, and its like 5 of him on the album. That’s just how we roll here on the Laptop Sessions.
Remember, request a Pink Floyd song and I just might change my mind on my next two performances!
Come back tomorrow for (perhaps – I was wrong last Friday) a cover song by Jim Fusco. By the way, congratulations to Mike on his first Laptop Session. He really nailed that Elvis song – I suggest you look down the page a bit and watch for yourself if you haven’t done so already.
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!