Welcome to another terrific edition of Thumpin’ Thursday! It’s Jeff Copperthite today bringing you another great song for https://guitarbucketlist.com/.
Going to a band that has treated me well in terms of getting viewers, I bring you another song by Ben Folds Five called “Smoke”. It is from their album “Whatever and Ever Amen”, which I have yet to draw from. I loved this song ever since I first heard it, and would most often be the track I just kept repeating from the entire album.
I love the piano-string strumming that Ben does when this song is performed. Consequently, I only have a keyboard. Therefore, I decided to do a guitar rendition of this song. I hope you like it!
I just crossed 11K views – in only 8 days since I crossed 10K. Thank you so much! We are nearing the halfway point of session-a-day. Can you believe it? We’ll keep posting – you keep coming back to https://guitarbucketlist.com/ !
Be sure to check out Jim’s latest session tomorrow!
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!
Mwa-ha-ha… And a good EVE to all joining me on this FRIGHTENING 31st of October, 2008. This is All Hollow’s…
EVE!
And I think that, tonight, the title pretty much says it all. What could be scarier, as Jim asked last night, than Chris Moore covering a Britney Spears song? Well, I can’t think of anything off the top of my head. In my defense, I’m not exactly doing a Britney Spears cover. Technically, this is a cover of the Fountains of Wayne arrangement of Britney’s hit single, first released on their “Out-of-State Plates” album, a collection of non-album tracks and previously unreleased material. Now, these collections are usually hit-and-miss, but this is actually a really good one. There’s a couple of new tracks (one of which, “The Girl I Can’t Forget,” is one of my favorites from them), some great live stuff (including a rare better-than-the-studio-album version of “She’s Got A Problem”), and crazy tracks like this, their arrangement of the classic “Hit me baby one more time!”
So, I know you can’t wait to listen, and I certainly want to rush back to the big Fusco-Moore Experience All Hallow’s Eve bash, with special guest (and Richard Simmons impersonator) Mike Fusco! He really went all out — I’m talking head-to-toes, red tank top labeled “PUMPkin’ and SWEATin,'” leggings to disguise leg hair, and amazingly 80’s-esque velcro sneakers. Thankfully, Jim and Becky have changed out of their terrifying, horrifying costumes… as Jim said, they wanted to be the scariest people he could think of… namely, John McCain and Sarah Palin. Meanwhile, I’ve had a sudden urge to manage a beet farm and shun my co-workers (if you’re not an Office fan, I was Dwight Schrute tonight). And, yes — it’s true: as part of his tip, I left our On the Border waiter a Schrute Buck. He earned it for actually ensuring that the chips and salsa were bottomless. With five hungry people at the table, this was no easy task!
In related news, we’re all too tired to record the Halloween WCJM show we had planned on doing, but I have the song list that I would have recommended to the boys (in reverse order):
6) “Long Black Veil” – the Band’s version; not a halloween song per say, but a creepy one;
5) “Heroes and Villains” – Brian Wilson’s SMiLE track; good for Halloween costumes;
4) “Reflective Smile” – a Moody Blues poem set to music that begins “Your painted smile hides you…”;
3) “Ninjas” – the Barenaked Ladies song from their new album that ends “If you take off their masks, they’ll be smiling”;
2) “Brilliant Disguise” – classic Bruce Springsteen; again, not a Halloween song, but speaks for itself;
and…
1) “Werewolves of London” – the quintessential Warren Zevon Halloween-worthy tune!!
For some reason, I’m filled with things I want to keep writing about, but we’re about to kick back and watch a flick — possibly North by Northwest. Not exactly a scary movie, but a classic nonetheless.
I’ll leave you with a challenge to Jeff that Jim initiated last night — come on, Jeff, joing us in lady land. And I’m not making a Jimi Hendrix reference. No, I’m referring to the fact that this is my third cover song in a row that was originally sung by a female singer, and Jim shared an incredible Diana Ross interpretation. Jump on the bandwagon!
Regardless of the gender of tomorrow’s session, I hope you’ll come back for some amaze-za-zing videos by Jeff and Jim.
Hello and welcome to another all-new Laptop Session! Today is a special treat for me, as I’ve finally summoned up the courage to sing one of my favorite Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers songs. Is it a classic like “Free Fallin'”? Well, maybe not. Is it a great album cut like “A Woman in Love (It’s Not Me)”? Um, no, but I’ll probably cover that one in the future.
This is my version of “Rhino Skin” off of the 1999 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers album Echo. I’ve covered the title track previously (click here to listen!), and I had so much fun doing it (and such a response — it’s my #3 most viewed video!!) that I had to record another one from this album.
As a final note, I’m eagerly awaiting the April 29th release of Mudcrutch, the self-titled debut from Tom Petty’s recently-reformed high school band. I can’t wait!!
For now, though, I’ll look forward to the more instant gratification of the “session-a-day” project at www.guitarbucketlist.com … Be sure to check back tomorrow for a brand new video from Jeff!
Hello and welcome to the final Laptop Session of November! Today, I bring you an all-new cover (that’s right, ALL new) from a new songwriter to the blog, Leonard Cohen. In fact, I had so much fun learning this song today that I’ll be posting another Cohen song — perhaps his most well-known song — “Suzanne.”
You may be wondering, why bring in a Leonard Cohen song now, after all this time? Well, there are a couple of answers to that question.
First, I have recently been listening to The Essential Leonard Cohen, after my friend from work, Larry, suggested that Cohen and Bob Dylan are on the same level as songwriters. Now, for those of you who don’t know me, this was quite a compelling assertion indeed. Thus, I picked up the CD when I saw the special 3-disc edition on sale at Wal-Mart, and I’ve been listening to the first disc for the past week and a half. This song, “No Way to Say Goodbye,” is on that disc and has quickly become one of those songs that I find repeatedly stuck in my head during the day.
Then, I was reminded of Cohen yesterday when Alberto picked a cover of his “Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley to play on our WCJM “Tenth Anniversary Show.” This was interesting for me, as it got me wondering if Cohen is one of those artists whose songs are more well-known when done by other performers. That’s the only song I know of, but I’ll have to do some research to find out…
Speaking of the WCJM show, we had a blast yesterday as we met to record a new installment of Moore Hits in the Morning in the… believe it or not… morning! The music was as diverse as ever, coming on the heels of Jim’s idea for each of the seven cast members to contribute two of their favorite songs. This inspired such disparate responses as Jim’s new music choices — BnL’s “Wind it Up” from ’06 and Brian Wilson’s “Live Let Live” from this year — to Dave’s classic music choices — WCJM favorites “All the Things” by the Byrds and “A Simple Game” by the Moody Blues. I chose one of each — the classic Moody Blues song “Question” and the contemporary “Living Well is the Best Revenge” by R.E.M.
Aside from the music, we had skits, skits, skits! We had an impeccably delivered segment of Matt’s standup. We had new skits by classic characters — Ronco, the Food Critic, Dr. Keck, Stuffy D. Bear, and more. We had brand-new skits, including my Scam Wow parody.
In short, it was fun!
And it was really great to see all the guys in one place one more time. We had a touch of nostalgia unlike any other on the previous shows, and for good reason — it was our tenth anniversary, for crying out loud! Seriously though, I was proud to sit there for almost three hours and share in this crazy, creative experience we call WCJM! Stay tuned to WCJM.com, as the show will be posted soon…
Well, that’s enough for me for one post. Thanks for stopping by for your daily fix of acoustic rock cover songs; I hope you enjoy my music video. I’ll be back on Original Wednesday, but until then, don’t miss Jeff’s Monday post and Jim’s Tuesday video.
