Welcome to another edition of Original Wednesday! It’s Jeff Copperthite bringing you another song from the original libraries of us here at Fusco-Moore Productions.
Today I bring you a Quilt song from 2002’s EP “Blanket of Death”. It’s a humorous title for sure, as the songs are not nearly as dark as the EP title implies. You can hear 2 of the 4 songs at my albums page.
I am performing the song “Burning Through” from that EP. It is a wonderful song and I have been addicted to the guitar progression ever since Scott taught me the song. I am happy to add it to our expansive library at The Laptop Sessions.
This is also my 40th Laptop Session!
I am very close to 7k views, and I should cross that line sometime today or tomorrow. I can’t wait to reach 10K views hopefully by the end of the month.
I’m also a proud owner of Homestead’s Revenge – please check it out at Mou Music! Or click the store link at the top of the page! It is an incredible piece of work, and your ears will be blown away.
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 original 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!
Hello and welcome to yet another all-new installment of the Laptop Sessions! Being that it’s Hump Day, I’m excited — for those of you who may be new to the blog, I’m excited because every Wednesday here is “Original Wednesday.” For just a moment, we songwriters who contribute to this acoustic rock cover song music blog just take a moment to put aside the covers and record a song that we have written. It comes but once every three weeks for us…
Tonight, I’ve recorded “Feel For Love,” a song from my most recent solo release, the EP entitled Love Out of Fashion. To be honest, I’ll never know why I didn’t just finish recording one more song during the recording sessions (and I actually did have one demo with basic tracks that never made the final cut). If I had, then I would have accumulated nine songs and I could have called the EP a full album. But, I guess nine is kind of a cop out after most of my earlier solo albums have an average of 12 songs or so. Either way, I was satisfied that an 8-song EP was not a cop out, so…
I don’t know that I’ve ever told anyone, but “Feel For Love” was the first song recorded for the project. I actually began recording with the idea of making a set of demos to present to Jim Fusco in order to convince him to produce an album for me the following summer. Once I got into the process, I just devoted too much time and energy to let the songs sit as demos — I would lay down one acoustic, then add electric to give it the right sound. After all, I wanted the songs to be presentable to him. Then I would add background vocals. And then some more background vocals. I practiced again and again and again to perfect the solos I wanted for the songs, both harmonica and electric / acoustic guitar.
By the time I had finished eight songs, it was clear that I couldn’t simply burn the songs onto a blank disc for Jim to listen to; I had an EP on my hands.
To this day, I still haven’t recorded an album with Jim as producer, but to be honest, I probably won’t record another project until I’ve fully polished a set of songs and convinced him to let me hire him or at least bribe him with fast food and TNA cards to produce the next Chris Moore solo album. The simple fact is — especially after hearing the new Masters of the Universe album — I can’t go back to self-producing without drums and without mastering. Instead, I’m starting to save my pennies and save my dimes…
As a final note, the tracks for Love Out of Fashion became an obsession for me. I listened to those songs in every way possible — on the computer speakers, on different pairs of headphones, on my stereo, and I even burned multiple copies at different phases to listen to in the car. One early morning around one a.m. or so, I pulled over in the shopping plaza near my house to be able to listen to the tracks clearly and loudly. I leaned over the console of my car to get myself as close to the middle as possible, closing my eyes and listening to every nuance of the mix to decide what needed to change and what aspects were finished. Someone actually pulled into the lot next to me to ask if I was okay and was my car working? I, of course, said I was fine. What I should have said was that I was, for the first time, really becoming a confident producer of my own music.
Of course, the conspicuous absence of time-keeping drums will forever label Love Out of Fashion a second-class album, which I suppose I’ve come to terms with. But I’m still proud of it!
Okay, that’s more than enough from me. I hope you enjoy this and will take the time to comment on it here. Don’t forget to tune in tomorrow for an all-new track from our very own Jeff Copperthite…
Well, it only comes but once every three weeks for each of us… that’s right, Original Wednesday! This week, I bring you my second of two songs from my summer demo sessions. For anyone who didn’t read my previous OW! post, I spent a weekend this past summer recording demos of all my songs I hadn’t recorded previously. This release, Weekend Demos, included a couple songs that I had written within weeks or even days of the recording session. It also included a lot of older songs, including one from five years in the past — when I was a senior in high school.
This song, “Another One,” was written somewhere in between the two extremes, during college. I wrote it about how balancing relationships can be not only difficult, but also confusing. I sing the lead a bit low and I always worry that it’s hard to hear over the guitar, but I was really happy with how it builds up to the middle.
I hope you enjoy this, and I’m looking forward to my next Original Wednesday. I’ll either be recording one of my own originals or something off the new MoU release, Homestead’s Revenge. If you haven’t heard it yet, listen to the album at http://jimfusco.com/albums.html !
Welcome to Sunday’s edition of the Laptop Sessions, and I am VERY excited about this upcoming week. A lot will be happening over the course of the next 7 days, but in all of it we will continue to provide you with a new session every day, and as we roll onto the week all of our sessions will be from bands each of us have never did a session for.
Our first entry to this mini series is a song from a little known band named “Toad the Wet Sprocket”. The band is known for singles such as “Fall Down”, which still may make an appearance in future sessions. But for now, I will do a song from their last album before their breakup “Coil”, the song “Whatever I Fear”.
This song is the album opener, and the album itself is full of introspective melodies, including this one. If you have a chance to listen to it you’ll find a few songs on it that really stand out. The singles that were released didn’t chart except for the song “Come Down”, and the album is probably the least known of theirs.
Regardless, I bring to you “Whatever I Fear”. I hope you enjoy it, and remember my new album “Greenlight” is coming out next Sunday!! I hope you find your way over to the Fusco-Moore Store and take a listen, and perhaps a purchase, of my new album.
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 original 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!
