By Jim Fusco:
Yes, that’s right folks- I’m at 50,000 views and counting! It only took about 20 days to get there and it puts me on pace to match my goal of 55,000 by the end of the month. We have plenty of things in store for you in the coming weeks and I truly expect this number to skyrocket in the very near future.
Again, thanks for your support of my videos and ALL of the videos here at guitarbucketlist.com!
Welcome to another edition of The Laptop Sessions here on “Track 1 Week”! That’s where the singers, songwriters, and musicians of the Laptop Sessions acoustic cover songs music video blog pick a song that started off an album (thus “Track One”) and covered it for the best music blog on the internet!
Today, I give you one of the best album-opening songs to one of the best albums of all time: Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys! And, if you know me, you know that doing Beach Boys cover songs is one of my favorite things to do!
“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” is also a favorite song of Chris Moore and Becky Daly, two fellow MoU members. We never attempted to do this song in concert, though I think we should’ve given it a shot. I think with all of the production that the original version had, it’s daunting to try and recreate it live. The members of Brian Wilson’s incredible touring band do that on each and every tour, but they have about 12 people on stage at one time. When it’s just five people, that task gets a little harder for sure. But, knowing the chords and the changes (and frankly, how well my cover video came out), I think we could’ve pulled it off as a band.
Tomorrow night, The Laptop Sessions Live plays a three-hour set at George’s II Restaurant in Wallingford, CT. We’re very excited and it oughta be an amazing event. I hope to record the audio for future release. There’s sure to be mostly original songs, but some of our favorite covers. You’ll hear plenty from the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, the Wallflowers, and I’m sure we’ll sprinkle some Beatles cover songs in there, too!
I hope you’ll check out another album-starter from Chris Moore and Jeff’s last two videos, as well- they were great!
Welcome to a special edition video that Chris has done a few for. Now it’s my turn!
This video documents an unusual way to lose a take. We here at guitarbucketlist.com have many ways to mess up during our recordings – missed chords, forgotten lyrics, sounds in the background, etc. Thankfully you see only the best.
However, now you get a rare look!
Well, enjoy this rare behind-the-scenes look!
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!
By Chris Moore:
Hello and welcome to the next installment of “Track One Week” at https://guitarbucketlist.com ! Today, I’m taking a temporary break from playing songs from new artists to play track one off of one of my favorite albums of all-time, “Red Letter Days.” This is the Wallflowers’ “When You’re On Top.”
For anyone who has heard the studio version before, you may miss the synthesized effects, but all I had was my acoustic guitar, so I made due with what I had… And this should help me to prepare for Jakob Dylan’s new album, “Seeing Things,” which is going to be a very acoustic affair (judging from tracks he’s already released, such as “Something Good This Way Comes,” which I hope to record in the near future!).
I hope you enjoy this video, and I especially hope you’ll stop by for more track-one selections from our very own Jeff Copperthite!
See you next session!