I hope you are having a great evening, and thank you for coming on to guitarbucketlist.com and checking out your Original Wednesday selection. Today I bring you a never-before-heard Jeff Copperthite original song.
The song is called “Fleeting Thought”, and was a song I wrote during the Greenlight writing sessions. No recorded version exists, except for this video. The song is about being unable to control your past, but being able to affect your future.
When I write songs, I almost always use the acoustic guitar to do so. However, before I actually record a song in the studio, the arrangement usually gets changed quite a few times. So while you will probably hear this song in a future album, the arrangement will probably be quite different.
Also, my voice was giving me some problems today, so I was unable to sing this song as well as I usually can. However, the guitar playing came out well, but it does drown out my voice a little bit. Still, the performance is a good one and I am glad I get to bring it to you today.
Come back tomorrow for Jim’s next session, and thank you again for visiting https://guitarbucketlist.com/!
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!
Welcome to an event so awesome, it can only come once a week – Original Wednesday! Today, I bring you the first Laptop Sessions edition that is covering something from a great album from FMP’s own Masters of the Universe. Their new album is called “Homestead’s Revenge”, available at MoU’s Website.
The song I have chosen to cover is “Evil Disappointment”, written by Mike Fusco. I got the chance to hear the song before the release of the album (well, only two days before), and I get to play drums when we play it live (or better yet, I “let” Jim play the bass!). This song has a great guitar progression, and the strumming style fits the songs’ lyrics and Mike’s writing style to the tee.
Just as Jim and Chris have reviewed my album “Greenlight”, I will be writing a review of this album as well in the near future.
Meanwhile, enjoy this addition to the growing Original Wednesday library here at FMP’s The Laptop Sessions! Stay tuned for another great song from Jim tomorrow, and come back Saturday for another video from America!
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 a special Christmas Eve edition of your best bet for excellence in cover musicianship on the web — the Laptop Sessions home page!
For tonight’s video, I had initially planned on recording my original Christmas song “Moment.” I have written two original Christmas songs in the past, and I already recorded the other (“Christmas Cards”) last year. Thus, I began practicing “Moment.” And I wish I had taken the time to record it earlier, because I really do like that song. I take issue with some of the lyrics now, as I find them much too cheesy at points, but the overall feel of the song is one that I love.
Then, a song started coming to me. And I’ll break my general silence on my songwriting process here, as there is such an amalgamation of influences and ideas that came together to forge this song. First, you should know that I am purposely tipping my hat to the classic Christmas tune “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” with the beginning of my chorus lines. Also, I used a chord pattern that Jim and I found to be recurrent in a lot of our favorite Christmas songs. It’s a cycle of sorts with barre chords, starting with a major, going down two frets to a minor, then the lower minor on the same fret, and finally jumping back up to a higher fret. Then, the same pattern is repeated.
In terms of what the words mean, I started off writing about my feelings about a very important person — my girlfriend of three years — who I’m no longer with. I haven’t really resolved the situation, so there’s a lot on my mind and I think the emotion got this song started.
Then, I began to think about Christmas in general. The past few years, I’ve really missed being able to spend the Christmas Eve festivities with my close friends. Thus, the song shifted to be about reclaiming my Christmas traditions with my friends.
As the lyrics progressed and I changed lines, the song shifted again to be about my grandmother, who passed away a little over a year ago. This is only my second Christmas without her, and I can’t understate how big a part she has always been of my Christmas. As a kid, she and my grandfather would come over on Christmas Eve and we would have a really relaxing, enjoyable night — nights that I will forever remember with great fondness. As a young man and up until last year, Christmas became an increasingly more important opportunity to spend quality time with her. I don’t quite have the words right now in this format to describe what those days were like or what our relationship was like, and that’s what I tried to accomplish in the song.
Thus, I dedicate this song to my Grandma Moore, a person that I am truly better off for having known and grown up with. I’m going to miss her a lot tomorrow, but writing this song really did help me to express some of that emotion.
As a final sidenote, I spent tonight at the second annual Fusco-Moore Experience Christmas Eve party. I didn’t attend last year, but I figured I should probably attend this year, as my name is in the title and all… According to Jim, the real reason I attended was because I didn’t have anything better to do. Now, this may be true, but… Seriously, though, tonight was really relaxing and fun, the food was amazing, I’m somehow still full from the multi-course meal, and thankfully, Jim’s mom cleaned the dishes. It was a Christmas miracle, as far as I was concerned, that I didn’t have to clean them. I always expect to, and there was more than double our average amount of dirty dishes tonight! Thank you again, Mrs. Fusco!!
Jim, Mike, and I are planning a little get-together we’ll call “Mas Christmas” — or, for those of you who do not habla espanol, “More Christmas.” I’m definitely looking forward to that!
For now, I’m off to get ready for Christmas morning. It will be a full day, capped off by an all-new episode of TNA Impact! at 9pm in the Fusco Theatre. And YOU will have an exciting new yuletide Jeff Copperthite video to look forward to…
Hello and welcome to my first true Laptop Session in quite a while — since December, to be specific, when I covered the Goo Goo Dolls song “Laughing.” Well, I’m back today with an original song from my new album, The 2010 Project, which was released just a couple weeks ago. In fact, the day after my album hit the web for download, Mike Fusco (who mixed and produced it) and I went to see the Goo Goo Dolls. This was our second time seeing them — and I won’t repeat what I wrote about them back in December — but suffice it to say that it was exciting going to see a band with so many anthemic songs, a group that can create such energy and drive the audience so masterfully. And look like they’re having the time of their lives on stage.
We left the concert revved up: proud of the project we had just completed the day before and excited for new music to come.
So, now that a couple weeks have passed and I’ve had the opportunity to play The 2010 Project songs live again, thinking of them as whole songs to perform rather than in pieces (as I did during the recording sessions), I had the itch to return to the Laptop Sessions and debut those songs that haven’t been seen and heard here yet.
This is the second track on the album, “Threshold,” and one which stands out from the rest for the fast delivery during the verses and the statement of purpose in the chorus that could very well be the thesis statement for the entire album. For this video, I (for obvious reasons) couldn’t include the guitar solo performed on the studio version, so I broke out my “E” harmonica and worked out a simple solo and added some flares to the beginning and end of the performance. It clocks in at under three minutes, and is a good example of the type of music I’m making these days.
And, for those who have heard the demo version, this is a significantly improved arrangement!
I also recorded “You Will Thank Me” as well as the single from the album “It All Comes Around,” so check back for those videos in the coming weeks.
