By Chris Moore:
This is PART ONE of the series titled “A brief history of the blog.”
In this segment, I will discuss the origins of the title. The term “Laptop Sessions” actually came from the term James Fusco gave to recording a song (or “session”) on a laptop computer. A laptop computer is a portable computer that is compact enough to rest on your lap.
Of course, this is somewhat of a misnomer, as there has never been a Laptop Session to my knowledge in which the computer was actually resting on the performer’s lap during the recording….