By Jeff Copperthite:
Welcome to Thumpin’ Thursday! I have a really cool song to bring you this evening, it is a favorite of mine and one i’ve wanted to cover for a long, long time.
The song is…
Well, that’s how I was planning on starting the post this evening.
But, for the first time in the history of this site, I finally fell for the fatal mistake of being part of a site w/ multiple cover artists posting on it.
I recorded a previously covered song. A song that has been posted for some time now.
Funny thing is when I am going about my business figuring out the list of songs I want to do, I usually check the category of the artist to make sure that song hasn’t been done already. Hell, i’ve even caught myself writing a song on the list that i’ve already covered, let alone one that Chris or Jim have already tackled.
But the more songs that get added, the more likely this mistake is going to be made.
By my guesstimate, we have just about 500 cover/original videos posted on this site. When you get right down to it, assuming 12 songs a CD, that’s 42 CDs and change worth of songs on this single website! Most of them are familiar songs – we don’t delve into the rare album cuts often for the sheer reason that most people don’t know them.
But yet, despite my best efforts, I did it.
I even did the song in one take – and it’s not a terribly easy song either.
I even edited it and slapped on the titles, filters, and effects.
I even started writing the article for it!
So because of this, you have been reading my thoughts.
To be honest, I blame the extremely busy week i’ve had. The prom i’ve helped plan is happening in 3 weeks, and we start selling tickets for it tomorrow. I have to revise and edit the planned format, and print them on cardstock in the morning. I also have to correct a few more Physics quizzes (how fast do you have to throw a 2.4 g dime at a 3.0 kg piece of plywood, such that they have a perfectly inelastic collision and start moving at 2.0 m/s anyway?), finish correcting Earth Science projects, get ready to introduce the next (and probably last) Chapter in the course, since the Seniors only have 13 days left of class (excluding tomorrow).
Oh, and to boot I was at the Doctor’s for two hours today – but I’m not at liberty to say why.
Well, next week I guarantee I will cover, play, record, and post a song that has not already been covered. Until then, I hope you have found some humour and light hearted-ness in this post.
Until then…
Related posts:
- “I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better” (A Byrds Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
- “Never Without You” (Ringo Starr Cover Song – Jeff’s 100th session!) – The Laptop Sessions
- “Tonight I’ll Be Stayin’ Here With You” (Bob Dylan Acoustic Rock Cover Songs – Triple Threat Tuesday!!) – The Laptop Sessions
This is one in a series of acoustic cover songs, original music, and free mp3 downloads here on the Laptop Sessions Music Video Blog.
May 1st, 2009 at 3:29 pm
This begs the question – which song was it?? I think you should post it anyway; it can only serve to increase your views and give us Laptop Sessions junkies another video to look forward to.
May 4th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
You don’t want another “Turn the Page” video clogging up the site >.>