By Jim Fusco:
Welcome to yet another edition of The Laptop Sessions with, you guessed it, another new band to music video series! Jeff, Chris, and I have really been turning up the heat on the new bands lately- I’ll be featuring another new one on Friday this week. And I’ll give you a hint- let’s just say that today’s song is the first in my week of songs that start with “Let It”. Now, remember, I already did “Let It Be” by the Beatles- that was one of my first ever Laptop Sessions cover songs. So, we’ll wait until Friday to see what I pull out of my bag of tricks!
Today’s cover song is another one of those, “I was obsessed with it in high school”, tracks alongside last week’s “Temptation Eyes”. I hope to do more songs from BTO in the future, but I have to be careful to transpose them from heavy electric to acoustic. This one, I thought, was less about the great electric guitar and more about the great vocals. I decided to up the passion on the vocals to account for using only an acoustic guitar.
We’re really moving along here on the music video blog- I’ve had a bit more (unexpected) time to work on this stuff, and with the efforts of Jeff and (especially) Chris, we’ll be getting hundreds of new viewers every day. I can feel it- we’re right on the cusp. I hope the extra work I did today will push us over the edge. Either way, you can bet that we’ll keep doing great acoustic rock cover songs and continue to surprise you with new bands all the time!
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This is one in a series of acoustic cover songs, original music, and free mp3 downloads here on the Laptop Sessions Music Video Blog.
July 29th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Wow, you were really in the zone for this one! It looked tough to play and sing, and it was long. Good job! And believe it or not, I didn’t know this BTO tune. The only bad thing I have to say about this video is the “freeze frame” shot that YouTube chose for the video. It looks a little angry! haha
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July 29th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Well, I don’t want to ruin it for all the Laptop Sessions fans out there, but I have a pretty good idea of what song Jim will be releasing. If I were a betting man, I’d put my money on Keyshia Cole’s amazingly awesome “Let it Go.”
Did I guess right? I guess you’ll just have to check back in three days…
July 30th, 2008 at 7:21 am
You mean Jim, covering a song from a female singer? It’d be a first not just for laptopsessions.com, but many other areas as well.