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The Laptop Sessions: “For What It’s Worth” (Buffalo Springfield Acoustic Rock Cover Song)
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
By Chris Moore:
Hello and welcome to yet another all-new cover of an all-new band to the blog! Straight from the treasure trove of genre-crossing singles and album tracks that is Dana Camp’s iTunes library, this is Buffalo Springfield’s early hit “For What It’s Worth.” This is one of those songs with a title that is not used at any point during the lyrics, so my initial response to the title was, “How does that one go?”
Of course, from the first strum of the first verse, I instantly recognized this hit sixties protest song.
I’ve always loved this song, and I loved it all the more this afternoon as I realized it was right in my vocal comfort zone! Still, as fun as it was to learn and play it, I do wish there had been some way to include that awesome reverberating lead guitar and solo. I guess you’ll just have to imagine it as you listen…
About a week ago in one of my posts, I started out by saying it would be a short one. Then, I proceeded to write one of my lengthier posts. This time, however, I’m going to cut my writing short, as I’m fading fast and need my sleep on this final night of the weekend. I spent the last forty-five minutes or so helping Jim with the new cover songs branch of the Laptop Sessions music blog series. He put me in charge of finding good photos for each band/songwriter to use for the new site. Probably the most fun so far has been searching for the best Britney Spears photo — and, yes, we DO have a Britney Spears category! Meanwhile, Jim was doing the hard work (i.e. making the site run, run properly, and look good while doing it!).
And, on a final note, this is my final in a series of political songs. I like these unnofficial themes I’ve been doing, first with three female lead songs in a row, now with three political songs in a row. I’d probably find another one to record, but my next session will land on a by-now-infamous Original Wednesday!
With that, I’m closing my laptop and closing my eyes to the sounds of R.E.M. What better band to encourage a healthy sleep cycle?… Get it?… Okay, that was bad, and I apologize. At least you’ll be safe for at least a couple days, as I’d challenge Jeff and Jim to make a pun worse than the aforementioned REM cycle one…
See you next session!
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Jim Fusco Hits 130,000 YouTube Video Views, Plus New Domain Launched
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Big news here at Fusco-Moore Productions, as we’ve acquired the domain name cover-songs.com! That’s right: now your source for cover songs has a great name to go along with it! Over the next few days, we’ll be working hard to get photos of ALL the bands we’ve covered here on the Laptop Sessions and organizing them on the frontpage of the site. The site really is just a section (or portal) to the familiar Laptop Sessions site. I may decide to come up with a new design for it. The goal of this site is to get people to find our cover songs, then to have them make the connection to the blog community over here at the Laptop Sessions.
Ideas are (as always) frantically running through my head, but I feel awfully tired, so they’ll have to wait a bit more to come to fruition.
Also, probably last night, I hit 130,000 views on YouTube! I’m still holding out hope that I can get to 150,000 by the end of 2008, which I think would be a nice accomplishment. Hopefully there will come a time where I can only announce in 50,000 view counts, but for now, it’s still a nice event at each 10,000. This time it took me 21 days, which is right on schedule, as of late. Of course, I’d like that number to decrease as time goes on, so we’ll have to see if the new domain name helps us at all.
Just another step towards greatness here at Fusco-Moore Productions!
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