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Studio Musician Services – Audio Production Services from FMP Studios
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Originally posted 2008-04-30 23:41:24.
Not only does Jim produce audio, he creates it! He has grown to be a skilled musician and singer. Just look at all the different instruments he plays:
- Guitar (Lead & Rhythm)
- Drums
- Bass
- Piano/keyboard
- Percussion
- Saxophone (for horn sections only- limited soloing)
- Mandolin
If you need a one-man-band to play instruments, sing lead or backing vocals, or produce songs you’ve written, look no further than Jim Fusco, studio musician! Visit Jim’s Official Music website to hear Jim’s talents on his original songs: www.jimfusco.com.
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“That’s Not Me” (The Beach Boys Acoustic Rock Cover Song) – The Laptop Sessions
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Originally posted 2008-06-29 22:04:38.
By Jim Fusco:
“That’s Not Me” is track three of the pivotal album, “Pet Sounds” from 1966. My family got into the Beach Boys back in 1990 or 1991 because of this album. Of course, we listened to the greatest hits, but we were more interested in this well-crafted, deeper music that “Pet Sounds” brought to the table. Seventeen years later, “Pet Sounds” doesn’t stand as my favorite Beach Boys album- that title goes to a couple of others, including “Holland”, “Sunflower”, and “The Beach Boys (1985)”. But, I still love every single track off of “Pet Sounds”. One of the reasons I like those other albums better is because of the contributions from the other band members. On “Pet Sounds”, it’s really a Brian Wilson solo album, featuring Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, and Dennis Wilson on backing vocals.
But, then you get songs like “God Only Knows” that clearly benefited from Carl’s lead vocals and “That’s Not Me”, which benefited from Mike Love’s great lyrics and singing. This song is a great one to play on acoustic guitar and do a cover of because I didn’t have that feeling of stripping too much away from the song. This is a very personal-sounding song and I think it works great as an intimate cover music video. Of course, I plan on doing pretty much every song from “Pet Sounds”, but I arrived at this choice now because it’s the track that still hung on to that Brian Wilson/Mike Love writing tandem that put them on top in the early 60s.
I hope you enjoy tonight’s Laptop Session acoustic cover song and I hope you’ll come back to see another great cover music video from Chris Moore tomorrow!
Download a FREE mp3 of this song at the Fusco-Moore Store by
Clicking HERE! It’s on “The Laptop Sessions, Vol. 4″:
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“What An Outsider Sees” (Jim Fusco Original Acoustic Rock Song) – The Laptop Sessions
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Originally posted 2008-11-26 22:06:41.
By Jim Fusco:
Welcome to your Original Wednesday video tonight with me, Jim Fusco!
Tonight, I bring you a tune I wrote back in senior year of high school in 2001-2002. A friend of mine at the time was having some troubles because the person he liked always decided to go out with the jerkier guys so she could keep up appearances with the cool crowd. But, she always acted so natural and comfortable around him, so it made it even harder to live with, especially because the decision was out of his hands.
I took a few lines that he wrote (the cornier lines and the ones with the clichés) and wrote this tune around it. I love the tune, but it was written after all of the songs for my album, “My Other Half”, that I was recording at the time, so I relegated this song to the bonus tracks.
Even though I always tease Chris for his use of the major to minor chord switch in his songs, I thought my usage of the E to E minor chords before the chorus gave the song a nice feel. In fact, I didn’t plan it at all- it’s just what the tune called for.
You’ll notice that this video looks a bit different, in that I have my microphone right up to my mouth. This song is sung in a lower register. If you’ve watched my videos before, you know I have no problems belting out songs in many different styles and tempos. But, something about this song- one that I wrote, mind you- is very difficult for me to sing with any loudness in my voice. I mean, I could sing it louder, but then you’d lose that feeling and my voice wouldn’t be as bassy as I’d like it.
So, I tried this new technique for this video. I’ll be back to my old technique next time around.
I’m very much looking forward to Thanksgiving tomorrow, coupled with the early start on Friday. I’m just as excited about the upcoming WCJM “10th Anniversary Show” on Saturday morning- our first real “morning show” in a long, long, long time. It’ll be nice to gather the guys once more for a show. You know it’ll be online as soon as possible!
Enjoy tonight’s video. I’d write even more, but we just finished watching “North By Northwest” and I won yet another Trivial Pursuit game against Dana and Chris. I hope you all have an amazing holiday weekend (mine started when my work let us out two hours early with pay!) and I’ll be back with you on Saturday night after everything calms back down. Until then, go stuff yourself silly!
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“Sister Morphine” (Rolling Stones acoustic cover) – The Guest Sessions
Friday, July 9th, 2010
By Federico Borluzzi:
Acoustic cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Sister Morphine,” from their 1971 Sticky Fingers album.
** EDITOR’S NOTE: **
As Federico referenced above — and as you can see at the beginning of the video when he holds up the album cover — “Sister Morphine” is a deep track from 1971′s Sticky Fingers. The album has received very positive news, so this, along with the fact that “Wild Horses” hails from this record and Federico saw fit to pick from it, has made me believe I should make this my next Rolling Stones purchase.
I hesitate to admit this, but I’ve never listened to a Rolling Stones album…
Perhaps it’s time.
“Sister Morphine” was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards along with Marianne Faithfull, who released the track as a B-side in 1969. It apparently took some legal intervention to get Jagger and Richards to include her name in the credits on the album.
Regardless of who had what part in writing it, Federico has brought his A-game as per usual, and has extended the great Laptop Sessions tradition of presenting an acoustic cover song that gets others interested in the original recording.
For now, enjoy his version and hurry back for more new material on the blog this weekend!
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