Pearl Jam : Cover Songs & Music Videos Category

  • The Laptop Sessions: “Black” (Pearl Jam Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Friday, May 23rd, 2008

    By Jeff Copperthite:

    Good evening! Welcome to your Friday installment of The Laptop Sessions. I hope you are ready to celebrate a three-day weekend, and plan on seeing family, friends, and perhaps enjoy a nice cookout or two in the process.

    Meanwhile, I get to bring to you one of my favorite songs. It’s Pearl Jam tonight with a song from their first album Ten. Track #5 is Black from that album and that is the song I bring to you tonight.

    It has a great background electric guitar and Eddie Vedder sings a wonderful vocal melody in the entire song. Vedder is known to go in between styles back and forth and this song showcases that talent of his. From the soft verses to the emotional outro of the song, I attempt to emulate what Eddie can do. I think I do a good job, but then again i’m no Eddie Vedder. I’ll let you be the judge of that.

    Also, this song translates wonderfully to acoustic guitar, and I substitute a minor change in the guitar part at the end of the song instead of the vocal “do do doo doo do do dooo” that the recording has. And as with all songs that fade out, I picked the chord that sounded best to end on and went with that.

    I want to thank all of you for visiting, commenting, rating, and subscribing. This is among the sessions I am most proud of.

    Stay tuned tomorrow for Jim’s latest session, then come Sunday we bring another special week of songs to you. You’ll have to check out Chris’s session on Sunday to find out just what that is!

     



  • The Laptop Sessions: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Monday, February 11th, 2008

    By Jeff Copperthite:

    Welcome to Monday’s Laptop Session, and I’m back with another Pearl Jam song, this time going back to their 2nd album “Vs.”

    This song also earns the title “Longest Song Title ever”, as I couldn’t even fit it into the Title field on YouTube (however, here it’s fine).

    The song is “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town”, and is a song that Scott & I have played for a long time. Usually, we’ll swap instruments and he’ll play the bass to it while I do my half-ass guitar part (well, compared to him. He is the guitarist in the band after all).

    This song is very sweet and easy to listen too. I hope you enjoy it.

    Stay tuned for Jim’s new session tomorrow, and see what Chris brings out of the woodwork for Original Wednesday.

    Oh, and I’m ever so close to the 3,000 view mark! Thank you everybody for making the Laptop Sessions such a success.

    Please visit http://www.laptopsessions.com for a new session per day in 2008. Also, remember my new EP “Greenlight” will debut on February 24th. Check out http://www.fusco-moore.com to preview some of the songs!

     



  • The Laptop Sessions: “Nothingman” (Pearl Jam Acoustic Rock Cover Song)

    Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

    By Jeff Copperthite:

    Welcome to Tuesday’s installment of The Laptop Sessions! I’m a bit late with this post because I had Dynamis in FFXI this evening, and the take I did before that didn’t come out very well. So I had to do it after that.

    The song I chose tonight is called “Nothingman” by Pearl Jam. It is from their 3rd album “Vitalogy”. I love this album and plan on doing a couple more songs from Pearl Jam in future sessions.

    Due to an index finger injury to my left hand two months ago, I still have some problems getting the Bb chord down on an acoustic guitar. It is getting better, but you may notice a sound quality difference when I play that chord.

    Tomorrow is Original Wednesday (well, literally in 1 hour 15 minutes), so look for Jim to come out with another great original song. Stay tuned!

     



Pearl Jam Acoustic Cover Songs

Among one of the most popular alternative rock acts of all time, Pearl Jam was founded in 1990 in Seattle, WA. Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard were the original pioneers of the band, but their chief draw is the unique vocals of Eddie Vedder. Pearl Jam is also well-known for their Ticketmaster boycott, and not recording music videos to go along with their radio singles. Vedder has an incredible range and can sing in multiple vocal styles. The band has a nearly uniform way of contributing to the songs they write – almost all songs have the entire band in the writing credits. They have released a total of 8 albums as of 2008, and their tour dates are continually sold out within a few short hours. Jeff has covered three songs from Pearl Jam – one from Vs., one from Ten, and one from Vitalogy. “I own only these three albums, so I know them the best. I’m confident that if I purchased their albums that came after Vitalogy, I’d be pleased as well”, says Jeff. Jeff is eager to convert some of their other well-known songs to acoustic, and has received positive reviews from fans on his covers.