By Jeff Copperthite:
Oh yeah – I get to bring in my favorite day to one of the cooler songs I know.
That’s right, it’s Thumpin’ Thursday® – naturally trademarked by yours truly. I’m dedicated to bringing you not only every TT that I have left in the year, but in 2009 I hope you can count on your Thursdays every week to always be a Thumpin’ one.
And to go right along to that theme, I have a great tune from The Byrds tonight. From their album “The Notorious Byrd Brothers” is a song introduced to me by (who else) Jim Fusco. It’s the first track of the album and it’s a great album starter called “Artificial Energy”. The song has an awesome horn part that overlays the entire song. This album and song were recorded in 1967 – over 40 years ago. A stereo version of the song is noted by having the horns loud enough to cause distortion that was still atypical to a record.
The album this comes from is one i’d like to hear. I’ve read that it is one of their best albums, if somewhat short.
I also wanted to bring this song to the sessions to remind Jim of his days at Wesleyan University. I hope your roommate was a Byrds’ fan man.
That does it for me tonight – but rest assured! Tomorrow you will get to hear another song by myself, and then i’ll be back for another fantastic session on Sunday as well. Chris will jump in Saturday to give me a break, but you can count on a session a day all the way through ’08.
I hope you enjoy today’s session!
Editor’s Note: Unfortunately, Jeff’s acoustic cover song music videos are no longer on YouTube, but we decided to keep his cover song blog posts up. We figured these music blog entries would be good for posterity’s sake and because Jeff always gave such insightful posts each Session. We hope to see Jeff’s impressive catalog of acoustic rock songs here on the Laptop Sessions cover songs and original music blog again in the future. But, for now, please make sure to check-out hundreds of other acoustic cover songs from all of your favorite bands here on the Laptop Sessions music blog!
Oh YEAH, man! Great performance! You’d probably like “Notorious Byrd Brothers”- it’s joyously trippy.
And as for my roommate at Wesleyan, he wasn’t a Byrds fan, but let’s just say (as “good-ol” Sarah Palin said last night) “tolerant” of my blasting music.