Still clearing out the cobwebs, this batch of songs had been in the stalled-out production line since the 2015, partly as an attempt to live inside some songs for the Buttsteaks to possibly cover. I prefer working on songs in pairs, probably out of ingrained A side/ B side bias, so there are three 45's here, to my thinking anyway...
Out of these, we ended up picking up only "Friday I'm in Love" and doing a nice job of it (including the bridge section that I've never taken a shine to, and left out of this basement laboratory version). We'd covered the other Cure song, "Push", and the Smiths' "What Difference Does It Make" WAAAAaaayy back in the pre-Buttsteak days of '87 (along with some other still-neglected hits) but likewise left those in the dustbin of history. "Please, Please, Please..." was recorded just because it's one of my favorite Smiths' songs and I'm still convinced it could work in the right format.
The other "single" is, in my mind, done in the style of the underestimated, late-era, Joe Strummer-fronted Pogues. "If I Should Fall from Grace With God" I did as a St. Patrick's thing. Was hoping to pick up "London Calling" for the Buttsteaks, thinking it a no-brainer but we ended up leaving it on the slag heap. It may yet rise again.
JK
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Back up and running: Zevon and Stones covers
Relieved to see that this dumb Blogger deal was still up and running after so many months and years of disuse on my part.... Long and short is the the corona has coincided with an already scheduled work slowdown on my part, so at last there may be an opportunity to take care of business that's been neglected far too long.
As a start here's a pair of covers that Roady and I quickly blasted out in the (then newly re-done and subsequently largely abandoned until recently) basement rock zone in 2015. For those of you doing the math, that's five goddarned years ago. Nuthin' fancy.
JK
Mohammed's Radio (Warren Zevon cover)
https://app.box.com/s/d3y06nev5fnfpmcpgh7j0xawji905m95
Torn and Frayed (Rolling Stones cover):
https://app.box.com/s/a689xy49c4iounxhxj4osj083dj7mmri
As a start here's a pair of covers that Roady and I quickly blasted out in the (then newly re-done and subsequently largely abandoned until recently) basement rock zone in 2015. For those of you doing the math, that's five goddarned years ago. Nuthin' fancy.
JK
Mohammed's Radio (Warren Zevon cover)
https://app.box.com/s/d3y06nev5fnfpmcpgh7j0xawji905m95
Torn and Frayed (Rolling Stones cover):
https://app.box.com/s/a689xy49c4iounxhxj4osj083dj7mmri
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