Not Doing Song Covers

 

Except these kind of are. My last 5 music+comics have been like this. Like a buskers Fake Book, or not remembered correctly, close, almost cover versions.

I want to do original music, then here, almost well known songs. 

Not the thing can put on YouTube or Bandcamp, and fair use is not a universal concept. For example it does not exist in Japan.  

The lyrics are what people remember, or mostly remember...

Interesting thing to try for a change.  I basically gave myself a morning to record and sing a 60sec piece of music, then make a music+comic around it. Hadn't played the song before.

So I usually look up the TAB for it.  Find the track on YouTube if I don't already have it, and open up my template for this stuff. Same drums and default instruments and set the tempo. All of these songs here use the same three ultra simple 4/4 drum patterns.  Record some verse chorus like bits and ram them together. I play the parts, they way I do my original stuff. I am NOT trying to copy the original artists. 

Other than maybe a hint of a Scottish accent in the singing maybe  😀. 

Then have 3 or 4 attempts at the singing and keep the best takes. So it isn't that I spent any time practicing these songs I don't know. Part of the incorrectly remembered feel.

Thing is, as I don't own these songs, there is little point in spending much time working on them, learning them, other than for the educational value. To me anyway. 

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IT'S OUR TIME: A track in that new genre "Retiree Pop Rock"

 

IT'S OUR TIME: A track in that new genre "Retiree Pop Rock". Has a simple catchy chorus and no verse lyrics as you can't remember them any way...

Where was I?

Maybe more "Punk" than "Rock"

Yeah, so I didn't hurt my back putting on my socks this morning. Always a great start to the day, as is making some silly song

Rammstein has these massive massive heavy guitar, then this wimpy synth melody too, so, extra wimpy here.

The old couple is an AI image floating around Facebook, where the old guy has 3 feet. I photoshopped the 3rd foot out and made it a blank thought balloon. The ruling is you can't copyright AI images so fair game I think.

The latest version of the track is here, as I will no doubt change it. I always do!

https://megacurve.bandcamp.com/track/its-our-time

The lyrics

CHORUS come on baby it's our time maybe lets go have some fun we worked so long we worked so hard it's time to have some fun VERSE (only one) our twilight years been good times and bad time to leave that all behind at least for awhile at least for awhile at least for awhile at least for awhile

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Gobsmacked

 

As we sit across the other side of the world, looking at that foreign country, we are amazed at what is happening. Godsmacked is right.

Isn't the first time though. Those WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION  😀 have been used before. And end credits of Michael Moore's  Fahrenheit 9/11 use Neil Young's Rock'n In The Free World and it all seemed appropriate.

This one has some of Mr. Youngs lyrics in it. Not really a cover though...

Today, in February 2025, it does seem that their talk of a "100 year" rule, "No need to vote any more", "President for Life" and all the rest of an Authoritarian Theocracy is well underway. All with support of the popular vote, and that strange recent US Supreme Court law to let the President do anything.

Not my country, but no doubt the ripples will impact us in the rest of the world. I see Prosperity Gospel followers I know in Australia cheering him on, to make America a "country of god again" or something to that effect. 

I did the music first for these MUSIC+COMICs and that is always 3 or 4 8 bar verses to fit under the 59sec X/ Bluesky, and this Blog also has a 50MB upload limit.  At this tempo makes it 45seconds long.

So the original song is 4:40 minutes, and I am not doing a "like the original" cover. Doing it the way I do my original stuff. Lots of CHUG.  This is just "EDM drum machine" drums, guitar and vocals. The guitar is my Ibanez GIO 7 string with a very metal Line 6 UBER METAL  plus  cabinet IR tone. 

All put together in MOHO PRO12. 

I showed the last animation above to a guy from Ohio, and he gave a very reasoned answer.

"Adrian Bruce most people in the US don't read or watch the news, and sadly of those that do, a large percentage only read right wing sources that are 100% biased towards Trump and the republican party and will blatantly lie about what they actually plan to do.

Most voted for change, because things have been hard and getting harder. Harris didn't make her campaign about that, on top of being a black woman, and that cost her enough votes to lose.

And a final point is that while Trump did get the most votes, he didn't get a majority, though it was just under 50%. Even so we are stuck with him for 4 years or till he dies."

If you want to be unkind, you could summarize that as the majority are ignorant, misogynist and racist. These are the same qualities the British that voted to leave the EU had too, so not just an American issue. 

For a democracy to work, the public has to be informed, and it would seem most Americans aren't. They had it tough and the news they heard was TRUMP will fix it.  They may not even have been aware he was a pussy grabbing rapist felon that lies all the time. Voting, unlike in Australia, is not compulsory, and elections aren't held on weekends when most people aren't working, and not all states allow voting by mail. Many people don't vote, and that seems to be a feature of the American System without even getting tothe Electoral College, rather than a bug.  Generally a good guy, Steve Wozniak (That original Apple engineer), doesn't vote, and says both sides do terrible things, like the Vietnam war etc. 

Gobsmacked.

A bunch of Artists have done a comic explaining Project2025. America may have its Christian Nationalists, but other countries Prosperity Gospel followers have similar goals, so it isn't just a weird American thing.

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