Poopot's Cover Challenge #26 - the letter M

flying_pie

@idiotwind in the playlist again

Bezzer

OK, I've sent one in. Realistically it needs a fair bit more work, mainly some of the out of tune vocals, but I'm not going to get the time so you can "enjoy" it as is
Been fun though so I may come back to it one day for the final spit and polish.

flying_pie

@Bezzer in the playlist

flying_pie

And I've added a track to the playlist

It's a perfectly straight cover of Master of Puppets

if it was in Les Miserables

Probably then only time I'll ever use a bassoon in a track, never mind a BBC sound archive clip of "Women's darts match in a Cockney pub" for the ambience! 

stickyfiddle

I'm back from holiday. Just need 1 afternoon to get shit finished. 

I may submit 2 yet - we'll see. I have another coupe of weeks right?  

flying_pie

stickyfiddle said:

I'm back from holiday. Just need 1 afternoon to get shit finished. 

I may submit 2 yet - we'll see. I have another coupe of weeks right?  

It's three weeks actually - 29th March is the closing date. Plenty of time to get it in

(that's what she said)

thecolourbox

I have just sent an entry in - a little bit different than my usual efforts in this section I think?  Albeit another mimic/impersonation attempt with a very straight cover, but I have gone for quite an ambitious (for me) guitar solo so hopefully that redeems me

flying_pie

@thecolourbox in the playlist

thecolourbox

Mercy buckets mon cher

fnpt

Entry sent feat. @thecolourbox on vocals. Thanks

flying_pie

@fnpt ft @thecolourbox added to the playlist

stickyfiddle

Aaand the inlaws arrive on Sunday and take over my "studio"

Will try and squeeze in my last bits today/tomorrow to avoid a rush in the last few days

thecolourbox

Cramming into the time available is very much the modus operandi at colourbox towers so hoping to pass some of that energy over your way to get stuff done! Yesterday morning whilst working I did the vocals for that fine gent FNPT's cover and pretty much my Strokes cover from scratch, as well as doing the guide guitar tracks for Master of Puppets - albeit I hit the wall when adding guide vocals as they sounded absolutely awful so I gave up for a while to think about how to do them better. Despite being quite pleased with my Strokes cover and being ecstatic with the collab entry, I was still quite annoyed that the guitar parts were fine but I was struggling with the singing - normally it's the other way around haha. 

Had a cursory listen to the playlist as it is (don't like listening much before I've submitted something as i use it as motivation) and some excellently varied efforts as always. 

thecolourbox

My Liner Notes for my Modern Age cover:

Massive fan of the Strokes and a lot of music around that time. Also it helps that it is, let's face it, quite simple music with lots of power chords and barre chords in quaver rhythms. My timing in general is pretty poor though so I did have to concentrate a lot. I imagine playing those patterns with a pick is easier but I just stuck with my usual finger picking.

Guitar is my Mustang, which was customised by the indomitable funkfingers of this parish to have lace sensors and some unusual pickup combinations. It has a nice neck, or rather a neck that suits me and it's a small guitar in general so easy to move about on it.

Straight through Helix Native, the rhythm parts are the same settings (tubescreamer into Deluxe reverb) just different pickups for the lead and rhythm sounds, then the solo is I think the Pocket Fuzz into a Marshall 2204 with some slapback.

Vocals are through a Tweed deluxe blended with a clean path, mic is my usual trusty Marantz condenser compressed and limiter-red quite a lot i think. Only other plugin on there is the CLA Mixdown which I like to use as it's simple and tends to make it sound more stuck together as a mix.

Drums are Groove Agent and the bass is Kontakt Scarbee bass, both were very mind numbingly dull to input but at least I could copy and paste a lot

stratman3142

Sent mine in. It's a cover of George Harrison's Marwa Blues.

I used my whammy bar instead of a slide, so I've called it Marwhammy Blues.

flying_pie

@stratman3142 in the playlist

TTony

One from me on its email way ...

flying_pie

@TTony in the playlist

TTony

And a cheeky second one from me on its email way.

Apparently, after John Fogerty had managed to find his way out of Lodi (of the song fame), he then got stranded in a neighbouring village for a while, and wrote this song in a similar style ...

(Not many people know that).

stickyfiddle

I definitely have a couple in the pipe. I just my in-laws to stop sleeping in my studio…!!!