I didn’t tell anyone this on here but yesterday was my 37th birthday, and as a gift from family… I just got a USB microphone for my music recording. I’m pretty thrilled to finally have one too. It’s a good USB microphone too. Definitely, not a cheap one. It’s a studio quality microphone and when I tried it last night… it worked really great on my Ipad.

I’ll be able to make perfectly clean sounding acoustic demos finally. There’s no hissing sounds at all and no other background noises with this microphone so I’m pretty happy with it. So when I record original music in the future, expect better quality sound of my recordings.

This was my goal all along. Trying to record perfectly clean. I think it’s time to get back to songwriting again!

Kev

I wanna perform that Lored song “Royals” for you guys but I don’t think I’ll do that song right away. I think I’ll wait sometime in the future to do that one. I will still do it though… I just wanna concentrate on other songs. There are tons of other cover songs I’m dying to do.

I’m working on U2 “One” from the, Achtung  Baby album. You remember that song, right? I think I got the song down pretty good and will have the video up sometime this week.

There are other cover songs I wanna do. I might do more U2 stuff. There’s a few songs by Billy Idol I wanna cover. I wanna do the Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”. Sammy Hagar “I Can’t Drive 55”. Some stuff by the Clash. The list of cover songs I wanna do is too freakin’ LONG!

Man, after thinking about doing all of these cover songs for youtube… I’ve actually considered forming my own cover band. If I can do cover songs well enough, I might actually think about starting a cover band. I’ll see how it goes! Playing in a band is something I’ve always wanted to do and playing in a cover band is a good place to start.

I don’t just do these covers for myself… I enjoy playing them for you guys for your entertainment too! Always remember that. I have fun playing songs that other people know and love. This is only the beginning, though…

Kev

I’m planning on doing a lot more covers for a pretty good reason. I have something to prove with my music. People seem to not be taking my music and talent seriously. I’ve been overlooked for years and this is my way of hoping to get a bigger audience and more listeners. Little more recognition. When I keep saying that I have improved my singing greatly… I wasn’t lying and you can probably see that in those Lou Reed tribute videos. This is only the beginning, folks. You haven’t seen nothing yet. I’ve been working on my singing a lot as you can tell and taking my vocals more seriously. I wanna perform more covers to test out my singing. You can really prove yourself with performing covers than originals, in my opinion.

I got more covers coming along the way and already started working on three different ones.  There’s too many cover songs I wanna do.

I was proud of how my Lou Reed tribute came out; although, I wished they would get a lot more views. They will though, give it more time — people will find ’em before you know it. I plan on doing more ten song tributes of other artists sometime down the road maybe Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Bowie, The Beatles, The Clash, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, etc.

I just wanna show people that I can be a “musician” and playing covers will show that.

Don’t worry though, I’ll get back to writing originals again ’cause I love doing that too. Doing cover songs will help me for more inspiration on writing new originals too.

I try not to judge my own talent like a lot of musicians do around here. I can never tell if I’m good or not so I just let the listeners do the judging. That’s how you wanna do it, ya know? Just put my stuff out there and see what kind of feedback they get. I never go around saying, “I’m so good and great”. You wanna let the people tell you that. It’s okay to say that you’re proud of your own music, though, nothing wrong with that… just don’t be an egomaniac about it.

If you can play covers and master the song well — then you have talent. It’s just as simple as that and a lot of famous songs are very tricky to do. They maybe easy to play on the instrument but the singing can be quite challenging.

No matter what you think of my music, you should still give me the “kudos” for trying to do songs like Megadeth “Sweating Bullets”, Whitney’s “I Will Always”, Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” and all that Lou Reed stuff ’cause they weren’t easy for me to perform. I think I wanna try performing Megadeth “Sweating Bullets” again. Haven’t performed it in a long time so I’ll have to re-learn it. I plan on playing more metal stuff on acoustic too. Gonna try Iron Maiden’s “Fear of the Dark” and maybe some Metallica songs.

I got tons of ideas.

Kev