Random/off topic posts

Why I’m planning to do a lot more cover songs…

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A lot of people mistakenly view me as an original song guy. Yes, I write original music but I love to do covers too! Some people don’t realize that I did quite a bit of cover songs over the years. When I do cover songs, I like to surprise people with them. I’m not the type of cover song artist who plays cover songs that pretty much every cover band plays. I try to stay away from cover songs that are overplayed like “Mustang Sally”, “Superstition”, “Sweet Home Alabama”, “Brown Eyed Girl”, “Hard to Handle”, etc. I try to do cover songs that hasn’t been covered by a lot of other musicians.

I surprised people with Megadeth’s “Sweating Bullets”, Social Distortion “Story of My Life” and Whitney Houston’s, “I Will Always Love You”. I’ve done several other covers for youtube as well.

I want to do a lot more cover songs ’cause I feel the need to expand my repertoire. After I complete the Lou Reed tribute series, I’ll go back to doing other cover songs. I’ll do songs from every decade of music from the 50’s to today. Just something fun I wanna do.

I’ll never give up original music, though. It’s important to do both covers/originals. Original artists shouldn’t neglect cover songs at all. You don’t have to make the cover song sound exactly like it is on the recording. I always found that wrong. You always want to try to make the cover song to sound like you wrote the song… you want to give your own take on it instead of ripping off the artist, ya know?

I’ll cover songs from every genre of music too. From oldies, classic rock, 80’s music, pop, metal, rock n’ roll, etc. I’m planning to cover some Adele, Lady Gaga or Katy Perry at some point. I also wanna do Lorde “Royals” sometime in the future. You’ll never know what I’ll come up with next.

My cover songs seem to get better feedback than my original music, anyways. My Lou Reed tribute series is getting some positive feedback. I just wanna show people that I can sing pretty decent and it’s showing… not trying to jerk myself off, though. Maybe I was meant to be a cover song guy? I’ll still write original music ’cause it’s my love.

Kev

Books, movies

Cary Elwes writing memoir about the filming of “The Princess Bride”…

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Actor Cary Elwes who starred as Westley in the film, “The Princess Bride”, is writing a memoir about the making of the film titled, “As You Wish: Tales From The Princess Bride” and it’s confirmed for a release date sometime in the Fall of 2014. The film also starred Robin Wright, Christopher Guest, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn, Andre The Giant, Fred Savage, and of course, Billy Crystal.

Read more on the story, here.

Now, here’s a book that I can’t wait to read!!! “The Princess Bride” is one of my favorite films of all time. I can’t wait to read what it was like to work with Andre. I’m sure Cary will have a lot of interesting and funny stories to tell about Andre.

Cary’s a talented actor. I liked him in the first, “Saw” movie and have seen him in other films.

Kev

Random/off topic posts

What I love about Lou Reed’s songwriting…

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One thing that I love about Lou Reed’s songwriting is that even though the guitar playing for his songs are so simple and basic; however, it’s his vocals that makes his songs very challenging! Do you think me performing the three Velvet Underground songs I did for youtube were easy? Lou only used easy chords for his songs but trying to get the vocals down were a real bitch. Singing those three songs, “I’m Waiting For the Man”, “Sweet Jane”, and “I’ll be Your Mirror” took me a lot of practice to sing. I didn’t want to upload them to youtube until they were perfect.

Next song I’m doing is another Velvet Underground song called, “Heroin”. I’ve been working on that song all day. Even though it’s two chords throughout the entire song, the vocals are real tough to get down… I’m getting the hang of it, though. Lou’s songwriting may have been simplistic but his vocals were pretty crazy.

You shouldn’t knock musicians for writing songs with easy chords. All you really need to write a really good song is just 2 – 4 chords… that’s it. You don’t need to be all technical. It shouldn’t matter how many chords you use or how difficult the song is. It’s about the melody of the song.

I’ll have “Heroin” uploaded as soon as I get good enough at playing the song. This will be a tight one… I’ll try to make this one intense and passionate. If not this weekend, then definitely sometime next week.

Kev

Local music

“The Jammy’s” program schedule released… and it’s just laughable…

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The program schedule for “The Jammy Awards” at Trickshots tomorrow night has been released. It’s pretty much a joke, too.

Check it out, here.

As you can see they got the show to start at 9:00 p.m. and it’ll go all the way to like 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning. Most of the bands scheduled to perform gets 10 minute sets each and the last 3 bands gets longer sets ’cause they are supposed to be the “big headliners”, lol. I haven’t heard most of the bands scheduled to perform this thing except the only bands I know about are Probing Digit, Margo Macero, and Skeletons In the Piano. I don’t really like Probing Digit but I am fans of Margo Macero and Skeletons In the Piano, though. Margo Macero and Skeletons In the Piano are two very talented acts who should have stayed far away from this garbage event. They are better than this.

The times and scheduling aren’t definite as this guy warns you they are approximate and scheduled to change. That raises up another red flag. Does that tell you something that he’s not making any promises that he’ll be professional about the scheduling?

I’m warning you all that this guy isn’t gonna do shit tomorrow night. The scheduling of times will be a mess and the show will be a disaster. Those who are planning to go and the bands committed to perform this thing are just wasting your time and money. I’m worried that a lot of these bands won’t get to play ’cause of difficulties with the scheduling and the organizers unprofessionally running the show. Trust me, these people are gonna go to this thing and walk out disappointed.

I’m sure this show will have a large crowd for a little bit but they’ll leave ’cause they won’t stay there ’til 2:00 in the morning. The only people who will stay there that late are the usual drunks who hang out at Trickshots.

I’m gonna feel bad for a few of the bands who won’t get to play ’cause it’ll be a waste of trip and gas money for them. This show will be a trainwreck and an absolute disaster. I’m looking forward to seeing what their award is gonna look like though if they even have ’em, that is.

Good luck tomorrow, TierOneTalent… you’re gonna need it…

Kev

Local music

Another thought about the Jammy Awards this Friday…

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The interesting discussions continues about “The Jammy Awards” happening at Trickshots this Friday.

Here are some more things that I am learning about it… first of all, I am finding out that most of the bands/artists who were nominated for awards this Friday don’t even care about it. It’s the more successful and talented bands that don’t care about it. The ones who do care about it are the ones who struggle in the scene, the ones who don’t do a lot in their music and they probably don’t understand how music works (the musicians who are unsuccessful). So I’m feeling out of all the bands/artists who are nominated… only very few of them will probably show up hoping they’ll pick up their awards.

I don’t think the award will be anything special. They’ll probably be getting some piece of shit plastic thing… I don’t think they can afford expensive trophies for everybody, ya know? I also wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t have awards to give out at all and the musicians might walk out with nothing.

If you go to this award show… here’s a few things that may happen…

The band Sludge Factory in which the guy in Tier One Talent is the singer of this Alice N’ Chains tribute band… I’m afraid that Sludge Factory may hog up the most stage time than the other bands scheduled to play. There are about 10 or more bands scheduled to play this award show and I’m feeling that many of them won’t get to play because you can very well believe Sludge Factory will hog up the stage the whole night.

The whole show will be so disorganized and unprofessional that the bands/musicians won’t get all the awards.

This show is going to be a trainwreck… trust me on that. Don’t go there expecting to see an entertaining award show when you find out that Dan of TierOneTalent will be jerking himself off throughout the whole show. He will see this as his show and not the bands/artists wanting to be a part of it.

This show is probably gonna fail, anyway. All this guy is gonna do is go there jam with Sludge Factory for a while and later on after that, he’ll take his money and go home.

How much do you wanna make a bet that musicians around the scene are gonna be disappointed with this show? They’ll be bashing this show online the day after, trust me. We did our best and tried to warn people. It’ll be their fault if they go to this show and they feel disappointed.

I’m still interested in seeing how this show is gonna turn out so I’ll be looking out for reviews and photos and stuff. I’ll post that stuff here when I see that stuff. This TireOneTalent guy sounds like a piece of work and I hope I never meet him.

Kev

Politics/war, TV

What’s with the George W. Bush flip-flopping all of a sudden?

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As far as I can remember, George W. Bush was one of the most-hated presidents during his reign. A lot of people called for impeachment and hoped he wouldn’t win the re-election for his second term as well. Now that George is no longer the president, he is all of a sudden loved by everyone???

Facebook is going off about George W.’s appearance on Jay Leno this week. It’s pretty funny how people say he’s a wonderful and cool guy now.

Don’t you remember that this was the guy who was late on responding to 9/11/01? Lied his head off about Weapons of Mass Destruction. Started the Patriot Act law that no one likes. Got us involved in a long and pointless war in Iraq/Afghanistan. This was the guy who turned our economy into a big mess. He had his share of killing lots of innocent women, children and civilians overseas. The list can go on.

This guy was a tyrannical maniac as well. I know Bush is Conservative/Republican but that doesn’t mean I can respect him. Even though I never liked Bush… I would say that he was a better president than Obama, though. Obama just makes Bush look too good.

Everyone’s going off about George W.’s appearance on Leno saying that he was enjoyable and funny to watch. It doesn’t matter if George has a funny sense of humor or not. Once a bad man, always a bad man. You can’t change that. The man maybe a hardcore Conservative but I never liked him. Still don’t!

I refuse to watch that appearance on Leno ’cause I don’t like Leno either.

Kev

Politics/war

Was JFK a great president everyone wants him to be??? I’d say no… absolutely not!

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Well this Friday is the 50th Anniversary of JFK’s assassination. Only thing though, everyone wants to mistakenly believe that JFK was a great president but was he really? It has always been debatable on whether he was or not but in my opinion, he was not a great president at all. He was a liberal scum bag like the rest of ’em.

Reasons why I think he wasn’t so great…. here’s a list:

1. The Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis disasters for starters. After those controversies I don’t see how anyone can respect him as president.

2. He was also the one who got us involved in Vietnam… promised to withdraw troops from that war and didn’t.

3. Him and his brother Bobby also wiretapped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because he was campaigning for Civil Rights.

4. Him and his brother Bobby went after the mafia (aka The Mob) which could also be why both of them were assassinated.

5. Kennedy got into politics ’cause he exploited his father’s money.

6. Kennedy lied his head off about his personal health. He had a lot of health problems and wouldn’t tell anyone about them.

7. Kennedy was a womanizer, big time. Cheated on his wife, Jacky, numerous times including Marilyn Monroe being one of those women who he had affairs with.

8. May have been responsible for the death of Marilyn Monroe. Some people say it’s conspiracy theory but I totally believe it. He may have hired people to murder her and cover it up. Her death is being blamed on him because she died shortly after he shut her out of his life.

9. Kennedy may have cheated to get the electoral win in the 1960 election against Richard Nixon.

10. Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam was assassinated while Kennedy was President… this was during the Vietnam War, of course.

That’s about all I can come up with. Every president have had their share of doing some bad and evil things… it shouldn’t matter who’s liberal or conservative. I’m not saying that Kennedy deserved the assassination, he certainly didn’t but he definitely was an evil man.

Kennedy’s history is interesting stuff to learn, though. I enjoy reading about him.

Kev

Celebrity news, movies

Bettie Page in all her nude glory??? Yes, please…

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Unpublished nude photos of Bettie Page surfaced the internet this week. They were from a Bettie Page documentary titled, “Bettie Reveals All”, which is a film by Mark Mori. Yes, these are real pics of Bettie Page the pinup star completely nude and you can see all of her privates, pretty much. They show it all… breasts, pussy, and ass!

I’ve always respected Bettie Page ’cause she was never afraid of the camera and was pretty obsessed with modeling back in the day. She had no problem being either half naked or completely naked in front of the camera all of the time.

I know I said I wasn’t going to be the player type of guy but if I was around back in her time… I would have had a lot of fun fucking her. I would have too!

See the pics, here.

Kev

Celebrity news

Justice for Brittany and Simon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Like most, I was disgusted to learn the news that actress Brittany Murphy and her husband Simon Monjack both may have been murdered by rat poison. Whether or not you like these two, they both deserve their justices. So lets hope they find out who murdered them and who ever the killer is, hope he/she will get some harsh punishment. This is a heartbreakin’ story. I kind of always knew that it couldn’t have been the prescription drugs that killed her.

Kev

Edit to add: I’ve just learned that people are blaming the government for her death ’cause she supported a whistleblower. Is Brittany Murphy another one of President Obama’s murder victims? I wouldn’t be fucking surprised… holy shit….

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