Lately, I've been fascinated with musicians covering songs, but performing them in other genres. One, I think it's interesting to see how songs get interpreted, and two, I HAD THIS IDEA YEARS AGO. You're probably familiar with Ben Folds covering Bitches Ain't Shit, for example. I've previously encouraged you to think about some dude covering Boyz N The Hood. Awesome and unique and hilarious, all at the same time, right?
While there are some famous versions of people dabbling in covers, I want to take this to the next level: I want to form a band and perform NOTHING but covers from a different genre. One possible direction is to give the acoustic guitar treatment to some famous rap songs. First three I think we need are California Love by Tupac, It's Tricky by Run-DMC, and O.P.P. by Naughty by Nature (I'll also allow Hip Hop Hooray). The other direction is the one (so far) less traveled: rap covers of 80's hair metal. I think that's a niche where we can be first to market. Maybe one set of each per show? I don't know yet, this is still just a concept I'm working on.
So now we now come to the problem: I have no musical talent whatsoever. None. My contribution will be either knowing the lyrics to every relevant rap song from 1986-1996 or I'm happy to serve as MC on rap covers of power ballads. I think I can handle that. Therefore, I need musicians to actually, you know, perform the music. This is where you come in, blog readers. You have musical talent, I have a vision. Let's do this.
And now you know my master plan for future success. While daydreaming about my upcoming performance at the Grammy awards, I like to drink beer. Today's beer comes from Coniston, an English brewery. I've had this on draft previously at Teresa's Next Door, but I spotted a bottle during my field trip to Total Wine yesterday. This is a traditional bitter, and pours amber with a foamy head. Nice orange aroma, with a biscuit/bread flavor and floral notes (maybe lavender?) along the way. Yes, the beer style is called "bitter", but that's actually not a dominant flavor. What surprised me most was the 3.6% ABV - the flavor suggests a stronger beer. A very easy drinking, very tasty beer. Cheers, mate!
Thing to Think About Today:
Clearly, you need some additional examples before you get on board with my plan for sure stardom. I hereby present to you a Ukranian polka band + Katy Perry. THIS COULD BE US, PEOPLE!
And yes, I have this mp3 on the iPod. You knew I did, though. We fight, we break up/We kiss, we make up.
