“20th Century Boy” T Rex Cover

[peter]

What do you do when the internet is out all morning? You jam out a cover of T Rex, a band you loved as a 7 yr old. Yes, I was studying classical piano and listening to Zeppelin, T Rex, The Who, The Stones…

No rehearsing. No loops. Just a lyric sheet with chords. I pressed record and improvised — over and over for 20 tracks. I didn’t bother trying to tune the vocals, it just wouldn’t feel rock and roll. This was an old school jam, except it was just me, MIDI controllers, sample libraries, plugins, and a DAW.

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[lamia6]

Cool cover.Never heard the original though, but it defo has the authentic vibe of the time. 🙂

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[peter]

@lamia6 This is the original. I tried to give the song a harder, more jam-ish edge.

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[peter]

An odd bit of trivia. But most of the original band members of T. Rex have passed on. The one band role where no player of that instrument has died in the band yet, drummer. Unlike Spinal Tap, the drummers seem to be only spot in the band where the musicians live on.

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[Tom Brace]

Let’s get Seventies, mon!

Good groove – greasier than a Brooklyn pizza on a summer’s day.

One of my favorite T-Rex songs (another is “Raw Ramp” and the instrumental just following it. They go together so well, they merged ’em on the B-side of the single (the A-side, I fail to remember at the moment. Getting older sucks!). It might have been “Get It On”, but me nuh sure, mon. 🙂

One of the things I like best is that you play true to the “Bolan Tone.” Some female vox would have rounded out the tune nicely, but I suppose ya didn’t have access to ’em during the plandemic, huh? lol

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[peter]

On Tom Brace said

Let’s get Seventies, mon!

Good groove – greasier than a Brooklyn pizza on a summer’s day.

One of my favorite T-Rex songs (another is “Raw Ramp” and the instrumental just following it. They go together so well, they merged ’em on the B-side of the single (the A-side, I fail to remember at the moment. Getting older sucks!). It might have been “Get It On”, but me nuh sure, mon. 🙂

One of the things I like best is that you play true to the “Bolan Tone.” Some female vox would have rounded out the tune nicely, but I suppose ya didn’t have access to ’em during the plandemic, huh? lol

I like the way you kill time, good sir!

Ha, thanks! Because of my tendinitis limiting how long I can play before I’m in pain, the covers I do are pretty much me playing a song for the first time, recording track by track as I did since I was a kid. I mainly just google lyrics and chords and press record. It’s just me jamming. Back when I played semi-professionally, I never did more than background vocals, and that was more than 20 years ago. Although I sometimes will play the song once through before a cover. I’ve heard these tunes so many times, I’m just going off of my memory and the chord chart.

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