Rough Cuts #7 - my cover of "Shine" by Collective Soul
Nature conspired to stop me from getting this video posted this weekend, but I have prevailed. Not as prevalently as I would have liked... I really wanted to do some multitrack audio for this one, but alas, I'm out of time.
Like other videos, I'm just using multiple video recording sources, then syncing and blending them all together. For this one, I have the old Sony Cybershot camera, an LG Rebel4 phone, and a Motorola E6 phone.
This is my newest recording, and originally was meant to get a lot more attention, but I've had a touch of the 'rona, and after 3 takes, I decided my vocals just aren't good enough right now for an 'official' cut. For my first 'official' recording, I think I'll use this format, but instead of playing and singing all at once, I'll do the music and vocals in separate videos.
The biggest problem I had to overcome this weekend was resurrecting the old desktop. For reasons I still haven't determined, the newest linux kernel update broke my Ubuntu system on the old frankenstein build, and I've been sampling linux distros ever since, looking for something that plays friendly with my 12 year old hardware. I've also been updating firmware, adding memory, replacing my mouse...
Once I finally got something working, I decided to try the latest version of OpenShot, and it had a cool new feature for tiling all of the video streams on one screen, which is why we have the cool new look.
This video sounds kind of awful, but I'm trying to keep a schedule, so here it is anyway. I hope you manage to sit through the whole thing!
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What do you mean by that?
Whaddup. Rona, boo, the whole house or just you? Rona sucks. I remember when people were getting vaccinated for it and then boasting all over the internet they're vaccinated and then they get covid so they get boosted and got covid, again.
I simply meant that it wasn't completely awful. The guitar was pretty tight (for me), and I thought it ended strong, you just needed to be a little drunk to get through that first verse.
Rona hasn't been so bad for me, other than... well, you heard it. Pretty sure it's the whole house, though we haven't bothered testing since we don't go anywhere anyway. I only know it's 'rona 'cuz my helper monkey at the farm took a couple days off for testing positive, and his symptoms were the same as mine: "A little tired, a little sore."
I was probably 16 the first time I saw Collective Soul—Irvine Meadows Ampitheater in Devore, Ca. Wasn't a fan of them before that show.
They're one of those bands whose studio sound doesn't do them justice. Ever since that show, when Shine comes on, it's like the world stops.
They were one of those bands where every time I heard a song on the radio that I liked and asked who it was, the answer was 'Collective Soul'.
'The World I Have Known' is the one that stops the world for me, but I haven't learned to play it yet. 'December' will eventually make its way to one of these videos.
Ah such a good song. Great version dude!
I'm glad you like it, but great? Have you been drinking? 🤣