Post your covers! (2025)

[JustinAndSheba]

I can live with that! Maybe I need to move to the mountains and build a washtub bass.

[JustinAndSheba]

Thanks Maartian. I’ve kept parrots since 1991. I had 8 birds at one point.

[Paul_9207]

@Buzzin_Canada-John

@AndreaJayne

I tend to just leave the camera rolling and play through the song several times, then pick the best take. Or delete it and try again

See … for me … ( an me only ) if I were say trying to get a job with a band… then for sure this is what I would do… try to send my best

However … in this forum, where we all are learning… I care not, and will be 100% completely honest … with others, and myself

Just how I approach it… I am no where close to perfect… why try to pretend to be?

My goal at first was just to get some video and audio of the songs I was working on. But, I really think part of the journey, for some of us, is to make the best sounding cover that we are capable of at that moment. It’s very very rare that I will post my first attempt, mostly because stuff just happens. We are not live, it’s okay to put your best foot forward.

[Buzzin_Canada-John]

For sure Wasn’t sayin there was anything wrong with that at all… Was just saying how I do things

[AndreaJayne]

One shot recording, raw audio from the camera, and I’m singing. I hope you are happy
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
I am actually trying to practise playing and singing at the same time, not because I want people to hear me sing, but it is for my own amusement, and a good skill to have.
There are a couple of other songs I’m doing the same with too. Nothing too complicated on the bass, baby steps!

[AndreaJayne]

I recognise the song, but didn’t know who it was. Someone did a cover, can’t remember who. This is a great version though, and played perfectly as always

[Buzzin_Canada-John]

braver than I am … you won’t catch me singin… LOL

Great job… You’ll be doing Rush tunes in no time

[Lanny]

@JustinAndSheba

Maybe I need to move to the mountains and build a washtub bass.

Great plan @JustinAndSheba - worked for me!! Matter of fact, did a cover using the one I built when I first started taking the B2B course here years ago… Don’t live in the mountains though - pretty flat down here in the peach and pecan farmlands of South Georgia… But it don’t matter where ya live, just matters whatcha live by…

Cool thing about a good 'ol fashion Gut Bass is that:

• It don’t take no fancy power tools to build
• The bucket, pole, and string can all be used for other things- ie: multi-purpose (Hell, I use to take baths in these things growin’ up when they weren’t being used for guts)
• It’s easy to learn to play cause it only has one string
• Can be amplified (I stick a microphone in the bucket) so I guess you could say it’s both "Active & Passive)
• Can be played with as many (or as few) fingers ya wanna use
• Has absolutely no neck dive
• Lightweight and portable
• Don’t gotta worry about learning sheet music of any kind or type - there ain’t none
• And finally, I can guarantee 'ol @Al1885 don’t have one of these in his bass shed!!

Keep on Thumpin’!
Lanny

[JerryP]

Love it! More gut bass covers!

[Buzzin_Canada-John]

@Lanny

And finally, I can guarantee 'ol @Al1885 don’t have one of these in his bass shed!!

patiently waiting for @Al1885 to surprise us

@Lanny this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time! Thanks for this!

[Lanny]

@Buzzin_Canada-John

the coolest thing I have seen in a long time! Thanks for this!

Thanks John… At least when playin’ this instrument I don’t have to worry about hittin’ right notes,… being in tune,… or adjustin’ any tone knobs… just gotta focus on keep’n the straps of my bibs from slid’n off my shoulders allowing my britches to drop thus exposin’ the 'ol… “G” string…!!..

[Buzzin_Canada-John]

You know the modders here are already trying to figure out how to get EMGs and a Hipshot Detuner on that thing!

LOL

[Al1885]

@Buzzin_Canada-John

@Lanny

And finally, I can guarantee 'ol @Al1885 don’t have one of these in his bass shed!!

patiently waiting for @Al1885 to surprise us

@Lanny this is the coolest thing I have seen in a long time! Thanks for this!

Oh man! I just sold 2 of mine last week.

No that I don’t have one yet, simply because they come in all sizes.

That’s so cool and the get up is just spectacular, unless it’s your housewares then I apologize,

[fennario]

@Lanny

did a cover using the one I built

Man, I really like your overall appearance @Lanny !

[Lanny]

@Al1885

That’s so cool and the get up is just spectacular, unless it’s your housewares then I apologize,

Thanks Al!! No need to apologize… Got several pairs in both blue and brown… Wear 'em here most days when I’m out on tractors, and while using equipment while doing maintenance here on the homestead…

@fennario

Man, I really like your overall appearance

Hahaha… Thanks!! Love wearin’ my bibs… Even got a nice (fairly) new pair that I can wear out to the numerous fancy dining establishments we have here in Fort Valley GA…

[MattyD]

Is this what they mean by “tub thumping” and is that long pole to help you get back up again when you get knocked down?

[sunDOG]

- YouTube

Blues Brothers Band - Peter Gunn Theme

A freakin cool groove, composed by Henry Mancini!! . While the bass line is easy, the challenge is keeping absolutely locked in for 5 minutes and then actually remembering to go to the F at the end!!

Ibanez EHB1000S into the Hotone Ampero, then on into GarageBand.

[howard]

Sweet. Next do the Art of Noise version

Peter Gunn (feat. Duane Eddy) (Extended Version)

I love how it gets the slides and bends going there.

[JustinAndSheba]

The Juice Newton version is actually a cover of a Dave Edmunds song. In 1982 an Austrian artist called Nickerbocker released the German rendering “Puppe (du bist a moderne Hex’)”

[Lanny]

@MattyD

is that long pole to help you get back up again when you get knocked down?

Hahaha. Actually that long pole helps to keep me in a vertical position if I partake a little to vigorously from the jar on the bench…