Bruce Springsteen Cover - Streets of Philadelphia

JCork · Post by **JCork** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 2:36 pm

Hey I recorded this in about an hour this morning, I've never played it before, but please give me some feedback (Good or bad) and tell me what you think. Thanks!

- Josh

http://download.yousendit.com/D55A000C16A4F381

JCork · Post by **JCork** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:11 pm

Anyone? haha

GreedylilPig · Post by **GreedylilPig** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:10 pm

Nice job man.

I thought you kept a fairly decent rhythm and captured this tone of this song well. A few glitches here and there, but for the most part nice job on the guitar.

Good vocals. To be honest, I can tell that you just learned this song as it seems at numerous points you don't know where you want to take your voice. I'd like to hear this again once you become more comfortable with it.

RunsWithBuffalo · Post by **RunsWithBuffalo** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:30 am

Good song choice, Springsteen is the man. I like this a lot, especially the nah nah nah part, you did some cool things with the panning i think. The guitar is cool and i can hear the multiple layers though not as well as i would like to. Possibly try panning them L and R a bit.

I would work on your phrasing a little bit and also you need to enunciate your words a little better. Springsteen can get away with slurring but he is the boss. Open your mouth more and try not to let your words run together as much.

Overall a very enjoyable cover to listen to, good job!

JCork · Post by **JCork** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:16 am

hey thanks for giving it a listen, yeah i think with some practice ill get more comfortable with this song... its just fun to pick a song you dont know that well, learn how to play it and the lyrics and just go with it.

JCork · Post by **JCork** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:20 am

Runswithbuffalo... thanks for your critique- i guess its pretty obvious that i was trying to emulate him in this song, and you're right he really can pull it off. its amazing to be able to feel the emotion he emits just by the way he says thing and thats a gift that is owned by him alone. i think i might go back and mess with the panning in the layers a little so you can hear a little bit better what i was doing. the real song sounds like a synth orchestra, so i was playing around with ways to make my guitar sound a little spacey. i used three tracks for the music.

1 was me strumming the chords and i used an effect on cool edit called awash in bass which basically just rotates the chord out and makes it sound a little deeper.

2 was a clean acoustic guitar with a little reverb

3 was the bass, i tried to make this subtle- cause i just wanted it to be an acoustic track, but sometimes bass adds a certain level of drama to a song that i like.

thanks again for the listen

sfmartins · Post by **sfmartins** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:00 am

Your voice is pretty cool and the "production" you did was pretty nice too.

As of the guitar, maybe you could have some palm mutes to increase the rhythm feel. Just my 0.02 though.

Great stuff!

JCork · Post by **JCork** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:27 pm

yeah ive been messing with some mutes and its starting to sound pretty sweet... im thinking of re-recording it

songofish · Post by **songofish** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:15 am

awesome, awesome cover! Nice job man.

That got me in such a Springsteen mood...which I rarely get.

JCork · Post by **JCork** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:29 am

thanks a lot... im just becoming a springsteen fan, and its amazing to go through an artists catalogue at this point in their career and watch them grow at my own pace haha

RunsWithBuffalo · Post by **RunsWithBuffalo** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:29 pm

I would recommend anyone listen to him, he is the best. Lyrically, i don't think anyone touches him.

He is also the best concert i have ever seen in my life hands down.

songofish · Post by **songofish** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:12 am

RunsWithBuffalo wrote: Lyrically, i don't think anyone touches him.

Dylan.

Hell, Bruce has said many times that Dylan is one of his biggest inspirers. But Springsteen's lyrics are top notch, most of the time.

RunsWithBuffalo · Post by **RunsWithBuffalo** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:08 pm

While i love dylan, the thing i love about springsteen is the working class point of view he writes from, Dylan, especially later in his career was much more of an elitist poet.

songofish · Post by **songofish** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 12:01 am

RunsWithBuffalo wrote:While i love dylan, the thing i love about springsteen is the working class point of view he writes from, Dylan, especially later in his career was much more of an elitist poet.

Hehe...point taken. It's a matter of preference then. (Like most things are...)

The thing I love about Bob though is that he can make you feel emotions so vividly while the music and lyrics are so abstract. I agree he can be an elitist, but not till after Desire, I don't think.

RunsWithBuffalo · Post by **RunsWithBuffalo** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:09 am