Seether Geezer

  I   was listening to an interview with Shaun the other day and he said Dale asked him why "She had Bill's Toupee".  Gasoline. Bills to pay.  This is my kind of humor.  I hear and read interesting things that turn out to be NOT what I was supposed to hear and read.  Bill's Toupee.  You can't unhear that!  The next time I listened to Gasoline, I cracked up.  Sorry, Shaun! Well, I thought, why stop there?  I certainly can't.  With homage to the king and master of parody songs, Weird Al Yankovic, I decided Bill's Toupee could be a song in and of itself.  After all, I'm the kid who was singing, "Marsie dotes and Dosie dotes and little lambsie dydies."  I didn't learn the correct lyrics until I was twenty-three. Bill's Toupee  Sung to the tune of Gasoline by Seether  (Music by Shaun and Dale, lyrics, unfortunately for Shaun, by me) She used to be a beauty queen, runs a wig and nail shop   I saw it in a magazine,...

Undaunted by my less than stellar performance of Gasoline I picked Remedy which has a slower guitar part.  Not that I'm ready to give up on Gasoline, but I don't think I could convincingly sing, "I wanna waste her monthly blood, wanna get some on my love."  I don't have the parts for either activity. So I started with Remedy taught by Guitar Smith who plays it re-e-eally slow.  I got the first part sounding like the actual song so I got brave, since everyone else was out of the house, and plugged the electric guitar into the amp and switched it on.  I actually might learn this one!   I went back to learn the next part and hit my cup of tea with the headstock of the guitar and tipped it onto my desk and laptop.  The guitar was in the clear but my mouse is a little damp and my mousepad is sticky.  No sparks or fire from the laptop, so I think I'm good.  Not particularly coordinated, but good. March 13th.  Anyone want a mediocre rock guitar...

 Well, I tuned the guitar down a step but it didn't exactly sound like what the You Tube instructor was showing me.  Went to a site that had the tabs down at the bottom.  First snag, I need a quick lesson in tabs.  That was very interesting.  I've encountered tablature in the far distant past as it turned out.  I went to the School of Rock website https://www.schoolofrock.com/resources/guitar/reading-guitar-tabs-for-beginners and learned a whole lot more.  Muting, palm muting, bending strings, hammer notes, sliding notes, strumming; there is a whole 'nother world out there. Well armed, I went back to the tabs for Gasoline.  Here is my report card: _______________________________________________________________________________ Course:      GASOLINE 101 Student: EM 1. Playing on Steel Strings    B-  Student is able to create audible notes without crying or bleeding on the instrument. 2. Learning Gasoline  ...

I  definitely had trouble picking the next album to cover.  Verbally rather than the musical definition of cover.  I have been listening to Disclaimer II, Seether 2002-2013 [greatest hits] and Holdings Onto Strings Better Left to Fray.  And of course Fragile.  The plethora of choices.  The depth of indecision.  And yet, I'm going to pick one so I can procrastinate doing my taxes for a bit longer.  I need to do a correction from a previous post.  The alternate radio station in my state does play Seether!  The afternoon lineup was Trapt, Stone Sour, Collective Soul, 3 Doors Down, Foo Fighters, Tool, Bush and Seether.  Ha! I decided on Seether 2002-2013 , for several reasons, and I'm going to do a different take on it. The first disc starts with Fine Again , Driven Under , Gasoline , and Broken .  Those four and the two on the second disc, Out of My Way and Hang On were previously released on Disclaimer II and Remedy , Tru...