Tuesdays are quickly becoming one of my favourite days of the week, apart from Fridays obviously because I get to dedicate some time to music. Finding new music, old music and everything in between. Just not make music because, well, that would sound so bad, I'd probably make your ears bleed. The only thing that I could offer for guitaring would be my fingernails down the guitarstock which would probably still sound like they're on a chalkboard 🤣 I would laugh, you would laugh and then we'd probably all cry.
(ALAS )
A while back I was introduced to the song G.O.A.T by Polyphia. Shout out to @olujay. And what an epic song! Today I'm going to throw in an artist who I think made this song even more epic - on accoustic!
This is Paolo Gans from the Phillipines. He plays percussive fingerstyle guitar and well, his music will show the passion he has for it. I actually found him while going down the Polyphia rabbit hole this morning - he won the contest of best cover with his version of Playing God and his prize was the signature Ibanez TOD10N guitar of Tim Henson. A collectors item if ever their was one! Well deserved too. Wanna know what he did with G.O.A.T? Check out this rendition! MIND OFFICIALLY BLOWN!
If you want to listen to the original first, you can go here.
Now you have to take into account that the original song is played by the whole band (back in the day when Tim Henson still looked more like an innocentish teenager and less like a guitar God). One thing that in my own opinion sets musicians apart is you get some that only do covers, then you get musicians that only do originals. You get ones that do everything. Paolo Gans does everything and then some - on one guitar. If you think the first 30 seconds are good, wait until 0:55 when he starts the melody!
If you appreciated that as much as I did, please go show Paolo some support on his channel, I think he's earned it.
YOU WANT HARDER?
While down the Tim Henson rabbit hole, I happened on this one which is also one of those songs that shoves it's might down your throat, grabs your heart and stops it from beating for a while. I also enjoyed the gameplay with Luke Holland running around in the background twirling his drumstick in the air🤣 Nutter. I love it.
𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕
No Monty Python fans in the house? No? Ok, fine. Moving on
NOW A LOT A LOT HARDER!
Meet Nik Nocturnal. He's probably a vampire. He doesn't sleep much hence the name and the black rings under his eyes, but I appreciate him because he's funny AF and he makes anything everything metal.
You will need to watch a few of his clips to get him, but if you don't like metal, well then there's no point really. In fact, if you don't like metal, don't listen to the song. This is a vid of him creating a Slipknot inspired song by "Slapnutz" 🤣 called MAD with riffs and stuff and slapping it together in a program (I don't know which one so don't ask me, ask him). The first half of the video is worth watching just for the comedy factor, but if you just want to hear the song, it starts at 5:10. Yes, he's wearing a tortilla face mask! No, I'm not going to explain it lol. Enjoy.
Thanks again to @ablaze for this awesome initiative #TTT. It's such good fun and totally perked up my day which sucked because I'm sick.
Peace Out Y'all
Em 🤘