This Is This

This is a song by Men At Work.

It’s a strange thing doing a cover version of someone else’s material. On the one hand you feel like you’re using someone else’s toothbrush, on the other, you learn something new every time. It brings you out of your comfort zone as a writer. My rule with covers is to do them differently from the original and do good songs that people might not have heard before. There’s no point to in doing a version of Every Breath You Take when you can bring something to an undiscovered song by some 1980’s antipodean pop overnight global sensations.

Just finished this tonight, so listen, download, even enjoy, here

Interesting fact? I recorded the drums last, in the manner befitting a dufus, so I had to play them live to everything else, including the guitar break.

Also on This Is This
Four, maybe five feet of it. Over my head anyway. Snow when you’re a kid only means good things.
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