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Thanks Mike! I believe the saying goes, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." (Emphasis on, "try, try again" if attempting to sing this monster in its original key!!!) 🤣

I just searched TH-cam for backing tracks in the style of Van Halen... and found this "SWINGING" Am jam, free for non-commercial use: th-cam.com/video/DoiZN3syU9I/w-d-xo.html

Thanks Deyan! It sure is a fun song to both play and sing! 😀 I was thinking about giving "Rise" a go, but that one has your name on it! 😉

Muito obrigado! 🙏

Thx Deyan! After 3 prior valiant, but failed attempts to sing Dreams, I realized that focusing more on guitar by adding a few extra louder chunks here and riffs there seemed to help hide the folly of my ways. "Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses", right? 😜 I did make a little video of my Frankenstrat: th-cam.com/video/QAkrmj1mIfk/w-d-xo.html

Thank you very much! I just hack my way through, take after take into the DAW. I think Rik might be from another planet? His vocals and guitar playing are non earthly! 👽

Thanks! Will do! 👍🤘

Wow! I just Googled "Freddy Krueger", and there is a striking resemblance! 🤣 I mean, just look at my hat, striped shirt, ugly mug... and hey, Freddy shreds like Eddie! 😆 Great Comment! 👍

Thx so much! "Dreams" scheduled for upload tomorrow... Please check back! 👍

Thanks Mike! "Hole Hearted" coming next week. Stay tuned! 👍

Thank you!! 😁

Thanks for tuning in Deyan! Speaking of different Extreme songs, I may get around to covering "Hole Hearted". My 12-String is starting to collect dust... or just be lazy, grab a dust cloth and take the easy way out?! 😜

thankyooooouuuuu!

Glad you like it!❤️

Thank you very much for the nice comment. ❤️🤘

Thanks so much! Well, you are both right and wrong at the same time. It's in the same key as the original album version, released way back in 1986. Father Time catches up with all of us... So for the last decade or 3, Sammy has been dropping it down 2 semitones, e.g., his recent performance on The Howard Stern Show. He's 76 years old now, so it's totally amazing he can still sing some of his hardest songs at all, even a full step lower! 🤘

"He likes it. Hey Mikey!" Thanks bro! If the Internet, TH-cam and Vidami were available in the 80s, learning songs would have been SO much faster and easier. I used to fudge this one up on my little Casio MT-40 keyboard way back in high school... Those tiny keys were just too damn small for my fat fingers. 😜 🎹

NICE! The SY77 would be a nice upgrade to my SY55 with its 6-op FM synth. Mine is more of a cut down version of the SY85. I am just glad it has aftertouch, some nice factory sounds and full MIDI specs. 👍 🎹

Wow, thank you! TBH, I pulled a few studio tricks on this one. I put my DAW into overdrive, causing a VST or 3 to burn up before my eyes! ️‍🔥 I can't begin to hold a candle to my idols (like Jon and Richie), but it's always nice to receive such high praise! 🙏

@@seanmccaberocks You're most welcome! I absolutely mean it. Technically and tonally you trample both of them. Your voice is much smoother, cleaner, notes are very precise. The only thing they might have as an advantage is being more artistic, but that's up for debate..

He's no MA for sure! (but then again, who is?!) 😜

@@seanmccaberocks I just meant that he looks shifty and suspicious, unlike the singer and guitarists. I’d trust them with my wallet, but surely that bassist is up to something 🤣

Thank you, and thx for the visit! 🤘

Muito obrigado! 😊

Thanks a million!

Muchas gracias por el lindo comentario! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@@seanmccaberocks gracias a ti! Espero que también saques el tema de Blaze of Glory. 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

Hey Deyan! Thanks man! It was good to "dust of the cobwebs" after a couple months off. No plans to come back gangbusters with 2 covers/week like before. Burnout is a real thing. Maybe one cover a month or so. 👍 It's high time we did a collab?! 😉

@@seanmccaberocks definitely! I’ve got a lot of projects I’m in the middle of recording, but we need to discuss and decide on a good tune! Maybe get Mr. Conway in there also.

Fired an email off to you and Mike! There's one song we have all been itching to cover... and it requires your elusive TransTrem! Check your email, and let me know if you are down? If yes, you will save me some $$$. If not, I'm ordering a Steinberger! 🤑

Your AI revelation #3 really hit the nail on the head... Ain't no AI ever gonna stack up to the angelic REAL voice of Brad Delp. Still, it's fun (and even FUNNY!) to mess around with... You should have heard what this same cover sounded like when I used an Arnold Schwarzenegger AI voice! 😂😂😂😂

"Never Surrender"? 😉 Thanks for the compliment! 🙏

Thx! Few kick ass quite like Rush! 🤘

Thanks! I really appreciate it!

Yup! Beavis Butt-Head always crack me up! haha

Thanks Mike! Too bad I didn't have a Toy Ray Gun like Steve Stevens to really nail it! 🔫 😎 😜 🤘

Thx so much! ...and you bet, they don't call drummer Mike Conway "Alex Conway" for nothin! haha 👏

Ahh... my axe is a hybrid! The body is a 1989 Aria Pro II Tex-35/B with a Telecaster-style body. I swapped out its original metal style headstock neck for an Aria Pro II Black Dog neck (I believe this is the guitar you have with a Strat-style body.) Since Jimmy Page recorded some of his most famous songs with a Telecaster, including "Stairway To Heaven" among others, I figured it would be fitting to combine the Telecaster body with the "Black Dog" neck to pay tribute to its namesake song. "Rock and Roll"! 🤘

​@@seanmccaberocks I see, thank you so much! It was from a friend in Japan, and I've been trying to find information about it for months. Haha

Thank you for providing this historically significant information. Lest we forget. I read that Jay built somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 top quality instruments in his life, prior to a debilitating stroke in 2000. RIP Jay Riness. 🙏

AI is growing at a breakneck pace for sure. To be honest, it frightens me. I think I picked a good time to retire (both from TH-cam, and for REAL!) 🤣

AI is interesting, and frightening at the same time. Thanks for watching!

The "futuristic flop" that failed miserably upon its release in 1958, yet ended up becoming an iconic classic!

Def one of their more popular tracks! 🤘

Grazie 🙏

Thank you! 🙏

Thank you! Nice '80s song references there! 😉

Thx so much! 🤘

Thx!! 🤘

Thanks for the nice comment Xavi! Keep on rocking!

Yes he was… and even today he is still a force to be reckoned with.

Merci beaucoup!

Appreciate it! 🙏

Thanks for watching. Appreciate it! 🙏

I beg to leave, to hear your "Wonderous Stories" The truth of sport plays rings around you... "Going for the One" Thank you for watching and mentioning some other great songs by Yes! 🙏🤘

Keep on keeping on. Sigh, I had type 4 cancer 3 years ago and the only things that made happy and sane were my 2 little lions and YES( I explored a lot and wow). Keep sane and happy!!!

Thanks a lot! I wish I owned a Rickenbacker 4001! Oh well, Chris Squire also pulled out his Jazz Bass from time to time. A fresh set of roundwounds, 800 Hz boost in the DAW, a bit of overdrive on the top-end, heavy pick with some proper thumb and palm muting, and I was on my way (yet still so far! haha) 🤗 I found that doubling the bass with my semi-acoustic really helped as well. 😉