DaSilvaSings djbride's "Cover of Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark" ;-)

[dasilvasings]

Hi to all,

I was quite upset when Dave appeared with his excellent cover, especially since I was working on mine almost at the same time. So I decided not to cover Springsteen, but Dave instead. For two weeks I considered myself immensely clever!

The mastering of this song was messy: I was (and I am still) trying to figure out my ideal recording setup, so I started recording with Reaper, then I moved everything to the BR600, then back to the PC with cakewalk music creator (5). In the middle I changed slightly the tempo and I created a great mess that forced me to delete the intro (it was just a couple of bars with the guitar making the intro riff).

The attentive listener will notice the Rock 1 drums from the Casio VL1, two voices, not always in tune, an hammondish organ behind (I used an organ patch from my kurzweil piano), a fairly clean bass, and last but not least my cavaquinho strumming the chords.

Finally, I have to mention that the idea of covering this song came after I found the version you can find in this link:

http://www.buffetlibredjs.net/index4.php

It is +/- in the middle of the list and it was made by a bloke named "The E.L.F."


So....

Nevermind the bollocks, here's DaSilvaSings

[Tony W]

pretty good vocal delivery here. It's like singing along while playing a kick ass game of Pong.

It's got a lot of different vibes to it. A dash of this, a touch of that, pretty cool cover of a cover

[Redler]

Nice cover of fine tune. Agree with Tony - you sing it very well!

Kari

[Gary F]

Cool over!!
It has an island feel to it!!
Good job!!!

Gary

[Gritter]

this is great. I like it more than the original! Very brown...really fun(ny). I love your covers dude!

you better listen when DaSilva Sings!


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[Bluesberry]

Sweeeeeeet jesus man, I saw Gritter about to bump this so I got in a pre-bump bump.  And damn man Sandy beat me to it.  Fantastic song.

[Geir]

Yes I DO prefer this to the original !!!!

[lg]

I think I gotta go make some popcorn now!
Yes, this IS better than the original.

LG

[cuthbert]

How did I miss this one?

I'm not really a Springsteen fan, but the fact that you used a Casio VL-Tone for drums for this cover gets you lots of extra credit in my book. We need an Electronic Music Fest! 

Nice work on the vocals and cavaquinho (I'm intrigued by this grandfather/godfather of the ukulele).

[Groundy]

Great cover great Vox.....Alex