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Uncle John’s Band/Crazy Little Thing Called Love

And now you get to see my first recorded guitar solo in all its underwhelming glory! As John Cleese says, “I got better.”

This was a video of a performance I did at my godfather Charles’s house on a July 4 party. With my is Doug Campbell, who later played guitar on my original song “I’m Myself.”

And no, I don’t know what led me to combine the Grateful Dead’s “Uncle John’s Band” with Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.”

Originally uploaded to YouTube on July 5, 2011.

TheHappySpaceman Reviews - Top 10 Surprising One Hit Wonders

This was my second review posted, and also my second review to be removed from YouTube! Apparently I’m not allowed to talk about Jimi Hendrix music while using Jimi Hendrix music, so they removed it, but they were completely okay with that Jimi: All Is by My Side movie!

They eventually did re-upload it, but with the audio removed, and there really is no point in watching a review with the audio removed, so I just uploaded it to Vimeo instead. Anyway, enjoy!

Originally uploaded to YouTube on May 13, 2014, and to Vimeo on August 30, 2015.

What originally got you into music?

I can thank my parents for that! My parents are major Deadheads, and when I was a kid, they were vendors, selling an original video game they had created called The Psychedelic Bus of Dead Knowledge. It was basically Jeopardy, but entirely consisting of Grateful Dead-related trivia. Because of this, I got to see over 70 music festivals by the time I was five years old.

I also have to thank them for feeding my desire to start playing music. At three years old, I begged my parents for piano lessons. I don’t think they actually believed that I would stick with it (especially since it’s usually the parents who make their kids take music lessons, join sports teams and the like), but they humored me and I started learning piano. Needless to say, I stuck with it and have since learned multiple other instruments, including guitar, bass, and harmonica, and have written several of my own songs!

(While we’re on the subject, I do really want to start recording some of my own music again soon, believe me. I’ve learned better recording and mixing techniques, so this will probably help with that.)

tennessee tennessee, there ain’t no place i’d rather be