Frederick Serafim
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I'm Just a Singer
I'm Just a Singer
Cover of the most popular song from the Moody Blues 1972 #1 Billboard album, "Seventh Sojourn". The words are probably truer today than ever. In recognition of the recent passing of John Lodge.
Black Magic Woman (Live)
Black Magic Woman (Live)
Recorded live with my Cryterion outfit as a pre-show warm up at a gig sometime around 2007. Considering how the speaker output was recorded, it eventually tweaked up quite nicely. The room had good acoustics.
Fortunate Son
Fortunate Son
Cover of CCR's Fortunate Son, featuring, guitars, piano, horns, synths, bit of electronic...
Beautiful Boys
Beautiful Boys
Acoustic reworking of John Lennon's tune, minus the middle 8, and the title pluralized.
Summer of 69
Summer of 69
I played my first paid gig in the summer of 69. I was almost 16. My rendition of this leans more towards an E Street styling. (Story behind the song continued below)
It's Only Make Believe
It's Only Make Believe
Conway Twitty wrote this song in 1958 while living in Hamilton Ontario, walking distance to where I lived years later. He was unknown at that time and his manager sent him to this less competitive medium sized country music mecca to gain experience.
Born to Run
Born to Run
Solo acoustic version. Sometimes I play this at parties. It's not a song you think of as being suited for acoustic styling, but Springsteen must have played it something like this when he first wrote it. Very important song!
El Paso
El Paso
I was 6 years old when Marty Robbins released El Paso in 1959. It was the first song that truly impressed me and made me want to learn how to sing and play.
Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera
I used to do a live vocal duet version of this song with the late Catherine Clarkson, using this self-recorded backup track. We never did record the vocal rendition, and so instead I added this improvised lead guitar instrumental.
Pretty Woman
Pretty Woman
My brother asked me to record these bed tracks so that he could support a political candidate by singing his lyrics - Political Woman. Having already recorded the song, I decided I might as well use the track as well and sing the original lyrics.
Conquistador
Conquistador
I always loved Procol Harum's Conguistador, especially the live version recorded with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.
Make Us Roar (The Quantum Shimmy)
Make Us Roar (The Quantum Shimmy)
High energy hard rock n' roll with duelling lead guitars and a small vocal crowd of sports fans singing along with me. I'm not much of a sports fan but I did play when I was young, and so I decided to record this otherwise out of character anthem.
