Alice Cooper - Desperado (Acoustic Guitar Cover)

Описание: Bedroom Guitarist #001 -
The Song
So this is a version of Alice Cooper's "Desperado". "Desperado" comes off the album "Killer", one of my favorite Cooper albums. My dad had the "Killer" album on cassette and I remember just being so intimidated by the cover, and yet that drew me in. Ironically it wasn't until 1989, Alice's "Trashes the World" VHS that I truly remember 1st hearing the song. I was watching it with my dad and the song came on and he got excited and started singing along with Alice. While my version here is really the bare bones of the song, the studio version or the full band live versions are just epic. I have never sat down with the track and learned it. This is an off the cuff version. It would be interesting to sit down with the track and see how close (or not!) it is! lol! Enjoy!



About the Series -
The "Bedroom Guitarist" series came about as a way to recapture the spirit of when I first picked up the guitar way back in 1986. I forget where I heard the term "Bedroom Guitarist" but it was meant negatively. It was something to the effect of "there are thousands of bedroom guitarists playing note for note versions of eruption on youtube, but you don't earn your musical stripes until you're doing it in front of people." Musicians can be a hyper-critical, competitive group. There's just amazing guitarists on youtube, that I love. Technology has enabled the use of amazing backing tracks, superbly modeled guitar sounds, etc... This is not about that. This is not about note perfect recreations of songs. This is not about technology. This is about walking into your room, picking up the guitar and playing whatever comes to mind and having fun doing it. Because that's how we all started. We all had our idols and inspirations for picking up the guitar and taking the time to learn it. What ultimately led to this is watchng a series the amazing Phil X did. Each video featured a vintage guitar. Phil would pick it up, get inspired by the guitar and the sound and just jam out tunes! He was having a blast and sometimes it wasn't right and he would just laugh. It was like "omg, this is why we all play the guitar." So this is my version of that, jamming out in my room. And now, for better or worse, you get to be a fly on the wall....