Old Man Pie

At last I have replaced my old worn out accordion with a brand new Stephanelli. Not an expensive model but a good workhorse and value for money. Accordions are not like other instruments (e.g. guitars and violins) and do not respond well to the aging process - a bit like people I suppose! No longer will I find a cold blast of air when playing the C key, or have to press the E note to close the bellows due to tired out old reeds.

I'm sure 'real' accordion players would laugh at my basic grasp of the instrument, but its amazing what you can do with this under rated piece of kit, even at a basic level.

We are going into a recording studio tomorrow and I'm going to work the accordion on a song called 'The Calm Before the Storm'. We'll see how it goes.

My 11 year old son asked me for a pen and paper so that he could do a drawing. Amazed at this rare occurence (his main interests are football, football and er., football) I quickly tracked down the necessary tools of the trade. This is what he came up with, a drawing of a pimp smoking a fat spliff. Bless!

Our musical journey to la la land takes many twists and turns. A cover version of a song (created by our good selves) found itself on to a web site called 'singingfish' which locates MP3's on the internet and provides a front end search engine for users. Bizarrely, and undoubtedly mistaken for the real thing (i.e. the original massively famous song), it was downloaded over 1000 times in less than a month. Imagine the disappointment of the downloaders when they realised it was a cover version by some unknown bunch of never has been's and never will be's. But I like the idea that it has been listened to by so many in such a short space time, even if it wasn't what they were looking for.

As all of this was a complete surprise I have been forced to try and track down the publishers of the said piece of music to request that we can do a cover. The phrase 'after the horse has bolted' comes to mind but at least it shows willing. You don't want to mess with the music industry as (in my humble opinion) they are one of the greediest and protectionist industries on our planet. Still, I believe obscurity will prevail and our cover version will be buried and forgotten in no time at all. On the internet, a few days is like a lifetime of endless information. Its gone already.

This guy is a f***ing guitar genius and I don't care what anyone else says.

A recent band practice saw us experimenting with an old four track and recording this cover version of the Black Eyed Peas 'My Humps'. That's me on vocals and accordion, Stuart on lead guitar, Gregorious on drums and James on bass. Well., it made us laugh and (if you know the original) it might make you laugh too!

Previous comments

The Walrus: I've no idea what the original is like, but I thought that was great fun!

Trolly: :-) that's great! good bass line going on.... trolly x

Cormacksdad: I was prepared not to like this.....Black Eyed Peas & accordion? Send it to Chris Moyles! It's cool!

Charliesworld: this is f-ing funny!!! In a really good way!! I want more!! The more out of step with the original the better. such as.
Like a Virgin - Madonna
Hit me baby one more time - Britney S
Keep it up!!

Sandra_timpson; I love this! I imagine myself jigging and spilling my large G&T all over my frock and not minding a jot at your gig because it rocks. Can you do 'I think we're alone now' by Tiffany?

lonemum: good and sort of raunchy and yup , definitly one to jig along with whilst slopping beer over me shoes...

visitor: I'm liking this - on my i pod now.

Old Man Pie: Thanks for all the feedback bloggers and also the suggestions for other equally strange covers.

When I submitted this film to video google I had no idea it would get seen by so many the world over! But its up to approx 9000 views which might be small fry in the world of internet film - but it seems an awful lot of people to me.