Well, after posting my somewhat flawed medley of Sweet Child O' Mine and Baby Elephant Walk I found this crazy version by The Be Arthurs. I don't know anything about these guys, but the fact that they dress up like Angus Young and play ukuleles is pretty damn endearing.
Also, the drummer is sick on the penny whistle! Enjoy!
Ok. Please be gentle. I was having a bit of a rough time making this little medley and then I just got too dang busy to finish it. So, I asked on Twitter and the consensus was to release the sloppy version now and then possibly re-do it, down the road. So, if you don't like it, don't blame me, just blame jothekendall, radgyle, shelflifecc, lisaandy and spaceshipmark. 😉
In my defense. I never said I was "Ukulele Badass Guy"... just "Ukulele Guy". Also... um... it was windy in my office.... and a... a... bug flew in my air. Plus I have palsy. There, that outta cover the bases.
I've lost track of how many #MusicMonday songs I've given y'all. I think this might be seven? In case you are new to the site, for some reason I promised to release an original ukulele song every Monday, on Twitter. Well... I'm not giving up yet.
I wrote this song in 2005 or 2006 and there was a specific purpose for it. See, my beautiful wife and our baby son were visiting relatives. If you are married and have children, then you know what comes next. That's right, beer and video games. So, I stayed up till the wee hours playing World of Warcraft and enjoying frosty beverages. Well.. I was celebrating so much that I forgot to call my wife on her birthday. Yup, bad news, indeed.
So, in the sober light of morning, I immediately got to work writing this song for her. The concept was supposed to be all the excuses as to why I didn't call her, but the song was so short that I'm not sure you would understand that if I didn't tell you. I kinda jammed it all in there. That's something I often do because of my insanely short attention span. What were we talking about? Oh yeah.. the song.
So, here ya go. This is the song that explained to my wife why she shouldn't file for divorce. 😉
So, chatting with Steve Berryman (steveberryman on twitter) a few weeks back and he mentioned something about rehearsal with the London Uke Festival. I'm pretty sure that beer was mentioned as well, so it sounded like a pretty great festival. Anyway, they have a pretty exhaustive songbook that they are working from and Steve suggested that I ask the festival coordinator if I could share the songbook with all of my uke friends. Good news! They said yes!
Make sure you check out the London Uke Festival as well! I mean, look at this picture! What a fun festival this must be.
Anyhoo, without further ado, check out the London Uke Festival's Songbook!
So, I got on a bit of a roll yesterday and actually recorded two videos. Here is the second video. This was played on my Rogue Baritone Ukulele and it's a kid's song I wrote awhile back. The idea was to teach kid's to be naughty. This was before my boys had grown up enough to be truly naughty and, I realize now, I made my karma bed on this one. In case you ask, the Rogue Baritone ukulele was like $20-30 and it sorta shows, but it's still pretty fun to play.