GEEZ, KAROLINE! (AUDIO) parody by Loose Bruce Kerr of Neil Diamond song
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
"Thanks to my cousin, Bridget, who, about a week ago, suggested I do something on Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, here's the resulting parody." -Loose Bruce Kerr Bruce records his originals & parodies one vocal & instrument at a time. He started doing this in 1980 to have background tracks on stage in his solo act, bass, drums (machine), keyboards, mandolin, leaving off the lead vocal and guitar to do live. His 1st multitrack was a 4-track TEAC deck. When he started doing videos, especially with YouTube's advent around 2006, he'd use his previous multitrack audio version that left...
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GEEZ, KAROLINE! (VIDEO) parody by Loose Bruce Kerr
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
"Thanks to my cousin, Bridget, who, about a week ago, suggested I do something on Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, here's the resulting parody." -Loose Bruce Kerr Bruce records his originals & parodies one vocal & instrument at a time. He started doing this in 1980 to have background tracks on stage in his solo act, bass, drums (machine), keyboards, mandolin, leaving off the lead vocal and guitar to do live. His 1st multitrack was a 4-track TEAC deck. When he started doing videos, especially with YouTube's advent around 2006, he'd use his previous multitrack audio version that left...
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CHOKE YOUR CHICKEN, by Loose Bruce Kerr
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
"Choke Your Chicken, from 1979, my first contact with Dr. Demento, won an Honorary Mention in his song contest that fall. Elsewhere on this podcast is a live version from the early 1980's. But this was the Teac 4-track cassette overdubbed version I did on a friend's recorder. Couldn't afford my own till later. Cost $1K. My 32-track digital Teac cost only $450 5 years ago. 32 tracks. (thanks again, Les Paul).
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"LIKE A POLLING STONE" Loose Bruce Kerr parody of Bob Dylan's tune re Trump's continued drop in polls
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
with Bob Dylan’s current resurgence of popularity, and Trump’s NOT! ... this 2016 parody re today’s new continuing-slide poll numbers may be worth a spin (audio w/ today’s CNN poll still shot). Enjoy!
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"THE BALD TRUTH" (AUDIO/Song only, NO intro), by Spud City w/ Loose Bruce Kerr 1978
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
"THE BALD TRUTH" is an early Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1973, performed LIVE by his band with his hometown friend, Steve Hoeft, SPUD CITY - Music With a Peel." They worked New England bars & ski lodges in the late 1970's. In 1978, Spud City was invited to open a U. of Lowell in Massachusetts concert featuring Jonathan Edwards of "Sunshine" (go away today) fame. Around 3000 college students. "The Bald Truth" was featured in the middle of that set. It's about the 1973 (and successive, including RIGHT NOW) shortages of gasoline/food/everything...eggs...and having to just get...
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"THE BALD TRUTH" (AUDIO w/ still shot), full intro, by Spud City w/ Loose Bruce Kerr 1978
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
"THE BALD TRUTH" is an early Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1973, performed LIVE by his band with his hometown friend, Steve Hoeft, SPUD CITY - Music With a Peel." They worked New England bars & ski lodges in the late 1970's. In 1978, Spud City was invited to open a U. of Lowell in Massachusetts concert featuring Jonathan Edwards of "Sunshine" (go away today) fame. Around 3000 college students. "The Bald Truth" was featured in the middle of that set. It's about the 1973 (and successive, including RIGHT NOW) shortages of gasoline/food/everything...eggs...and having to just get...
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Loose Bruce Kerr LIVE @Sun Legal All-Hands 1998
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
This 11-minute LIVE 4-song performance at a Sun Microsystems Legal All-Hands conference in Silicon Valley in 1998 is by Sun contracts manager, Bruce Kerr, under the moniker he used in his preceding career as a songwriter-performer, Loose Bruce Kerr. Bruce had interrupted his earlier legal career as a legal services lawyer in Milwaukee in 1973 to go on the road and write and perform as a solo, in a duo, or in a band from California to New England to the Caribbean for 20 years. After he resumed his legal career, Sun's General Counsel, John Croll hired Bruce in 1997. After that, John tapped Bruce...
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"DO LET'S DO" live in 1978 by Spud City, music & lyrics by Loose Bruce Kerr
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
"DO LET'S DO" (live in 1978) features the band, SPUD CITY led by Bruce Kerr (later: songwriter-parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr) and his boyhood friend from hometown, Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft. On drums: Tyke Ten Eyck from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, bass: Mickey Marien from New York. This rather rough, live, recording captured at the University of Lowell is a rare one from back in the day. Spud City played gigs in the late 1970's from the top of Vermont ski lodges down to Greenwich, Connecticut and east to Cape Cod. The main stage at the University of Lowell in Massachusetts had the band...
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"EVERYTHING'S GOING TO SHIT" parody by Loose Bruce Kerr
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
Congress is vetting Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees this week against a backdrop of Greenland, Canada, Panama and (pick your fear). I woke up with an earworm of a Rodgers & Hammerstein song and, well, this is what happens when things mix up. Enjoy this parody video. You may or may not agree, freedom! cheers, Bruce Loose Bruce Kerr Loose Bruce Kerr wrote, recorded & performed his original show (solo/duo/New England band in the 1970’s) for 20 years before returning to law and ending up Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley and then...
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"IT'S BORING IN THE COUNTRY" Loose Bruce Kerr in band: SPUD CITY
Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast
“IT'S BORING IN THE COUNTRY,” (AUDIO) Spud City LIVE at the University of Lowell auditorium main stage, 3000 packed seats. Spud City played across New England in 1977-79, formed by hometown friends of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft & Bruce Kerr. Other members were drummer, Tyke Ten Eyck, Dave Giordino (later replaced on bass by Mickey Marien, Mickey plays on this song). This is one of Bruce’s songs performed by the band live here and influenced by the folk group, the Limeliters and their satirical, topical folk songs performed in the early 1960’s by Steve’s and...
info_outlineSilicon Valley was growing fast in the mid-1990's when I recorded this parody, 2 years or so before I found a long-term home at Sun Microsystems in the legal department.
It's to the tune of "Birdland" which had been a hit with Weather Report as well as Manhattan Transfer. It was the latter on which I based this parody, "NERDLAND."
In our garage in Mountain View (but of course) I laid down the vocals & instruments one at a time, including a digital drum machine thanks to integrated circuits developed nearby. And multi-tracked 1 part at a time onto my TEAC 4-track cassette deck thanks to my hometownie, Les Paul.
How many references in the lyrics to names of innovators, companies, etc. in early Silicon Valley days can you recall?
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com