December 21, 2010
More from The Viper plays the Peanuts songbook, here’s Vince Guaraldi’s “Linus and Lucy” played on a very small thumb piano.
If you’re keeping score at home, the instrument is tuned to C, but I’ve flattened the 7th to a Bb. This is the only song I’m capable of playing on this instrument so far (and as you’ll see, my rhythm is pretty wobbly), though I’m also working on a rendition of “Our Lips Are Sealed.” Should be ready by Christmas 2013.
December 20, 2010
…And the message is: “Christmas Time Is Here,” as per the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s theme music from A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which you can have Viperized in either stereo-chorus-y peppermint, or in pure unvarnished location sound vanilla.
“Christmas Time is Here” — all fancy
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“Christmas Time is Here” — nice and plain
December 18, 2010
Just in time for the season, Irene Vipersdottir Jerving has, once again, struck holiday gold. You may remember last year’s “Christmasy Blues” (and if you don’t, see below). This year’s offering is titled “Feliz Meriton,” and it goes like this:
Feliz Meriton
The song is faux French with some Spanish influence (don’t bother to look up the meaning of “meriton” — it doesn’t exist). Irene sings all three vocal tracks. And as she tells you in the pages of her own online IRENE Magazine, “This is a song in D minor, so don’t cry!”
And now, think back to 2009, when you and I were young. “The Christmasy Blues”:
And “Jingle Bells”
September 24, 2010
By popular demand – and by popular, I mean Riley wants to hear it – here are The Viper and His Famous Orchestra, live at Mike ‘N’ Molly’s in Champaign, Illinois closing out their show of August 7, 2009 with “Benny Lava.” Newly home-mastered.
The song proved controversial because it raised two questions: 1) whether or not in performing it we were really just doing someone else’s joke and 2) who the joke is on. We comport, you decide.
Ron Henn, Summer 2009 (not at Mike ‘N’ Molly’s), mulls over the
question of whether he can fully commit to singing “Benny Lava”
September 21, 2010
Riley Broach recently took the trouble to create this ringtone of “Sharkin’,” yours free for the downloading (right click to download).
