Neil explains his covers for Project 3

Summertime Rolls by Jane’s Addiction

Though I love the song, I will admit that Summertime Rolls was a dicey choice. In my opinion there are 2 key hooks to the song: the baseline and that crazy-ass Navarro ascending guitar solo. Spoiler alert, there’s no way in hell I could do that solo, certainly not with a baritone ukulele. I do love the feel of the pulse of the song, so I focused on that.

My theory was to not overthink it or get too cute. I used my Kale Ka-Be Baritone ukulele, my accordion, my Mustang bass guitar, and got some drum love from Tom Stromsodt. Whatever I created would have to sound significantly different from the original just by using that line up of instrumentation, right?

Well in the end, maybe it didn’t land as far from the original as I thought it would, but, it was fun to make even if it’s not my most creative re-invention ever.

All of the credit for the good parts of this cover goes to Tom. He was kind enough to not only provide amazing drums but also remixed it for me and breathed new energy into it. Thank you, Tom!

-Neil

Ocean Man by Ween

In case it’s not obvious, I will admit to you all that I made this one very quickly. I wanted to submit 2 songs for this round, so I cranked out this slow accordion version of Ocean Man last night.