Way down in the hole. (The Wire Theme Ukulele cover)

[manitobahal]

Thanks for your entry! So many great videos to choose from. The winner will be decided next week.

[Sheepstar15]

Cooooool video - LIKED. Good luck in Hal's contest :)

[weegingayin]

@Sheepstar15 Cool video indeed... it was the snow that did it :-)

[mctrmt]

great!

[WhenDogsSing]

Amen brother...I love graveyards with statues

[krabbers]

most excellent

[lescowplunks]

Great track and arrangement and video makes our pitiful UK snow fall look like a dusting. WIll listen to the Blind Boys - thanks for the tip.

[weegingayin]

Thanks for the kind comment. If you want to play it hie yourself over to Ukulele Hunt (link in sidebar) and get the chords and words in a PDF file

[DearOldNutjob]

Very intriguing visuals and a great song. Does the Tom Waits wear off right away, or do you have to be him for a few hours?

[weegingayin]

Well to do a Tom Waits first of all you need some shoes with holes in the soles, and a crumpled shirt that has never been ironed, and a pork-pie hat with a satin band that has become discolored with sweat, and a old black suit covered in cigarette ash and soup stains... so you can get into character by wearing all of that stuff... but after the performance is over then you want to get out of those duds as quickly as possible.

[casetone2514]

Great song and version - I don't know why, but this makes me want to hear you do Lennon's Cold Turkey.

[weegingayin]

Hmmmm would Juice Leskinen's Sika do?

[KenMiddletonUkulele]

This is one of your best, Robert. Really stylish recording and a great idea.

[weegingayin]

We are not worthy...

*bows low to the ground and exits stage left*

[kennymelodica]

Wow!!! This is Fantastic !!!

[weegingayin]

No you are fantastic. You are the one who put the fan in the tastic. If they were giving out points for fantasticness you would score 100% every time

[uke5417]

Now THAT is cool. (There are several "thats," there, but that's what came to mind.)

[weegingayin]

Yeah it was pretty cool... it was about -20C

[jdogface]

in the words of joe dirt, "dang...."

wonderful

[weegingayin]

Joe Dirt is a man of few words but obviously he has immaculate taste

[ctrymaus]

Yep, that's the word for it all right: awesome! :-)

[weegingayin]

A third Awesome!!! how can it be? If there is anybody who is awesome then it it is little old bug killer you.

[ctrymaus]

Ha! I doubt that! :-D

[TenaciousFlea]

wow!  awesome! 5*.

[weegingayin]

Oh a second awesome!!!.

You are pretty awesome yourself, and have awesome hats that I covet.

[floydbluethereal]

Awesome!

[weegingayin]

No you are awesome. You are completely over the moon awesome

[UKISOCIETY]

Wow! Both vocals are amazing!!

[weegingayin]

Thank you Alan. I am still waiting for you to get in a bathtub with a megaphone to do innocent when you dream

[graycrom]

good job, i love this tune.

[weegingayin]

I put a link to the Blind boys of alabama version in the side bar. I like their version better than the original Tom Waits which is a bit dark and menacing.

[graycrom]

i agree.

[MrPlatypus70]

I like Waits version because it is dark and menacing, although the other is very good too. Great video with this and really nice cover of this song too. The go together very well.

[weegingayin]

Apparently the song was the theme tune for a TV series called "The Wire" and each series had a different performer doing the song.

Blind boys of Alabama, Tom Waits, The Neville Brothers, Baltimore Boys Choir, Steve Earle. Each of them played the song in a different key.

The chords I used were from Ukulele Hunt. I have put a link in the sidebar if you are interested.

[russbuss415]

great footage and recording! how did you get that tinny effect on the response vocals?

[weegingayin]

I gargled with razor blades... no that is not true... it was broken glass.

In actual fact I was trying to do a Tom Waits impression as I did on my "Bluebird in my heart" video where there was no manipulation but on this one I used the "megaphone" filter in garbage-band.

[russbuss415]

mmm broken glass. cool, i'lll have to check out the megaphone feature on my garageband. thanks!