Dr Wippit - The Covid Sessions - Episode 2

March 28th, 2020

In the six days between the first two Covid shows, I decided the shows should have themes, I sure can't play the same songs every week right? The expectation was the same small handful of friends would show up and they deserve something better than a repeat.

I came up with a theme of 80s songs, allowing me to use a bunch of songs I'd played a hundred times before, just not in the last 30 years or so. I started a weekly schedule of spend Monday through Thursday putting a list together and, Friday night I'd play the guitar in headphones and make sure I pretty much new how to play it, Saturday I'd do an out loud run through singing and playing, then live show Saturday or Sunday.

You can sure see a difference in my appearance. The first episode I wasn't expecting anything and just showed up au naturel. Knowing folks actually tune in got me to dress up like, well like I'm playing a show. I brought in two originals because I could. The stuff I wrote in the eighties was, well, written by a teenager. Making the push to get to an hour, I went from ten songs to sixteen. As I mention in the video, over half of these I played with my friend Tony on drums after school in high school. Everything from Husker Du and The Replacements to Cyndi Lauper, George Michael, Prince.... Here's the list:

Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds

Driver 8 - REM

Scarecrow - John Mellencamp

Never Let Me Go - The Attitudes/Tracers

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

The Ledge - The Replacements

Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper

In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

Tomorrow Someone's Leaving - The Attitudes/Tracers

When Doves Cry - Prince

Faith - George Michael

Add It Up - Violent Femmes