The Geoffs Are Multiplying! | Reaction & Analysis - You Don't Mess Around with Jim
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
- Back to reacting to Geoff Castellucci! In this video, I react to his cover of the folk rock/blues song "You Don't Mess Around with Jim." I have never heard this song before so it was fun to see his version of it. As usual, his voice is amazing and his arranging is on point. I hope you enjoy!
Make sure to listen to the original artist as well!
• YOU DON'T MESS AROUND ...
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I'm old enough to have been an adult when Croce released this one. It was on everyone's list of favorites. He died the following a year after releasing this one.
It is a cool song. It is always interesting, if unfortunate, to hear about artists who die not long after releasing popular songs
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@@musicalmark For your own enjoyment, you might want to follow up with another of his folks/story songs: Big Bad Leroy Brown. It’s another tow tapper and in the same vein. One of my favorites however is his Time in a Bottle. It’s not a story song but a song that’s pretty indicative of the time it was released.
@@janetdw Other people have mentioned Big Bad Leroy Brown. It might be worth looking at more of his music
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Even if there are 5 of them, they're all of them Geoff only, performing. In other pieces he makes it clear for the spectator that clones Jeff, Jeoph. Goff and Darryl are present. In fact, in his cover of 'Unshaken' Geoff isn't present, the performing characters are the clones singing 'unsupervised' by Geoff. Geoff likes to mess around a bit with his audience.😅
🤣 Oh Geoff, always keeping us on our toes
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I especially love the change to tenor as 'Slim' enters the song. It gives me the impression of a younger and probably more naive guy. It suggests to me that the reason Jim lost the fight might be because he underestimated Slim. The 'chorus' guys certainly did, hence the warning.
One of the biggest changes from the original (aside from it being a few notes lower) was that Geoff really dialed back the guitar. Croce's acoustic guitar was rather prevalent. Pushing the percussion forward for this really ups the testosterone level. This is probably more of a fight song than the original felt. Croce's original felt 'bouncier', this had more of a GROOVE.
I enjoyed the switch to tenor as well. It really helps sell that there was a new character entering the story. Yeah, they all definitely underestimated him. I like the choices that Geoff made, but it might be worth it to go back and listen to the original. This reaction was totally blind, I had never heard of the song or the artist before this cover
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@@musicalmark Croce sings it all in the same register. He sings more like the narrator of a story. One that he might not even been around to see go down. Can't swear to the last part, but it never felt to me that we were present in that pool hall when it all went down. This fits well with the folk singing tradition, where the story might not be recent.
One point about the humming at the beginning of the song. The slightly buzzy sound to his humming also feels to me to be a bit purposely 'dirty' instead of a 'clean' sound. Gives me the feeling that this is a dive. Of course, back in the '70s when Croce wrote this, NY City was considerably dirtier and less tourist-friendly - so 42nd St. might really have been populated by dive bar pool halls at the time, for all I know.
@@hwyla4416 A third party narrator would definitely fit in the folk singing tradition and it probably works well in the original, but I think it was a good decision for Geoff's video to tell it as if we were with the characters as it happens. It works well for the different media presentation
My understanding is that New York really wasn't the nicest place in the 70s, so he probably was going for that grittier idea
It's pronounced Crohchee :) He also wrote the perhaps better known Bad.Bad, Leroy Brown. Geoff always switches up the harmonies and so on from verse to verse to keep it interesting. In some of his covers that he finds too repetitive he'll add a bridge. Nice. I think Geoff's longest held low note is in Valhalla Calling. The scat at the end comes earlier in the original song.
I think Croce's best known song would actually be "Time in a Bottle"
Thanks for the information. I had never heard of either Croce or this song before Geoff covered it. I nearly always like the choices Geoff makes in his arrangements. Thanks for watching!
@@hwyla4416 I haven't heard of that one. I only remember the LeRoy Brown one.
@@christinestromberg4057 Starts "If I could save Time in a Bottle..." But I love Leroy Brown (Madder than a junkyard dog)
@@christinestromberg4057 Time In a Bottle is much more of a ballad, less rock-y, with a lot of acoustic guitar. Another of Jim's hits in a similar tone to Time is Operator. Those 4 are the ones I'm familiar with - he was just a little too early for me to buying a lot of records.
Actually, you have (left to right) Jeff, Daryl (my favorite), Geoff, Goff, and Jeoff. Nice reaction.
My mistake. They weren't wearing their nametags. They must have lost them in between the Elvis cover and this one 🤣
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