bird's eye view of my ukelele
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please bring me...
1. any songs written by marc bolan - this could be t rex songs, tyrannosaurus rex songs, john's children songs that marc wrote, solo marc songs, or any of the million trillion gazillion songs by him not released in his lifetime but available now in the form of demos and home recordings
2. i would prefer to hear your uke covers of marc songs, however if you really feel very powerfully compelled to bring an original song, please bring me a homemade marc-style song. that could be...
a supersexy love song
a folk-y song about wizards and wotnot
a song that plays with names (telegram sam, debora looking like a zebra, that sort of thing)
a song that references cars or guitars
a song that refers to space and planets or the sun or the moon
you could also bring a song about, or that refers to, marc or t rex
no song limit
season runs from the start of this sunday, to the end of next sunday, hawaii time https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/hawaii
prize - the bringer of my fave performance* of the week will win this marc season t-shirt (in the t-shirt colour of your choice)...
* i am not necessarily looking for a marc-style performance - trent (recovering bassist) recently brought a bluegrass style cover of a marc song and i loved every moment of it! bring me marc, bring him your way
useful links...
chords
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/artist/t_rex_8863
released songs
https://www.azlyrics.com/t/trex.html
the tracklist on this page shows many of the songs unreleased in marc's lifetime
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unchained-...=1460094498&sr=8-13&keywords=marc+bolan+t+rex
for those less well known songs with no chords online, you can try running a youtube vid through the chordify website, the site will suggest chords, marc often used bluesy or other simple chord progressions, which can help you to spot the chord patterns he used and work chords out this way
https://chordify.net/
for those not super familiar with the fabulousness that is marc, here's a little taster vid that someone put together of their top 10 t rex songs...
and here's some gratuitous pan's-people-dancing-to-t-rex footage, just for luck
have fun, i love marc's music, i hope you'll find some songs to love too
PLAYLIST
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