Nov 1, 2025
"Thanks to my cousin, Bridget, who, about a week ago, suggested I do something on Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, here's the resulting parody."
-Loose Bruce Kerr
Bruce records his originals & parodies one vocal & instrument at a time. He started doing this in 1980 to have background tracks on stage in his solo act, bass, drums (machine), keyboards, mandolin, leaving off the lead vocal and guitar to do live. His 1st multitrack was a 4-track TEAC deck. When he started doing videos, especially with YouTube's advent around 2006, he'd use his previous multitrack audio version that left off lead vocal & guitar and do the live part into the camera. Same for new songs.
He recorded "GEEZ, KAROLINE!" on his current deck, a digital 32-track TASCAM recorder along with a Yamaha midi rack tied to a Yamaha midi keyboard. This allows him to play the orchestration for the tune, one instrument at a time: trumpets, trombones, french horns, strings, drums, cymbals, in addition to playing bass guitar, guitar, and singing lead.
Since 1987, Bruce's originals and parodies have been played over 160 times on the Dr. Demento Show (which just closed shop after over 50 years on the air on nationwide radio, then the internet).
The live studio VIDEO version of this parody is available on this
podcast webpage.