TMBG - Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - Instrumental Re-Creation

Complete Record: This channel is not monetized. If you like what you see here and would like to help me continue sharing cool stuff on my channel, please consider making a donation via Venmo @Pea-Hicks. I vividly remembering seeing the video for this song this come on 120 Minutes in 1986 and it was fan-at-first-sight. Went out and bought the record the next day. I was especially enamored of the fact that the song prominently uses the "Funny" preset on the Casio MT-100 keyboard, which was the keyboard I had at the time, and was actually my first electronic keyboard. it wasn't a real synthesizer, and I was always very cognizant of this shortcoming, but TMBG made me believe i could make "real" "professional" music with it anyway. I decided to pull out the MT-100 and have a go at the part, and once I'd done that, I figured I might as well do the drums and bass as well. I semi-cheated by sampling the "Funny" preset and sequencing the part. I'm too lazy to learn the whole thing and play it live. The drums are Yamaha RX15 samples, which is the drum machine they used on that first album, though I had to bring in a tambourine (Alesis HR16) because the RX15 doesn't have one- not sure which drum machine they used for that, as I don't think they got their HR16 until the next album. The snare doesn't quite sound right either, so that might have been from a different machine too. I don't know what they used for the bass, but I got reasonably close with Arturia's Minimoog plugin. There's some accordion or something playing chords in the original version that was too far back in the mix for me to want to figure out, so I didn't bother with that. Feel free to use for karaoke!