We're putting the band back together. What do you like to hear live?

[bluesbassman]

Some of my old band mates and I have decided to give it another whirl. This lineup was primarily doing rock covers, but we'll throw some blues in the mix too. Below is a list of tunes we're going to start working on tonight. If you have any tunes that you like hearing in a club let me know what got you up and dancing!

BTW, no we will not be doing Freebird. :P


Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Gimme 3 Steps
Fire
Jumpin Jack Flash
Tush
Bony Marony
Boom Boom Boom
Hey Hey My My
Rockin In The Freeworld
Red House
Day Of The Eagle
Melissa
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Manish Boy
Rocky Mountain Way
I Can Tell
Fool For Your Stockings
Mustang Sally
Wrap It Up
Big Legged Woman
You Knew The Job Was Dangerous
Her Strut
Get Over It
Tightrope
Big Legged Woman
Mary Had A Little Lamb
Tell Me
All Your Love
Don't Touch My Guitar
South Bound
Hard Times
Bad Case Of Love
Black Magic Woman
Hard Way
Who Do You Love
Apache

[kayakjohnny]

1. Rocky Mountain Way

Hands down.

:yourock:

(get it?)

[bluesbassman]

4. One of the guitar players has this one down pat.

Fun song for sure.

[kayakjohnny]

6. Cool!

And the singer?

[bluesbassman]

9. Same guy sings it.

He's been playing that one for a while and handles it well.

[taterguy]

2. Black Lillies

[bluesbassman]

5. Thanks, I'll check them out.

Have you heard any of their stuff covered in a live setting?

[taterguy]

8. I was talking about the song Black Lillies by the band Fetchin' Bones

And I've never heard any band do it except them.

You'd be trendsetters!

[bluesbassman]

10. Cool. I just looked...

All I could find on line was "Wine", They have a great kind of rockin' jump/swing sound on that tune. I'll have to check out more of their stuff. Thanks!

[kayakjohnny]

3. Also Day Of The Eagle

If you can pull that one off, would be cool.

[bluesbassman]

7. This one we did before and it is a rocker!

Really simple bass line on this one, so the drummer and I have fun trying to fake each out without distracting the guitar players. :evilgrin:

[guitar man]

11. If you've got keyboards

Mama Told Me Not To Come- 3 Dog Night. We do that one and it always gets 'em going ;)

[bluesbassman]

24. No keyboards. Too bad I always wanted to try that tune.

I think our drummer could pull off the vocals too.

[guitar man]

38. Well then

Hmm, let me think . Ohh, I know. Sultans of Swing, that's one we do that doesn't need keys and always leaves the audience with their jaws on the floor :)

and All Right Now by Free always gets butts shakin on the dance floor :D

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. Warum tut es weh wenn ich pinkle?

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Our band did very FEW covers (three, of which I can only remember two)...
but our drummer told me that he really wished that we would cover Frank
Zappa's "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?"
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The fact that he didn't tell me this until AFTER the band had split up
made me wish FERVENTLY that I still gave wedgies.
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"My balls feel like a pair of maracas.
My balls feel like a pair of maracas.
I must be got the gon-oh-cah-cah-coccus.
My balls feel like a pair of maracas."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL_DxT2UOyo
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[bluesbassman]

25. With two guitars, a bass, and drums Zappa might be a bit ambitious...

but it would be fun trying!

[kentauros]

13. Minnie the Moocher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC6JUA8cjoY

Also, you can still do Freebird, but like this:

Stairway to Freebird by Rev. Billy C. Wirtz

:D

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. I was going to post "Stairway to Freebird" and chose Zappa instead!!!

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I haven't listened to Reverend Billy in WAY too long.
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"Female Problems"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdyffrZxGP4&feature=related
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[kentauros]

48. I'll have to listen to that one again!

He goes through so many different ones that I want to remember for later

[bluesbassman]

26. Oh man, what I'd give for a horn section!

That Minnie cut by the BB's band just cooks!

The Rev is awesome. May have to learn that one for those "special" folk in the crowd. :P

[kentauros]

28. Horn sections are great!

Oingo Boingo, Madness :D

Thanks to the Rev, every time I see or hear someone mention "Freebird" that's the only version to ever come to mind ;)

Same for the likes of Purple Haze and Stairway to Heaven :P

[flying rabbit]

14. black betty

I was gonna say freebird :lighter smiley:

[bluesbassman]

27. Good call, I was thinking about that one too.

Get people up and movin' for sure.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. Look At Little Sister

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-alHCQgbF38

I see that you already have some SRV in there ( or songs SRV covered, at least)...but "Sister" is one of my favorites. On the box set version, he plays a really mean version...the opening note is like a friggin' gunshot.

I know "Gimme 3 Steps" is probably a crowd-pleaser, but it's also one of my least favorite Skynyrd songs...their equivalent of "Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies. Swap it out for "Saturday Night Special" and I'm sold.

And if you're doing "Black Magic Woman," you really can't get away without the segue into "Gypsy Queen" (unless you're doing the Peter Green version), and hey...speaking of Greeny, where the hell is "Rattlesnake Shake?" If you do that one, you have to do the 25 minute version on the "Boston Tea Party" CD, with the slowed-down center section featuring "Albatross" and the slow climb back to the rave-up ending.

AND SPEAKING OF RAVE-UPS..."Over Under Sideways Down" by the Yarbirds.

AND...

:-)

[pinboy3niner]

17. Ha! I was thinking Yardbirds, too...

...as well as some early Kinks for some good bluesy stuff. GMTA...

:hi:

[bluesbassman]

29. Done a lot of SRV's stuff over the years, always wanted to play that one out.

The only downside is the honkytonk piano really backs it up and we're short a keyboard player. We'll give it a run through though, might be able to pull it off with two guitars.

As for Black Magic Woman, we do the Santana version with Gypsy Queen. One of my favorite tunes to play!

Rattlesnake Shake's a great call, forgot about that tune. Definitely work that into the setlist.

Over Under Sideways Down has potential, be a bit of an arrangement change to fit our sound though.

Thanks for some cool ideas AV!

[struggle4progress]

18. Ghost Of Smokey Joe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY4-G6mig38&feature=related

White House Blues

[struggle4progress]

19. Foggy Mountain Breakdown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APl9fRFmdC0&feature=related

[bluesbassman]

31. Great tune. Now where the heck did I put that banjo....

:)

[LuvNewcastle]

20. Frenzy

Screamin Jay Hawkins also "In Dreams," Roy Orbison

[Kali]

21. got any originals?

that's what I'd like to hear if I was going to go out and see you
covers are fun too

[bluesbassman]

32. A few, mostly blues tunes.

It's easier to do originals with the blues than with rock. You never know though, we might come up something cool. B-)

[blue neen]

22. Twice as Hard by the Black Crowes.

It never fails to get me out of the chair! :)

[bluesbassman]

33. We'll take a crack at it. Cool tune.

How do feel about Hard to Handle? One of the guitar players wants to do that one.

[blue neen]

40. Both songs rock. I guess it's just a matter of personal preference.

Pour moi, the opening guitar riff of "Twice as Hard" is IT...stops me in mid Captain and Coke. Everytime.

Good luck! :toast:

[Mopar151]

23. Here's a few

Been diggin up some good songs for my buddy's band to cover
Albert Collins - Ain't Drunk, jus' drinkin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjVfc8-Y7sQ

Guns 'n Roses cover UK Subs Down on the Farm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX_taPfaHvg

Dust 'n Bones - twin lead guitars like old Wishbone Ash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUKJKwInJ7w

Johnny Winter - Stone County -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YekIIsm7cvs

Beat Farmers - Ridin' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUxrgEd7J3s
2 good "shout-along" songs

Dave Edmunds - Crawlin' from the Wreckage - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3D2fma3z30

[abq e streeter]

30. Which Fire? Springsteen/Pointer Sisters, Ohio Players or Arthur Brown?

Seger's Ramblin Gamblin' Man comes to mind; probably can be done effectively without a keyboard(?)

[bluesbassman]

34. Hendrix. One of the guitar players is quite the Hendrix disciple.

Ramblin Gamblin Man is a good call. I was thinking Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight might work too.

[abq e streeter]

35. How in the HELL did I leave out Hendrix?

I was thinking Sunspot Baby too, but maybe not as danceable as Ramblin Gamblin Man...

[abq e streeter]

36. I have acquired documentary footage of the moment bluesbassman made this momentous decision

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1KZKZs-2YM

[bluesbassman]

41. We're on a mission from God.

LOL. Nice one bud. :rofl:

[HopeHoops]

37. Good lineup but you need some SLOW DANCES!

We just saw a classic rock band called Daisy Cutters. They managed to work in some slow dances, but it was mostly fast stuff. They even did some Beatles and were damn good at the harmonies!

[bluesbassman]

44. Meelissa and Fool For Your Stockings are a couple of slower tunes,

but your right and we'll on some. Any favorites?

[HopeHoops]

46. Hell, even ZZ Top's "Rough Boy" counts.

The classic rock era has countless good tunes for slow dances.

[velvet]

39. big tick for Hoodoo You Love

I've lately been listening a lot to the Townes van Zandt collection "Legend" and it includes a great version of "Who Do You Love" that never fails to rock me from my chair.

Wait ... Mary Had a Little Lamb?

[bluesbassman]

42. I sing that one, we do it in the George Thorogood style. Now as for Mary...

Check this out and you'll see why we play it. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaX7Y1GQl5w

[velvet]

63. finally had time to watch it

I see what you mean. I'd follow that to school any day. Very danceable, just the right sort of HopeHoops slow to get the people loosened up before you whip them into a frenzy.

Another one I can't not dance to is ...
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Glooooria

Love the banter on the Van Morrison/John Lee Hooker/some other people live album :-

A: "She knock upon my door."

B: "I think it was my door, baby."

A: "She made me feel so good."

C: "Made me feel good too!"

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. Long Distance Runaround; Fool's Overture; Comfortably Numb; One of these Days

Careful with that Axe Eugene
Dogs
Wot Gorilla
21st Century Schizoid Man
La Villa Strangiato
War Pigs
Holy Diver
Locomotive Breath
Fire on the Mountain
Hemispheres
Welcome to the Machine

[bluesbassman]

50. Interesting choices, lots of fun to play.

Some of those might be a little tricky for a four piece outfit though.

[Rabrrrrrr]

54. But think of how fun it would be to arrange Long Distance Runaround for a quartet

and for you to invent ways to get four people to do more than four things at a time! :-)

I think it would be a fun challenge.

[Tikki]

45. Whaaaa...No "Louie, Louie" or "Wild Thing"!!!!

OK...How about something like "I'm Casting My Spell On You"...


Hey, have fun and break a leg...


Tikki

[bluesbassman]

51. We save those for special requests.

Yours would be honored anytime. :)

[WinkyDink]

47. Anything J. Geils! The Commitments! "Brown Sugar."

[bluesbassman]

52. Good call on J. Geils. I'll have to go through the catalog.

I know there's some material for us. The Commitments did some great covers, you gonna come sing backup for us? :)

[Common Sense Party]

57. Come Back by J. Geils Band.

Needs keyboards, though.

[Bennyboy]

49. The Fever Springsteen.

Gets the close dancing going on and is a killer tune...

[bluesbassman]

53. Killer tune is right my friend.

That's a great slow tune. It'll take a little arrangement tweak to fit our lineup, but I think it'll work. Drummer could pull off the vocals too.

[Dr Morbius]

55. Train Kept a'Rollin'.

If you want to "wow" the crowd, do a bluesy cover of a famous TV theme, like Scooby Doo or perhaps something more recent. It blows people away.

Or maybe play this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsDpwb3ILxM
One of my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4xm5w_6nww

[bluesbassman]

56. I was was thinking about this one from the the boys from down under...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUQT4hykPd0

That's a cool idea on the theme song.

[Mopar151]

58. Southside Johnny - Havin' a party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG-Ng1f_xUk

[Mopar151]

59. Garry Moore

Still got the blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O_YMLDvvnw

Don't beleive a word - nice version, both blues and rock tempos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzpMBscDNbM

[Mopar151]

60. Boom Boom (out go the lights!)

Pat Travers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5IS45jT468

Little Walter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XagQ3owbBEM

[Lars39]

61. Gotta soft spot for Werewolves Of London.

[backwoodsbob]

62. sultans of swing always goes over well

also check out the zz top version of Jailhouse Rock