IF you had a crappy bar cover band - what would your playlist be like?

[HEyHEY]

What would it start with and what would it end with?

For me
Start: The lonely Bull
End: Probably Home for a rest

[ewagner]

1. To start

lots of heavy blues/rock with a lot of high-energy brass

End with soulful blues/ballads....looong pieces with alternating ride solos......

former musician here....lots of ability but no talent.

[SmileyBoy]

2. Oh man, I know what song we would play first:

"Mother" originally by Danzig

Then, we'd probably end with "Half" originally by Soundgarden.

[Duncan Grant]

3. One long set of 'Wipeout'...

with a little 'Louie, Louie' to break up the monotony. LOL! :evilgrin:

[BlueJazz]

9. AAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've actually played in bands like that. (Only because at the time I was near broke and needed to.. )

God...those 2 songs should be banned from the Universe! LOL :)

[Duncan Grant]

18. I had friends in a band like that.

Even the beer didn't make it all that much better! Fun memories though! :hi:

[madrchsod]

4. reo speedwagon

styx-journey-chicago-elton john-that`s all i can think of without my head starting to hurt

[Best_man23]

5. I would be a Wesley Willis Tribute Band

You are the best in the long run.
Wesley Willis is excellent.
You can really rock your ass off.
You can really rock your ass off.

WESLEY WILLIS!!!
WESLEY WILLIS!!!
WESLEY WILLIS!!!
WESLEY WILLIS!!!

You can really rock it out.
You really whoop a llama's ass.
You are the schizophrenia king.
I love you a lot in the long run.

WESLEY WILLIS!!!
WESLEY WILLIS!!!
WESLEY WILLIS!!!
WESLEY WILLIS!!!

I like Wesley Willis a lot.
You can really rock it out.
Wesley Willis is very special to me.
I like you well.

Rock over London,
Rock on Chicago.

Pontiac - we build excitement.

[devilgrrl]

6. How about a crappy bar punk cover band?

If I were in a crappy punk cover band, we'd play a lot of Cramps, Ramones, Damned, Pistols... stuff like that. :shrug:

We'd suck but we'd have a good time doing it anyway. :evilgrin:

[tigereye]

13. that sounds like fun

If I were in a band now, that is what I would do. In the old days people didn't want to play covers.

[NightTrain]

7. Start with "Land of a Thousand Dances" or "Shake A Tail Feather."

End with something slow, like "Georgia On My Mind" or "It's Only Make Believe."

[Tom Kitten]

8. A very dramatic beginning....and ending...

Lights dim, fog machine turned on, mirror ball begins to rotate...the synthesizer begins to hum...drums and bass start to rumble...they slowly gain in volume until the exciting moment the singer appears from the fog and slowly but purposefully strides to the front of the stage and takes the microphone in his hand...he shakes his head, driving the audience full of young nubiles of the female persuasion into a state of near ecstasy...he throws back his head and soon the we hear the unforgettably classic words "In the year twenty five twenty five..."

After going through a classic but nugget filled shoe consisting of bona fide classics like "Gloria", "Hang On Sloopy", "My Girl", "Wild Thing", et al, things close with a most original medley of obscure but much beloved classics carefully crafted to demonstrate the band's obvious sense of timelessness combined with their overwhelming finess and prowess at wowing the hearts of barhoppers forever..."I Am I Said" into "Total Eclipse of the Heart" into a most sensitive yet original version of "MacArthur Park" that not only pays a most respectful tribute to both the Richard Harris and Donna Summer renditions, but in of itself is worthy of the label "greatness personified".

[Exgeneral]

10. I aspire to a crappy cover band

We're actually working on a set list.It would be so COOL toplay a Canadian Bar somewheres, eh?

Setlist:
*Back in Black
*Rag Doll
*Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus left Chicago

*Stray Cat Blues---the Stones, not those twippy Stray Cats
*Sympathy for the Devil
*Live with Me
*Midnight Rambler
*Brown Sugar
*Factory Girl

*American Woman
*Takin Care of Busines
*No sugar tonite/New Mother Nature----this allows the crowd to hit the bar and order drinks, critical in a bar band
---Bong Break--------
set two
*Already Gone --( early Eagles)
*Hard To Handle-- (Black Crowes)
*Middle of the Road ( Pretenders)
*She Drives Funny Cars (Jefferson Airplane)
*All along the Watchtower
*You really got me
*Smells Like Teen spirit
*Snuff the Rooster ( again, drinks break for the crowd)
*Pushin' Too Hard
*Gimmee Shelter --yes, we do a lot of Stones
*Satisfaction
*Back in the USSR
and the "good night" tune
Suzy Q

[mitchum]

11. "Mustang Sally" (I actually tried to talk a friend into forming...

a band named "Mustang Sally" that just vamped on "Mustang Sally" all night long. Aging boomers could just jump on stage any time thay wanted, sing some gibberish, and then carry on shagging or frugging)

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

12. Hey - I already do this!

Start with "Misty"
End with "God Bless America"

Once a month I play the College Park (MD) American Legion with a cover band which is actually pretty good.

[Zuni]

15. That is my alma mater!

I played some shows in College Park, mostly parties but an outdoor festival at Frat Row too.
I am also a Bass player

[Zuni]

14. all blues and soul

Muddy Waters to Otis Redding

[LowerManhattanite]

16. Hmmm...

Probably kick things off with Junior Walker's "Shotgun"...

...work towards the middle with fun stuff like the Beatles "Drive My Car", The Ides of March's "Vehicle" and Elvis' "Little Sister"....

...close out the set with James Carr's "Dark End of the Street", Boz Scaggs "Lowdown" and then...an extended version of Al Green's "Love and Happiness" with lots of room for solos.

Boom. Drop the mike and walk off like "Randy Watson & Sexual Chocolate" :)

[DS1]

17. Strictly a Joe Cocker Tribute band

:7

[guitar man]

19. actually

we have a pretty good band. We are mostly blues/old r&b stuff. Last gig we did was a festival set, about an hour long. Started with "Why Me" by Delbert McClinton and ended with "Talk to Your Daughter" somewhat like Robben Ford does it. Lots of stuff like BB King, Albert Collins, some Nappy Brown etc. sprinkled in along the way. Anything the horn section can bust loose and "freight train" on, I'm into.