General Music Chat

Philby,
Sorry for the misunderstanding. I was just bustin' on you for that one small tidbit of bad advice you gave Joe concerning not playing "Born To Be Wild."
I definitely agree with you concerning The Monkeys. Despite all the bad teenybopper hype surrounding them, and the disdain they received about being a contrived big media band, the fact of the matter is , their music was composed by some of the best. People like Carole King and Boyce and Heart. Excellent songwriting, in my opinion.

Kidd,
I got a big deja- vu kick out of your song list from years gone by. Are you sure we never played together somewhere along the line?

Howlin'

DEFINITELY do Seven Bridges Road. That's oine I tried to get recorded in Texas, when I did the Kenny Wayne Shepperd cover I posted a while back, couldn't get everyione together to do it, but we had 4 vocalists who could make that song bring the house down. If you can do it, it's a killer tune.

Some of the songs that band did:

Life in the Fast Lane
Tequila Sunrise
Take It Easy
Already Gone
Witchy Woman
One of These Nights
I Can't Tell You Why
Heart of the Matter
Southern Cross
Walk Softly (on This Heart Of Mine)
Runnin Down A Dream
and a couple of Wilburys tunes, End of the Line and Poorhouse.

Yeah, lots of Eagles, when you have 4 good singers you naturally gravitate toward that band.

I can't think of much more, when I left we were starting on Styx "Renegade" and a couple of other tougher ones, Simply Irresistable, a couple more vocal oriented ones and a Van Wilks song "Spank it" was in line too, maybe "Boystown" or "Bleedin for You". (You'd have to be a Van Wilks fan... vanwilks dot com if you wanna check out a great Texas guitar player.

A couple of things posted earlier...

Knocking on heavens door. 3 chords

Nope, 4. G D Amin, G D C. Repeat ad nauseum

bring skeeter repellent

Fabric softener sheets.

Where the hell is Irmy anyway?

I wondered too, and someone said in a post a couple of nights ago he had departed the site for the most part.

Monkees...I've played "Last Train to Clarksville", been thinking about rocking up "Steppin Stone" a bit, that might work, and if you don't like the guitar in "Valerie" you've just got no taste at all. Some of Nesmith's finest. At least I think he did it, they used a lot of session musicians too, but Nesmith did a lot of the guitar himself, he was the only one originally a musician, the rest started as actors and later learned to play.

Anyway, some other possibilities...

Before You Accuse Me
T for Texas
City of New Orleans
Long as I Can See The Light
Squeeze Box
Kodachrome


Oh and whoever posted it, I have "Tell Mama" (Savoy Brown) written down on my list of tunes I'd like to do, mostly to drop something in that's NOT one I've played every gig for the past 30 years...you know the ones, Old Time Rock and Roll, Margaritaville, FB, SHA, (I won't even type them...) Cocaine, La Grange...the usual crud...anyway Tell Mama is right there with Sultans of Swing, Train Train, After Midnight, Rollin and Tumblin, Confidence Man, Dark Eyed Cajun Woman and Bad Motor Scooter...

Hey Gang,

Yeah , Howlin , Pete, Koolin , Philby,Dajax,and alotta you other Cats posts ALWAYS have me reelin in the yrs...Man ,aint it funny how we be can BE RIGHT THERE 30 yrs ago just from seein a set list or talkin about the B3..Really,ALL you guys keep my head above water esspecially in these times when OUR hayday and road yrs have been long past .
Yeah , Id like to have a 3 day non stop jam with you cats..I honest believe I could drum the whole time, no breaks..Wouldnt even eat , just drink MT dew..Piss my pants...

John

I think Irmy's hard at work on his huge project & is lacking the time to be here.

HJ - I've always liked Born to be Wild, but I've (& I'd bet most of us folks have) played it to death...so usually there's no practice needed if you get in that rare occasion that it's required, but I could be wrong on that, I suppose.

Jo:

The Letter - Box Tops

ANY Motown song you could work up

Satisfaction / Jumpin' Jack Flash / any other Stones

lotsa Elvis stuff (I always wanted to do In The Ghetto)

6 Days on the Road - Taj Mahal's version is the bomb! (Sawyer Brown's SUX!)

J Giel's Band stuff is fun & not too hard

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Jo - howzabout I set up a gig sometime for the two of us - unrehearsed. We could switch off on originals, & jam on stuff we both know. What the heck...we could set it up at some spot halfway between us, meet up, set up, & play non-stop all night at some lil dive, just to do it. Totally off the cuff. I think it might be a BLAST!

Then we could both enjoy the long drive home afterward...LOL

The drive would be well worth it! That would be great!

Them ol Penn skeeters dont skeer no Texas boy. Hell our skeeters can stand flat foot and screw a turkey. We hunt em with buckshot.