General Music Chat

I'm putting together a band thats playing a mix of original and cover tunes. What are the standard rock songs every band needs to know. Classic rock to current.

1 ) Turn The Page

2 ) Sweet Home Alabama

3 ) Born To Be Wild

4 ) Freebird

5 ) Stairway To Heaven

6 ) Hotel California

7 ) Roxanne

8 ) Every Rose Has Its Thorn

9 ) Wooly Bully

10) Wipeout

OMG I'm gonna PUKE! LOL

LOL If that 10 is the list we need to know, I know am positive I know why they look at us the way they do..

(no one recognizes the music at all)

Ok, here's two sets of living repetitive hell

The crowds in your average bars will generally go effin nuts for everything below:


Brown eyed girl
Sweet home alabama / All summer Long
I want you to want me
What I like (about you)
Wonderwall
Laid
Born to be wild
Margaritaville *vomit*puke*vomit*
Paranoid
Crossroads
Sunshine of your love
My own worst enemy
All Right now
Plush
Some Kind of wonderful
Kryptonite *gag*puke*cough*
Satisfaction
Tush
Simple Man
Sympathy for the devil
Mustang sally *oh gawd the agony*
Summer of 69
Keep on rockin in the free world
Beverly Hills
Feel like makin love
I wanna be sedated
Hard to handle
I love rock n roll
867-5309 (Jenny)
come together

LOL If that 10 is the list we need to know, I know am positive I know why they look at us the way they do..

(no one recognizes the music at all)

I'd much rather play something they don't know AND get asked to gig at that venue again. That means you're playing something REALLY kick ass...

Echhh You know NJ bob, it's a pack of beer swilling smellies who wanna hear MUSTANG SALLY and 867-5309 for the 3rd time in 1 evening..

LOL It's ok folks, we didn't know, you didn't know what we're playing..

And NO, we're not playing OOH THAT SMELL..that's your own bad breath blowing back up in yer face.

So odd for me to see those lists these days. With the music I'm playing, a cover list would look more like this:

Stir it up
Jamrock
Sweat
collie herb
Angel
Red Wine
Jammin
Night Nurse
Dream
Ganja Farmer

Crazy s**t..

What? No "Legalise It," Shredd? "I Shot The Sheriff?"

Hey, Shredd - I played some Peter Tosh Sat nite - "Stop That Train." Love that song!

Here's one of mine from several years back. Already had it on the computer so all I had to do was cut and paste, and I'm a lazy bastid.
They're not in the order that we play them. I just keep it on stage and call out what I think the crowd wants at the time.

HOLD ON LOOSELY
TEACHER TEACHER
WALK THIS WAY
JUST BETWEEN YOU AND ME
WANNA ROCK
TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS
CAN'T GET ENOUGH
GOOD LOVIN' GONE BAD
SHOOTING STAR
KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR
FIRE DOWN BELOW
MAINSTREET
OLD TIME ROCK N ROLL
ROCK N ROLL NEVER FORGETS
TURN THE PAGE
SMOKIN' IN THE BOYS ROOM
JOHNNY B. GOODE
SHINE
BORN ON THE BAYOU
GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY
PROUD MARY
SUZIE Q
SUFFRAGETTE CITY
SMOKE ON THE WATER
SULTANS OF SWING
HOTEL CALIFORNIA
COCAINE
WONDERFUL TONIGHT
JUST WANNA MAKE LOVE 2 U
ARMADILLOS IN MOURNING
THE FIREMAN
BAD TO THE BONE
KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF
NAME
HEY JOE
RED HOUSE
ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY
ROCK N ROLL ALL NITE
ROCK N ROLL
YOUR MAMA DON'T DANCE
GIMME THREE STEPS
NEEDLE AND THE SPOON
SIMPLE MAN
SWEET HOME ALABAMA
SEX & CANDY
DREAMS I'LL NEVER SEE
FLIRTIN' WITH DISASTER
CRAZY TRAIN
PARANOID
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL
COMFORTABLY NUMB
TALK DIRTY TO ME
LUNATIC FRINGE
ROCK N ROLL HOOCHIE KOO
TOO ROLLING STONED
HONKY TONK WOMAN
PRIDE AND JOY
SUPERSTITION
BANG A GONG
CAT SCRATCH FEVER
STRANGLEHOLD
COWBOY SONG
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
BREAKDOWN
MARY JANE'S LAST DANCE
BLACK CLOUD
EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU
AIN'T TALKIN' BOUT LOVE
ICE CREAM MAN
REALLY GOT ME
MUSTANG SALLY
BEER DRINKERS AND HELL RAISERS
LA GRANGE
SHARP DRESSED MAN
TUSH

This is like a nearly complete list of all the songs I never want to play!

I hear ya, Phil. Problem is, the crowds around here love it, and we try to cater to them. Back in the late '90's I got together with some friends and put a band together playing some really cool newer stuff. We were having a blast doing it, but everywhere we played, I kept getting, "I don't like your new band, they don't play the good stuff that you use to." And the crowds dwindled. The band faded away. And ever since then, I haven't been playing much, but when I do, this is the stuff we play to keep the crowds happy. I still dream of putting an ultimate band together that could play anything and make the crowd go wild, but realistically, not only would it be tough to find like minded musicians, then we'd have that crowd mentality to battle. What's a guy to do?

Go for a different audience, Jeff. The jam bands do quite well with the younger crowds. Play a Phish tune or a cpl Dead tunes, & then go off & play all sorts of odd stuff & you'll get a following. It's fun to play, too, as long as you play better than that Jerry Garcia slop-fiend!

I think I would take up knitting before I would play any of those songs. But we do mix in a few covers with our stuff.

The covers The Farleys play:

Pills - The New York Dolls
I Wanna Live - The Ramones
Search & Destroy - The Stooges
Bop Pills - The Cramps
Wonderful Wino - Frank Zappa
Into The Drink - Mudhoney
Helter Skelter/Don't Pass Me By - The Beatles
Son of a Gun - Nirvana

The covers Tuna Finger play:

Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others - The Smiths
High Fivin' MF - Local H
Powertrip - Monster Magnet
Rock & Roll - Lou Reed
Idiot Walk - The Hives
Heroin Girl - Everclear
Get Free - The Vines

"Tuna Finger!" I LOVE that name, Jimmy!

Har, har yeah it makes me smile too. Most girls hate it though.