If you could create a 60s psychedelic cover band, what would your set list include?

Tie dyed shirts, paisley pants, incense, liquid lights, rose colored glasses:

My set list: ( a progress in work)
I had too much to dream last night - Electric Prunes
Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
Journey to the Center of the Mind - Amboy Dukes
Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo
Open my Eyes - Nazz
Lies - Knickerboxers
Lucy in the Sky - Beatles
Strawberry fields - Beatles
Blue Jay Way - Beatles
Pleasant Valley Sunday - Monkees
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
White Rabbit - Airplane
Lucifer Sam - Pink Floyd
Astronomy Domine - Pink Floyd
Kicks - Paul Revere and the Raiders
Sky Pilot - Animals
We gotta get out of this place - Animals
Fire - Arthur Brown
Live for today - Grass Roots
Paint it black - Stones
Ruby Tuesday - Stones 
Time of the season - Zombies
8 Miles High - Byrds
Just dropped in - Kenny Rogers
Quinn the eskimo- Manfred Mann version
Crimson & Clover - TJ&S
Sunshine of your love - Cream
Over Under Sideways Down - 
Natures Way - Spirit
Your Gold Dress - Dukes of Stratosfear
25 O'Clock - Dukes


NO Inagadadivida.  No garage rock.  

What would you add?  Take away?  

Thanks

Good one

Green Tambourine - Lemon Pipers
Just A singer in a rock and roll band - Moody Blues
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
Something in the Air - Thunderclap Newman

Mr Soul - Buffalo Springfield
For what its worth - Buffalo Springfield

space, that's a great set list - I'd happily pay to hear your hypothetical band!

The era did produce some great concert tunes. Great because they were not studio creations, but recorded live and meant to be played live. This week I've been listening to a live album by Rare Earth, one of the greatest live bands ever. "I'm Losing You" would be a candidate for a great psychedelic set.

I can actually report on some of the tunes that got the best crowd response, because I'm enough of an antique to have actually played them onstage myself, both back in the day when they were current hits and again decades later. The best material was stuff that a) had a catchy hook or riff and b) lent itself to extended improvisation.

Here are a few off the top of my head:

Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge
She's Not There - Zombies
Inna Gadda da Vida - Iron Butterfly (why don't you like this one? Audiences loved it back in the day.)
Sky Pilot - Animals
Gloria - Shadows of Night (was actually already an oldie by the psychedelic period, but has remained a crowd-pleaser to this day)
White Room - Cream
Light My Fire - Doors
Time Has Come Today - Chambers Brothers
Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
The Kids are Alright - The Who (not really psychedelia, but a really fun song to do live)
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Psychotic Reaction - (who did that one? I forget)
Sookie Sookie - Steppenwolf
Just Dropped In - First Edition (featuring Glen Campbell on spooky reverse guitar)
Atlantis - Donovan (the ultimate singalong song)
Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan (did you know that this recording featured Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham?)
Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells (not quite psychedelia, but a great high-energy set-ender)
Incense & Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock
Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harem
Dear Mr. Fantasy - Traffic
Summertime Blues - either the Blue Cheer or The Who versions (loved by bass players)
Too Much to Dream Last Night - Electric Prunes
Suzy Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Want to Take You Higher - Sly & the Family Stone (soul-psychedelic fusion)
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Mississippi Queen - Mountain (one of the great cowbell songs)


These weren't necessarily the best of the era, or even necessarily among my personal favorites. But they were definitely crowd-pleasers in a live setting.

two great sets of music there... a few overlaps, but hey some of that can easily be repeated "by request" ....

love the music of the 60's

Trippy is what trippy does.

Seen it happen.

Guys
I have a couple k LPs, CDs and downloads (forget the tapes). My two favorite genres are:
60s psychedelic - it really stands out as way different than anything before or after it
70s prog/space rock (think Gong, Camel, Caravan, Hillage, Automatic Man, Hawkwind...)

Both of them are unique and are full of great songs.  But for a live performance, 60s psych would be easier to pull off than 70s space rock.  

Glam (T Rex and Bowie) and Art Rock (King Crimson, Curved Air, Gentle Giant...) are great genres too.  And 80s.  Man I love 80s music.  Another genre that is unmatched before and after.  Just came out of nowhere.  

One of the worst parts of programmed radio is that so many great tunes go unplayed.  Too much of the same stuff in rotation over and over.  

That is exactly what Pink Floyd did on songs like Astronomy Domine.  One great verse, then a bunch of noise.  But what a great verse.  

Ditto with Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun  or
Interstellar overdrive. 

Of course, you could get really odd with Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered in a Cave and Groovin with A Pict (or some other highly specific name).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cf2GoS3U_Q

Not sure I could pull that off live. 

Spirit-what a great band - - Mr Skin?  Animal Zoo?  Pretty much anything off the 12 Dreams album, excpet the strangeness on side 2.  

space_cowboy


Art Rock (King Crimson, Curved Air, Gentle Giant...) are great genres too.    

Now if you could play THOSE covers, then my hat (the figurative one since I don't really ever wear one) is off to you!  There's some challenging tunes in that genre.  I only know one guy (a very talented guitarist that's currently in the Lt. Dan Band with Gary Sinese) that's played in a Gentle Giant cover band.

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OK, now you gonna tell me?

Frankenstein- Edgar Winter Group
25 Lake Silver Drive- Doyle, Dooley & Co. (did it have to be released?)

I am stuck on Friday on my Mind by the Easy Beats. I love that song. Just not sure if it is psych or pop.

Friday on My Mind, if not the greatest pop song ever made, is at least is a case study of what makes a great pop song. I'd include "Lies" by the Nickerbockers on that short list of near-perfect pop masterpieces. Neither is psychedelic by any stretch of definition, but I'll bet anybody who loves "White Room" also likes those two.

Mod Bod


I would definitely include this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qja2ptq_p7I for the most musical ideas wedged into 2-3/4 minutes.

Thanks for this link Dave.

Hmm. lots of great tunes already mentioned.  I'll see if I can add just a few to the mix. 

Fire - The Isley Brothers. 
Vehicle - The Ides Of March

The Pusher - Steppenwolf
America - Steppenwolf

What About Me - Quicksilver Messenger Service
Fresh Air - Quicksilver Messenger Service

Green Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf