Rain

ampfixer


The Rain Song


Some of these I like for guitar and some for bass.

As much as I like John Paul Jones, I'm betting that you dig this one because of the guitar. ;) 


Amazing song and lots of fun to play. Never had the chance to play it live though.

Yes, it's a guitar player dream that I love to ruin every so often. I find the only way to manage it is to have a guitar all tuned up and sitting there for this one song. It's way easier if the worst player (me) does the nice open tuning bits while the gun slinger comes in to do the lead stuff. 

I thought this was supposed to be about songs you "want" to play.  Or did I miss the memo?

chefmike8888


I swear that if I see one more cover band play Roadhouse Blues or the female equivalent, Bobby McGee, I'm going to grab all the beer bottles I can reach and start hurling them at the band.

There's some good choices listed here but these two IMO should be laid to rest.

Mike

why is it when a band gets a girl (who says she sings, yea right) come up to the bandstand and want to do a song, why oh why does it always have to be Bobbie McGee???
 
 
 
 
 
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MMqnot

yorolpal


I thought this was supposed to be about songs you "want" to play.  Or did I miss the memo?

Correct Ol' pal. You will notice I said that I ruin it. In other words, I "want" to play them but my personal abilities often fall short. Now if it was our pal Danny D., he'd actually be talking about doing it right. 


I'm a first order wanna bee, not a killer bee.

ampfixer

Rain

I find the only way to manage it is to have a guitar all tuned up and sitting there for this one song. It's way easier if the worst player (me) does the nice open tuning bits while the gun slinger comes in to do the lead stuff. 

That's one of the reasons I enjoyed doing The Tea Party covers so much. In order to keep up in between their alternate tunings and the ones I used in my/our songs, I had to borrow a couple guitars and use them on stage, each one tuned for a specific song or two. That plus the violin bow as I mentioned. :P

Hmmm... no one has mentioned the Eddie Holman classic-  "Hey There Lonely Girl".

FREEBIRD!!!!!!   "Sweet Home Alabama"  (man, I'm full of good ones....  hehehe...)

....and now I'm easing out the back doh...

A little OT, but...

In our 50th anniversary rendez vous our band played a medley including The Whos "Behind Blue Eyes", "Won't get fooled again" and "Summertime Blues" (the Who-version).
It was just fantastic to perform and it made the folks crazy. The quality of our performance needs no analysing, unfortunartely.

Gimme Some Lovin - The Spencer Davis Group

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yorolpal


I thought this was supposed to be about songs you "want" to play.  Or did I miss the memo?

Correct Ol' pal. You will notice I said that I ruin it. In other words, I "want" to play them but my personal abilities often fall short. Now if it was our pal Danny D., he'd actually be talking about doing it right. 


I'm a first order wanna bee, not a killer bee.

Gotcha...so that means there are folks who WANT to play "Freebird" or "Proud Mary" etc....
 
Fiction will never, ever top real life.  Not in elevently jillion years:-)
 

yorolpal

Gotcha...so that means there are folks who WANT to play "Freebird" or "Proud Mary" etc....  

Actually, a few of us are just born smart-arses.
 
 
I read the topic title as "Cover songs a band should play" not necessarily what they want to play. Dream Theater's A Change Of Seasons is a great example of many songs I'd like to cover (for those that aren't familiar with this album, after one original song, DT covers a few songs then finishes with a large melody of several covers blended together).