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Cover tunes should depend on what region you're in for the gig. What's your audience, what do they like. It takes some investigation. Especially nowadays. Most anyone will like a huge classic, anywhere. But, making friends, is something a bit different.

Yeah ... Not sure you should play Hotel California at the Red Lion in Pendleton, Oregon! Your cover band will be out the door an hour later! But if you play Friends in the right high places, everyone will sing with you!
 
That's one type of band I would NEVER be on, btw, even if I was starving!

Hi,

The stuff I WOULD play ... and I don't care if my audience was only 1 person, and maybe a cassette player ... is:

You either standup for your work, or you go home ... and I would rather go home empty handed ... than not give myself a chance! You can not prove to anyone in this world that you play Am better than Bapu, besides the fact that 90% of the audience has no idea what Am is ... other than ... it sounds pretty and nice and he did that so neatly!

The few covers I would ever consider: (I get to play the bass, since Bapu can't and is too busy!)

Terje Rypdal - Adagietto  (my David Darling impression)
Egberto Gismonti - Ballerina  (my Charlie Haden impression)
Jan Garbarek - Soria Maria  (my Eberhard Weber impression)
Can - Mother Sky  (my Holger Czukay impression)
Carmen - Bullerias (my John Glascock impression)
Stanley Clark/RTF (one piece for sure)
Funkadelics - Maggot Brain
...
and to drive you out of your tree and off the dance floor ...
Garry Moore -- Spirit (from Stepping Stone!)
...  and then one last song ...
A Way Out - Peter Hammill
And I guarantee you that you will remember the show, because the film, the girls and everything else is gonna have people go ... wow ... what was that? ... by the time you get seen by a few people ... they will remember you. Playing in that bar ... no one cares, or gives a ****, and you are a slave to the drunken whims of an audfience!
 
Not my style!