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11-11-2010, 11:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Petoskey, MI 49770 | | | Whats the funnest song to play off your set list?
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I just got home from the first practice with band #3. I had such a good time I think this one will become band #1, and if all goes as planned, there'll be an opportunity for another bass player in one of the other two soon.
We played a tune tonight that is an absolute blast, especially with my new 5 string. I was thinking that this might be my new favorite to play. This made me think of what my favorite songs to play in the other bands were...which lead me to wonder what tunes other bass players like the best from their sets. So here it is:
New favorite - "Slither" by Velvet Revolver
Old favorite - "What Is and What Should Never Be" - Led Zeppelin
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11-12-2010, 03:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Deep East Texas Piney Woods | | As a gag song I like to play "May the bird of Paradise fly up your nose". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzk4l2NYx_Y
R-3-5-3 works till you get to the title then hard roots and as soon as the title is over back to R-3-5-3 or even pentatonics. It's that time with the roots I enjoy. |
11-12-2010, 03:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: North NJ | | | twilight zone has such a cool groove... I've been digging that one lately.
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11-12-2010, 04:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Pennsylvania | | | Crazy Bitch from Buck Cherry. It has a great groove, its quite easy, and everyone loves it. But what makes it the most fun for me is the last line of the song, when our female lead singer (hot) screams, "But I like the way you f;;ck me!" She has a very strong voice and pulls it off perfectly! If you know the tune...Imagine a chic singing it! Its a great angle, the crowd always goes crazy.....well mostly the men,lol. Mikki (singer) always looks at me just after that line cuz she knows Im giggling like a fool on the inside. |
11-12-2010, 04:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: alabama | | | Weezer - "Hash Pipe". It has that monster chorus !
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11-12-2010, 06:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | | The two tunes we do that are the most fun for me on bass are an Irish drinking song called "Streams of Whisky" and a song that we cover written by a local guy (Michael Slattery of the band Shoulders) called "Mr. Troll is Crying 'Cause He's Happy", which at one point rhymes "happy" with "slag heap".
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11-12-2010, 06:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Saratoga Springs, NY | | | probably "Hard To Handle" Black Crowes - love playing it
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11-12-2010, 06:50 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | I have fun with just about everything we do! My #1 fav has got to be Killin Floor. That one is just a gas! I also really dig Man In The Box. The interplay between the entire band is what makes that tune so freakin awesome!
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11-12-2010, 06:51 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Atlanta, Ga. | | | Bad Company - FFDP Style..................
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11-12-2010, 07:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Warwick RI | | | My favorite songs in our setlist would have to be Signed sealed delivered into Fire-Ohio Players and our goof on Don't cha by the pussycat dolls, we do it Polka style! 1 verse and 1 chorus.
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11-12-2010, 07:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Belgium | | we only do originals so I write my own basslines, and I have fun playing almost all of them 
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11-12-2010, 07:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Plymouth, MN | | | Stealin' by Uriah Heep. Just me and a D in the spotlight at the beginning.
"I've done the ranchers daughter, and I sure did hurt his pride Haha!" |
11-12-2010, 07:17 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Portland, OR | | | Big Legged Woman by Freddy King - really excellent groove. |
11-12-2010, 07:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Seattle, WA | | My last band:
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way (So Fun!) |
11-12-2010, 07:25 AM
|  | passionate hack | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Malone, NY/ Montreal, Quebec | | | Medleys are fun. We often finish with New Orleans is Sinking into Another One Bites the Dust into Roadhouse and back to New Orleans....I really dig it!
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11-12-2010, 07:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Adelaide, South Australia | | | Big +1 for the Thelma Houston
I love playing I want you back by Jackson Five - real groovy Bass line.
Disco Inferno is a gas too!
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11-12-2010, 07:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Winnipeg, MB | | Either:
Miss You by The Rolling Stones
Gangsters Paradise by Coolio  |
11-12-2010, 07:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | | I love to play the Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang.
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11-12-2010, 07:33 AM
|  | Fingers, pick, and a little bit of slap | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Terrapin country (Crofton, MD) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jbalou02 I just got home from the first practice with band #3. I had such a good time I think this one will become band #1, and if all goes as planned, there'll be an opportunity for another bass player in one of the other two soon.
We played a tune tonight that is an absolute blast, especially with my new 5 string. I was thinking that this might be my new favorite to play. This made me think of what my favorite songs to play in the other bands were...which lead me to wonder what tunes other bass players like the best from their sets. So here it is:
New favorite - "Slither" by Velvet Revolver
Old favorite - "What Is and What Should Never Be" - Led Zeppelin | Slither's a good one! I'm mostly a fingerstyle player, but that's one of a handful of songs for which I use a pick. Another is "Mudshovel" by Staind, which is also cool.
Right now my favorites are:
"Aeroplane" by Red Hot Chili Peppers... it tests my meager slap chops
"I Wish" and "Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder. I don't do the buzzsaw vibrato fills in "I Wish", but it's still fun to play.
Favorite song I don't play in a band: just for grins, I recently learned "I Want You Back" by the Jackson 5. |
11-12-2010, 07:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Medford, MA | | | Slither is a fun song.
Fallout Boy's cover of "Beat It" is a fun song to play. Great guitar solo too. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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