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06-04-2012, 09:13 AM
|  | Earth-based Alternative Scientist, Sex Researcher | | Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Dallas, Texas | | | 1969 High School Cover Band Set Lists
What did cover bands play back in the day? Here's some set lists from my band The Concrete Flower (later known just as The Flower, much like Zeppelin or Tull) from 1969 when I was 16. You notice some sets with only 5 songs. That's because after we heard Cream's "Wheels of Fire" album, we just assumed that you were supposed to play songs as long improvisational jams, so about half of our songs were 10 or 15 minute and longer jams, even Valerie by the Monkees! The poor kids in my little home town - all they wanted to do was dance to some groovy pop tunes, and we turned it into a sonic barrage. "in A" was an original, but we never came up with a title. "Gloria" we claimed as our own because it was so psychedelisized and jammed out by us it bore little resemblance to the original.
Hey, I'm proud of these lists. Wouldn't mind recreating them today. Coming from a little hick town in north central Texas, our power trio blew bands from larger surrounding towns completely out of the water. We got so popular around the Wichita Falls area that some of the youth centers wouldn't book us anymore because so many kids would show up from around the area they couldn't control the crowds.   
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06-04-2012, 09:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: North Bend, WA | | | That's awesome that you still have the lists. My 1st band was more 80's but we had many good times.......all at "11"
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06-04-2012, 09:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NYC, Inwood. | | | Cool lists-I started band in Burkburnet and started guitar when we lived in Electra, although I didn't get into my first band til we moved to the Big City (Lubbock). |
06-04-2012, 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by salcott  Cool lists-I started band in Burkburnet and started guitar when we lived in Electra, although I didn't get into my first band til we moved to the Big City (Lubbock). | In fact, Burkburnet was where we caused a near-riot. After we started it seemed like a lot of kids were coming in, and before we knew it there were so many kids in the hall that they were pushed up onto stage with us and we couldn't even see each other for dancing kids. Police finally came and broke it up because there was just too many kids.
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06-04-2012, 10:13 AM
| | | Very cool you still have these list,
i like buckroo as a break song 
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06-04-2012, 10:40 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | | | | Nothing beats primary source documentation for historical purposes. In other words, those set lists rock and thank you for sharing your treasure.
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06-04-2012, 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Unprofessional Nothing beats primary source documentation for historical purposes. In other words, those set lists rock and thank you for sharing your treasure. | I second that emotion.
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06-04-2012, 02:53 PM
| | | | gee - I'm still playing some of those today...
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06-04-2012, 02:57 PM
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Groovy man!
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06-04-2012, 03:00 PM
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would have loved to have heard you guys. |
06-04-2012, 03:06 PM
|  | A figment of our exaggeration | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Way Out West | | | Very cool old set lists.
Lotsa Cream, Steppenwolf, Hendrix and Beatles.
Back in '69 these were pretty current tunes! |
06-04-2012, 03:10 PM
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They look so familiar - this is about the same time I started playing professionally. I play a lot of the same things now with 2 Classics bands!
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06-04-2012, 03:10 PM
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Originally Posted by lweastdad gee - I'm still playing some of those today... | Hopefully not for the same pay... |
06-04-2012, 08:15 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | And many of those are worth playing today because no one has played them for years. My band plays Sunshine of Your Love and some others from that era. I like your set lists.
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06-04-2012, 08:38 PM
| | Earth-based Alternative Scientist, Sex Researcher | | Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Dallas, Texas | | | Now looking at the first list, I remember why 'lead' is written beside Toad and Spoonful. This was my set list, and 'lead' meant that I was to take the lead role in the soloing on those tunes. Thats's the only thing we pre-arranged about our improvisations - that bass would be featured on a couple. As I said we just took "Wheels of Fire" as gospel for how you played songs live. We were in a tiny town and there wasn't anyone to tell us any different. It was crazy what we were doing. We were improvising completely out of our heads and beyond our experience, because we had no idea what we were doing and we were just letting fly. I would have a hard time finding players today who aren't too flea-trained to do such a thing and I'm not sure I still can either. It's like what Earl 'Fatha' Hines (I think it was) said when someone asked him if he'd had any formal music training, and he said "Not enough to hurt me". We didn't know any better, so we just went for it and used our ears to tell us what worked. Some things I didn't know then i wish I didn't know now.
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06-04-2012, 09:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Redondo Beach, California | | Thanks for sharing. I also played in a HS band in 69. I was playing guitar at that time. We played about 3/4's of the same songs you have on your set list. In our youth, with our whole life ahead of us, we all thought we all were going to be rock stars. |
06-04-2012, 09:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Boston, MA | | | Wow, Bubblepuppy! One of the great forgotten late psych bands. Pretty hip stuff (including "Valerie"- I adore that song. Best Davy Jones scream before a horn break ever!)
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06-05-2012, 04:54 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cincinnati | | | Wow. Takes be back. Pretty much as I remember HS. "Little Black Egg", and "Dirty Water" could have been on that list.
Thanks for the fun.
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06-05-2012, 05:24 AM
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Originally Posted by BassChuck Wow. Takes be back. Pretty much as I remember HS. "Little Black Egg", and "Dirty Water" could have been on that list.
Thanks for the fun. | "Dirty Water" was one of my fans.
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06-05-2012, 05:36 AM
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I don't have an actual setlist, but I still have a cassette tape of my 2nd or 3rd gig. Must transfer it one day to mp3. It was 1 set, at a battle of the bands which we lost to a disco band. I was on guitar. Went something like this:
Deuce - KISS
Jailhouse Rock - ZZ Top version?
Stone Cold Crazy - Queen
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Tie Your Mother Down - Queen
The Ripper - Judas Priest
Tush - ZZ Top
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