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09-09-2010, 01:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Raleigh | | | Epic songs you'll never play
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So what are the songs you'd love to play live, but probably never will because they are too complex, require a group of significantly talented musicians, aren't really appropriate for the kinds of gigs you play, etc.
A couple of mine would be
A) Meatloaf's[1] live versions of Bolero/Bat Out of Hell
B) A TSO Christmas show
[1] A Meatloaf tribute band would be great.....good luck finding someone for the Meatloaf part. |
09-09-2010, 01:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Here we are... | | | Just about anything in the YES and Frank Zappa catalogues.
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09-09-2010, 01:36 PM
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09-09-2010, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by hover He's got the Moo OO OO OO OO OO OO OObs like Jagger.... | |
09-09-2010, 01:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Kirkland, WA | | 2112 immediately pops to mind. 
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09-09-2010, 01:47 PM
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09-09-2010, 01:58 PM
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09-09-2010, 02:14 PM
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09-09-2010, 02:22 PM
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09-09-2010, 02:23 PM
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09-09-2010, 02:31 PM
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09-09-2010, 02:44 PM
|  | A figment of our exaggeration | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Way Out West | | | I don't know if anyone else feels this way about some of their favorite songs, difficult or easy to learn, but sometimes when I learn a song (say 2112 for example) the "magic" can disappear from it for me. It's as if I found the key to unlock the secret of of it. After I do, the song means less to me than it did before. It's cool to be able to play 2112, but now it's not as exciting for me to hear as a listener. Because of this, I tend to stay away from learning certian tunes. Is this wierd? |
09-09-2010, 02:53 PM
|  | bassist for staind | | | | no thats not wierd. your smart enough to preserve those songs. it shouldent lose any magic though, yeah you can play it, just like i learned schooldays way back. but i am still amazed he actually thought the whole thing in his head, i only copied him...  many sculptors can sculpt and copy "the thinker" but they would never be able to create it from scratch with that execution and brilliance themselves. johnny a. |
09-09-2010, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: WI, USA | | | Anything by King Crimson (except maybe Lark's Tongues in Aspic pt.II).
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09-09-2010, 02:56 PM
| | A figment of our exaggeration | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Way Out West | | Quote:
Originally Posted by staindbass no thats not wierd. your smart enough to preserve those songs. it shouldent lose any magic though, yeah you can play it, just like i learned schooldays way back. but i am still amazed he actually thought the whole thing in his head, i only copied him... many sculptors can sculpt and copy "the thinker" but they would never be able to create it from scratch with that execution and brilliance themselves. johnny a. | True that! |
09-09-2010, 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by 5StringBlues Just about anything in the YES and Frank Zappa catalogues. | The Yes tribute band I was in from 2000 to 2003 played the entire Close to the Edge album (plus a bunch of other Yes material). Chris Squire plays alot of notes!
But to answer the OP's question, I would respond with The Gates of Delirium by Yes.
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09-09-2010, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by SactoBass But to answer the OP's question, I would respond with The Gates of Delirium by Yes. | We totally see eye to eye on this one.
If I had to cut it down to one it would definitely be Gates. 
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Originally Posted by John Carter Vending toothbrush machine will need to know when we forget to brush the wife during the trip and instant we will get the machine. | |
09-09-2010, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | | Hi.
Anything from Lynyrd Skynyrd.
It's nearly impossible to convince ONE guitarist to give room for other instruments/vocals, let alone three + the keys. And that's a real shame.
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09-09-2010, 03:03 PM
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09-09-2010, 03:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | It's a fascinating subject about losing the "magic." I played in a Steely Dan tribute band (here's how we sounded in the basement http://zebb.info/BabylonSisters.mp3), and some of that happened to me there. I discovered some of the real genius is what the bass is not playing, and the interraction with the other instruments.
But, back tothe original topic, "Joe Frasier" by Jef Berlin/Bill Bruford. Just ain't gonna happen... 
I've played many of the songs listed here (2112, La Villa, Funeral), and boy are they fun! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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