The First Song You Ever Played in a Band

[Doc Labyrinth]

For me it was "Louie Louie" when I started my first band when I was twelve years old. I think "Gloria" by Van Morrison was in there somewhere too. What was the first song you played in a band? Oh yeah, and elementary school brass doesn't count. Or else this would just be a long list of "Let's Go Band."

[kevinmoore73]

All Blues

[tdogg]

i think the first song that my first band slaughtered was "ball-tounge" by korn... (shudder)

[Wizardgoleman]

Simple Man - Skynard

first thing I ever learned on a bass as well

[Pete528]

i think it was stairway to heaven lol.

[tdogg]

Originally Posted by Pete528

i think it was stairway to heaven lol.

It was probably a Little Richard, Hank Williams or Jerry Lee Lewis song.

George

[Russell Bergum]

First song before an audience was "Rock-n-Roll Girl" by The Beat (Paul Collins Beat), 8th grade talent show, circa 1980-81...power pop at it's best! Followed by "Message in a Bottle" by the Police and "Cinnamin Girl" by Neil Young at the same talent show.

[nortonrider]

Wipeout
But we wern't much of a band, and we couldn't really play it.
Does it still count?

[bro)))616]

danzig-mother

i was singing though ,

as a bass player.. misfits- bullet

[Ozonbass]

"Roll On Down the Highway"-BTO (C. Fred Turner I think it was)

[Seussbass]

The first song we played was called acid rain. We wrote it and it was god-awful.

[cujjo91]

The first song I ever played in front of a crowd was Another Brick in the Wall part 2. But I wasn't in the band it was my bass teachers band.

[driver800]

I Can't Explain - by The Who.

I played drums, it was awesome, though probably not very good.

[MaxZolt]

The Ocean (Led Zeppelin). We rehearsed it once, 45 min before the show. I had no idea what I was doing.

[Depth_Charge]

For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica) was the first song I ever played in a live band setting.

[musicelectronix]

my friend of misery - metallica

[gweimer]

"Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin

followed closely by "Inside Looking Out" - Grand Funk Railroad

[Atoz]

"Human Cannonball" - Butthole Surfers

*might not really count... the "band" was just one of my friends on guitar and I on bass back in the 80s. No drummer. We taped us thrashing about with a cassette recorder, and my friend sent the tape to his friend in Kentucky. That guy played the tape really loud while he played some drums and re-recorded it with another cassette recorder before mailing it back to us. The finished product sounded like total s***. I still have the tape 20 years later.

[fraublugher]

first tune on bass [started on drums and don't remember that far] was...

'fire' i think , springsteen version. at a house party

at a gig was "riders on the storm" the doors