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11-25-2010, 02:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kraków, Polska | | | Is "Mustang Sally" a real song, or a TB joke?
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I've seen this song mentioned many times on TB as the most popular cover song ever, and yet I've never played it, never heard it, never heard it mentioned outside of TB. I do know "Brown-Eyed Girl" is real, but "Mustang Sally"?
So I'm starting to wonder... is this song actually more popular than anything by Madonna or Michael Jackson or Lady Gaga or anyone else, or is it just a random not-so-popular song (or completely nonexistent song) that's become a TB running joke like carrots?
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11-25-2010, 02:39 AM
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11-25-2010, 02:53 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kraków, Polska | | | Heh, I'm at work so I can't listen to it, but a quick Youtube search shows only vids with less than a million views, so it would seem it's a real song but relatively obscure. I still have this suspicion that no one actually plays it, and talking about playing it is just some joke that originated in a thread ten years ago...
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11-25-2010, 02:54 AM
|  | Sponsored by Jagermeister | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Seattle / Tacoma | | classic song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKuv5u55xzw
here in the States, the oldies radio stations still play this song several times everyday! |
11-25-2010, 04:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Hamilton, ON | | | come over here and play one gig to a middle aged crowd and I guarentee some drunk woman will ask you to play that song. |
11-25-2010, 04:39 AM
|  | Gettin' medieval on yo' bass... | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: new hampshire | | | Ha ha ha yes it's totally real and probably a necessity for a cover band to at least have in their back pocket to play. Wilson Pickett hit from the 1960s.
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11-25-2010, 04:49 AM
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11-25-2010, 04:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevin.Kevin come over here and play one gig to a middle aged crowd | Aha! That solves the mystery!
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11-25-2010, 04:52 AM
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OH, yeah .... GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
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11-25-2010, 05:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kraków, Polska | | | Ha. I blame growing up in a socialist country that did a pretty effective job of controlling what foreign music we could hear.
Wikipedia says:
"Rice's version made it to #15 on the U.S. R&B charts in 1965. Pickett's version climbed to #6 R&B and #23 Pop in 1966."
The way it's talked about on TB, I'd have expected it to have been #1 for at least a couple months! But I guess it's really popular among the audiences that a large chunk of TBers play to.
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11-25-2010, 05:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: San Francisco Bay Area, CA | | | I've never heard it, nor had I heard of it before joining talkbass. Not going to listen to it, because it's way more amusing to not know anything about it. Makes it really funny when everyone complains about having to play/being sick of playing some song I'd never even heard of.
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11-25-2010, 05:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: middletown, oh | | | see, every time i see someone post about Mustang Sally, i think of that god awful movie Roadhouse ... and the blind guy with the strat ...
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11-25-2010, 05:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Mudsock,Ohio | | | As much as a joke that song has become , I get more satisfaction out of playing it and makeing it kick ass.
Buddy Guy did it and it kills.
It just goes to show , if you're good you can make anything kick ass.
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11-25-2010, 05:53 AM
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11-25-2010, 06:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Lol - everyone gets asked to play Mustang Sally!
It's quite a popular song
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11-25-2010, 06:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: South Florida | | Look its a classic and if you can't play it then learn it....................I knew a girl named Mustang Sally..whoops, that's a bad joke..................Have a great weekend......  |
11-25-2010, 06:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: New Zealand | | | Tell us your Mustang stories then....
Best Mustang I ever played was 15 years ago with a visiting Texan pro drummer who sat in at our humble jam night. So many ways to mess with those riffs and still be the same song. He grabbed onto what the guitarist was doing and it was layed out for me, groovalicious. So I still have a soft spot for old Sally.
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11-25-2010, 06:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Chester, Pa.,USA | | | It's one of those types of songs if you do it right, can be a hell of a lot of fun to play.
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11-25-2010, 06:38 AM
|  | User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: East Coast | | | Try playing a mini-medley of "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" and "Johnny B. Goode" sometime.
You will feel like a dirty sellout, and the drunks will go absolutely beserk.
Seems like most people most want to hear songs they've heard at least ten thousand times before.
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11-25-2010, 06:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: glasgow (on the 16 bus) | | | whats the best bass for a metal cover of mustang sally then?
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