Song within a song

[Vic Winters]

For those of you who play covers, do you ever end up putting a song withing a song? You play a song part way through, then switch to another song by the same artist, and then back to the original song. I've seen people do it with Zeppelin songs mostly, usually Whole Lotta Love and some other Zep tune.

If you do, what songs do you mix and match?

[beyondhairy]

i dont, but im a big tool fan, and u can pretty much do that with any tool song, literally...

[IanStephenson]

wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king...

[seanm]

Lay Down Sally with Mustang Sally in the middle.

[pj-mike]

Midnight Hour with Mustang Sally in the middle

[TheXym]

Love Rollercoaster with Magic Carpet Ride in the middle - different artists, but it has always worked well

[Blavelle]

I did something like this once but a cover within an original, we have a song thats a huge build up and release, so to get back in to the song we started into "Mr. Mojo Risen"

[Mixmasta J]

yo you wouldnt think this, butstart with "Breathe" by floyd, and go from the e minor up to the g, and head into "Wish You Were Here"


If done right, it is a beautiful thing

[BluezBassist]

We do a couple of those...

New Orleans is Sinking with Gloria in the middle and What I Like About You with R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. popped in right after the harp solo..

Both work very well..

[Bassic83]

Mustang Sally morphed into Low Rider!

[Muusers]

like a medley?:P

[Bassic83]

Well, the way we do Mustang Sally is, I lay down the bassline. MY bassline is really the bassline from Low Rider. Grooves hard, too! So during the second solo, the guitard starts playing the "horn line" from Low Rider against my bassline, the drummer lays it back in the pocket, and the other guitard starts comping...and voila! Low Rider!

Used to be that I was the only one who did this- the others in the band didn't catch it, except the drummer. He'd grin like a big ol' fool, but not change the groove. The only people in the audience who ever got this "musical joke" were usually bass players as well...except for one keyboard player who "got it". Everyone else was too busy dancing, or too ignorant to understand the musical statement I was making! Great fun, though, when someone "got it" and started cracking up in the audience! When I finally clued in the guitards, they slapped themselves upside their foreheads and said "Well, DUH!" and tried it- they liked it! A lot!

[roadkill2309]

In my band we do a few of those. we go from 'Back Home in Derry' into 'Opportunities' by the Pet Shop Boys, then back. We also have a version of Billy Bragg's 'Accident Waiting to Happen' with a fiddletune interspersed and we do a total mash-up of 'Wonderwall' and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.' And others. Those are just the ones that pop into my head at the mo'.

Sometimes the audience catches on, sometimes they just don't get it.

[VanillaO]

A couple years ago, at our final assembly the student rock band I was in played Under Pressure and in the middle of it broke into a minute or so of Crazy Train, then back to Under Pressure. It was fun.

[lowfreek]

In my previous band, we'd usually end the night with Cocker's "Feelin' Allright" with a verse of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side", then brought it back to the end of Feelin Allright with the phrase "Stop, children, what's that sound..." etc., from Buffalo Springfield's "For What it's Worth".

Sounds a little confusing, but it certainly allowed us to display some cool showmanship. Every crowd ate it up with a fork. I miss that horn line.

[Vandelay]

Our R&B band does a pretty slick segue from LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" into Sly & the Family Stone's "Dance To The Music".

[swohawk]

The longest medley in the world consisting of:
With Or Without You (U2)
Don't Stop Believing (Journey)
I Think We're Alone Now (Tommy James & The Shondells)
Only Gay Eskimo (Tenacious D)
Last Kiss (Wayne Cochran & the C.C. Riders/J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers/Pearl Jam)
Finishing up with With or Without You for the outro.

Everything is based or transposed to be around the D-A-Bm-G progression. You can play straight eigths or add in fills to your pleasure.

[deathofbalance]

I'm still trying to sell my band on this idea, but here's what I'm thinking, since we play some metal and some punk. Start with Chemical Warfare by Dead Kennedys. For those who don't know the song, it eventually goes into a rest, where the singer says "Until..." and then the bass comes back in, followed by the rest of the band. Well, what I intend to do is to still have the bass come in first, but in stead of finishing the song, going into a transposed version Chemical Warfare by Slayer for a bit, ending that abruptly, and then coming back in, bass first again, with the end of the Dead Kennedys song.

[MakiSupaStar]

Cissy Strut ->Feeling Alright->Soul Island-> Cissy Strut
Sometimes we throw Rock N' Roll - by the Velvet Underground in there
Other times we just sandwich Soul Island by itself. Kind of depends who starts/leads the groove.

[Atoz]

We sometimes throw a few bars of Zep's "Heartbreaker" into a song at random. It's different every time.