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12-16-2012, 01:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | | I like the more straight up rock songs like Fire and Manic Depression. Voodoo Chile only if your guitarist can handle it, and definitely not "Purple Haze" (it's just been done to death). I tried doing "Are You Experienced" once - complete disaster. |
12-16-2012, 01:12 AM
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Originally Posted by klyph  Little Miss Lover | This one,,,just left enough that they'll think it's Lenny Kravitz!  |
12-16-2012, 05:32 AM
|  | Ruff | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: In the dog house. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by funkingroovin Voodoo Chili | Adding this to potential band name list. |
12-16-2012, 05:55 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Fender Basses, Ampeg, Curt Mangan Strings | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shore, Massachusetts | | | Hendrix is tough because its usually men who really like his stuff more than women. Clubs want bands that keep people dancing and drinking. At most gigs its the women who do most of the dancing. Personally, I try to avoid playing anything by Hendrix. Every time I've seen a band do any of his songs everyone leaves the dance floor.
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12-16-2012, 06:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm on a Mexican wo-oh radio | | | Just ask the Axis.....
and Angel was/is a good suggestion as well.
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12-16-2012, 08:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Waxahachie, Tx | | | I don't think I've ever seen a Hendrix tune not go over in my area. |
12-16-2012, 12:10 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Colorado Springs, CO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Kmonk Hendrix is tough because its usually men who really like his stuff more than women. Clubs want bands that keep people dancing and drinking. At most gigs its the women who do most of the dancing. Personally, I try to avoid playing anything by Hendrix. Every time I've seen a band do any of his songs everyone leaves the dance floor. | That has been my experience. I said, "experience" lol |
12-16-2012, 05:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Northern Michigan | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nutdog Adding this to potential band name list. | D'oh! Sorry,Freudian slip there..I was eating a big bowl of chili at the time,lol! It WOULD be a good band name though,wouldn't it? |
12-16-2012, 07:05 PM
| | | | voodoo child, wind cries mary, crosstown traffic, little wing, bold as love, hear my train a comin, .....the list goes on and on
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12-16-2012, 07:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Northeast Ohio | | | +1 for Hey Joe.
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12-16-2012, 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by MrDOS I have a directive to suggest a Jimi Hendrix tune for our cover band. I can't think of a single one I've played in the past that went over as consistently.
Here's what's already in our list, for reference:
Bad Company
Journey
Aerosmith
The Who
Led Zeppelin
Thin Lizzy
The Eagles
ZZ Top
Billy Idol
etc. | Looks like a set from one of my old bands. Remember to make the ladies happy. Fire worked for us. If the ckicks stay, the guys will. The girls liked love in an elevator - you just have to pull off the vocals and keep it danceable during gtr solo. Basic formula for all music.
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12-16-2012, 07:52 PM
|  | http://tinyurl.com/b7spj8p | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Krutonia | | | Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower with some of Led Zep's Stairway to Heaven mixed in with it. Same chords... Interesting mix. Crowd likes it...
+1 for Hey Joe also... |
12-17-2012, 10:03 AM
|  | Dr. Hook | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania US | | | Red House goes over very well for us. We don't play a lot of slower songs, but this is one of them and it really works.
At the last gig, we played Hey Joe as a sound check and the people who were there really liked it. It was the first time we ever played it (never even practiced it) and so we were pretty much winging it, but that seemed to work also. |
12-17-2012, 10:28 AM
|  | Hip No Ties | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New York, NY | | If I were considering Hendrix tunes to perform in a cover band, I definitely would not consider any of the usual standbys that are always suggested, some of which have been so overdone for so many years, that people have become sick of them.
A couple of GREAT Hendrix tunes, that have not (yet) been overdone, that lend themselves well to interesting new arrangements are:
- Stone Free
- You've Got Me Floatin'  
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12-17-2012, 11:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Ape God, MA | | | ^^^^ This is why I suggested Little Miss Lover. You introduce it as a Hendrix song, and play something that is close to a modern, danceable, funk/rock beat. Not overdone, and won't send the ladies to the restroom or bar, which is what playing a Hendrix tune usually does, especially Hey Joe, Fire, or the other usual suspects. Some others I have had good luck with are Come on, Rainy Day (requires a really groovy drummer), and suprisingly, Remember, which nobody knows, but has the sentimental lyrics the ladies love, and can be played with almost any kind of beat you like.
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12-17-2012, 11:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm on a Mexican wo-oh radio | | I have had some goooood slow drags on Angel 
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12-17-2012, 11:29 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by fenderslaper Fire. | This. I played in a club/corporate band for quite a while. We never played for a crowd that didn't love that song. It even went over well at weddings!
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12-17-2012, 12:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Belgium | | | I always wanted to do "House Burning Down", "Stone Free" or "Manic Depression". |
12-17-2012, 12:56 PM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by EddiePlaysBass I always wanted to do "House Burning Down", "Stone Free" or "Manic Depression". | I love this version! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOUhpMjxJDk
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12-17-2012, 06:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by klyph won't send the ladies to the restroom or bar, which is what playing a Hendrix tune usually does, especially Hey Joe, Fire, or the other usual suspects. | I am surprised. Hey Joe keeps the dance floor packed for us. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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