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[crucislancer]

This is a partial list for my trio (with guitar). There are a lot of different ones for the keyboard trio I work with.

I tried to put together something that most bands don't play.

1. Last Train to Clarksville – The Monkees
2. This Will be the Last Time – Rolling Stones
3. Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs
4. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police
5. Don't Come Around Here No More – Tom Petty
6. Life on Mars - David Bowie
7. Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds - The Beatles
8. Surrender - Cheap Trick
9. Mr. Night – Kenny Loggins
10. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
11. Dog Breath - Mothers of Invention
12. Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys
13. Head over Heels - Tears for Fears
14. Love is the Drug - Roxy Music
15. Bizarre Love Triangle – New Order
16. Fashion - David Bowie
17. How Soon is Now – The Smiths
18. One on One - Hall and Oates
19. It's Too Late – Carol King
20. Come Together - The Beatles
21. Sledgehammer – Peter Gabriel
22. The One Thing - INXS
23. Rock the Casbah - The Clash
24. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
25. Don't You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
26. You Wrecked Me - Tom Petty
27. Let's Dance – David Bowie
28. Raspberry Beret - Prince
29. Revolution - The Beatles
30. Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
31. Fooled Around and Fell in Love - Elvin Bishop
32. Walking on the Moon – The Police
33. Mr. Skin - Spirit
34. Street Fightin' Man - Rolling Stones
35. Super Hero - Jane’s Addiction
36. Join Together – The Who
37. Burnin' Down the House – Talking Heads
38. Young Lust - Pink Floyd
39. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden
40. Shock the Monkey – Peter Gabriel

Lots on your list that I would love to play!

 

[BwanaDust]

One of my favorite songs of all time.

I'm trying to convince my band to do a metal version of this one.

It's a fun track. Just have to keep the tempo down so you don't kill the guitarist on the solo!

Or, if you have a guitar player like the one we fired earlier in the year, you can really step it up to watch him sweat!

 

[BwanaDust]

Lots on your list that I would love to play!

Thanks! One of the great things about it was going into a new venue and watching the faces of people when they recognize something that they didn't expect to hear. People really dig New Order! Unfortunately, we had an idiot guitar player who decided he had to go through a minute or so of every tune (in set order) before the gig, at full volume, to "get his tone." I had to fire him in February.

 

[ThePez]

this our working list for my Trio band:

Foxey Lady - Hendrix

Don’t Push - Sublime

Crawl - Kings of Leon

Tighten Up - Black Keys

Love Song - 311

Ain’t Messing ‘Round - Gary Clark Jr

Use Me - Bill Withers

Gold on the Ceiling - Black Keys

Badfish - Sublime

High - Sir Sly

Times Like These - Foo Fighters

Come Together - Beatles

Gimme Shelter - Stones

Dani California - RHCP

I Shot the Sheriff - Clapton version

Cocaine - Clapton

Smoke Two Joints - Sublime

Hard to Handle - Black Crows

Comedown - Bush

Knee Socks - Arctic Monkeys

Garden Grove - Sublime

Kissing My Love - Bill Withers

Waiting in Vein - Bob Marley

Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz

Little Things - Bush

Hound Dog - Elvis

Superstition - Stevie Wonder

Lonely Boy - Black Keys

Hold On, We’re Going Home - Drake

Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett

Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

Machinehead - Bush

Let’s Dance - David Bowie

Everlong - Foo Fighters

By The Way - RHCP

You Wanted More - Tonic

Blue on Black - Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Inside Out - Eve 6

Burning it Down - Jason Aldean

Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis

Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller

Learn to Fly - Foo Fighters

New Pony - The Dead Weather

Good Love is On the Way - John Mayer Trio

Couldn’t Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Panic Switch - Silversun Pickups

Longview - Green Day

Cold Shot - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers

House is Rockin’ - Stevie Ray Vaughan

 

[ThePez]

Tonight's setlist. YNot Wednesday 8/21/19

Set 1
Opener
Pick Up The Pieces (w Vamp)
Signed Sealed Delivered
Knock On Wood
Money That's What I Want
Soul Man
Four Tops Medley
Boogie Shoes
Just My Imagination
My Girl
Does Anybody Really Know Time
Saturday In The Park
Beginnings
Make Me Smile
Set 2
Dance To The Music
Get Up Offa Dat Thing
Uptown Funk
Treasure
Runaway Baby
Got To Get You Into My Life
September
Squib Cakes
So Very Hard To Go
This Time It's Real
Late In The Evening
Smooth
Set 3
I Feel Good
Baby I Need Your Loving
Get Ready
The Way You Do The Things You Do
Ain't Too Proud To Beg
More Today Than Yesterday
Soul Vaccination
Folsom Prison Blues
Easy
Purple Rain
Shout
Uptight

shoot man, i wish i could have been there. i wanna come see your band sometime.

 

[QORC]

* 867-5309 JENNY – Tommy Tutone
* ALL MIXED UP - 311
* AMERICAN GIRL – Tom Petty
* ANYWAY YOU WANT IT – Journey
* ARE YOU GONNA BE MY GIRL? – Jet
* AUTHORITY SONG – John Cougar
* BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG-The Pretenders
* BAD GIRLS – Donna Summers
* BARRACUDA – Heart
* BECAUSE THE NIGHT – Patti Smith
* BEVERLY HILLS – Weezer
* BIG BALLS - AC/DC
* BITCH – Meredith Brooks
* BLUE ON BLACK – Kenny Wayne Shepherd
* BOOGIE OOGIE – Taste of Honey
* BRING ME TO LIFE – Evanescence
* BROWN EYED GIRL – Van Morrison
* CALL ME WHEN SOBER – Evanescence
* CELEBRITY SKIN – Hole
* CONNECTION - Elastica
* CHAIN OF FOOLS – Aretha Franklin
* CRAZY ON YOU - Heart
* CREEP- Radiohead
* DO YOU FEEL LIKE I DO – Peter Frampton
* DON’T LEAVE ME THIS WAY – Thelma Houston
* DON'T YOU WANT ME? - Human League
* DRIFT AWAY – Uncle Kracker/Dobie Gray
* FLAGPOLE SITTA – Harvey Danger
* GET DOWN ON IT – Kool and the Gang
* GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN – Cindy Lauper
* GIVE IT TO ME BABY- Rick James
* GOODBYE TO YOU – Scandal
* HARD TO HANDLE – Black Crowes
* HASH PIPE - Weezer
* HEARTBREAKER – Pat Benatar
* HELL IS FOR CHILDREN – Pat Benatar
* HOT STUFF – Donna Summers
* I WILL SURVIVE – Gloria Gaynor
* I’M JUST A GIRL – No Doubt
* LIKE A VIRGIN - Madonna
* LAST DANCE – Donna Summers
* LAID - James
* LET IT WHIP- Dazz Band
* LIGHTS - Journey
* LIKE THE WAY I DO – Melissa Etheridge
* LOVE SHACK – B-52s
* MARY HAD LITTLE LAMB- Stevie Ray Vaughan
* ME AND BOBBY MCGEE- Janis Joplin
* MY FAVORITE MISTAKE – Cheryl Crow
* NO MATTER WHAT – Badfinger
* ONE WAY OR ANOTHER – Blondie
* OUR LIPS ARE SEALED - The Go-Go’s
* OWN WORST ENEMY – Lit
* PIECE OF MY HEART – Janis Joplin
* PROMISES IN THE DARK- Pat Benetar
* ROCK THIS TOWN – Stray Cats
* SHE HATES ME – Puddle of Mudd
* SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG- ACDC
* SINCE YOU BEEN GONE – Kelly Clarkson
* STONE IN LOVE - Journey
* THE ONLY ONE – Melissa Etheridge
* TREAT ME RIGHT – Pat Benatar
* TURN THE BEAT AROUND – Vickie Sue Robinson
* VERTIGO – U2
* VOICES CARRY – Til Tuesday
* WALKING ON SUNSHINE – Katrina and the Waves
* WHAT I GOT – Sublime
* WHAT’S UP – 4 Non Blondes
* YOU MAY BE RIGHT – Billy Joel
* YOU OUGHTA KNOW- Alanis Morrisette

I posted this 12 years ago and someone here just 'liked" it. Thank you. I had quite forgotten what I was playing in that band.

 

[DWBass]

From last night's gig. Those are my 'key' notes (not the song keys)

Set 1
Johnny B Goode/G
Signed, Sealed, Delivered/Eb
Knock On Wood/E
Soul Man/Eb
Money That's What I Want/F
Let's Stay Together/F
Twenty Five Miles/F
Working Day & Night/G
More Today Than Yesterday/D
Uptown Funk/D
Treasure/F
Runaway Baby/A

Set 2
Dance To The Music/G
Get Up Offa Dat Thing/G
Folsom Prison Blues/B_E
Gravity/G

James Brown Medley:
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag/Bb (2 verses)
I Got The Feelin/Eb (2 verses)
Cold Sweat/C (2 verses)
Livin In America/C
I Feel Good/C

Four Tops Medley: 1A_2C_3F_4A

Put It Where You Want It/C
Easy/Ab
Got To Get You Into My Life/D
September/A

Set 3
Beginnings/A
Does Anybody Know Time/G
Saturday In The Park/A
Make Me Smile/Ab
Late In The Evening/F
Smooth/A
Walkin’ On Sunshine/F
Love Rollercoaster/C
Hey Jude/F
Shout/Eb
Uptight/Bb

 

[crucislancer]

From last night's gig. Those are my 'key' notes (not the song keys)

Set 1
Johnny B Goode/G
Signed, Sealed, Delivered/Eb
Knock On Wood/E
Soul Man/Eb
Money That's What I Want/F
Let's Stay Together/F
Twenty Five Miles/F
Working Day & Night/G
More Today Than Yesterday/D
Uptown Funk/D
Treasure/F
Runaway Baby/A

Set 2
Dance To The Music/G
Get Up Offa Dat Thing/G
Folsom Prison Blues/B_E
Gravity/G

James Brown Medley:
Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag/Bb (2 verses)
I Got The Feelin/Eb (2 verses)
Cold Sweat/C (2 verses)
Livin In America/C
I Feel Good/C

Four Tops Medley: 1A_2C_3F_4A

Put It Where You Want It/C
Easy/Ab
Got To Get You Into My Life/D
September/A

Set 3
Beginnings/A
Does Anybody Know Time/G
Saturday In The Park/A
Make Me Smile/Ab
Late In The Evening/F
Smooth/A
Walkin’ On Sunshine/F
Love Rollercoaster/C
Hey Jude/F
Shout/Eb
Uptight/Bb

3 Chicago songs to start set 3? NICE.

 

[DWBass]

3 Chicago songs to start set 3? NICE.

4

 

[crucislancer]

4

Ah didn't recognize that 4th.

 

[Alfonso Alba]

Ok, I'll go:

- Tenement funster (Queen)
- Start me up (Rolling Stones)
- Back to USSR (Beatles)
- Happy together (Turtles)
- Soul to squeeze (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Lonely boy (Black Keys)
- I will survive (Cake version)
- Come together (Beatles)
- Video killed the radio star (Presidents of the USA version)
- The man who sold the world (Bowie)
- Proud mary (Creedence)
- One headlight (Wallflowers)
- Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
- Pretty woman (Roy Orbison)
- All my life (Foo Fighters)
- Creep (Radiohead)
- Been caught stealing (Jane’s Addiction)
- All my loving (Beatles)
- Slow cheetah (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Time (Pink Floyd)
- Gold on the ceiling (Black Keys)
- Fortunate son (Creedence)
- Hash pipe (Weezer)
- I will survive (Cake)
- You might be right (Billy Joel)
- Just like heaven (The Cure)
- Plush (STP)

Stuff in spanish:

- De la noche a la mañana (Elefante)
- El son del dolor (Cuca)
- Persiana americana (Soda Stereo)
- De música ligera (Soda Stereo)
- Negra Tomasa (Caifanes)

There are about 10 more songs we can play, but haven't rehearsed much with the new singers:

- Land of 1000 Dances (Wilson Pickett)
- Lucky (Radiohead)
- The Weight (The Band / Weezer)
- Money For Nothing (Dire Straits)
- Looking for Lewis and Clark (Long Ryders)
- When I Wake Up Tomorrow (Cheap Trick)
- When Sex Was Dirty (Ben Harper)
- I'm a Believer (Monkees)
- She don't use jelly (Flaming Lips)

We try to have a balance between stuff we like and stuff the audience knows.

 

[Alfonso Alba]

Quick question?

How do you guys even remember how to play all those tunes?

Easy. I'm the drummer and just follow along

But seriously, half of the stuff we play is stuff I've listened to for 20+ years and know by heart. The rest I learn along the way.

My suggestion is to make a playlist you can listen to regularly. I have playlists in both iTunes and Tidal with most of our songs, so I listen to them whenever I can in random order. I often notice new details in a song, and that helps me refine the way I play it.

 

[crucislancer]

Easy. I'm the drummer and just follow along

But seriously, half of the stuff we play is stuff I've listened to for 20+ years and know by heart. The rest I learn along the way.

My suggestion is to make a playlist you can listen to regularly. I have playlists in both iTunes and Tidal with most of our songs, so I listen to them whenever I can in random order. I often notice new details in a song, and that helps me refine the way I play it.

I'm the same, all the tunes we play, with a rare exception, are songs that I've heard for decades, and once I had the progressions down it just seems easy to remember. I also have all the songs in a playlist that I listen to randomly. Even though I had never played the majority of the songs live when I joined the band, I was able to get up to speed very quickly.

 

[Kerem Koseoglu]

With Tushe Band; we start calm, build up the energy and finish with Rock'n Roll classics. Fills about 3 hours.

• Lost On You
• Human
• Black Velvet
• Got My Mojo Working
• Something Got A Hold On Me
• These Boots
• I Wish
• Black Horse and A Cherry Tree
• Mercy
• Michael Jackson Medley
• Play That Funky Music
• Crazy
• Radioactive
• Hush
• Cant Rely On You
• Crazy In Love
• Rebel Yell
• Lady Marmalade
• Jolene
• Wicked Game

(break)

• Get Lucky
• Sing It Back
• Bad Guy
• Walk This Way
• You Oughta Know
• Sweet Home Alabama
• Roadhouse Blues
• Mercedes Benz
• My Way
• Superstition
• Lonely Boy
• Hound Dog
• The House Is Rocking
• Blue Suede Shoes
• Saved
• Mustang Sally
• Great Balls + Messing
• Walking By Myself
• Too Tired
• Johnny Be Good
• Hit The Road Jack

For what it's worth, here is our ultra-minimal website: Link Removed

 

[DWBass]

Quick question?

How do you guys even remember how to play all those tunes?

Funny you ask that. In my band, I'm the only one who has everything memorized. Everyone else is reading. I've been memorizing songs since I began playing in 1973.

 

[troy mcclure]

I play in a project where we rotate players in and out... about 200 + songs ... I never use cheat sheets or notes. I play them all from memory. It is fun and challenging. I write the setlists so I go over the tunes I might be rusty on at home on Thu or Fri.

Here is a typical set list:
1
Interstate Love Song STP
American Girl Tom Petty
Dirty White Boy Foriegner
Jealous Again Black Crowes
She's Country< Jason Aldean
Wanted Dead or alive bonjovi
Shine< collective soul
Roxanne The Police
Whattaya Want for me Adam Lambert
Home Daughtry
Voodoo Chile Hendrix
Anyway you want it Journey
2
Refuge Tom Petty
Separate Ways Journey
Blue Collar man Styx
All Right Now Free
The Middle Jimmy eats world
Tennessee Whiskey Chris Stapelton
Jane starship
Some kind of wonderful Grand Funk
Lights/Stay Awhile Journey
Maybe I'm Amazed Paul Mccartney
3
Roll with the Changes Reo
Stone in Love Journey
Foolin Def Leppard
This Love maroon 5
Purple Rain Prince
Hold the Line Toto
Stay with Me Faces
Come Sail Away Styx
4
Bohemian Rhapsody Queen
Don't stop believin Journey
Basket Case Green Day
Creep radiohead
Keep on Lovin You Reo
Man in a Box alice in chains
Enter Sandman Metalica
Turn the Page segar

 

[zon5string]

The band I just quit from (as drummer)....

Wheel in The Sky
Ask The Lonely
Send Her My Love
Be Good To Yourself
Keep On Runnin'
Still They Ride
I'll Be Alright Without You
Escape
Open Arms
La Do Da
Lights
Just The Same Way
Stone In Love
Only The Young
Any Way You Want It
Chain Reaction
Girl Can't Help It
Mother, Father
Faithfully
Feeling That Way
Anytime
Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'
Who's Crying Now
Don't Stop Believin'
Separate Ways


Roll With The Changes
Rosanna
Africa
Hold The Line
Carry On (Wayward Son)
Blue Morning, Blue Day
Cold As Ice
WOrking For THe Weekend
Renegade
Too Much Time On My Hands
Blue Collar Man
Jessie's Girl
Don't Tell Me You Love Me
Sister Christian
You Shook Me All Night Long
Your Love
Take It On The Run
Runaway
Sweet Child O' Mine
Livin' On A Prayer
More Than A Feeling
Smokin'


A Journey tribute with some "OTJ" (Other Than Journey)....

 

[troy mcclure]

zon5string... I am in a Journey Tribute as well, that is a fun band to cover.

 

[zon5string]

....and the one-off "reunion" weekend with Rocket Surgery....with abbreviations by the guitarist..


HELLO THERE
GOOD X BAD X
TUBE SNAKE
THE ROVER
LITTLE WING
FUNK 49
BORN ON BAYOU
RING OF FIRE
AIN'T TALKIN
HIGHWAY TO HELL

ROCK N' ROLL ALL NIGHT
ROCK N' ROLL BANd
PLUSH
FIRE
WISH U WERE HER
PUMP IT UP
LOVIN TOUCAN SQUEEZIN
SURRENDER
I WANT U2 WANME
DREAM POLICE

LA GRANGE
MESSAGE IN A BTL
I FEEL GOOD
PANAMA
DON'T TELL ME U LOVE ME
WANTED DOA
SIN CITY
EVERY ROSE
TALK DIRTY
MAN IN BOX

BOYS R BACK
JAILBREAK
SAY WHAT YOU WILL
SINCE U BIN GONE
SANTERIA
AIN'T THAT A SHAME
BEEN COT STEALIN
FOLSOM
MR. CROWLEY
PURPLE RAIN

SHOOK ME
SWEET CHILD
LIVN AFTER MID
REBEL YELL
O DARLIN
SYMPATHY
RED HOUSE
NIGHT TRAIN
TNT
DON'T FEAR REAP
FIGHT FOR RIGHT
JAILBREAK DC
ROCK DIS TOWN
MAN ON SILVER MT
HOLY WARS

 

[dtripoli]

Quick question?

How do you guys even remember how to play all those tunes?

Hand and muscle memory. Lots and lots of woodshedding at home until you can play the songs without thinking about where or what to do next in the song. It's easy, at least for me, to get distracted and if I had to rely solely on my mental memory I'd be making a lot of mistakes.
Last night we played to a full house. It was shoulder to shoulder room only. Two hot chick were doing the booty shake 12 inches from my bass.
I had stay where I was, there no place to move. Anyway, they were amazingly erotic in their dancing. Thank God I knew the song without thinking because thinking about what note, verse or bridge comes next, was the furthest thing from my mind. Admittedly even that didn't help when our drummer jokingly said, "Its freaking hot in here! All the girls pull your shirts or tops up and down and it'll cool off the place". How dumb I thought until 90% of the women lifted their tops.....I totally missed an ultra simple bridge. I screwed up the song but it was totally worth it. In fact I think everyone in the band flubbed the bridge at that moment.