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Cover Bands! Post your setlist for insight, feedback, and ridicule!

With Marty Williams and the Ain't Half Bad Band (Country music & Classic Rock)

Play Something Country - Brooks & Dunn
Drink in my Hand - Eric Church
Good Directions - Billy Currington
Tulsa Time - Don Williams
Take it Easy - The Eagles
Pink Houses - John Cougar
Family Tradition - Hank Williams Jr.
Yee Haw - Jake Owen
Here's a Quarter - Travis Tritt
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Should've Been a Cowboy - Toby Keith
I Believe In You - Don Williams
Let Me Down Easy - Billy Currington
Dixie Land Delight - Alabama
Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams Jr.
Honey Bee - Blake Shelton
Old Flame - Alabama
That's The Way Love Goes - Merle Haggard
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
It Must Be Love - Don Williams
The More I Drink - Blake Shelton
Hard Luck Woman - Kiss
Make Me Wanna - Thomas Rhett
Refried Dreams - Tim McGraw
Susie Q - CCR
Tequila Sunrise - The Eagles
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Long Haired Country Boy - The Charlie Daniel's Band
Time Marches On - Tracy Lawrence
8 Second Ride - Jake Owen
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett


All I can think of right now.. There's probably 30 or more I'm forgetting! LOL!!
 
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Played this set twice this year, and bizarre as it looks as a list, it went down really quite well (twice !) !

God Save the Queen - Sex Pistols
Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
Alternative Ulster - SLF
All My Life - Foo Fighters
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin Criminals
Inside - Stistskin
Bullet in the Head - RATM
Bulls On Parade - RATM
Cochise - Audioslave
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Killing In the Name - RATM
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica
Seek and Destroy - Metallica
Whole Lot of Rosie - AC/DC
I Think We're Alone Now - Tommy James and the Shondelles
 
I'm also in a 90's cover band. Some songs are more recent but close enough. Here's our set list for our next show. We've got an hour to fill.

Shine - Collective Soul
Ariels - SOAD
Are you gonna be my girl - Jet
Crackerman - STP
Wicked Garden - STP
Dani California - RHCP
Suck My Kiss - RHCP
Self Esteem - Offspring
Smells like teen spirit - Nirvana
Outshined - Soundgarden
Toxicity - SOAD
One step closer - Linkin Park

Now this is good 90's rock/grunge - I would welcome this on my playlist
 
Let's Work Together-Canned Heat
Little Wing-Jimi Hendrix
While My Guitar Gently Weeps-Tom Petty and Prince
Wasteland-the Mission
Like a Hurricane-Neil Young
All Along the Watchtower-Jimi again
Rock and Roll-Led Zep

And time permitting...
A mash up of The Wanderer-Status Quo and In the Summertime-Mungo Jerry
Rockin' in the Free World-Neil again
Lonely Boy-the Black Keys
 
Bunch of old gits supposed to be a 60s band but we throw in few 50s and one 80s.
Played these sets Sunday and Wednesday with slight alterations to suit the crowd.

1st Set
C’mon everybody Eddie Cochran
The Last Time Stones
Time is tight Booker T
Hard days night Beatles
Rise and fall of Flingel Bunt Shadows
A picture of you Billy fury
Last train to Clarksville Monkeeys
Come together Beatles
Glad all over Dave Clark 5
Dedicated follower of fashion Kinks
Shakin all over Johnny Kid ..

2nd Set
Brown eyed girl Van Morrison
Got my mojo working almost everybody
Bus Stop Hollies
Please please me Beatles
Not fade away (M) Stones
Eight days a week Beatles
Apache Shadows
All Shook Up Elvis
Ob-la-di-ob-la-da Beatles
Sweet Caroline (M)

3rd Set
Do you wanna dance Cliff/Shadows
Lucky lips Cliff/shadows
Roll over Beethoven Chuck Berry
I saw her standing there Beatles
Keep on running (M) Spencer Davis
Is this the way to Amarillo Tony Christy
You really got me Kinks
Blue Suede Shoes / Oh boy / Hound dog (medley)
Pretty woman
+ encores from Extras list

Extras:
500 Miles Proclaimers
Just one look Hollies
I’ll keep you satisfied
Halfway to paradise (M)
7th son (M) Mose Alison et al
Hey Baby
Can’t Buy Me Love Beatles
Baby come back Equals
It’s all over now Stones
I should have known better Beatles
Proud Mary CCR
634-5789 (Capo 2)
Summertime Blues Eddy Cochran
20 Flight Rock Eddy Cochran
Sorry Suzanne Hollies
Dance on Shadows
Bye bye love Everly Bros
Poison Ivy
Willie & the hand jive Cliff/Shadows
Will you love me tomorrow Shirrelles
Like I’ve never been gone
 
We do two sets of about one and a half hours each from a rotation of this little lot.

1 AC/DC - Sin City
2 AC/DC - Highway to Hell
3 AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
4 AC/DC - A Touch Too Much
5 AC/DC - Live Wire
6 Black Sabbath - Iron Man
7 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
8 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
9 Deep Purple - Highway Star
10 Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
11 Foo Fighters - The Pretender
12 Five Finger Death Punch - Bad Company
13 Free - Alright Now
14 Gary Moore - Out in the Fields
15 Gun - Steal Your Fire
16 Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet Child o' Mine
17 Guns 'n' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
18 Iron Maiden - - Fear of the Dark
19 Iron Maiden - The Trooper
20 Judas Priest - Another Thing Coming
21 Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
22 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
23 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
24 Metallica - Enter Sandman
25 RHCP - Dani California
26 Saxon - 747 Strangers in the Night
27 Slash - Ghost
28 Stereophonics - Dakota
29 The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
30 The Cult - Fire Woman
31 The Cars - Just What I needed
32 The Police - Message in a Bottle
33 Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
34 Thin Lizzy - Waiting For An Alibi
35 Thin Lizzy - Cowboy Song
36 Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe a Word
37 Thin Lizzy/Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar
38 UFO - Only You Can Rock Me
39 UFO - Doctor Doctor
40 Whitesnake - Fool For Your Loving
 
Here's our repertoire- sufficient for a 4 hour pub/ club gig with a few spares. Oh yeah, female singer.
Much easier in my originals band- only need a 40 minute set!

All Fired Up (Pat Benetar) All I Want Do is Make Love To You (Heart- more Halestorm actually)
All the Boys in Town (Divinyls) All The Small Things (Blink 182)
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face (Angels) Am I not Pretty Enough (casey Chambers)
April Sun in Cuba ( Dragon) Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Jet)
Beast of Burden (Bette Midler) Best of You (Foo Fighters/ Anastacia)
Black Horse & Cherry Tree ( KT Tunstall) Black Velvet (Alana Myles)
Blister in the Sun (Violent Femmes) Bring Me Some Water (Melissa Etheridge)
Brown Eyed Girl (van) Call Me (Blondie)
Cherry Bomb ( Runaways) Come Together (Beatles)
Crazy For You (Madonna) 18 And Life (Skid Row)
Eye Of The Tiger (Survivor) Exxes and Ohhs (Elle King) 500 miles (Proclaimers)
Flame Trees (Cold Chisel) Fortunate Son (CCR/ Foo Fighters)
Funhouse (Pink) Gotta Get Outta This Place (Angels)
Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar)
Holiday (Madonna) Hot’n’Cold (Katy Perry)
Higher and Higher (Jimmy Barnes) If I Could Turn Back Time (Cher)
I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry) I Love Rock’n’Roll (Joan Jett)
I’ll Make You happy (Divinyls) I’m Outta Love (Anastacia)
I Touch Myself (Divinyls) It’s Not Fair (Lily Allen)
I Want You To Want Me (Chep Trick) I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)
Jolene (Miley)
Just a Girl (No Doubt) Kryptonite (Three Doors Down)
Khe Sahn (Cold Chisel) Knocking On Heavens Door (Guns ‘n Roses)
Livin’ On A Prayer (Bon Jovi) Long Way To The Top (AC/ DC)
Louie Louie (Iggy Pop) Mama Mia (Abba)
My Immortal (Evanescence) Nutbush City Limits (Tina Turner)
On My Mind (Powderfinger) One Way Or Another (Blondie) Pleasure and Pain (Divinyls)
Poker Face (Lady Gaga) Pretty Fly For A White Guy (Offspring)
Proud Mary (CCR/ Tina Turner) Rockin’ All Over the World (Status Quo)
Rock and Roll (Led Zeppelin) Rock You Like a Hurricane (Scorpions)
Sedated (The Ramones) Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash)
Since You Been Gone (Kelly Clarkson) Simply The Best (Tina Turner)
Sk8ter Boi (Avril Lavigne) Smoke On The Water (Deep Purple)
So What ! (Pink) Summer of 69 (Bryan Adams)
Sweet Child Of Mine (Guns n Roses) Sweet Home Alabama (Lynard Skynard)
Teen Spirit (Nirvana) Time of Your Life (Greenday)
Twist & Shout (Beatles) U an Ur Hand (Pink)
Venus (Shocking Blue/ Chantoozies) Wagon Wheel (Darius)
Walking On Sunshine (Katrina &the Waves)
Waterloo (Abba) What I Like About You (Romantics)
What’s Up (Three Non Blondes/ Pink) Who Knew (Pink)


 
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Call Me Maybe
That's What Makes You Beautiful
Party in the USA
Firework
Roar
Gangnam Style

Encore: Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)

For some reason we can only seem to get opening slots. And I have noticed that it is hard to get invited back to play the same bars twice.
Try playing your encore repeatedly and ditch the rest of the set. You'll be raking it in after that.
 
Greetings, TB,

Inspired by another thread (What Do You Think of This Playlist?), I thought it would be cool to give/ get feedback on each other's setlists.

Here's one of ours (modern-ish rock):

Sundial - Wolfmother
Vaseline - STP
Hash Pipe - Weezer
Heaven Knows - Pretty Reckless
Wish You Were Here - Incubus
My Hero - Foo Fighters
Sunday Morning - No Doubt
Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5
Volcano Girls - Veruca Salt
Sedated - Ramones
Breed - Nirvana
That's What You Get - Paramore
No One Knows - QOTSA

Yes, chick singer.

Your turn.

Uh - lots of folks not dancing at THIS show!
 
is it just me, or do some of these "set lists" seem a bit on the long side? my band does 3 sets of about 45 minutes each, which generally amounts to about 5 to 7 songs per set (we're a Prog band)... a standard 45 minute set would be something like,

In the Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson
Heart of the Sunrise, Yes
My Favourite Headache, Geddy Lee
Jet City Woman, QueensRyche
Velvet Green, Jethro Tull
Xanadu, Rush
The Reaper, Cosmograph
 
is it just me, or do some of these "set lists" seem a bit on the long side? my band does 3 sets of about 45 minutes each, which generally amounts to about 5 to 7 songs per set (we're a Prog band)... a standard 45 minute set would be something like,

In the Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson
Heart of the Sunrise, Yes
My Favourite Headache, Geddy Lee
Jet City Woman, QueensRyche
Velvet Green, Jethro Tull
Xanadu, Rush
The Reaper, Cosmograph

That's because pop songs are about three minutes long, as opposed to 5-29 minute prog songs.