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Cover Bands - What Do You Open With?
- Thread starter DeaconK
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Real Fine Place To Start by Sara Evans.
Edit: it's a country band!
Secondary edit: damn she's hot!!
Edit: it's a country band!
Secondary edit: damn she's hot!!
indeed... I had to pull out my copy of "Eight Gigs a Week" and have a listen! I haven't played that tune is front of people since about 1985! I loved playing that tune.
We play mainly '50s and '60s rock'n'roll. Lately we've been opening with "Rock This Joint" by Bill Haley but we've started shows with Elvis' "That's Alright" and a few with "Shake, Rattle & Roll" which also went well.
We do a slow, moody version of "16 Tons" which I would just LOVE to open a show with someday, but the rest of the band is not keen on the idea. They don't seem to be keen on seguing one song into the next either :scowl:
We do a slow, moody version of "16 Tons" which I would just LOVE to open a show with someday, but the rest of the band is not keen on the idea. They don't seem to be keen on seguing one song into the next either :scowl:
that bass sounds massive! It was the studio version I was listening to last night (and again now
)as far as my band that was playing it in 1985... somewhere within our minds / egos I'm sure we thought we did
I love Steve Winwood's stuff... any era!
I hit this thread because I just agreed to sit in Wed nights for a classic rock jam... lots of stuff mentioned here in the set list.
James 'I'm a Man' was on everyband's play list when I was kid in junior high school. And yea, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'd rather sing like Winwood than play like Hendrix. That voice is simply amazing. Here check this one out.
By my count Winwood was a teenager at the time this was recorded. That phrasing in both his voice and playing at such a young age is amazing to me. I'm guessing Spencer Davis felt like he'd won the freakin lottery when Stevie signed onboard.
By my count Winwood was a teenager at the time this was recorded. That phrasing in both his voice and playing at such a young age is amazing to me. I'm guessing Spencer Davis felt like he'd won the freakin lottery when Stevie signed onboard.
A few we've opened with recently;
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
Swingtown - Steve Miller
Cocaine - Eric Clapton
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
Swingtown - Steve Miller
Cocaine - Eric Clapton
In our "Bar Band" SHAGNASTY we usually rock the second set as normally the first set is too early for much of a crowd with any alcohol in them yet.
We may open the first set with
Riding the storm out - REO.
We open the second set with a compilation of complete songs non-stop:
American Band - Grand funk
Hemmorage - Fuel
Sweet Emotions - Aerosmith
Walk This Way - Aerosmith (With extended guitar Solo)
We may open the first set with
Riding the storm out - REO.
We open the second set with a compilation of complete songs non-stop:
American Band - Grand funk
Hemmorage - Fuel
Sweet Emotions - Aerosmith
Walk This Way - Aerosmith (With extended guitar Solo)
"Pink Cadillac" or "Dumas Walker". Even better is our closing tune "Girls Get Prettier at Closing Time". Very appropriate given some of our venues, but insulting nonetheless.
Riis
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Of all the ones listed, I would start with these :
Hard to handle
Walk this way
Immigrant song
But both my bands are classic-modern-heavy rock oriented, and we start with these
Whole lotta Rosie
Never Again
Bark at the moon
I don't wanna stop
Where the streets have no name
Hard to handle
Walk this way
Immigrant song
But both my bands are classic-modern-heavy rock oriented, and we start with these
Whole lotta Rosie
Never Again
Bark at the moon
I don't wanna stop
Where the streets have no name
