Covers you refuse to play now or ever again

[Skybone]

Covers.

 

[RustyAxe]

Covers.

C”mon get off it dude.

 

[mpm32]

"I don't understand why no one is coming to our gigs. We pick really interesting covers that we like to play and no one else does. I just don't get it."

Set list choice will make or break a band. Most of the audience wants familiarity. If you're killing it on the songs you're playing and no one is showing, consider changing your list.

Refusing to play a song because you don't like it is silly. I'm playing songs I never would've considered. Our singer has a knack for picking a set list that has everybody dancing from the first downbeat to the final note of the night. I don't even question anymore.

You say play, I say how loud?

 

[Nick Danger]

I get paid to play bass, so I play what the BL says.
The only thing I won't do anymore is Seinfeld.

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

Here's my list:

 

[Joe Nerve]

My band pays me well and we have roadies. There is nothing I won't play.

 

[micguy]

Never say never. For a few years after it came out, everyone played Smoke on the Water. For a couple decades, nobody played it - it'd been overdone. I was in a band that played it a couple decades after it'd stopped being played, and everyone in the band and the audience loved it - it was buried deep in everyone's sub conscious, and had become cool again.

 

[WI Short Scaler]

If you're in a cover band there is virtually NO song you should say you WON'T EVER PLAY. People want familiar, and your job is to entertain, keeping people at the establishment to eat, drink, and be merry.

Brown Eyed Girl, Mustang Sally, Sweet Caroline......those are never on our setlist but you be damned certain we can wing them out anytime someone wants to hear it.

Maybe it's just me, but I still have fun playing songs that I would never listen to if the crowd likes them!

 

[60bass]

Never say never. For a few years after it came out, everyone played Smoke on the Water. For a couple decades, nobody played it - it'd been overdone. I was in a band that played it a couple decades after it'd stopped being played, and everyone in the band and the audience loved it - it was buried deep in everyone's sub conscious, and had become cool again.

There are songs that make a comeback as well as obscure tunes waiting for someone to haul them back. I worked up a somewhat rocked out arrangement of Love Potion Number Nine. It went over like crazy at every venue we played it at. I used to laugh a bit because I knew that most it not all of the younger people probably had never heard it.

 

[mike o]

I’ll play anything that makes folks sing and dance. I’d did make a stand once though by refusing to play........ Disco Duck. That was 2 months ago.

 

[wizerd]

Rehab...too personal

 

[FloridaTim]

Reading this thread makes me happy I consider myself an "Entertainer" rather than a "Musician". If the crowd wants to hear it, and dances to it, I will play it. And I will play it the way they remember listening to it so they can sing along.

 

[lo_freq_geek]

75% of our song list is made up of songs on this refuse to play list. I used to get frustrated, bored, etc. After 2 years in this band I think I may have assimilated. But we continue to get booked and the audiences seem to like what we play.

 

[RiffwRiter]

No David Alan Coe songs

 

[Flashback Bass]

I will take my bass off and throw it in the garbage if the BL ever calls out Anaconda by Nicki Minaj!

(Since that's probably never going to happen I'm good with anything else!)

 

[BassplayinBob]

You could easily call this thread "Songs that Drunk People Love" Lot's of great songs on this thread.

 

[richntiff]

You could easily call this thread "Songs that Drunk People Love" Lot's of great songs on this thread.

So what’s your point?

 

[BassplayinBob]

So what’s your point?

What part don’t you understand?

 

[baileyboy]

Georgia Satellites' "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" is cringe-worthy at this point.

 

[pwhalen]

I dropped "I won't" from my philosophy a couple of years ago when I started paying closer attention to the people who were getting the big gigs in the area. Of course, some of the other guys have an excess of "I won't", so it hasn't made much of a difference yet.