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Covers you refuse to play now or ever again

#81
60bass said:
More tunes added and my comments are in RED


Walk This Way
Cocaine
Free Bird
Old Time Rock and Roll
Proud Mary
Killers version of a Morrisey song called Why don't find out for yourself rockabilly-surf VERSION = fail. big time
bohemian rhapsody
Love Hurts
Little Wing / Clapton style
Take the money and run
No Journey what so ever!
Play thatfunky music white boy
Mony Mony
Brown Eyed Girl
McArthur Park
MC hammer - Cant touch this
anything by Faith Hill
Jimmy Buffet songs
Mustang Sally
Freebird
Don't stop believing
Brown Eyed Girl
Brick House
any american pop like fall out boy
should i stay or should i go
FUnk 49
Mustang Sally
jessie's girl
mustang sally


what's going on" by 4 non-blondes
Margaritaville
SWEET HOME ALABAMA!!!!!! PLEASE, GOD....NO!!!!!! (how did I miss that one in my OP?)
Radio Ga Ga
Whole Lotta Love
Start Me Up
Rock n Roll All Nite
Freebird
Smoke On The Water
Skynard
Seger
Limp Bizkit...yeah we did, for a time play Break Stuff
Mustang Sally (it seems it's hated more and more)
Man Eater
Cocaine (and yes, I played this in bands back in the day when folks did lines off of their amp-tops...) AHH the good old days. How can someone write such a boring song about that. Well at least it was easy to play when you were totally out of it. Hmm, not that I ever did that you know ;)
Sweet Home Alabama (or *anything* by Skynard)
Mustang Sally
Jumpin' Jack Flash
China Grove...
YYZ
Pink Houses
Mustang Sally
3 Steps
Old Time R&R
Long Way to the Top
Living After Midnight
You Got Another Thing Coming
R&R All Night
Sweet Home
Creedence
Day Tripper
Hard Days Night
Back in Black
Hot Blooded by Foreigner

For those of you who've played in bands where you had a female lead up front, how about these? And, yes I've played them before many times.

Goodbye to you
Walk Like An Egyptian
I love Rock N Roll (ARGHHHHH.... I HATE THAT ONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Mustang Sally is STILL getting no love in this thread. It may well turn out to be the most hated of all.

Keep em coming.

Keep Low
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add two more to that and you'll have to play originals;)

i nominate hotel california, sweet home alabama, ....
 
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#83
bassteban said:
I refused to even consider anything by Faith Hill about a year ago and severely strained relations w/my beloved drummer, and although I love no musician like I do this man, I'd do the same thing today. My issue w/her is 1- she'd be completely unknown if she weren't a picture-perfect blond, & 2- she did a cover of Take a little piece of my heart and claimed not to know Janis Joplin did it first(lying or ignorant- can't decide). :spit:
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I agree with all the above. Even have some friends in the business who says she uses pitch correct software to even sound like she does.

Now having said all that and my dislike for country music in general,

Damn She is Good Looking! Don't really care what she sounds like.............:hyper:
 
#85
OK maybe this "SHOULD" be every club band's set list. Songs we all mostly hate but play so we can get paid.

More tunes added and my comments are in RED


Walk This Way
Cocaine
Free Bird
Old Time Rock and Roll
Proud Mary
Killers version of a Morrisey song called Why don't find out for yourself rockabilly-surf VERSION = fail. big time
bohemian rhapsody
Love Hurts
Little Wing / Clapton style
Take the money and run
No Journey what so ever!
Play thatfunky music white boy
Mony Mony
Brown Eyed Girl
McArthur Park
MC hammer - Cant touch this
anything by Faith Hill
Jimmy Buffet songs
Mustang Sally
Freebird
Don't stop believing
Brown Eyed Girl
Brick House
any american pop like fall out boy
should i stay or should i go
FUnk 49
Mustang Sally
jessie's girl
mustang sally


what's going on" by 4 non-blondes
Margaritaville
SWEET HOME ALABAMA!!!!!! PLEASE, GOD....NO!!!!!! (how did I miss that one in my OP?)
Radio Ga Ga
Whole Lotta Love
Start Me Up
Rock n Roll All Nite
Freebird
Smoke On The Water
Skynard
Seger
Limp Bizkit...yeah we did, for a time play Break Stuff
Mustang Sally (it seems it's hated more and more)
Man Eater
Cocaine (and yes, I played this in bands back in the day when folks did lines off of their amp-tops...) AHH the good old days. How can someone write such a boring song about that. Well at least it was easy to play when you were totally out of it. Hmm, not that I ever did that you know ;)
Sweet Home Alabama (or *anything* by Skynard)
Mustang Sally
Jumpin' Jack Flash
China Grove...
YYZ
Pink Houses
Mustang Sally
3 Steps
Old Time R&R
Long Way to the Top
Living After Midnight
You Got Another Thing Coming
R&R All Night
Sweet Home
Creedence
Day Tripper
Hard Days Night
Back in Black
Hot Blooded by Foreigner

For those of you who've played in bands where you had a female lead up front, how about these? And, yes I've played them before many times.

Goodbye to you
Walk Like An Egyptian
I love Rock N Roll (ARGHHHHH.... I HATE THAT ONE !!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Take me to the River
Holiday - Greenday
House of the Rising Sun
Thin Lizzy's "Whiskey in the Jar"
Johnny B Goode
Possum Kingdom by the Toadies
Sympathy for the Devil
Wonderful tonight
And most ACDC songs
And most Metal songs
Welcome to the Jungle
Panama(Unless everyone plays the parts 100% spot on)
Bark at the Moon
Mustang Sally
Brown Eyed Girl
Sweet Home Alabama
Wind beneath My Wings
Unchained Melody
and ALL disco tunes (HUGE +1 on the disco stuff)

Mustang Sally is BY FAR STILL getting no love in this thread.

Mr. Pickett, please forgive us.

Keep em coming.

Keep Low :bassist:
 
#87
60bass said:
OK maybe this "SHOULD" be every club band's set list. Songs we all mostly hate but play so we can get paid.

Mustang Sally (it seems it's hated more and more)
Mustang Sally is BY FAR STILL getting no love in this thread.

Mr. Pickett, please forgive us.

Keep em coming.

Keep Low :bassist:
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Well, I may be alone, but I gave it a *little* love. I think it's still fun to play. At least the way I do it.
 
#89
I like playing most of those songs.. I don't care if it's redundant, boring (for me), old or what ever as long as it get the butts shaking and the drinks flowing and the money in my pockets.. I will however throw a beer bottle at anyone that requests Nirvana or Pearl Jam.. lol! They ruined music for me for a while. :p
 
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#91
I will play anything for enough money. There are some that cost a lot though: Amarillo by Morning, Red Red Wine, The Chicken Dance & Anything By The Eagles. Oh & anything by Jimmy Buffet.
 
#95
Dude, if you wanna hear the best version of Sweet Home Alabama ever google up "The Leningrad Cowboys" version. You won't believe it. They also do covers of "Happy Together", "Stairway To Heaven" "My Delaila" & "Those Were The Days". Fantastic!
 
#100
"Margaritaville" and "Hotel California" are the only two songs I've refused to play so far. I will do Margaritville if pressured but I will be dead before I ever pick a note of "Hotel California."

If I played country, I don't think I could do, "Don't Take The Girl" just because that damn song makes me cry every time I hear it.
 

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