Guess who reared her ugly head this afternoon?

[MJ_Sotti]

At a biker picnic gig we did...just got back.

Mustang Sally.

 

[bignote]

Sorry for you loss. I think every band has a "list" of songs that they want to avoid at all costs. A couple of mine are

Long Train Running
3 steps
Wonderful Tonight

 

[pasta4lnch]

Just don't look'er in the eye - it's opposite of Medusa . . . you won't be able to rock!

 

[HolmeBass]

Lol, I have started playing with a classic rock band, which does Long Train Running. And I am working up to sub with a society band that does both Long Train Running and Mustang Sally. But they also do Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, so it isn't all bad.

Long Train Running in two different bands, in two different keys, and probably two slightly different arrangements, if things go like they usually do.

 

[MJ_Sotti]

I play in 3 different bands and every f'n one of them does last dance with mary jane or mary janes last dance or whatever the f they call it. I wanna blow my brains out

 

[DeathFromBelow]

Sorry for you loss. I think every band has a "list" of songs that they want to avoid at all costs.

Well, I dunno... Not all bands are cover-bands. Some of us actually make originals that people want to hear. YMMV.

 

[bassrock]

I play in 3 different bands and every f'n one of them does last dance with mary jane or mary janes last dance or whatever the f they call it. I wanna blow my brains out

I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Two bands I was in played that song.

 

[Got2SadowskyNYC]

Actually if you take it about 15 - 20 clicks faster it's pretty cool. I have a pretty ripping solo I do towards the end.

Taking it Wilson Pickens speed is mind numbing.

 

[bryan gibson]

Actually if you take it about 15 - 20 clicks faster it's pretty cool. I have a pretty ripping solo I do towards the end.

Taking it Wilson Pickens speed is mind numbing.

In the past I have done:
Stock version, striptease version, metal version, stone country version, double-fast version....

 

[JohnMCA72]

Nothing worse than playing songs that people like.

 

[fraublugher]

Or take a negative and turn it into a positive and re-write the bass part to your liking,
everyone else is enjoying it , why suffer alone?

 

[joeturbodiesel@]

There is always a song that someone doesn't like on the set list. Oh well, thank God most songs are only 3 or 4 minutes long. For the record, my blow my brains out songs are fireman and neon moon....If you guys are familiar with those songs.

 

[oldrocker]

Do the biker's appreciate Mustang Sally?

 

[MJ_Sotti]

One big chunky broad came up and was twerking. Mezmerizing.

 

[Topspin]

One big chunky broad came up and was twerking. Mezmerizing.

 

[1bassplayinfool]

Could be worse. Ever had someone request "Jeremiah was a bullfrog"?

 

[Tony Smith]

OMG! Not again!

There songs that every cover band (including three I play in) in my area are playing, including two others I happened to catch at local dives:

One I love - REM
Slither - Velvet Revolver
Can't You See - The Marshall Tucker Band

But that they're bad songs, I just don't know the appeal. Maybe I'm too big of a Geddy, Stu Hamm or Jaco fan to appreciate these bass playing marvels.

 

[AaronVonRock]

Well, I dunno... Not all bands are cover-bands. Some of us actually make originals that people want to hear. YMMV.

You wouldn't know it by reading this forum. We make originals, too. Up to this point, however, no one else seems to want to hear them.

 

[duff beer]

Well, I dunno... Not all bands are cover-bands. Some of us actually make originals that people want to hear. YMMV.

I've played in original bands. For a couple of them I'd rather play Mustang Sally, Wonderful Tonight, and Brown Eyed Girl all night long than rather than subject myself to 12 crappy "original" songs that all sound alike.

YMMV...

 

[Batmensch]

Quite frankly, I don't see what the big deal is ...