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Learning songs you REALLY DON'T LIKE
- Thread starter petrus61
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Oh, they're looking for you all right. And it is NOT in your best interest for any of them to actually find you.
I have played lots of songs I don't like when I do fill in work. As long as they pay me, I will play any song.
However, in my own bands over the years, I have agreed to play a few songs I really despise. One that comes to mind is Helter Skelter.
However, in my own bands over the years, I have agreed to play a few songs I really despise. One that comes to mind is Helter Skelter.
8 minutes?
Hell, here is an EPIC 11 minute version.
ENJOY
Damn you Gator.
I nearly got us fired maybe 20 years ago over this song. The bartender who I believe was involved with the manager or owner was obsessed with this song. She played it on repeat over and over all week. I was done after the first listen and after the 87th time I was ready to jump in a volcano. I just snapped and literally unplugged the jukebox mid-Loaf and said holy S enough already! Went over about as well as you'd expect. But wow talk about one of those songs you can't run fast enough to change the station.
Drivin in to work today did hear the one song that will absolutely refuse to play if not for huge money.... Stormy Monday
Just too many blues jams where that's all anyone knew.
Someone can play it like the Allmans WTH, but until that day hell no
Just too many blues jams where that's all anyone knew.
Someone can play it like the Allmans WTH, but until that day hell no
The way I see it, if you can whistle it, it's music, and I like music, so I'll do my best to enjoy playing whatever the leader calls.
...and I don't want to be in charge of any band, that is for certain.
...and I don't want to be in charge of any band, that is for certain.
It's nice to be young and idealistic, you can play what you want to play how you want to play it. It's nice to be just an old jammer like me. I can play what a I want to play how I want to play it.
But if you play for a living, not extra bucks but a LIVING, you'll play the freaking songs and look like you love it.
It may be music, but sometimes a job is just a job.
But if you play for a living, not extra bucks but a LIVING, you'll play the freaking songs and look like you love it.
It may be music, but sometimes a job is just a job.
devnulljp
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Oh man. Girl from bloody Ipanema. I hate that song, but everybody plays it (all the jazzers anyway). But I broke the silence at rehearsal one day and said I hate that song. I hate playing it. I hate hearing it. Nobody likes it really, do they? Audiences don't want to hear it. Why do we play it?
And one by one everyone else came out of the closet too.
It's toast. I no longer have to suffer it.
And one by one everyone else came out of the closet too.
It's toast. I no longer have to suffer it.
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Regarding the Meatloaf song, I can think of about 100 songs off the top of my head that would go over better with EVERY bar crowd, be easier for almost any bar band singer, take less than half as long to play, and less than 10% of the time for any weekend warrior band to learn. So for me the the investment wouldn't be worth the return. You can bring the house down with a well timed "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" with almost zero effort, compared to the month of rehearsals it would take to get what I consider a terribly cheesy song performance ready. I mean really.
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For me, THAT song is Pretty Woman, Orbison's original. Absolutely not knocking off either the song or the artist, but that's the song I try to avoid playing, but bite it when I have to (it's only a couple of minutes in my life and it makes people happy, as previously mentionned). For some reason, almost every band I've played with has it on the set-list. I always go (nicely) sorta like this: "Dude, I wanna play ZZ Top, Green Day, RHCP !!!". I'm 52, guess I was born 10 years too early... I actually don't mind playing Mustang Sally if we do it with a harder edge (a bit like the Guy/Beck recording) and if the guitar player's got it.
The guitarist in my last band refused to play certain songs that crowds love just because he had a bad attitude. I am mow playing some of those songs in my new band such as Play That Funky Music and Brown Eyed Girl. I guess I don't mind since I have never played some of these songs before or not in the last 13 years.
I had to play House of Bamboo (#54) .. I hate that song. It's a silly song for a rock band to be playing. Just sayin.
I'm almost ashamed to admit "Hands" is also on the set list.
Sorry, but I totally disagree that audiences don't want to hear it. Girl from Ipanema is Mustang Sally of the jazz world. I've never played a gig or seen a band play it when it didn't go over.
I've had a few of those where I lose a little bit of my soul when I played them with a band I recently left.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Pour Some Sugar On Me
Get Lucky (we did a particularly monotonous arrangement of it)
ACDC (the guitarists/drummer insisted on putting these little syncopations in there that would have resulted in a well-justified attack by any ACDC fan)
Life In The Fast Lane
Sweet Child of Mine
Sex On Fire (If the song was titled 'Car on Fire', we'd likely have never have heard of it, IMHO).
"Hands"
Mercifully, no Mustang Sally or Brown Eyed Girl.
Knocking On Heaven's Door is an "I'll Quite Band First" song for me.
In another band, the female singer liked her girly tunes, so when a boring one came along (i.e. No Mistakes by Patty Smyth) I'd use it as an excuse to pull out the fretless.
But I just try to learn them as quickly and thoroughly as possible so I don't have to practice them much.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Pour Some Sugar On Me
Get Lucky (we did a particularly monotonous arrangement of it)
ACDC (the guitarists/drummer insisted on putting these little syncopations in there that would have resulted in a well-justified attack by any ACDC fan)
Life In The Fast Lane
Sweet Child of Mine
Sex On Fire (If the song was titled 'Car on Fire', we'd likely have never have heard of it, IMHO).
"Hands"
Mercifully, no Mustang Sally or Brown Eyed Girl.
Knocking On Heaven's Door is an "I'll Quite Band First" song for me.
In another band, the female singer liked her girly tunes, so when a boring one came along (i.e. No Mistakes by Patty Smyth) I'd use it as an excuse to pull out the fretless.
But I just try to learn them as quickly and thoroughly as possible so I don't have to practice them much.
Learned 15 songs for a cover band once..good songs..had a great show BUT it showed me just how special being in an original band is and how writing a song and seeing it turn into a song people like is awesome..i feel i play the bass for letting creativety flow out and not just copy already done stuff...i get the $$$ thing and if you do covers well the audience dictates what they want or you wont be playing out much
