Ok, It's the Holidays.....So what songs did you learn for your gigs???

No Holiday tunes this year. My last band used to play Frosty The Snowman and everybody loved it.

 

We played at the Empire State Plaza (NY) Christmas Tree Lighting a couple of weeks back and we had to learn Funky Christmas, Please Come Home for Christmas, Run Run Rudolph, Merry Christmas Baby, Little Saint Nick, Back Door Santa, Boogie Woogie Santa Claus, Christmas Time Pretty Baby, and Jingle Bell Rock.

All on all it was a fun gig too. Way too cold but fun.

Happy Holidays.

 

Hi,

I always pull out "Please Come Home For Christmas", "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas", "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire", "It's Christmas Time Pretty Baby". I'd like to pick up a few more. Maybe next year.

Merry Christmas!


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

Would love to do this one.

 

Hi,

While we're on the subject, I've always enjoyed Twisted Sister's Christmas album. I thought they did a bang-up job.




Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

Auld lang syne for our nye gig. Also, the Lemmy version of Run Run Rudolph.

 

sammy the christmas snake:

 

With the jazz combo I'm in, we played God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear and You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch. We had fun, and the audience gave us a lot of compliments.

 

My 80s metal tribute band does Stryper's version of Winter Wonderland. I doubt anyone in the crowd knows that version, but they still love it.

 

Run run rudolph and feliz navidad

 

I think this has potential for a full band cover:



It's not mine. But it's awesome and definitely worth a mention.

 

Hi,

That's one of the silliest things I've ever heard.

Merry Christmas to you and your snake.

Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff

 

Best lyric ever:

....till Rick the Christmas mongoose went berzerk and tried to wreck
The sleigh and Sammy saved the day when he broke Rick's Christmas neck!...

 

Not a single darn thing this time around.. !!

 

We did Blue Christmas one year. I think we probably did other Christmas songs sometime or another, but I have blocked them from memory. This is the worst 10% of the year from a canned music standpoint, and I sure don't want any part in contributing to the sonic hell.

 

The only Christmas inspired song we learned for the holidays is "Santa Claus" by The Sonics.

 

We do: the Waitresses, Christmas Wrapping; Springsteen, Santa Claus is Coming To Town; Trans Siberian Orchestra, Christmas Eve Sarajevo; Your A Mean One Mr. Grinch; Run Run Roudolph; and of course Auld Lang Syne for NYE.

 

I did a jazz gig where we did about 15 Christmas tunes. Standouts were Christmas Time is Here and a My Favorite Things/We Three Kings mash up. In another band we spontaneously broke into Feliz Navidad coming out of a vamp.