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Songs or Covers To Avoid Playing?

#43
Originally posted by secretdonkey

Kinda like the Wayne's World movie - if I remember correctly, there's a scene in a music store where 'Wayne' finds himself in violation of a sign that read 'no Stairway to Heaven' or somesuch. :)
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In a music store in San Francisco about 10 years ago I saw a "No 'Enter Sandman'" sign posted. :eek:
 
#49
Originally posted by snoopyjc
Actually, we do this and it GOES OVER VERY WELL!!! We call it our "sing-a-long" because everybody sings it with us!
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I agree, we do it too and it goes over great, in fact alot of these songs you are all saying to avoid actually go over good with us. It seems the crappier the song, the better people like it, hmmmmmm.
 
#50
You may be on to something here. Now how do we figure out the formula to express it?

Familiar-and-crappy = better than less-familiar-and-good. Nope I don't get it.

How could an okay song be so much more popular than a great song?

I have noticed that Gimme Three Steps(an okay song) gets a HUGE response, and I Know a Little(an EXCELLENT song) gets almost none.

And how about how Wish You Were Here (an okay song) gets a loud cheer, and On The Turning Away (practically a hymn) gets none?

Tom Sawyer gets a big response and La Villa Strangiato doesn't.

There is no justice.
 
#51
Originally posted by Mike N


Exactly, and imo Bohemian Rhapsody is a good example of that. That song may get beaten to death by classic rock stations, but Ive never heard a band pull that one off without the vocals sounding like a train wreck.
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One local band in my area, Rogue, was dead tight with the harmonies, and on a few occasions they used to do Bohemian Rhapsody... they didn't just nail that song, they used friggin' railroad spikes!

They were also fond of closing their early sets of the night with a dead-serious take on "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy". No sh*t, if you ever wanted to see 200 people in a nightclub sitting or standing in place with dropped jaws, that song as done by that band would do it.
 
#53
Originally posted by muddywaters
Whats wrong with Skynyrd???
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If you saw some of the inbred mensa members (a minority amongst most of the places we played) that used to stumble into my last band's gigs and demand Skynyrd or other Southern rock songs, you'd have your answer. It's the kind of people they attract. I simply refuse to entertain the whims of any piece of flotsam that uses the word "******" in his every day speech.

...and the first inbred mensa member that hollers "play some Skynyrd" at any of my next band's gigs is going to hear "Go back to your pickup truck and play that **** on your eight-track."... followed by an absolutely vicious, redneck-killing version of the Stooges' "Search And Destroy". :D
 
#54
If you ever want to know wny punk rock happened, Lynyrd Skynyrd is one good reason why.

I swear to god, never before has one plane crash made any band so overrated as it did Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Originally posted by lneal
I really like Skynyrd, and I think a lot of musicians are closet Skynyrd fans. They brought rock, country, blues and r&b together in a unique way. I consider them to be unwitting innovators. I just don't need to hear Freebird, Sweet Home Alabama or Gimme Three Steps EVER again. The reasons, I think, that Skynyrd is the brunt of all this are:
1) It represents, in a convoluted way, the narrow-mindedness and the lack of respect and understanding that musicians get from the general public. Let's face it, playing covers is a necessary evil. IF most local bands could get recognition and make good money by playing originals, there wouldn't be much need for cover bands, and to have these mullet-headed genetic miscreants (and frat boys, too) yelling "SKYNYRD" just adds salt to the wound.
2) Those 3 songs have just been butchered and hacked sooooo many times that we just really don't need to play them again, OK?

Thus we have the Skynyrd antipathy so prevalent among us musicians.
YMMV
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#56
Originally posted by CJ_Marsicano
If you ever want to know wny punk rock happened, Lynyrd Skynyrd is one good reason why.

I swear to god, never before has one plane crash made any band so overrated as it did Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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Are you sure about that? I mean as far as Rock Stars went that Punkers were rebelling against, Skynyrd didn't seem like a big target. Punk was rebelling against the huge unapprocable holier than thou rock stars.


Speaking of punk and death... never before has someone blowing their own brains out made any man overrated as it did Kurt Cobain.
 
#60
Originally posted by StupidMatt
Speaking of punk and death... never before has someone blowing their own brains out made any man overrated as it did Kurt Cobain.
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Without getting into an off-topic diversion over whether or not his death actually was a suicide or not... Nirvana were already established when Kurt died. Skynyrd's rep when they were a living breathing band wasn't as big on the northern side of the Mason-Dixie line as it became after the plane crash.
 

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