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The Song You Hate Most to Play
- Thread starter Bassmanbob
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Unfortunately, you're right!
And everyone'll be dancin' and drinkin', the bar will request to have you back in a regular slot, the same drunks will request the same songs (even after you've already played them twice!!!!
), etc.......smells like velveeta...
However, I've played Brick House, Play that Funky Music, etc., and with a funky drummer it can be fun, and the girls all love to dance to the funky tunes, and if the girls are dancin', then so are the guys, and then everyone's drinkin', the bar staff is happy, etc...
-unless you get to rip a bass solo in it, then it's tolerable. I'd have to go with the one that some drunk bastige is gonna yell out at least once a night: Freebird.
), I can't do it.
+1 for "Freebird". I won't even listen to it. We beat that song to death in my first band. Every gig, " play Freebird!" again and again and again......
Sweet Home Alabama. I found it mind numbing.
It was a freezing, wet, January night. We were playing in a dirty, cold rehearsal room in an industrial estate in a not very nice suburb of London.
Mid song I thought how is this in any way relevant.
Changed my musical path though so I'm gratefull to it. Haven't played a cover since....
It was a freezing, wet, January night. We were playing in a dirty, cold rehearsal room in an industrial estate in a not very nice suburb of London.
Mid song I thought how is this in any way relevant.
Changed my musical path though so I'm gratefull to it. Haven't played a cover since....
I hated covering "All That I needed".
Kudos to you and your wife. You're lucky to have a lady who comes to your shows and shows (shows shows shows shows) you support.
Kudos to you and your wife. You're lucky to have a lady who comes to your shows and shows (shows shows shows shows) you support.
'Wonderful Tonight'
'Little Wing'
The Skynyrd Trifecta: 'Sweet Home Alabama', 'Freebird', 'Gimme 3 Steps'.
Gag me with a red-hot coat hanger.
'Little Wing'
The Skynyrd Trifecta: 'Sweet Home Alabama', 'Freebird', 'Gimme 3 Steps'.
Gag me with a red-hot coat hanger.
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Then after playing "Sweet-Home" for the 3rd time as the "Encore"...The band can all "hang themselves" at the end .. (just like Alice Cooper)
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As much as I don't want to admit this... I will. I've always hated the song sweet home alabama. So much so, I don't think I ever even listened to it. Was pushed by a band to play it on the spot one night, and pretty much just followed along - doing what you said, playin the same crap, jamming it a little, pretty much just tolerating it and doing the same thing over and over. The song was never a staple in any of the bands I ever played in, so I never really bothered learning it from the recording. Not that long ago I was playing for someone where the stakes were a little higher than usual so I sat down and actually learned the song.
Sweet Home Alabama is a fun, well written, sometimes tricky, and interesting bass line to play. It's not quite the D-C-B song I always though it was. If you learn it note for note there's a whole lot of stuff going on there. And it's well thought out, not just a jamming kind of thing either.
That being said I could easily and happily live out the rest of my life without ever playing 7 Nation Army again.
^^
Thing is, worn-out songs are rarely without merit. In fact they are probably 'too good for their own good'. That's why they get popular in the first place. Trouble is they won't just go away and disappear the way 'lesser' songs do, precisely because they are fundamentally well-crafted songs.
Too much of a good thing can still become a crushing bore.
Thing is, worn-out songs are rarely without merit. In fact they are probably 'too good for their own good'. That's why they get popular in the first place. Trouble is they won't just go away and disappear the way 'lesser' songs do, precisely because they are fundamentally well-crafted songs.
Too much of a good thing can still become a crushing bore.
Or grab your beer and interact with the crowd.
Not that I've ever gigged, but when I do, if I have to play that song, that's my plan.
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Im going to go back on what i said a few weeks ago... cant find my quote.. but i do hate to play one song... and that one song is " Gimme Three Steps" way too white for me.. and im white!
