Worst Dad Band song

[juancaminos]

So, hanging on the Dad Band and Four Minute Thread: Of those songs which do you hate playing the most. Nothing to do with technique just sick to death of it and find it very hard to give a good perfromance. I'll start with Knocking On Heavens Door, the traditional version.

I am sure this has been covered but lets hear how you get through your nightmare song and perhaps help each other with this problem. Maybe turn us on to a trick to get your self into it or a strange version that might freshen things up.

 

[Dave CALEYRON]

Hotel California, definitly....especially with the endless guitars solos....

 

[BassAndReeds]

I really hate Margarittaville. Does that count?

 

[juancaminos]

Hotel California, definitly....especially with the endless guitars solos....

There are some songs that I think should never be covered, Most Eagles songs fall into that category for me. Unless you are Heart covering Zep. Which means that there are exceptions.

 

[dtripoli]

Pretty much any Pink Floyd song....wake me up when there's a chord change and is it ever going to end?
I can play the first 5-6 seconds of the bass riff, put it on a loop, set my bass down, go out have a smoke,
use the restroom, go over and order a drink, chat it up with a few ladies then come back and still have time to set a new 5 second loop for the next chord change. The exception being "Money" with a cool 7/8 time signature.
(I'm sure many will vehemently disagree with my opinion of Pink Floyd)

Any Joan Jett song. I have nothing but respect for her career and tenacity to rise up in a male dominated genre but
I find her songs overly simple, juvenile and lacking coherent melodies.

Tulsa Time, original Don Williams version with just 2 notes E to A for the bass the entire song but people love it and sing along.

Some Kinda of Wonderful, Grand Funk. Just 3 notes for the bass D-G-A with a walk down to the minor 6th midway through.
Again, people love and dance to it. I'd much rather do the Josh Stone version but have been out voted every time I suggest it

So these are only the worst for me, not the audience

 

[charlie monroe]

American Pie.

That song literally *never* ends...

 

[Pug the Pig]

Horse with No Name....!

 

[charlie monroe]

Horse with No Name....!

Idk about that one.

Not sure if it's Will Lee playing on that one, but the bass line rocks right along. I'll play that one.

edit: my bad, it was Joe Osbourne. Great work imho

 

[eJake]

Brown eyed girl to me is the epicenter of dad rock.

But you gotta throw in mustang Sally too right?

 

[Michedelic]

Another vote for ‘Horse With No Name’
Regardless of who played on it, it’s a monotonous song with lyrics that are trying to sound deep and profound but aren’t.
‘Sweet Home Alabama’
‘Crossroads’
‘Red House’ as the token blues tune.
Any song with an endless I-IV or I-V section (sometimes the whole song)like ‘Feelin’ Alright’, ‘For What It’s Worth’, ‘Down By The River’, or ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’. Any of those CCR jam forever in E7 tunes like ‘Keep On Chooglin’ or ‘Born On The Bayou’.

 

[4001]

So far, every song title I read in this thread is a song that makes me puke.

 

[DiabolusInMusic]

Every single dad band song is bad. @Paulabass summed it up best:

Take over played classic rock, and water down the groove, remove the dynamics, and play like you're reading.

 

[bluesblaster]

there are so many, Dads, don't be a cliché, its not becoming at your age

 

[LT131]

Sharp Dressed Man. One note bass line and I have to count 17, I think, measures before the change during the miserably long solo and that's just the first one. Some times the drummer and I count out loud the measures so we don't get lost. The guitarist never notices.

 

[GBBSbassist]

Still laughing inside a bit about "Sweet Home Alibaba"...

 

[Paulabass]

Three Dad band threads running.
We get the point.

 

[Richland123]

Sharp Dressed Man. One note bass line and I have to count 17, I think, measures before the change during the miserably long solo and that's just the first one. Some times the drummer and I count out loud the measures so we don't get lost. The guitarist never notices.

It'a actually 19 measures.

 

[Richland123]

I Keep Forgettin' by Michael McDonald

 

[FrenchBassQC]

Three Dad band threads running.
We get the point.

You see what you've started!!!

 

[LT131]

It'a actually 19 measures.

You're right. I'm old and fergot! All I know is it's too damn many!