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Location: NJ | I'm booked to do a solo acoustic gig at a local restaurant for the Valentine's Day dinner crowd.
I have pretty extensive repetoire, but am always open to suggestion and thought I'd throw it out here.
Any favorites? |
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Location: SoCal | Wichita Lineman. Maybe the best love line in any song
"And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time"
And made famous by an Ovation endorsee. |
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Location: Scotland | How about "I gave my love a ring, she gave me the finger" |
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Location: Tennessee | Wonderful Tonight. |
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Location: ma. | "i fell in love with a hooker, she laughed in my face" |
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Location: Tennessee | Good one, hackr, but of course that means we now have to include nearly every Soul Asylum tune. :cool: |
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Location: Pittsburgh PA | "Blackbird" is always a good one for an accoustic. McCartney also played an Ovation on his '76 world tour.
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Location: NJ | "you can't always get what you want" tried to convince Sue to use it as our wedding song....she was not amused. |
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Location: Tennessee | Reminds me that we had, among others, "when I'm sixty four" at our wedding. Even has a Valentine's reference in it. Fun to sing/play and the crowd always has fun with it too. |
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Location: NJ | LOL!!!!
My wedding song was "Life During War Time" by the Talking Heads.
(kidding.) |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | "Love Stinks" by J. Geils |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Cliff-
"Used to Love Her" by Guns N Roses is a MUST!
John |
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Location: NJ | Already on the list (Rick and I already do it at the "duo" gigs) along with "Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw".
I'll just slow 'em down a little and finger pick 'em.
These poor people don't know what they're in for. |
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| lol. Bob Dylan has a great tune that if slowed down and strummed lightly sounds great. If not it sounds like Bob Dylan on coke. The name of the song is "nobody 'cept you" |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Hmmmm, let see...
Our band does Wonderful Tonight
These that we do might work, too:
Bob Marley's Waiting In Vain
Bob Dylan's Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Bonnie Raitt's I Can't Make You Love Me
And on a different love song or two:
The Band's Up On Cripple Creek
Mickey Newberry's Tell Me Baby Why You Been Gone So Long?
Which has the lovely lyrics:
Nothin' else I want to do
I guess I could get stoned
And let the past play pictures in my head
Kill a fifth of Thuderbird and try to write a sad, sad song
Tell me baby why you been gone so long... |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | "It's So Easy" by everbody's favorite little brother, Ricky Nelson. Great love song |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | And don't forget Bob Dylans "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight". Kris & Willie's rendition on the 30th Anniversary concert album is positively lewd! |
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Location: Alabama | Van Morrison, Crazy Love. Great lyric, sounds good acoustic. |
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Location: Radford VA | Since Gun's and Rose's has been mentioned Patience would be good. Crash by Dave Matthews would be a good one too. :cool:
Patrick |
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Location: Houston, TX | I'm not sure exactly where the cheese line is drawn, but we had Zep's "Thank You" at our wedding. It's not for everybody, but I love it.
...if the sun refuse to shine... |
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Location: ma. | you just crossed it. inagadadivita, does anyone know what that means? |
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Location: Houston, TX | sorry hackr (shakin off the parmesan) |
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Location: ma. | there's a really bizarre story behind the bass player for that band (IRON BUTTERFLY), ever hear it? |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | "Sylvias' Mother", I forget who does it. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Somebody mentioned Mickey Newberry, I always liked "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodby" as done by Jerry Lee Lewis. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | "She got under him before I could get over her"
"Both my girlfriends are seeing other guys" |
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Location: Zion, Illinois | Originally posted by BruDev:
"Sylvias' Mother", I forget who does it.
I believe that's Dr. Hook.
And inagadadivita , isn't that suppose to be In The Garden of Eden???
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Location: ma. | bradley you are correct. i saw an episode of Unsolved Mysteries about the bass player for Iron Butterfly. his father was a noted scientist. both were brilliant. after the band, he followed in his father's footsteps. he was on the verge of making a huge discovery in the field of communication.something that would have turned the industry on it's head. he turned up missing one day (found his car at an airport),and has never been heard from again. some speculate he was kidnapped by foreign spies who knew the importance of his work. FREAKY MAN... |
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Location: NJ | funny I thought he was abducted by aliens |
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Location: ma. | or maybe just wanted to get away from that god awful song... |
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