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Location: Flahdaw | Okay, here's the scenario...
You're having a drinks and dinner party at your house. After dessert when everyone is sitting around feeling mellow, someone says "hey ______, play us some guitar." Yikes, no one has ever heard you play!
You grab your guitar, make sure you're in tune, THEN...what is the 1st song you play?
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | It happened last evening. I played four songs, all instrumentals, my own arrangements, two jazz, one blues and one rock, multiple layers on the looper. |
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Location: Texas | I play "My Ding A Ling". That way, everyone can participate.
Edited by jay 2012-09-10 5:54 PM
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Location: sitting at my computer | depends... ya want 'em to hang around awhile longer... or wishin' they'd finally say "Gee, would ya look at the time Gladys, we gotta get home" ?? In my case... it'd be the only one I know! just kidding... I know at least two. Seriously though, whichever one you think would appeal to their musical taste(s). Start off on the "right footing" so to speak.
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Location: closely held secret | "Get Out Of My House" |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I find that a good rousing Beatles tune will usually get Templeman to leave. |
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Location: Flahdaw | This actually happened to me a while back. 2 couples were here, one 10 years older (60's) one 10 years younger (40's). I played a current song just to be safe, but it leaned country (Let Me Down Easy- Currington). But I was caught off guard. Pressure can just freeze your brain cells.... |
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Location: south east Michigan | "Sorry... everything I play is designed for a duo". |
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Location: Jet City | there's no one song, whatever pops in my brain. maybe some DMB like "Where Are You Going", "Crush"...
Maybe some Neil Young like "Cinnamon Girl", "I Am a Child", etc. ("Ohio" if they're former hippies)...
Maybe something more grungy like "Interstate Love Song", "Alive", "The World I Know"...
Maybe Prince? Michael Jackson? Billy Preston? Or even a male rendition of Maria Muldaur's "Midnight at the Oasis"
I don't know dude... but I'm sure whatever they request I won't know that one.
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Location: Tennessee | Freebird |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | The First Song?
Wish You Were Here... Pink Floyd.
(cuz that is about the first thing that I play when I pick up any guitar)
or Needle and the Damage Done for Old Hippies.
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Location: Spain | Great question, for me if it's a bunch of girls I do "Valerie" by The Zutons, the women seem to like it and it's a good one to open the voice, for me anyway.
But it's just friends drinking anyway, so I couldn't give a rat's arse if they like what i play or not! (most of my mates are better than me anyway! which isn't difficult!!) |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I get asked to play here at the shop. If it's just to show someone what a particular guitar sounds like I usually just play the intro to one of my originals. But if one of my regulars asks me to play for a friend they have brought in it's usually Over the Rainbow or Misty because everyone is familiar with them. |
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | Danny's Song-Loggins and Messina or Drift Away-Dobie Gray. Can't beat the classics.
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Location: South Florida, USA | Drift Away, what a good song, nice choice. I'm thinking it's probably a Jimmy Buffett tune or Beatles for sure.
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Sweet Baby James. A classic, positive JT song (meaning not a downer  ) that just about everyone knows. And you can probably do it in your sleep.
If you want to dazzle them, do your 10-song JT medley...
Lots of good choices in the previous posts, too.
Edited by rick endres 2012-09-13 8:23 PM
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| I just don't do that anymore. I either play gigs or I play for myself, but the impromtu, informal house concerts are something I haven't done for decades. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | One of our friends used to ask after a couple drinks and I always said no (mostly because the party was at someone else's house and there was not guitar). No one has asked for many years, so I don't thing about it anymore. |
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Playing for friends...