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Location: NJ | I know I know we should not hate but there are a couple of tunes that truely annoy me.
Amy by pure prairie league was played by every bar band I ever saw in that urban cowboy era. It got to the point where I just could not stand to hear or play that tune.
margaretaville I just hate that song, I can't stand the parrothead/hawaiian shirt thing (no offense moody) and the idea that buffet made a brand career and lifestyle out of that song just bugs me.
I am also going to mention almost any song by the Grateful dead. I hung out with some deadheads in college and we would just jam those tunes for what seems for days on end or at least till the cops came and rang the doorbell at 11 at night. they were rather nice about it and probably could have busted us but that is a whole other story. Funny about 8 years ago I started to go to some jams a new set of faces the same old boring dead songs. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I know this will date me but at my age, who cares.
"Be Bop A Lula" by Gene Vincent.
I was in a band and we did that song every time we played. Sometime twice in one night. |
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Location: SoCal | Knockin' On Heaven's Door.... always hated that song. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I will keep this Impersonal.....Any song with more than two chords in it...
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| Al; Touch of Gray is the only song I am not burned out on now from the dead.
Speaking of burned out "Cocaine" from Mr. Clapton will never come from my amp again as long as I own it.
And as much as I hate to say it I have now completely changed my CSN and Neil Young stuff around.
I am personally sick of playing Southern Cross solo and The Needle and the Damage makes me want to boot up. These are great songs too......
For each of us it will be different, as after a certain time you can't stand hearing your own voice sing the words anymore.
Luckily for me Neil Young and CSN do a lot of other great music so I do not get to trapped in a set list. I replaced those two with Daylight again and Pardon My Heart. I am much happier now.
By the way I picked up a song from the Stephen Stills project called Manasas from way back in the day called song "Bound to Fall". Sounds great as a Duo if you get the harmonies just right. Solo it is fun to. try it.
Ohh yeah your right about "Amy" I was doing the high harmony parts and play guitar back when we were try to throw together as much music as we could for the duo. I remember I stopped play the guitar first then after a couple of looks from Aaron I stopped singing he looked at me like WTF...???? I told him I though because it had been some 20 or so years since I did this song perhpas I could get through it but even after that much time I just burned out on it.
Black Water from the Doubious Brothers kills me now too.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Northcountry:
For each of us it will be different, as after a certain time you can't stand hearing your own voice sing the words anymore. --Randy Maybe I'm Lucky... I don't gig, and I can't sing!!
So I just play my gee-tar and hear the voices, and the rest, in my head.
[Now, That Hearing-Voices-in My-Head thing is okay, so long as I don't start doing what they tell me too... Again!] :rolleyes: |
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Location: Australia | the songs I hate to do are actually songs I now refuse to do
they are the most requested songs and have been absolutely done to death
1.Kha Sahn - Cold Chisel
2. American Pie - Don Maclean
3.The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
....and the number one most requested
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | I love to play but hate to perform...
does that mean there's something wrong with me :confused: |
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| Wow sounds like the lazy mans view of sex....... I don't actually like having to have sex, but I do like the orgasm. !
Didn't take us long to put this thread in the dumper..........
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Location: ranson,wva | any thing thats not in first position..lol im the master of the first position.......jason |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Amy was the only song that I have ever performed in front of more than 10 people (High School Senior talent night in front of about 700 people, can't believe that I got through it). I also had the high harmony part.
Heck, I can't even sing the low harmony now!
Wish I had a song that I was tired of actually.
Gosh, Oh well! (get it Lanaki?) |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by Northcountry:
Didn't take us long to put this thread in the dumper..........
Randy Us?? :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | I can't STAND playing these songs, but for some unknown reason, people INSIST on requesting them, we (unfortunately) do them well, and get a multitude of Audience Appreciation, but I do "hate" playing them:
"Sweet Home AlaF@ckinBama" - Skynyrd
"Ring of Fire" - Johnny Cash
"Ripple" - Grateful Dead
"Feel Like Making Love" - Bad Company
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Dylan
"The Weight" - TheBand
"Wanted Dead or Alive" - BonJovi
I often feel like such a whore.
(Or as Jeanette often says to me at gigs as I go up to start a set: ". . Paint your ass red, get in the cage and DANCE, Monkey Boy . ." |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Take Me Home Country Rhodes?
Sorry, never heard of it. Can you humm a few bars?
Here, hold my guitar while I get a beer.
Yes, the mike is on. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I started to crank up Country Roads in the lobby last year. Looked around at the sour faces and stopped because I did not feel like doing a solo at that time. |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Mustang Sally
The unofficial Manx National Anthem. Once had to gig it four times in one evening, in three differen keys.
The pianist I played for once received a request for this song, and over the microphone whined "Really? Awww, I'd rather eat my own feet..." Dave Holland, local legend.
I am not alone!
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Location: Munich, Germany | Agreed: 'Take me home Country Roads' by John Henry Deutschendorfer!
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Location: Tychy, Poland | 1. Whisky - polish band - Dzem
2. Nothing else matters - Metallica
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Location: Central Florida | [list]
[*]Freebird
[*]Old Time Rock & Roll
[*]Margaritaville (I agree w/ everything you said, Al)
[*]Knockin' on Heaven's Door
[*]Horse With No Name (two chord tour de force)
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Location: big island | jeff,
start playing "Horse With No Name" with four chords and you will like it much better. the chorus has two very nice chords in it.
there are no songs i hate to play. at every gig we inevitably end up playing the following tourist's requests though: "Tiny Bubbles", "Blue Hawaii", "One Paddle, Two Paddle", "Little Grass Shack", "Hawaiian Wedding Song" and "Pearly Shells". |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I would have to agree with Margaritaville but somehow hearing or having to play it in Florida makes it passable.
Brown Eyed Gurl and Amy are high on the wornout list as is Whore with No Shame. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by alpep:
I am also going to mention almost any song by the Grateful dead. I hung out with some deadheads in college and we would just jam those tunes for what seems for days on end or at least till the cops came and rang the doorbell at 11 at night. they were rather nice about it and probably could have busted us but that is a whole other story. Funny about 8 years ago I started to go to some jams a new set of faces the same old boring dead songs. Hey!! Like the T-shirt sez; "There is Nothing like a Grateful Dead Concert!"
That being said, there are about six of their albums that have the same songs on them. Not done differently, the SAME songs, different order.
I've met many great guitarists, and that's all they play. And they know other stuff, and you can force them to prove it. But...
"Yeah, I liked "Friend of the Devil" the first hundred-and-fifty times I heard it... Wanna play something different?"
Yeah, I play Nothing Else Matters, Knocking on Heaven's Door, and Nights in White Satin... (four chords, that's why!) But not all the Time. And not in public too much anymore.
[I got a REAL job! Didn't get a haircut either!!] |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | [I got a REAL job! Didn't get a haircut either!!]
Yup Arthur,some of us care about "responsability"...(scared of the girl with the frying pan) I`m with ya on this,I can n`t afford a hair-do either... :)
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by Lanaki:
start playing "Horse With No Name" with four chords and you will like it much better. the chorus has two very nice chords in it. I'm sorry I'm even asking.....what other two chords?
Separately....I understand the Margaritafil thing. I can't believe people actually dance to it. But it IS the national anthem of Key West isn't it? and I am a parrothead. Sorry 'bout that.
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I didn't get a haircut either, but my hair jumped ship.... and bald guys look pathetic with long hair. (JMO, you shiners with ponytails just shine on you crazy diamond. :rolleyes: ) |
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Location: big island | the chorus and the la-la's of HWNN should be played with these two chords:
2 0
3 2
4 2
5 4
0 0
0 0
the verses played with these:
0 0
0 0
0 2
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Location: big island | if you are playing a duet, the second guitarist can play:
0 0
5 5
4 4
5 4
0 0
X X
on the verses only |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Okay. Thank you. That actually made it interesting for 2 minutes.
I'll show a buddy tomorrow before I kick him off a cliff to go parasailing and get another two minutes out of it.
Now I have to go listen to Randy Bachmans show on CBC. Sometimes he's interesting. Last week it was two hours of people covering Guess Who and BTO songs. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Hey Lanaki, I was taught chords with letters. The number thing throws me a little. (No, a LOT. I don't get it!)
I don't mind that song, but it never sounds right. |
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Location: big island | muzza,
read the numbers from top to bottom. the number refers to the fret and the sequence refers to the string. example for the first chord in the chorus:
2 = first string, second fret
3 = second string, third fret
4 = third string, fourth fret
5 = fourth string, fifth fret
0 = fifth string played open
0 = sixth string played open
an X means don't strum that string |
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Location: big island | note: first string is the high E
second string is the B etc. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Lanaki, You will have to show HWNN variation when you get here, Please! |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by fillhixx:
I didn't get a haircut either, but my hair jumped ship.... and bald guys look pathetic with long hair. (JMO, you shiners with ponytails just shine on you crazy diamond. :rolleyes: ) But I didn't! And I wonder why,
Just feel like letting my Freak Flag fly!
Cuz I feel like I owe it to Someone!
[Next song to annoy my neighbors with! I haven't quite figured that out yet! But they might appreciate the change from Cowgirl! :mad: ] |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | I won't play any song filled with a lot of pain imagery; any song explicitly promoting murder, rape or suicide; any song that demeans God...
otherwise, I'm good.
Except for "Margaritaville" |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by BegginJM:
Lanaki, You will have to show HWNN variation when you get here, Please! okie-dokie. i did err on the post above though, the la-las are back on the Em chord. sorry. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Anything that the band leader throws at us at the last minute, like, opps, we need another three minute filler right now during this part of the service, so let's try blah-blah. Flip to the number in the notebook, no practice, never seen it before, never heard it before, nothing but a bunch of crazy jazz chords (I have a ways to go on memorizing chord theory), nuts! I hate that. I figure out what key its in and uncomfortably ad lib the entire song, praying that I can figure out when and where it modulates to another key if necessary. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Prof - sounds like every service that I play at. Yesterday he hands out the music with the chords (a rarity) and then proceeds to play it one step up. It's always exciting. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Fortunately, Crimson, God is with us and won't let us fail. |
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Location: NJ | I read an interview some months back w/Dewey Bunnell from America.
Said he CONSTANTLY has people coming up to him either ASKING what the chords to "HWNN" are, or TELLING him what they THINK they are.
Invariably, EVERYBODY has it WRONG.
When it was recorded, the guitars the guitars weren't even in standard tuning . . .
I'll see if I still have the article, and post the chords.
btw: In the article, it mentions the song that America HATES t'play (and RIGHTFULLY so) :
"Muskrat Love".
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | Re: "Horse With No Name;" I recently read an interview with America in Guitar World Acoustic with Dewey Bunnell and Gerry Beckley, and they mentioned that they tuned the 5th string ("A") down to a "D." For those of you who say it doesn't quite sound right, that might make the difference.
As far as it goes, if I don't like a song, I don't play it. I've managed to accumulate enough songs over the years that I can switch around enough to keep it interesting enough for me and my band.
BUT -- I really don't get tired of any of them, though, even if I've played 'em a million times -- maybe there's something wrong with me! That goes for "Horse," "Margaritaville," and "American Pie." If people want to hear them I try to make them happy.
That being said -- I try not to EVER play "Freebird." I REFUSE to play "Rocky Top" or the "Chicken Dance." I played "Rocky Top" only once in my life -- at gunpoint! We were playing in a pretty toney, upscale tavern attached to a 4-star restaurant, and a motorcycle gang pulled in -- stereotypical gang, with leather, bandanas, long hair, the works. The leader was about 6'4" tall -- and 6'4" wide. He was HUGE! Anyway, he came up, very affable and smiling, and said, "You boys do 'Rocky Top?'" I said, "No, sir, we don't." He glared at me, pulled out a .45 automatic, and said, "You boys DO 'Rocky Top.'" It WASN'T a request.
Needless to say, we DID play "Rocky Top." He danced on one foot at a time, shifting from one to the other, and the whole building shook. He was happy as a clam, and they left about half an hour later.
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Location: Indiana | Old time Rock n' Roll
Smoke on the water
Ina gotta da vida
Free Bird
I just wanna make love to you.......gad, I think maybe I've been playing too long
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Location: cincinnati, ohio | I thought it was "There's a Babboon on the Rise?"
Anyway, I love that song. CCR's always good. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | Originally posted by Northcountry:
Speaking of burned out "Cocaine" from Mr. Clapton will never come from my amp again as long as I own it.
Randy Local friend of mine said he always liked this song but couldn't perform it cause he didn't like the topic/lyrics. So this morning he debuted his cover titled 'Rogaine' Nice rendition.
If you're losin' your hair,
But a lid won't get you there.
Rogaine
If You got bad do's
You gotta help me spread the news
Rogaine
It's not fair
Lost your hair
Don't despair
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Location: NJ | I'm sure J.J. Cale is thrilled . . . |
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What song do you hate to perform?