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Location: Flahdaw | You've got to come up with a playlist of 10 songs....your top 10. Okay, what do you choose.
Me first? Okay...
Closer- Keb Mo
Can't Get Started- Ira Gershwin
You Can Close Your Eyes- James Taylor
You're My Better Half- Keith Urban
I'll Be- Edwin McCain
Somewhere in my Broken Heart- Billy Dean
Glory of Love- as done by Keb Mo
Stars- Dan Fogelberg
Raining on Sunday- Keith Urban
Don't Let Me Be Lonely- James Taylor
Let's hear yours. We all might get some new ideas. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Interesting...great topic. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I would grow a grey beard, wear rubber shoes and play the following set:
Desperado
Elderly Woman
Learn To Fly
Wrapped Around Your Finger
Don't Think Twice
Don't Dream It's Over
A Pair Of Chairs |
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| Only a ten song bar gig? And you get paid? Nice. OK, I'll go with:
Somethin's Comin' - West Side Story
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
Overjoyed - Stevie Wonder
Billy the Kid - Billy Dean
South City Midnight Lady - Doobies
On Broadway - Drifters, Benson
Taxi - Harry Chapin
100 Years - Five for Fighting
Wonderful Tonight - What's that guy's name?
One For My Baby - Sinatra
G'night everybody! Drive safely! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I might be able to do the whole set with Croce songs.
Actually, I'd just ask Karl to send me his song book in the Senior font version. I managed to fake my way through 4 hours of that. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Musical Youth --- Pass the Dutchie
Plastic Ono Band --- Cold Turkey
Neil Young --- The Needle and the Damage Done
Grandmaster & Melle Mel --- White Lines Funkadelic --- Maggot Brain
Panama Red --- NRPS
The Beach Boys --- Good Vibrations
Jackson Browne --- Cocaine
Eric Clapton --- Cocaine
Velvet Underground --- heroine
G'night and thank you very much. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Originally posted by Losov:
Only a ten song bar gig? And you get paid? Nice. Actually, I didn't want people to go overboard. Thought I would get some good, new ideas. (Overjoyed? Love the song, would have never thought of it on guitar, though. See, these are the ideas you get!) |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Needle and the Damage Done- Neil Young
Rockin in the Free World- Neil Young
Homesick- Soul Asylum
Sweet Baby James- James Taylor
Almost Cut My Hair- David Crosby
Ohio- CSNY
Feel Like I'm Fixin' ta Die Rag- Country Joe & The Fish
Mary Jane's Last Dance- Tom Petty
Can't cha See- Marshall Tucker Band
Heard it in a Love Song- Marshall Tucker Band
I just wanted to see if I Know ten songs without just doing everything in the Neil Young songbook.
[And now that I struggled to make that list I'm not satisfied...
I left-out ELP, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, The Pretenders, Joan Osbourne, Black Sabbath, BOC...] |
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Location: south east Michigan | I don't know what songs you play so I'll just suggest....
Start out with strong one. One of your best
Mix it up inbetween. Don't play 3 songs in row in the key of G.
Follow the Flirst Law of Cliff and avoid being "strummy, strummy - singy singy".
Finsh up with a strong one. One of your best. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | OH? Do I have to SING along with my playing? I'm screwed!  :mad: |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Brad's advice is interesting because I tend to "practice" by stringing songs in the same key together. One just reminds me of another.
Arthur, Neil Young and Tom Petty can't sing either and they've done alright. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I might be wrong but I think tho an audience might not think of what key you are playing in, they might sense a kind of sameness in your songs.
If all your songs happen to be in G, capo a few of them up a step or two. |
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Location: GA USA | I read an article in a mag once about setting up a set list. I think not more than two in a row in the same key would be best. At times, modulate up a step, at times go from a key to the 4th or 5th of that key. If it's an awkward transition, talk a (very) little. |
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Location: SoCal | What kind of bar? Gay bar (where Clifford plays), bar association (where Mark plays), a high bar, a low bar, an old folks bar? These things matter.... |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Dreary Day Blues by Alison Swan in G with vocals
Misty, instrumental in C
Annoyance by Alison Swan, instrumental in G
If I Only Had a Brain/Over the Rainbow
instrumental in G
Internet Dating by Alison Swan in A with vocals
Jesu Joy of Mans Desiring by J.S. Bach in G
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most by Kenny
Burrel, instrumental in C
Sledride by Fred Pike, instrumental in G
Classical piece whose name I can't remember by
Giuliani in Em
When Sunny Gets Blue, in G# with vocals |
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Location: south east Michigan | Oh... I sidetracked myself.
You want MY OWN ten song list.
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I Can't Explain
Goin' Up the Country
No Sugar / Mother Nature
Crazy Love
Two of Us
Itchycoo Park
Thank You
Something
Elenor
Pretty Woman
And this would be Brian & me.
I don't do no soloing. |
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| Originally posted by Slipkid:
Finsh up with a strong one. One of your best. Nah, that's for a concert. For a bar gig the owner wants you to get 'em out of there at the end of the night. Gotta do one that'll get 'em to pick up their keys and the check.
You also do NOT want one that'll get them to come over and talk to you while you're packing up your stuff. |
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Location: south east Michigan | For a bar gig the owner wants you to get 'em out of there at the end of the night. Oh hell... I got a ton of those!
And if if they still won't leave... time to break out the uke! :eek: |
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| Is that you in the skirt? I've seen the pictures . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Why don't we get drunk & Sxxxx?
Should Have Married The Dog -original
You Just Like Me Cos I'm Good In Bed
Corona, Corona (reworded Corinna Corinna)
Please Take Your Drunken 15-year-old Girlfriend Home
Kiss This
Nine to Five For Life - original
Show Them To Me
Don't Drink & Dial -original
and close the night with...
Why Don't You All Get Fxxxed! |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Originally posted by Losov:
Originally posted by Slipkid:
Finsh up with a strong one. One of your best. Nah, that's for a concert. For a bar gig the owner wants you to get 'em out of there at the end of the night. Gotta do one that'll get 'em to pick up their keys and the check.
You also do NOT want one that'll get them to come over and talk to you while you're packing up your stuff.
Junge kom bald wieder / Freddy Quin
My ten guitars / Engelbert Humperdinck
Quando quando / E . Humperdinck
Blue spanish eyes / E. Humperdinck
Third man theme / Anton Karas ( when my fingers allow me )
He`ll have to go / Jim Reeves
Love letters in the sand /
Ramona / Blue Diamonds
Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree / Dawn - Tony Orlando
You never can tell / Chuck Berry
..not necessarily in that order..
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Both My Girlfriends
Temptation
People, Calling Me
Asheville Train
Broken Gospel Band
That Song
Three for a Quarter
Twelve Frets of Gas
Texas Phone Call
Lost Her Mind
Shine On Me. |
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Location: GA USA | fillhix, have you ever heard of Eugene Chadbourne? Has anybody? He had a song called "I Hate The Man Who Owns This Bar." That would fit nicely in your set.
It was on his Vermin of the Blues album, along with "Bo Diddley is a Communist" and "Rakeman", played on an electrified garden rake. |
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Location: WNC-God's Country | Bohemian Rhapsody
Cocaine
Take this job and shove it
Free Bird
That's an hour and a half !! |
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Location: Ohio | Ventura Highway America
I'll have to say I love you in a Song Jim Croce
Dreamers on the Rise John Stewart
Upside Down Jack Johnson
Today Randy Sparks
Rocky Mountain High John Denver
Come Monday Jimmy Buffett
Early Morning Rain Gordon Lightfoot
House at Pooh corner Kenny Loggins
I like the standards thave people can sing along with
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You were just hired to play in a bar
