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Location: NJ | OK
I said my peace about the tunes that annoy me but what about the ones of which I never tire?
moondance
get the right group of guys and a swinging drummer and you can really improvise this tune all the time.
knocking on heaven's door
I performed this tune as our fine song for 2 years worth of gigs with a close guitarist buddy who has now joined the choir invisible. I always think of him when I play it and it makes me remember good times.
sympathy for the devil/dear mr fantasy
for a band I arranged a medley of these two tunes and I always liked how we would get the musical mood up to a feverish pitch with sympathy and then bring it down for dear mr fantasy fun stuff
(BTW READ THE WORDS TO SYMPATHY IT IS NOT ABOUT SATAN WORSHIP)
roadrunner (jonathan richman and the modern lovers)
I am a sucker for simple jangly 3 chord songs
probably can think of a few more later |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Song's I'd LIKE to perform, if I were a performer.
In an acoustic duo: Blackwater by the Doobies and No Rain by Blind Melon. (actually, you'd need at least 4 vocals to do Blackwater justice)
In a band, Call Me The Breeze - the Skynyrd version and Long Train Runnin - Doobies again.
Yeah Al, I reckon Sympathy is up there too. Bloody hard to get it right though. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Currently... Pretty Women
In the recent past... Natures Way, Mrs. Brown & Something.
For the future... I'm thinking that Pure & Easy is coming along nicely. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Whenever I handle a new or unfamiliar guitar, I always play the same two songs first . . . Jim Croce's I Have to Say I Love You in a Song, and SRV's Pride and Joy. I know how these two songs feel and sound on most of my guitars, so I always use them to quickly guage the sound and playability of other models. I have some blues riffs in Am, G, Dm, and another in A that I also use to warm up with. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | Interesting...we do "Moondance"...not a huge favorite of mine, but a good song. We start it out with the drummer, then after a few bars bring in the bass. While they are grooving away, I introduce the band. Then our lead guitar player and I trade some licks back and forth, sort of echoing each other and foreshadowing the melody. Eventually, it feels ready and I start the lyrics.
We also do "Dear Mr. Fantasy". Never thought of integrating that with SFTD. Cool idea. We might steal that.
Some songs I really love from a vocal perspective:
"Fire Down Below"
"Back in the USSR"
"Hard to Handle"
"You May Be Right"
"Katmandu" |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Been playing The Breakup Song (Greg Kihn Band) with my garage band for the past couple of weeks. It's nice and simple with a catchy little riff.
Cowgirl in the Sand by Neil Young is also a reliable old favourite. |
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Location: SoCal | Gentiles in The Mines..... |
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Location: NJ | . . . THERE's a "given" . . . |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | "Johnny B Goode" but it has to be the Kal David version (www.kaldavid.com). An up tempo shuffle with something similar to Stormy Monday changes |
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Location: SoCal | Ya know, I did that song once, 3 years ago, and have been taking grief over it ever since..... |
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Location: south east Michigan | There are any number of songs that I would love to sing & play but for one reason or another, I can't pull off well enough for public consumption.
Now... "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is right in Al's wheelhouse. After hearing him do it I'd give up trying.
And although I've never accually heard Paul play "Gentle on My Mind", I know it would be a good fit for him.
Some of us are blessed with a much bigger wheelhouse. Like Cliff. I've yet to hear him struggle making a song work for him. Why.. I bet he can even nail Sweet Home Alabama. I'll have to remember to ask him to play it at the Tour. |
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Location: NJ | ". . Ya know, I did that song once, 3 years ago, and have been taking grief over it ever since . ."
. . as well you SHOULD be. |
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Location: SoCal | Now I'm definitely gonna have to do it again this year, but this time with a banjo player playing with me..... and just to spite you Cliff, I'll use your slothead! |
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Location: Tennessee | A medley of "For What It's Worth" and "Season of the Witch" switching back and forth throughout. For some reason, it just works. Lotsa room for working the blews licks, too.
If I have to do something solo, it's definitely "Right Field". Or "Ziggy Stardust". Now there's a dichotomy. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | "Let's Talk Dirty To The Animals"
Michael O Donoghue
From the Gilda Radner album, Gilda Live |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Currently it's
Do You Want to Dance, using the Beach Boys arrangement, but playing it acousticly and slowing it down, sort of close to the Bett Midler version. |
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Location: Central Florida | Anything by the Beatles. :)
A few other songs that I find fun to play and my audiences really get into are:
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[*]California Dreamin'
[*]Bus Stop (the Hollies)
[*]I'm a Believer
[*]Layla (acoustic version)
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Location: chicago | Return to forever No Mystery
Frevo Rasgodo Guitar Trio
Meditterainian Sundance/rioAncho Di Meola
Spain......My Favorite!! Chick Corea
www.guitarsoffire.com |
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Location: Paris/France | Surely "Blackbird" from The Beatles/McCartney!!
This song is one of my favorite.
J :) |
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Location: japan | I want to learn 'The Harry Lime Theme' in the movie Third Man.
what else?
Recuerdos De La Alhambra, More than words, What's up.... |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | britney spears - babe one more time.
you have to see people's faces when they hear it... on the beginning very gently,then turning into hard rock version. |
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Location: SE Michigan | Slipkid and I do a cover of Led Zeppelin "Thank You"; I love playing that song. I also have a little version of "The Rain Song" that I like to play on an acoustic as an instrumental. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | Acoustic:
I like finger-pickin' these Beatles tunes
Dear Prudence
Mother Nature's Son
Here Comes the Son
Blackbird
I also like my versions of
I Wanna Be Like You (from Jungle Book)
Pretzel Logic
The Letter
and Amazing Grace (I have a version that i arranged that features a friend of mine who is tremendously talented on saxophone. I love to play this with him. He makes me look goooood.)
Electric:
Pretty much anything that has a puddle of sweat under each of the band members before the bridge. My current fave is one we do in church - You are Good (Israel Houghton and New Breed) Great stuff. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | I don't play professionally, but I love playing Jimi's Voodoo Chile on acoustic. And yes, it sounds best on an O. |
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Location: Indiana | I'll agree with "anything by the Beatles" although I don't actually perform any of them. The one I would like to play is "Nowhere Man". As far as songs I actually do play...."Tears in Heaven". Guess I just enjoy the challenge.
Bill |
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