Members ptkbass Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 Ladies and Gentlemen; So I put Ozzie's "Crazy Train" in my solo set. I'm sure I'm not the first, but....fun. It transposes well to E (from A) even with the need for open strings, and I can cop most of the guitar mini melody parts with my thumb. No sir, I don't do the Randy Rhodes solo in the middle, just the chords for that. It goes over well because nobody expects it, everybody knows it, and it's a well written song. So I need more tune ideas like that: well written songs that nobody expects to be done solo. What you got up your collective sleeves? Peace, Paul K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 Everything I do is unlikely. But I'm toying with adding "All About that Bass," which would seem very unlikely, even to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members steve mac Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 I think my most surprising solo rendition is " the one that I want" from Grease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 I'm considering "Like a Rolling Stone". Not like anything else on my list, but it's the #1 song on the all-time top 500 and has that signature organ lick. I don't remember hearing it covered by a bar band . . . anywhere . . . ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 Ladies and Gentlemen; So I put Ozzie's "Crazy Train" in my solo set. I'm sure I'm not the first, but....fun. It transposes well to E (from A) even with the need for open strings, and I can cop most of the guitar mini melody parts with my thumb. No sir, I don't do the Randy Rhodes solo in the middle, just the chords for that. It goes over well because nobody expects it, everybody knows it, and it's a well written song. So I need more tune ideas like that: well written songs that nobody expects to be done solo. What you got up your collective sleeves? Peace, Paul K Consider singing a couple of choruses of Pink's "Get The Party Started" over the Crazy Train riff and see how the audience responds. You might be surprised at that as well.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted October 11, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 11, 2015 damnit, Steve, I do that one too, although the ONJ parts still sound like Travolta... I really like the bassline, which doesn't get done in my solo version...so it is kind of weird...it's electrifyin'! I have been known to toss in some Alice Cooper [billion Dollar Babies], and the Four Lads [istanbul]...but Ozzy? No... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted October 11, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 11, 2015 Do you do 'Do You Know What I Mean?' I do that in my solo act, but it really is all about Lee Michaels on the pipe organ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 Lee Michael's hit would make sense. I wonder how many people, even in my generation, remember it? (Not that that has stopped me from picking even more obscure songs . . . ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 'Do You Know What I Mean?' is pipe organ????? Really??? I'll have to listen to it again. Now that would be unlikely. Say, as the communion hymn at a funeral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 Piano, harpsichord?!, and what does sound like a pipe organ. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 from Wikipedia: Michaels' choice of the Hammond organ as his primary instrument was unusual for the time… This makes much better sense to me. (Though the writers seem to have forgotten Stevie Winwood.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bob Dey Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 That's because you didn't see the band I was in back in '71! We didn't do it very well from what I recall. We did it too slow and it's a long song with all those verses = boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 "Do You Know What I Mean" is played pretty frequently on classic rock radio. You should have pretty wide recognition with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 All kinds of guys had B3s in 1971 . . . including me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 I do a lot of piano/organ layering. Never used the pipe organ on my S70SX. Might as well try it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 Okay, enough about Lee Michaels. Back to me. I suspect, now that I think on it, that my most unlikely cover is this song. I've played it -- a close cover of this performance -- for my jam band and Diane, my duo partner. The guys in the jam were chin-dropped and gobsmacked -- the term "bizarre" was bandied about. I LOVE the melody of this song. And the polished silliness of it all. [video=youtube;68gCwBy4ElA] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 11, 2015 Members Share Posted October 11, 2015 I'm thinking what the writers meant is that it was unusual for the B3 to be the primary instrument of his rock sound. No guitars and not piano as main instrument ala Elton John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted October 12, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 12, 2015 Bizarre? No, weird, yes...okay enough about you, now back to Lee Michaels...I cover Do You Know What I mean in my solo act...on guitar...he used a piano and an organ on that.and of course, Frosty...Lee is now a restauranteur here in So Cal.http://killershrimp.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pogo97 Posted October 13, 2015 Members Share Posted October 13, 2015 Restaurants seem to be a big thing for 'retired' muscians. Locally, Zal Yanovsky of the Lovin' Spoonful and Cliff Edwards of the Bells both owned restaurants. Musicans and boxers, they like to own restaurants. And hockey players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted October 13, 2015 Members Share Posted October 13, 2015 Restaurants seem to be a big thing for 'retired' muscians. Locally' date=' Zal Yanovsky of the Lovin' Spoonful and Cliff Edwards of the Bells both owned restaurants. Musicans and boxers, they like to own restaurants. And hockey players.[/quote'] Everyone eats at restaurants, so many people think they all know how to run one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted October 13, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2015 restaurants have the highest failure rate of any small business...and with the front end costs so high, and a fickle public, public health requirements, licensing, etc., I can see why most fail in the first two years. I know a few people who succeeded, but they got burnt out on the time it takes [months on end with one day off a week if you are lucky], most sold their restaurants after 5 years...and took a loooong vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shaster Posted October 13, 2015 Members Share Posted October 13, 2015 Worked at a restaurant owned by a hockey player. Fantastic food, staff and location, but their overhead and initial investment killed them. Too bad. It was a steady Jazz gig Tuesdays and Wednesdays for a couple of hours, and paid very close to scale but in cash, with free beer - my dream gig. My most unlikely tunes that get positive reactions are instrumentals like James by Pat Metheny. I also do Human Nature (instrumentally) by MJ - got a $20.00 tip for that one last Saturday. However, I use tracks so it's "cheating". Further to off the beaten path, these guys do unlikely covers - might be able to do them solo. [video=youtube;x3E2HeAfcdM] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ptkbass Posted October 14, 2015 Author Members Share Posted October 14, 2015 I just got a looper with the memory card thing, so my act my evolve toward cheating also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members senorblues Posted October 18, 2015 Members Share Posted October 18, 2015 I went bar hopping last night looking for prospective venues. The fourth song at the first gig (good solo guitar) was . . . "Do you Know What I Mean" . . . . (He's played keys in a band for many years.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators daddymack Posted October 18, 2015 Moderators Share Posted October 18, 2015 dammit! I thought I was the only one crazy enough to do that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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