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Hey again. Been out of this game for a few years but I am about to jam with some guys (new potential project) and I am concerned that given the makeup of the band that the affair is in grave danger of landing squarely in "dad band" territory both setlist and stage presentation.

 

Just wondering if the cover band folks could say whats been working - or not working anymore - with genres and/or song selection

 

I know this use to be a topic floated around regularly when I was here a few years ago but I didnt see any real recent threads on this.

 

Thanks guys

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Not your typical cover band. Old fart or dead people music that still gets the youngsters attention.

Set One for Bishop’s 3/18

1 R&R Ruby

2 Rock This Town

3 Mary Lou

4 Honey Don’t

5 Loaded Gun-RevH Heat

6 The Way I Walk

7 Fire

8 Amos Moses

9 Highway patrol-Jr Brown

10 Hot Rod Lincoln

11 Folsom Prison Blues

12 Blues Stay Away

13 Move it on Over (slide)

14 Whiskey Drinkin’ Woman (slide)

15 My Gal is Red Hot

16 Stick Shiftin -orgig inst.

17 Summertime Blues

18 Dead Flowers

 

Set Two: for Bishop’s 3/18

1 Rumble

2 Voodoo Cadillac-Sou Culture on the Skids

3 Pride and Joy

4 Surf Medley

5 Ain’t Livin Long Like This

6 Pretty Pickin-orig

7 Chevy Van

8 11 Months and 29 Days-Johnny Paycheck(blues)

9 Don’t Think Hank(done it thisaway)

10 Pins and Needles

11 Crossroads (slide)

12 Who Do You Love (slide)

13 Money

14 Last Kiss

15 Stray Cat Strut

16 Steppin Stone

17 Copperhead Road

 

Set Three for Bishop’s 3/18

1 Honky Tonk Woman

2 Too Many Guitars-orig

3 Put a Spell On You

4 Cotton Fields

5 Match Box

6 Baby Please Don’t Go

7 Kalija

8 Everybody Needs to Be MY Baby

9 Steady Rollin Man

10 Squeeze Box

11 I Drink Alone

12 Race With the Devil

13 Youngblood

14 Not Fade Away

15 Guitars Cadillacs

16 Secret Agent Man

17 Keep Your Hands To Yourself

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something we used recently

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[TD]EVERYBODY MEDLEY

 

  • Everybody Talks
  • You May Be Right
  • Magic Carpet Ride
  • American Girl

 

Semi Charmed

 

ALL STAR MEDLY

 

  • All Star
  • I’m A believer
  • Get A Job

 

Locked Out of Heaven/

Somebody I used to know

 

BLISTER MEDLEY

 

  • Blister
  • Happy
  • Tequila

 

Small Things

 

BEV HILLS MEDLEY

 

  • Bev Hills
  • 1985
  • Stacy's Mom

 

KC MEDLEY

 

  • Get Down Tonight
  • December 63
  • Shut Up And Dance

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[TD]Impression Medley

 

  • Impression
  • La Vida Loca

 

Uptown Funk/ Cake by The Ocean

 

Staying Alive/ Hot in Here

 

Summer 69 MEDLEY

 

  • Summer 69
  • Your Love
  • Sweet Child
  • 500 Miles
  • Jesse’s Girl
  • Authority Song
  • Jenny
  • Footloose

 

HOTSTEP MEDLEY

 

  • Hotstepper
  • Jump Around
  • Ride Wit Me
  • Thong Song
  • Billie Jean

 

Twist N Shout

 

Forget You/ Love Train

 

Dynamite

 

You Shook Me

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[TD]Set 3 [/TD]

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[TD]Funky Music / Roadhouse

 

80S HAIR BAND MEDLEY

 

  • Talk Dirty
  • Pour Sugar
  • We’re Not Gonna Take It
  • Sedated
  • Rebel Yell

 

LAID MEDLEY

 

  • Laid
  • What I Got
  • Tubthumping

 

Buttercup/ 8 Days

 

NEW AGE MEDLEY

 

  • New Age Girl
  • Hey Jealousy
  • 2 princes

 

Sweet Caroline

 

My Own Worst Enemy

 

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Not sure ours has changed all that much since the last time I posted it a couple of years ago....lol. But here's what we did at the last wedding we played:

 

 

Set 1

Dm BOOGIE OOGIE OOGIE

 

F#m BILLIE JEAN

 

F SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED, IM YOURS

 

E YOUR LOVE

 

D JESSIE'S GIRL

 

C LOVE SHACK

 

Em STAYIN' ALIVE/ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL/EmRAPPER'S DELIGHT/GOOD TIMES/Bm GET LUCKY

 

Bb WALKING ON SUNSHINE

 

Dm UPTOWN FUNK

 

F AT LAST

 

Ab I WANT YOU BACK/ABC

 

G ANY WAY YOU WANT IT

 

EbSHOUT

 

 

 

SET 2

 

 

Em SINGLE LADIES (bouquet toss)

 

C CAN'T STOP THE FEELING/EbWANT TO WANT ME/DSTARSHIPS/Ebm LOW/E DYNAMITE

 

Ab I DON’T CARE I LOVE IT

 

Am PUSH IT/Cm PUMP UP THE JAM/B WHOOMP! THERE IT IS/Bb GONNA MAKE YOU SWEAT/B WANNABE/Ab GROOVE IS IN THE HEART

 

E MICKEY/SHAKE IT OFF

 

F# GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN/I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY

 

AWAGON WHEEL

 

E FOLSOM PRISON BLUES

 

B FAITHFULLY

 

EmLIVIN' ON A PRAYER

 

E I LOVE ROCK N ROLL

 

E POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME

 

E DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Not your typical cover band. Old fart or dead people music that still gets the youngsters attention.

Set One for Bishop’s 3/18

1 R&R Ruby

2 Rock This Town

3 Mary Lou

4 Honey Don’t

5 Loaded Gun-RevH Heat

6 The Way I Walk

7 Fire

8 Amos Moses

9 Highway patrol-Jr Brown

10 Hot Rod Lincoln

11 Folsom Prison Blues

12 Blues Stay Away

13 Move it on Over (slide)

14 Whiskey Drinkin’ Woman (slide)

15 My Gal is Red Hot

16 Stick Shiftin -orgig inst.

17 Summertime Blues

18 Dead Flowers

 

Set Two: for Bishop’s 3/18

1 Rumble

2 Voodoo Cadillac-Sou Culture on the Skids

3 Pride and Joy

4 Surf Medley

5 Ain’t Livin Long Like This

6 Pretty Pickin-orig

7 Chevy Van

8 11 Months and 29 Days-Johnny Paycheck(blues)

9 Don’t Think Hank(done it thisaway)

10 Pins and Needles

11 Crossroads (slide)

12 Who Do You Love (slide)

13 Money

14 Last Kiss

15 Stray Cat Strut

16 Steppin Stone

17 Copperhead Road

 

Set Three for Bishop’s 3/18

1 Honky Tonk Woman

2 Too Many Guitars-orig

3 Put a Spell On You

4 Cotton Fields

5 Match Box

6 Baby Please Don’t Go

7 Kalija

8 Everybody Needs to Be MY Baby

9 Steady Rollin Man

10 Squeeze Box

11 I Drink Alone

12 Race With the Devil

13 Youngblood

14 Not Fade Away

15 Guitars Cadillacs

16 Secret Agent Man

17 Keep Your Hands To Yourself

 

Looks like a fun set, but DANG---that's a LOT of songs!

 

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Looks like a fun set, but DANG---that's a LOT of songs!

 

At bars were expected to go 4 hrs 9-1, with 2 reasonable breaks.

We might skip 2 or 4 depending if the set is 50 min or 70 min.

Most of our material come in at around 3 min. pretty darn short songs at pretty quick tempos. Lots of em only have 2 verses. .At most you get one guitar lead break and one harmonica break per tune.

The guitarist /frontman does do a great job of remembering words tho.

Were definitely not a jam band for sure, we rarely drag anything out.

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At bars were expected to go 4 hrs 9-1, with 2 reasonable breaks.

We might skip 2 or 4 depending if the set is 50 min or 70 min.

Most of our material come in at around 3 min. pretty darn short songs at pretty quick tempos. Lots of em only have 2 verses. .At most you get one guitar lead break and one harmonica break per tune.

The guitarist /frontman does do a great job of remembering words tho.

Were definitely not a jam band for sure, we rarely drag anything out.

 

 

That's good advice. Audiences have short attention spans these days. You gotta get in and out of the songs pretty quick. They aren't going to sit around for extended solos and multiple choruses. And to the degree a band is 'stretching it out' because they rather play one song for 6 minutes rather than go to the trouble of learning two-3 minutes songs? You're gonna pay for that laziness in the end, IMO. The band doing 18 songs an hour rather than 9 is going to get a better response and more work.

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Last band I was in, we covered music from mostly the 1980's Hair Metal era, Hard Rock / Classic Rock from the 1960's -1970's and an occasional Thrash tune here and there.

 

Over the Mountain Ozzy

Unbroken Pantera

Stone Free Jimi Hendrix

Shattered Rolling Stones

Lights OuT. UFO

Don't tell me you love me Night Ranger

Master of Puppets. Metallica

2112 Overture. Rush

I'll see the light tonight Yngwie Malmsteen

Sweet Child O mine GnR

Burn Deep Purple

Could Stand the weather SRV

Big Trouble David Lee Roth

Crying in the rain Whitesnake

Mr. Crowley . Ozzy

Nothing but a good time Poison

No more Mr Nice guy. Alice Cooper

The Rover. Led Zeppelin

Red Barchetta. Rush

Something Beatles

Run to the hills Iron Maiden

It's a Monster Extreme

Eruption / You really got me Van Halen

Free Bird Lynyrd Skynyrd

Cowboys from hell. Pantera

Into the fire Dokken

I don't know Ozzy

I want you (she's so heavy). Beatles

Welcome to the Jungle GnR

Don't close you eyes. Kixx

Ironman /Children of the Grave / Ozzy

In my dreams. Dokken

Trooper Iron Maiden

Rock Bottom. UFO

Doctor Feel Good /Too young to fall in love Motley True

Free Will Rush

Rocking in the free world Neil Young

One Metallica

Snorting whiskey. Pat Travers

Kashmir. Led Zeppelin

Mean Streets Van Halen

Man on the silver mountain Blackmore's Rainbow

Round About /Changes Yes

Cemetery Gates. Pantera

Thick as a Brick / Aquillung Jethro Tull

No more tears Ozzy

Damn Good. David Lee Roth

Born to be wild Stepenwolf ( good song to play if 1%'er bikers show at the gig)

A$$ Hole Dennis Leary ( probably the best Irish / American song to learn, Incase, you can dedidicated to that aggressive heckler in the club / bar ).

 

On top of that we did originals too.

We practiced for eight months before we played our first gigs, sometime rehearsing 6 days a week.

It got so bad , my wife locked me out of the house for a night, she left me a can of beans , corn, a can opener, plastic spoon and a can of soda from rehearsing so much ( which she shook the soda to explode on me ) with note saying, "You rehearse too much, today is your day, but tonight isn't your night and drew a face like this on the note 😜 .... As the Stones say, it's only Rock n Roll .

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Not sure ours has changed all that much since the last time I posted it a couple of years ago....lol. But here's what we did at the last wedding we played:

 

 

Set 1

Dm BOOGIE OOGIE OOGIE

 

F#m BILLIE JEAN

 

F SIGNED, SEALED, DELIVERED, IM YOURS

 

E YOUR LOVE

 

D JESSIE'S GIRL

 

C LOVE SHACK

 

Em STAYIN' ALIVE/ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL/EmRAPPER'S DELIGHT/GOOD TIMES/Bm GET LUCKY

 

Bb WALKING ON SUNSHINE

 

Dm UPTOWN FUNK

 

F AT LAST

 

Ab I WANT YOU BACK/ABC

 

G ANY WAY YOU WANT IT

 

EbSHOUT

 

 

 

SET 2

 

 

Em SINGLE LADIES (bouquet toss)

 

C CAN'T STOP THE FEELING/EbWANT TO WANT ME/DSTARSHIPS/Ebm LOW/E DYNAMITE

 

Ab I DON’T CARE I LOVE IT

 

Am PUSH IT/Cm PUMP UP THE JAM/B WHOOMP! THERE IT IS/Bb GONNA MAKE YOU SWEAT/B WANNABE/Ab GROOVE IS IN THE HEART

 

E MICKEY/SHAKE IT OFF

 

F# GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN/I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY

 

AWAGON WHEEL

 

E FOLSOM PRISON BLUES

 

B FAITHFULLY

 

EmLIVIN' ON A PRAYER

 

E I LOVE ROCK N ROLL

 

E POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME

 

E DON'T STOP BELIEVIN'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks Guido! (You are one of the guys I remember btw - glad to see you're still knocking about here). Ya this is the sort of setlist I'd LIKE to be doing but I am more and more getting the feeling that this isnt going to go well.

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Thanks Guido! (You are one of the guys I remember btw - glad to see you're still knocking about here). Ya this is the sort of setlist I'd LIKE to be doing but I am more and more getting the feeling that this isnt going to go well.

 

Good to see you to! Yeah still knocking around. I'll be gigging until I die in one form or another I imagine. Just recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of my first paying gig. Crazy how the time flies.

 

This set list is pretty sure-fire for us. Especially at weddings where we do more of an all-ages thing. Other events would see me switching out songs to fit the intended audience better. Someone's 60th birthday party might see me dropping that current-hits medley at the start of the 2nd set for some more classic rock songs, for example.

 

And obviously it's a setlist written around a 2-female front.

 

But good luck getting your new crew on board with what you want to do. If it helps you can tell them we got paid $4900 to do that schlocky setlist last time out. Which is what? 10-15 bar gigs these days?

 

So yeah. Put a young pretty girl up front, play the hell out of some fun, familiar tunes, have a lot of energy on stage and knock 'me dead!

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Well interestingly ANOTHER potential opportunity has arisen (yesterday) with an event-based 80s party band which is RIGHT up my alley.Gut check time

 

​There you go. Are they already established? Might be a lot easier to join an already established band than try to do the startup thing.

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For reference the songs for this weekends jam are :

 

Try - Blue Rodeo

Just What I Needed - The Cars

White Wedding - Billy Idol

Blow at High Dough - The Tragically Hip

 

I guess not too far off what I would be doing in an 80s band but I just dont want to be stuck doing that stuff (or earlier) unless we are doing the full-on 80s thing

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Yes they are. I am just waiting to hear back if they actually have an opening #itscomplicated.

 

I have my own wacky band ideas but I know that the guys I am jamming with are not likely to be open to any of them :/

 

The way to get band members on board with wacky ideas is being able to deliver gigs/crowds/money.

 

​Most of the guys in my band didn't want to do what we are doing now at first either. I remember very clearly trying to convince them we should learn Jessie's Girl and them all moaning and groaning. I convinced them to go along with it and give it a try and the first time we played it half a dozen beautiful young girls rushed the stage to sing along and bounce their booties against our guitars and the rest was history.

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And now for something completely different.

 

Set 1

Boondocks – Little Big Town

Something More – Sugarland

Already Callin You Mine – Parmalee

Chainsaw – The Band Perry

Star of the Show – Thomas Rhett

Downtown – Lady A

Love Don’t Live Here – Lady Antebellum

Snapback- Old Dominion

Smoke Break – Carrie Underpants

My Church – Marlee Maren

Setting the World On Fire – Chesney/Pink

MOVE- Luke Bryan

Dibs – Kelsea Ballerini

Tee Shirt – Thomas Rhett

Bartender – Lady Antebellum

You Look Like I need a Drink – Justin Moore

Lookin For A Good Time – Lady Antebellum

Folsm Prison Blues – Johnny Cash

Lights Come Up – Jason Aldean

Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood

Save A Horse – Big and Rich medley: Play that Fuky Music, Get Down Tonight, Crazy Bitch, Uptown Funk

Gimme 3 Steps – Lynyrd Skynyrd

Who Says You Can’t Go Home – Bon Jovi

 

Set 2

Vice – Miranda Lambert

Make Me Wanna – Thomas Rhett

Road Less Traveled – Lauren Alaina

Head Over Boots – Joe Pardi

Sleep without You – Brett Young

The Fighter – Urban/Underwood

Wagon Wheel - Darius Rucker

Baggage Claim – Miranda Lambert

Play it Again – Luke Bryan

Boot Scoot Boogie – Brooks&Dunn

My Kinda Party - Jason Aldean

Here for the Party – Gretchen Wilson

John Cougar John Deere John 3:16 – Keith Urban Stuck Like Glue – Sugarland

Beer in Mexico – Kenny Chesney

Good Girl- Carrie Undergarments

I Don’t Want This Night To End – Luke Bryan

Think of You – Young/Pope

House Party – Sam Hunt

Sweet Home Alabama/All Summer - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Boondocks – Little Big Town

 

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The way to get band members on board with wacky ideas is being able to deliver gigs/crowds/money.

 

​Most of the guys in my band didn't want to do what we are doing now at first either. I remember very clearly trying to convince them we should learn Jessie's Girl and them all moaning and groaning. I convinced them to go along with it and give it a try and the first time we played it half a dozen beautiful young girls rushed the stage to sing along and bounce their booties against our guitars and the rest was history.

Indeed :D

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Incidentally

 

 

 

WTF!? LOL please elaborate

 

​The two songs are pretty much the same thing musically, if you think about it. So we've been doing this mashup of them for years now that still goes over really well. Unfortunately all I have of us doing it is this really crappy old video from somebody's birthday party where we are playing it way too fast. Not for public consumption. lol

 

​But basically we're doing a couple of verses of Stayin' Alive, then singing a verse of Brick over the SA bed, and then working in and out between the choruses of both. Also nice for us because our guitarist plays the Brick guitar solo pretty well so we get to highlight that a bit.

 

 

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