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What covers would you really like to play


Kramerguy

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.. regardless of crowd response?  If you could play some songs in the band for pure pleasure only, what would you choose?

Me, I'd do these (most are guitar centric of course):

 

Hocus Pocus - Focus

Phantom of the Opera / 22 Acacia Ave. - Iron Maiden

Hot for Teacher - VH

YYZ / Vital Signs / La Villa Strangiato - Rush

Lamb lies down on Broadway - Genesis

And Justice For all (title song) - Metallica

Under the Blade - Twisted Sister

Hiroshima Mon Amour - Yngwie Malmsteen

 

Man that would be one helluva set ... to clear the venue!!

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There are 100s! I'll pick a few right now based on what I am jamming to:

The Clairvoyant - Iron Maiden

A National Acrobat- Black Sabbath

Holy Wars... The Punishment Due- Megadeth

Inequality Street- Skyclad

I Want Out- Helloween

 

(If I ever win a billion dollars playing the lottery I will be putting a band together that travels the country plays covers that I like... which would be mostly obscure rock and metal tunes)

 

 

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One of the reasons I've become so comfortable with playing "whatever the crowd likes" over the years is that I learned that even my most beloved songs become boring to play after awhile.  And that I'd rather suffer performance-burnout over Brown Eyed Girl than, say, Aja.  

But my favorite guilty-pleasure songs to perform over the years have probably been things like "Behind The Lines" by Genesis, "Roundabout" by Yes and pretty much anything by Steely Dan.  Most of which I never got burned out playing because they didn't stay in the setlist long enough to do so.

My "dream band" set list would have a lot of 80s synth-pop tracks.  A lot of Fixx, Tears for Fears, IceHouse, etc.  But I'd hate to hate those songs.  OTHO, I've really got no problem getting sick of playing of Katy Perry.   Does any of that make sense?

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I guess I'm lucky. I get to mostly play exactly what I want, recently, which is modern Top 40 guitar driven country rock (ala Brantley Gilbert, Jason Aldean, Like Bryan, Tim McGraw, Eric Church, etc.)

 

That said, I'm a really big fan of the way electric guitar can mix with acoustic instruments, especially fiddle (see Randy Rogers Band, Pat Green, Roger Creager and a host of other TX singer/songwriters) and if I could find a solid fiddle/auxiliary playing musician to play with it would really compliment my songwriting and performing more.

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Victim of Illusion - Michael Schenker Group

Find Your Back - Starship

E.T.I. - Blue Oyster Cult

Shadow Boxing - Extreme

Flight of Icarus - Iron Maiden

2 Minutes to Midnight - Iron Maiden

Stand Up and Shout - Steel Dragon

Can't Live - The Scorpions

Love to Love - UFO

Joanie's Butterfly - Aerosmith

Theme for an Imaginary Western - Mountain

Gypsy Road - Cinderella

Switchblade Serenade - Spread Eagle

Cool the Engines - Boston

Shoot to Thrill - ACDC

 

To name more than a dozen or so that come to mind.

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The Grays - "Very Best Years"

Jellyfish - Pretty much anything, but especially "Joining A Fan Club" and "That Is Why"

Superdrag - "Sucked Out",  "Keep It Close To Me", and "Hellbent"

Sloan - "She Says What She Means" and "Money City Maniacs" (or pretty much anything)

Rush - "La Villa Strangiato" (or pretty much anything that didn't get too much airplay)

Van Halen - "Hang 'Em High" (or pretty much anything relatively obscure)

Helmet - "Unsung"

The Beatles - "She Said She Said" or "Got To Get You Into My Life" (the latter with proper instrumentation)

Oh, and ANY King's X, Living Colour, or Extreme tune

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Kramerguy mentioned Focus - Hocus Pocus. Man I love that song! I had an idea some time ago: I want to use it as an intro to another song but I never found a suiting song to follow Hocus Pocus. Every other song is a deception with such an awesome intro...

Some covers I would play:

Beatles - Because

Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star

Guns N' Roses - Estranged & Civil War

Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut

CKY - 96 Quite Bitter Beings

Kinks - Sunny Afternoon

Doors - Love Me Two Times

Kins of Leon - Notion (we actually play Pyro, the whole audience is in awe but no one sings along or dances ofcourse.)

 

just to name a few....

 

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MusicalSchizo's and Rocketking's lists are closest to mine. I'll list a few songs I'd love to play:

Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney

Times Like These - Foo Fighters

Estranged, It's So Easy, Locomotive - Guns N' Roses

Like Rats - GODFLESH

Let's Get It Up - AC/DC

In The Meantime - HELMET

Beautiful World, Jerking Back And Forth, Explosions - DEVO

I Die: You Die - Gary Numan

Uniform Of Youth - Mr. Mister

Take Me To The Top, Chance Of A Lifetime - Loverboy

The Good In Everyone, If It Feels Good Do It - Sloan

Don't Go To Pieces, Stranger Eyes - The Cars

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