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we made up a song "menu"... a laminated song list of about 200 of our tunes that folks can just write the numbers down for requests... it helps figure out which way the current crowd is leaning for musical tastes... sometimes... biggrin.gif

 

Same here! Great setlist BTW!
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Same here! Great setlist BTW!
thank you, we keep trying to add a few more tunes each week... keeps things interesting. smile.gif

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This thread is awesome! Just by looking I can easily find 20 tunes that I never thought of doing...
yes! i've seen a few that i really need to add!
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Quote Originally Posted by Notes_Norton View Post
I don't do set lists, but prefer to call songs as my instincts and experience tells me what I hope the audience wants next. I watch the crowd, the dancers and the listeners, see what they are reacting to. Do they need another fast one? Or are they tired? Do they want a ballroom dance? Listening song? Comedy? Whatever? The way I run my backing tracks, I can make my decision during the last 10 seconds of the song I am playing and still get to the next song immediately if I need to (this is especially important when the dance floor is full).

But I do have an entire song list here http://www.s-cats.com

And if you are interested on how I run the backing tracks on stage http://www.nortonmusic.com/backing_tracks.html - also how I make them and more thoughts about set lists can be read or ignored on that page.

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Glad to hear you do that as well. I never have a setlist, and sort of go from the gut as well. I rarely see other guys do that, so I assumed it was dangerous and reckless. But then, so are my gigs.
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Mine:

Candy Everybody Love 10,000 Maniacs
What's Going On 4 Non-Blonds
You Shook Me All Night Long AC/DC
If You Love Me Like You Say Albert Collins
How Tight's Yer Drawers? Aquarium Rescue Unit
Spooky Atlanta Rhythm Section
Jive Talkin' Bee Gee's
To Love Somebody Bee Gee's
Steal My Kisses Ben Harper
New England Billy Bragg
Movin' Out Billy Joel
She's Got A Way Billy Joel
Zanzibar Billy Joel
Will It Go 'Round In Circles Billy Preston
All In The Groove Blues Traveler
Three Little Birds Bob Marley
The Way It Is Bruce Hornsby
Pink Cadillac Bruce Springsteen
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Chicago
Saturday In The Park Chicago
Mr. Jones Counting Crows
Round Here Counting Crows
Hangin' Around Counting Crows
Ants Marching Dave Matthews
So Far Away Dire Straits
Honky Cat Elton John
Tiny Dancer Elton John
Red Shoes Elvis Costello
Crossroads Eric Clapton
Can You See The Light Jeff Healey
Confidence Man Jeff Healey
Locomotive Breath Jethro Tull
Bathroom Window Joe Cocker
The Letter Joe Cocker
Feelin' Alright Joe Cocker
Is She Really Going Out With Him Joe Jackson
Gonna Find Another You John Mayer
Gravity John Mayer
Who Did You Think I Was John Mayer
Be Cool Joni Mitchel
Something About You Level 42
Be One Now Little Feat
Dixie Chicken Little Feat
I've Been Down Little Feat
Perfect Imperfection Little Feat
Must Get Out Maroon 5
She Will Be Loved Maroon 5
Sunday Morning Maroon 5
This Love Maroon 5
Billie Jean Michael Jackson
Champagne Supernova Oasis
Wonderwall Oasis
Dream Girl Paul Kempkes
By Your Side Peter Frampton
Show Me The Way Peter Frampton
The One I Love R.E.M.
Cut Me To The Bone Robben Ford
How Deep In The Blues Robben Ford
Lateral Climb Robben Ford
Politician Robben Ford
Real Man Robben Ford
Start it Up Robben Ford
Evil Ways Santana
Tempted Squeeze
Bad Sneakers Steely Dan
Black Cow Steely Dan
Black Friday Steely Dan
Deacon Blues Steely Dan
Dirty Work Steely Dan
Do It Again Steely Dan
Don't Take Me Alive Steely Dan
Everything You Did Steely Dan
Haitian Divorce Steely Dan
Kid Charlamagne Steely Dan
My Old School Steely Dan
Pretzel Logic Steely Dan
Rikki Don't Lose That Number Steely Dan
King of the World Steely Dan
Roll With It Stevie Winwood
Boogie On Reggae Woman Stevie Wonder
Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing Stevie Wonder
Bring On The Night/When The World Is Running Down Sting
Consider Me Gone Sting
Down So Long Sting
Shadows in the Rain Sting/Police
Stray Cat Strut Stray Cats/Brian Setzer
Too Much Time On My Hands Styx
Logical Song Supertramp
Long Way Home Supertramp
Yellow Moon The Neville Brothers
So Lonely The Police
Tea In The Sahara The Police
Synchronicity II The Police
Walking on the Moon The Police
Behind Blue Eyes The Who
Getting In Tune The Who
Won't Get Fooled Again The Who
Come Together The Who
How's It Gonna Be Third Eye Blind
Couldn't I Just Tell You Todd Rundgren
Dream Goes On Forever Todd Rundgren
You Got Lucky Tom Petty
Give Me One Reason Tracy Chapman
With Or Without You U2
Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For U2
Moondance Van Morrison

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Quote Originally Posted by wkendhacker View Post
Glad to hear you do that as well. I never have a setlist, and sort of go from the gut as well. I rarely see other guys do that, so I assumed it was dangerous and reckless. But then, so are my gigs.
Actually, I think it serves the audience much better to call the tunes on the fly - as long as you are paying attention to the audience and can read the cues that will tell you what is best to play next.

IMHO to create a set list and predict what the audience will want to hear three or more songs from now is reckless - unless you are clairvoyant.

What if you have three fast songs in a row in your set list, and tonight the moon or whatever is in the wrong phase and they are tired after the first one? Playing fast songs while they are on the dance floor is a lot of fun, but if they are tired and drag themselves back to their seats, it takes a lot of the performer's energy out of the song and it doesn't serve the audience well.

I can think of a number of different examples where set lists don't work.

Not that calling them on the fly is perfect. It takes experience to read the crowd, but if you don't start you won't get the experience.

We play regularly in a yacht club, and we often get the comment "You really know how to pace this crowd." Perhaps that is why we keep getting re-booked. It isn't the same every time, but as long as we read the crowd and give them what they want when they want it, we should be in good shape for a return booking.

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Good.
I LOVE that song!!!
I do too! But it's a very difficult one to sing (we must be talking about "Wave" by Antonio Carlos Jobim)
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I should apologize in advance for posting something this long. So, with apologies, my somewhat complete list of covers on acoustic guitar and piano (and some band numbers) part 1...

Melissa - Allman Brothers
Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers
How Much I Feel - Ambrosia
Horse With No Name - America
Ventura Highway - America
I Need You - America
Sandman - America
Tin Man - America
Lonely People - America
Sister Golden Hair - America
Daisy Jane - America
Seminole Wind - John Anderson
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Love Shack - B-52s
The Weight - The Band
Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
ORIGINAL SONGS FROM MY CDs - John Bartus
Kokomo - Beach Boys
Let It Be - Beatles + Solo
The Long and Winding Road - Beatles + Solo
Here Comes the Sun - Beatles + Solo
Nowhere Man - Beatles + Solo
Norwegian Wood - Beatles + Solo
Oh Darlin' - Beatles + Solo
Yesterday - Beatles + Solo
Get Back - Beatles + Solo
Back in the USSR - Beatles + Solo
Yellow Submarine - Beatles + Solo
Something - Beatles + Solo
A Hard Day's Night - Beatles + Solo
Can't Buy Me Love - Beatles + Solo
A Day In The Life - Beatles + Solo
Ob-La-Di - Ob-La-Da
You've Got To Hide Your - Beatles + Solo
Fool On The Hill - Beatles + Solo
Rocky Raccoon - Beatles + Solo
Sgt. Pepper/Help From My Friends - Beatles + Solo
I Am The Walrus - Beatles + Solo
Hey Jude - Beatles + Solo
We Can Work It Out - Beatles + Solo
Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End - Beatles + Solo
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Beatles + Solo
I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles + Solo
Twist And Shout - Beatles + Solo
In My Life - Beatles + Solo
Imagine - Beatles + Solo
Starting Over - Beatles + Solo
Woman - Beatles + Solo
Watching the Wheels - Beatles + Solo
Band on the Run - Beatles + Solo
Day-O - Harry Belafonte
On Broadway - George Benson
This Masquerade - George Benson
Johnnie B. Goode - Chuck Berry
At This Moment - Billy & The Beaters
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Amanda - Boston
A Man I'll Never Be - Boston
Space Oddity - David Bowie
The Letter - Box Tops
Everything I Own - Bread
Guitar Man - Bread
I'd Like To Make It With You - Bread
If - Bread
Friends in Low Places - Garth Brooks
The Dance - Garth Brooks
Shameless - Garth Brooks
Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
In the Shape of a Heart - Jackson Browne
Rosie - Jackson Browne
The Load-Out / Stay - Jackson Browne
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
Pirate Looks at 40 - Jimmy Buffett
Changes in Latitudes - Jimmy Buffett
Volcano - Jimmy Buffett
Son of a Sailor - Jimmy Buffett
Come Monday - Jimmy Buffett
Havana Daydreamin' - Jimmy Buffett
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Taxi - Harry Chapin
Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin
Better Place to Be - Harry Chapin
Saturday In The Park - Chicago
Colour My World - Chicago
25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago
Beginnings - Chicago
Change The World - Eric Clapton
Layla - Eric Clapton
Promises - Eric Clapton
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Crazy - Patsy Cline
You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins
One Tin Soldier - Coven
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence/Fogerty
Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence/Fogerty
Green River - Creedence/Fogerty
Proud Mary - Creedence/Fogerty
Who'll Stop The Rain - Creedence/Fogerty
Centerfield - Creedence/Fogerty
Old Man Down the Road - Creedence/Fogerty
Rock and Roll Girls - Creedence/Fogerty
Southern Cross - CSNY
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - CSNY
Helplessly Hoping - CSNY
Just A Song Before I Go - CSNY
Ohio - CSNY
Wasted on the Way - CSNY
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Operator - Jim Croce
I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song - Jim Croce
Bad Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
You Don't Mess Around With Jim - Jim Croce
Long Haired Country Boy - Charlie Daniels
I Go Crazy - Paul Davis
Rocky Mtn. High - John Denver
Country Roads - John Denver
Annie's Song - John Denver
Leaving On A Jet Plane - John Denver
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
I Am - I Said
Love On The Rocks - Neil Diamond
Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond
So Far Away - Dire Straits
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Walk of Life - Dire Straits
Blueberry Hill - Fats Domino
Listen to the Music - Doobie Brothers
Black Water - Doobie Brothers
China Grove - Doobie Brothers
Touch Me - Doors
Light My Fire - Doors
Riders on the Storm - Doors
Roadhouse Blues - Doors
Life in a Northern Town - Dream Academy
Under the Boardwalk - Drifters
Up On The Roof - Drifters
All Along the Watchtower - Bob Dylan
Don't Think Twice - Bob Dylan
Hurricane - Bob Dylan
I Shall Be Released - Bob Dylan
It Ain't Me Babe - Bob Dylan
Just Like a Woman - Bob Dylan
Knocking on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan
Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
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As promised, Part 2!

Baby I Love Your Way - Peter Frampton
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
Drift Away - Dobie Gray
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
Sara Smile - Hall & Oates
Every Time You Go Away - Hall & Oates
It Never Rains in Southern California - Albert Hammond
Angel Eyes - Jeff Healey Band
Sunset Grille - Don Henley
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
End of the Innocence - Don Henley
Last Worthless Evening - Don Henley
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill
Long Cool Woman in Black Dress - Hollies
Let Her Cry - Hootie & the Blowfish
I Only Wanna Be With You - Hootie & the Blowfish
The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby
White Wedding - Billy Idol
Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel
Captain Jack - Billy Joel
Honesty - Billy Joel
Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel
Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) - Billy Joel
Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
Say Goodbye to Hollywood - Billy Joel
A Matter of Trust - Billy Joel
Summer - Highland Falls
You May Be Right - Billy Joel
Chevy Van - Sammy Johns
No One Is To Blame - Howard Jones
Beautiful in My Eyes - Joshua Kadison
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
Carry on Wayward Son - Kansas
Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Beth - Kiss
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
If Children Had Wings - Gordon Lightfoot
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot
The Citcle is Small - Gordon Lightfoot
Spanish Moss - Gordon Lightfoot
Cool Change - Little River Band
Lady - Little River Band
Brandy - Looking Glass
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Redemption Songs - Bob Marley
Heard it in a Love Song - Marshall Tucker Band
We Just Disagree - Dave Mason
Why Georgia Why - John Mayer
American Pie - Don McLean
Vincent - Don McLean
Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad - Meat Loaf
Cherry Bomb - John Mellencamp
Jack & Diane - John Mellencamp
Hurts So Good - John Mellencamp
Your Life Is Now - John Mellencamp
Overkill - Men At Work
Down Under - Men At Work
The Joker - Steve Miller
Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues
The Voice - Moody Blues
Have I Told You Lately - Van Morrison
Moondance - Van Morrison
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
Wildfire - Michael Murphey
Garden Party - Rick Nelson
Mr. Bojangles - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Oh! Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Still the One - Orleans
Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons Project
Time - Alan Parsons Project
You Don't Know How It Feels - Tom Petty
Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty
Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty
Breakdown - Tom Petty
American Girl - Tom Petty
Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
The Last DJ - Tom Petty
It's Good to Be King - Tom Petty
Learning to Fly - Tom Petty
Yer So Bad - Tom Petty
You Wreck Me - Tom Petty
Wildflowers - Tom Petty
Have Love Will Travel - Tom Petty
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Breathe / Time - Pink Floyd
Hey You - Pink Floyd
Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
Another Brick (Part II) - Pink Floyd
Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
Crazy Love - Poco
Message In A Bottle - Police/Sting
Fields of Gold - Police/Sting
Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Back on the Chain Gang - Pretenders
Purple Rain - Prince
Angel From Montgomery - John Prine
Whiter Shade of Pale - Procul Harum
You're My Best Friend - Queen
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Right Down The Line - Gerry Rafferty
Whatever's Written In Your Heart - Gerry Rafferty
Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
Losing My Religion - R.E.M.
The One I Love - R.E.M.
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling - Righteous Brothers
Easy - Lionel Ritchie/Commodores
Hello - Lionel Ritchie/Commodores
The Poor Side of Town - Johnny Rivers
Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson
Wild Horses - Rolling Stones
Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones
Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
Miss You - Rolling Stones
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
Angie - Rolling Stones
Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
The Last Time - Rolling Stones
Mixed Emotions - Rolling Stones
Smooth - Santana
Evil Ways - Santana
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Love Look What You've Done To Me - Boz Scaggs
Summer Breeze - Seals & Croft
Turn the Page - Bob Seger
Night Moves - Bob Seger
We've Got Tonight - Bob Seger
Against the Wind - Bob Seger
Main Street - Bob Seger
Runaway - Del Shannon
The Boxer - Simon (& Garfunkel)
Sounds of Silence - Simon (& Garfunkel)
Homeward Bound - Simon (& Garfunkel)
Mrs. Robinson - Simon (& Garfunkel)
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon (& Garfunkel)
Me & Julio - Simon (& Garfunkel)
Kodachrome - Simon (& Garfunkel)
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover - Simon (& Garfunkel)
Slip Sliding Away - Simon (& Garfunkel)
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen
As Time Goes By - Standard
Georgia On My Mind - Standard
House of the Rising Sun - Standard
Kansas City - Standard
San Antonio Rose - Standard
Slow Boat to China - Standard
Fly Me To The Moon - Standard
Stars Fell on Alabama - Standard
Summertime - Standard
Wind Beneath My Wings - Standard
Doctor Wu - Steely Dan
Reelin' In The Years - Steely Dan
Third World Man - Steely Dan
Born to be Wild - Steppewnwolf
Wild World - Cat Stevens
Peace Train - Cat Stevens
Where Do The Children Play - Cat Stevens
Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens
Time Passages - Al Stewart
Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
I Was Only Joking - Rod Stewart
You're In My Heart - Rod Stewart
Give a Little Bit - Supertramp
Nearly ALL Popular JT - James Taylor
My Girl - Temptations
The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Tokens
Africa - Toto
End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys
Handle With Care - Traveling Wilburys
Happy Together - Turtles
With or Without You - U2
La Bamba - Richie Valens
Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
Always On My Mind - Willie & Waylon
Luckenbach Texas - Willie & Waylon
On The Road Again - Willie & Waylon
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Heart of Gold - Neil Young
Like a Hurricane - Neil Young
Comes A Time - Neil Young
My My Hey Hey - Neil Young
Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young
Get Together - Youngbloods
Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
Poor Pitiful Me - Warren Zevon
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top

(Whew!)

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potts - watched some of your youtube and looking over your list - you could easily add lookin out my back door (CCR) and sunshine (john edwards). they flow nicely with have you ever seen the rain. have you tried anything with the bee gees too much heaven? we started working on that this week.

some nice looking lists here.

here's our list from late last fall, not updated for recent batch of 20 additions/replacements. we take songs in and out of rotation quite a bit. pardon the format, google docs doesn't cut and paste well. and excuse my exclusion of blackbird tongue.gif

1979 - smashing pumpkins
aimee - prarie league
all my life - FF
always something there to remind me - naked eyes
angry chair - AIC
baba o riley - the who
bad romance - yep, gaga
beds are burnin - midnight oil
best of you - FF
billie jean - chris cornell version
blister in the sun - violent femmes
breaking the girl - RHCP
breaking the law - priest
can I play with madness - maiden
can't you see - marshall tucker
caroline - the clarks
cemetary gates - pantera
cherub rock - smashing pumpkins
cigarette - the clarks
cold gin - kiss
crazy - g n r
crazy - (gnarls barkley - by ray lamontagne)
crazy train- oz
creep - radiohead
crystal ball - styx
daniel - elton john
don't dream it's over - neil finn
don't follow - AIC
don't panic - coldplay
don't you forget about me - simple minds
empty - ray lamontagne
everlong FF
fake plastic trees radiohead
fall guy theme
flagpole sitta - harvey danger
floaty - FF
fooling yourself - styx
friends with bearded faces - garth (parody)
going to california - l.z.
got me wrong - AIC
grand illusion - styx
greates american hero ?
hand that feeds - NIN
have you ever seen the rain - CCR
high and dry - radiohead
horse with no name - america
hungry like the wolf - duran duran
i will survive - gloria g.
I'm gonna be - proclaimers
island in the sun - weezer
jane says - janes addiction
jessies girl - rick (parody version)
just like heaven - the cure
just what I needed - cars (parody)
keep on rockin - neil young
kiss - prince
learn to fly - FF
let it die - FF
long road to ruin - FF
looking out my back door - CCR
melt with you - modern english
monkey wrench - FF
mother - danzig
mr rogers - fred himself
mr. brightside - the killers
my hero - FF
my life - billy joel
no more mr. nice guy - alice cooper
no rain - blind melon
nobody's fool - cinderella
number of the beast - maiden
nutshell - AIC
overkill - colin hay
paranoid - sabbath
personal jesus - johnny cash version
pokerface - daughtry version
pull me under - dream theater
river of deceit - mad season
rusty cage - johnny cash version
sanitarium - metallica
sober - tool
stranger things have happened - FF
sunshine - jonathon edwards
superstition (pat monahan version) stevie
take on me - ah-ha
the dukes - waylon
the pretender - FF
the trooper - maiden
thing that should not be - metallica
this life (sons of anarchy) - curtis stiger
times like these - FF
tomorrow - silverchair
used to love her - g n r
walk - FF
what is and what should never be - l.z.
where is my mind - the pixies
white wedding - billy idol
who can it be now - colin hay
you spin me - dead or alive
you wreck me - petty

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My list is mostly Americana, alt country, some reworked classics and originals. Not stuff a lot of people would want to play.

20. Dear Abbey- John Prine
30. Hello In There- John Prine
34. Big Ol Goofy World- John Prine
38. Living in the Future- John Prine
44. That
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potts - watched some of your youtube and looking over your list - you could easily add lookin out my back door (CCR) and sunshine (john edwards). they flow nicely with have you ever seen the rain. have you tried anything with the bee gees too much heaven?

 

I use to do "Sunshine". I dont know how it fell off the list. I'll play a lot of tunes that I'm not a big fan of, but man do I hate CCR and especially "Back Door". I'll have to look up "Too Much Heaven"- I'm not familiar with it.
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the metal tunes have been arranged in a non-in-your-face style. mellow, slowed tempo, laid back. they go surprisingly well even at wineries where people aren't familiar with them haha!

admittedly some of the other selections do require an appropriate audience and venue. i.e. screaming dave grohl songs and the 80's pop/dance tunes.

i'll get to clips someday if i ever buy recording gear. i still use a non-smart flip phone

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Quote Originally Posted by Voltan View Post
we made up a song "menu"... a laminated song list of about 200 of our tunes that folks can just write the numbers down for requests... it helps figure out which way the current crowd is leaning for musical tastes... sometimes... biggrin.gif
this is a nice idea. beats trying to hear muffled screams from across the bar or in your face while your in the middle of a song lol!


and john bartus - i was diggin your list, then saw 'dream weaver' and really started taking a look. that's a good song book man. i'll put you on the list of acts to catch (along with NN) when i make it to florida again.
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agree on the sticky comment. anyone would be a fool to not be able to think of songs to play after reading through this lol! glad you all shared, got some great ideas. some were even prompted not by borrowing selections, but forgetting about artists that i enjoyed playing in full bands.

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Trying not to be too intimidated by some of your monster lists, here's mine. Being a non-guitar player (at least in my current incarnation) it's interesting to see what songs we still have in common.

Beatles - All My Loving, Can't Buy Me Love, Tell Me Why
Billy Joel - Honesty, Just the Way You Are, My Life, Only the Good Die Young
Classics IV - Spooky, Stormy
Coldplay - Clocks
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Eagles - Tequila Sunrise
Elton John - Daniel
Eric Clapton - Nobody Knows You When
Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love
Gary Numan - Cars
Gerry and the Pacemakers - Ferry Cross the Mersey
Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey
Hall & Oates - Maneater
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Jay & the Americans - This Magic Moment
Jimmy Buffet - Changes in Latitudes, Margaritaville
Moody Blues - Story in your eyes
Mountain - Theme for an Imaginary Western
Peter Frampton - Baby I Love Your Way
Procul Harum - A Salty Dog
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Sammy Kershaw - She Don't Know She's Beautiful
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Sting - Fields Of Gold
Troggs - Love is All Around
Van Morrison - Brown-Eyed Girl
Wallflowers - One Headlight
Instrumentals (Piano/Organ) - Time is Tight
Instrumentals (Sax) - Crazy (Patsy Cline), Girl from Ipanema, It Had to be You,
Sleep Walk, Tequila, The Way You Look Tonight
Instrumentals (Flute) - Black Orpheus, Bouree (Jethro Tull), Flute Thing,
Meditation, Swingin' Shepherd Blues

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and john bartus - i was diggin your list, then saw 'dream weaver' and really started taking a look. that's a good song book man. i'll put you on the list of acts to catch (along with NN) when i make it to florida again.

 

Thanks! If you get down to the Keys, look me up... I'm in Marathon, halfway between Key Largo and Key West.
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Quote Originally Posted by JimboKeys View Post
Trying not to be too intimidated by some of your monster lists, here's mine. Being a non-guitar player (at least in my current incarnation) it's interesting to see what songs we still have in common.

Beatles - All My Loving, Can't Buy Me Love, Tell Me Why
Billy Joel - Honesty, Just the Way You Are, My Life, Only the Good Die Young
Classics IV - Spooky, Stormy
Coldplay - Clocks
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Eagles - Tequila Sunrise
Elton John - Daniel
Eric Clapton - Nobody Knows You When
Everly Brothers - Bye Bye Love
Gary Numan - Cars
Gerry and the Pacemakers - Ferry Cross the Mersey
Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey
Hall & Oates - Maneater
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Jay & the Americans - This Magic Moment
Jimmy Buffet - Changes in Latitudes, Margaritaville
Moody Blues - Story in your eyes
Mountain - Theme for an Imaginary Western
Peter Frampton - Baby I Love Your Way
Procul Harum - A Salty Dog
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Sammy Kershaw - She Don't Know She's Beautiful
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Sting - Fields Of Gold
Troggs - Love is All Around
Van Morrison - Brown-Eyed Girl
Wallflowers - One Headlight
Instrumentals (Piano/Organ) - Time is Tight
Instrumentals (Sax) - Crazy (Patsy Cline), Girl from Ipanema, It Had to be You,
Sleep Walk, Tequila, The Way You Look Tonight
Instrumentals (Flute) - Black Orpheus, Bouree (Jethro Tull), Flute Thing,
Meditation, Swingin' Shepherd Blues
I love seeing a list that is much different than most solo acts. Salty Dog, Theme from an Imaginary Western, Black Orpheus, love those choices!
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