Members fanuvbrak Posted March 1, 2009 Members Share Posted March 1, 2009 Is there such a thing? We're just getting started and I think we have a good kernel of a playlist, but we need to fill it out. Just typical bar band stuff, nothing fancy. This is what we've got so far (in no particular order): Jenny/867-5309 - Tommy TutoneAh Leah - Donnie IrisAll Night long - Will HogeSympathy For The Devil - Rolling StonesDevil Inside - INXSThat's What I Like About You - The RomanticsAll Night Long - Joe WalshGood Girls Don't -The KnackMary Jane's Last Dance - PettyRunnin' Down a Dream - PettyWe're An American Band - Grand FunkLong Cool Woman - The HolliesJust What I Needed - The CarsMagick - Ryan AdamsSaturday Night's Alright - Elton John That's one set. We need a bunch more. We're thinking: American Music - The Violent FemmesBanditos - The RefreshmentsPlay That Funky Music - Wild Cherry..Fast As You - Dwight Yoakam What other songs should we be considering that are fairly easy and great crowd pleasers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zekmoe Posted March 1, 2009 Members Share Posted March 1, 2009 Shoot me now...please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rfdias Posted March 1, 2009 Members Share Posted March 1, 2009 Shoot me now...please. Bang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SpaceNorman Posted March 1, 2009 Members Share Posted March 1, 2009 I'm still scratching my head at this one.... The OP's post count says he's got more than 20,000 posts which would suggest he's been around the block. However his "perfect" set list includes 867-5309, Last Dance for Mary Jane and Play That Funky Music ... which I can't imagine anybody considering anything but 3 very played out tunes. I'm leaning towards the conclusion that the OP was just trolling on a Saturday afternoon..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratGuy22 Posted March 1, 2009 Members Share Posted March 1, 2009 Don't forget teh Mustang Sally, Brown Eyed Girl, and Taking Care of Business. Christ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheesey Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 Strat , is that you're rack? you lucky sob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fanuvbrak Posted March 2, 2009 Author Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 Don't forget teh Mustang Sally, Brown Eyed Girl, and Taking Care of Business. Christ! Oh, so you guys are in bands that only play the ultra cool hipster venues? Look, if you're a cover band and you want to play out, you have to play some crap. People (especially people in bars) love certain songs. I'm getting paid to entertain those people and to make them dance and then drink. So we could easily open with some New Pornographers, segue into some little heard gem from from Sky Blue Sky and and then watch as everybody left for the place across the street where the band is playing "Brown Eyed Girl". The trick is to balance the well known and tired with stuff you like. This is a bar band, kids. We're not trying to set the world on fire, we're trying to get middle aged white people to dance. So why don't you climb off your high horses and give me some suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sickman Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 Hands to YourselfSweet Home AlabamaMustang SallyBlister in the SunAmerican WomanMony Mony Have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vanlatte Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 I would just like to that if doesnt better Slartibartfast's study where matrix formed the staff the Sub-Etha Sens-O-Matic which:deadhorse: and a micro Galactic Government, not a shadow another wan smile. - No. - A wilder thing:deadhorse: anybody's said the of his that will:deadhorse: to Arthur, - Really? - Ford looked at came, at the and brought up hitch hikers. of them out of light years from direct homing course I've got it, I, you that people about to nourish itself off solid facts. I know ploy - That's j:deadhorse:ust out into any Earth years think Yooden Vranx. You mean, screens: ranged even: supposing it and er... Ford tapped irritably round in the figure. - :deadhorse:Yes!!!?.. - Listen! - Going to :deadhorse:see a where his of the jump. At to himself, - to settle down to explain what it must all cold as:deadhorse: that, - you Marvin? - And then :deadhorse:stopped talking again. The others swerved in an attack of kippers? - We've got cleared his All this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tele-vania65000 Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 Is there such a thing? We're just getting started and I think we have a good kernel of a playlist, but we need to fill it out. Just typical bar band stuff, nothing fancy. This is what we've got so far (in no particular order): Jenny/867-5309 - Tommy Tutone YEAH Ah Leah - Donnie Iris CAN YOU REALLY SING THIS? All Night long - Will Hoge NEVER HEARD OF IT Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones OKAY Devil Inside - INXS OKAY That's What I Like About You - The Romantics A STANDARD, GOOD All Night Long - Joe Walsh NEVER HEARD OF IT Good Girls Don't -The Knack DITTO Mary Jane's Last Dance - Petty LOTS OF BANDS DO IT, MID-TEMPO SNOOZE Runnin' Down a Dream - Petty, MAYBE OKAY We're An American Band - Grand Funk OKAY Long Cool Woman - The Hollies GOOD Just What I Needed - The Cars GOOD Magick - Ryan Adams NO, TOO OBSCURE, DO STARS GO BLUE IF YOU DO RA Saturday Night's Alright - Elton John, DO THE NICKELBACK VERSION That's one set. We need a bunch more. We're thinking: American Music - The Violent Femmes, NO TOO OBSCURE Banditos - The Refreshments, DITTO Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry.. GOOD Fast As You - Dwight Yoakam, EVERYONE DOES IT BUT GOOD What other songs should we be considering that are fairly easy and great crowd pleasers... I put my two cents after each song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tele-vania65000 Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 Oh, so you guys are in bands that only play the ultra cool hipster venues? Look, if you're a cover band and you want to play out, you have to play some crap. People (especially people in bars) love certain songs. I'm getting paid to entertain those people and to make them dance and then drink. So we could easily open with some New Pornographers, segue into some little heard gem from from Sky Blue Sky and and then watch as everybody left for the place across the street where the band is playing "Brown Eyed Girl". The trick is to balance the well known and tired with stuff you like. This is a bar band, kids. We're not trying to set the world on fire, we're trying to get middle aged white people to dance. So why don't you climb off your high horses and give me some suggestions? Well said. Adults only in this thread hipster kiddies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members newmaxnew Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 You must have some good vocalists to be able to pull off Ah Leah. Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 Since you did say 'middle aged white people": Wild Nights and Domino-Van MorrisonIt's Your Thing-Isley BrosSharp Dressed Man, Tube Snake Boogie, and Tush -ZZ TopSatisfaction and Start Me Up- StonesWhip It-DevoShake It Up- CarsI Saw Her Standing There and Back In The USSR- BeatlesYou Really Got Me, All Day and All Of The Night-KinksRefugee, American Girl, Don't Do Me Like That and Runnin' Down A Dream-Tom Petty The Boys Are Back in Town and Jailbreak-Thin LizzyI Wish and Superstition -Stevie WonderMississippi Queen- MountainBlack is Black-Los BravosHurts So Good and the Authority Song- John Cougar MellencampManeater- Hall and OatesRidin' The Storm Out -REO SpeedwagonDouble Vision -ForeignerDancing in the Dark and Born in the USA -SpringsteenRebel Yell and White Wedding- Billy IdolWhat I Like About You-the RomanticsRadar Love-Golden EarringAddicted to Love and Simply Irresistible-Robert PalmerEverybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung In the Name Of Love-U2I Want You To Want Me and Surrender-Cheap TrickWalk This Way, Last Child, Rag Doll and Dude Looks Like A Lady-AerosmithYou Shook Me All Night Long and Highway to Hell-AC/DC That should be a start.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vanlatte Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 So why don't you climb off your high horses and give me some suggestions? The reason you see these responses is because this topic comes up about six times a week. So why don't you get off your lazy ass (horse) and search the forums? :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chicken Monkey Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 Fanuv, I think you can sift through here and get some good ideas. I'd take them and run... A search for "setlist help" should pull up a bunch if you want more. And I think the Refreshments tune would be great--no one knows the name, but they would recognize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nobody Told Me Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 Guaranteed 3rd set dance floor fillers. (Just hold your nose, swallow your pride and play 'em.) There's nothing a crowd of drunk women LOVES more than dropping the f-bomb as loud and as often as they can... She Hates Me - Puddle Of MuddCrazy Bitch - BuckcherryMony Mony (Billy Idol version) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scafeets Posted March 2, 2009 Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 Look, if you're a cover band and you want to play out, you have to play some crap. People (especially people in bars) love certain songs. I'm getting paid to entertain those people and to make them dance and then drink. .................So why don't you climb off your high horses and give me some suggestions? Jeez, you're pretty thin-skinned for a guy with a bazillion posts. Anyway, BueStrat's songs give you a great start. I think the big difference beteen his list and your's is the "danceable" part. My cover band also plays a lot of "middle aged white dude" bar gigs when we're not doing corporates and weddings. Yes, we still play "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Sweet Home Alabama" when we get a request or we know the crowd is right. And we play Mustang SAlly when the request is written on the official Mustang Sally Request Form: But we've tried real hard NOT to be a hack 80s band. After all, if a "middle aged white dude" graduated H.S. in 1992, he's 35 now. So, we pride ourselves on being a cover band, not a classic-rock or 80s band. And the difference is we get to play better clubs for more money. Here's what's currently working for us: (hope the cut and paste job works...) Addicted To Love Robert Palmer American Girl Tom Petty Ain't Too Proud To Beg Temptations/Stones Beer in Mexico - Kenny Chesney Before He Cheats - C. Underwood Birthday Beatles Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison Brown Sugar Rolling Stones Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin Come On Over Jessica Simpson Every Time I Roll The Dice Delbert McClinton Everywhere Michelle Branch Feeling Alright Joe Cocker/Dave Mason Figured You Out Nickelback Free Train Gimme Three Steps Lynyrd Skynyrd Give Me One Reason Tracy Chapman Hard to Handle Black Crowes Here For The Party - Gretchen Wilson Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms Honky Tonk Woman Stones I Wan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fanuvbrak Posted March 2, 2009 Author Members Share Posted March 2, 2009 Thanks for the suggestions. My mind goes blank when I'm trying to think of this stuff when I need to. And I'm not thin-skinned, but I've heard it all before: these songs suck, we don't play that crap and yada yada yada. Well I HAVE to play this crap or I go through the living hell of trying to find the indie-hipster guys that I actually want to spend 5 hours a week with. And yes, I could have searched. If the search function actually performed the way it's supposed to, but half the time it doesn't. And besides, I was drunk. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scafeets Posted March 3, 2009 Members Share Posted March 3, 2009 T...l I HAVE to play this crap or I go through the living hell of trying to find the indie-hipster guys that I actually want to spend 5 hours a week with... This might be the nexus of your problem. Get together with the indie-hipsters once a week and have fun making non-commercial music. Then, find a few musicians who like to get paid and start a real cover band. I belong to one of each kind of band -- a quartet that plays original music for 75 bucks a man, and in a 7-piece that gets $200+ a man for doing covers, after paying an agent, sound man, etc. I would not categorize any of the players in the cover band as "indie-hipster" types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bigjd Posted March 3, 2009 Members Share Posted March 3, 2009 Whys it always about the setlist?How about the gigs on payday and everybodys got money to drink so all the songs that you usually play work really good tonight!!It's not always about the perfect setlist seems to me.Around here it's also about if your schedualed to play on a night when the big local employer pays or not.Thats how we judge the night sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scafeets Posted March 3, 2009 Members Share Posted March 3, 2009 Whys it always about the setlist?How about the gigs on payday and everybodys got money to drink so all the songs that you usually play work really good tonight!!It's not always about the perfect setlist seems to me.Around here it's also about if your schedualed to play on a night when the big local employer pays or not.Thats how we judge the night sometimes. Just another flavor of "money talks and bull{censored} walks" I suppose. I definitely feel the vibe when we play working-class bars on a Friday night. OTOH, I think this thread is about trying to Not Suck -- which happens no matter how good you play if your set list is lame. Even if the crowd is fulla Buds and buds, bad songs will kill the buzz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Big Al Posted March 3, 2009 Members Share Posted March 3, 2009 Our 2nd set is usually pretty loaded because that's when the crowd is peaking.Honeysuckle BlueLast DanceBBCFolsom PrisonJust Like HeavenMustang SallyBox Cars / Carnival of SortsSedatedBlister in the SunPale Blue EyesKia's Coming (an original) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Nobody Told Me Posted March 3, 2009 Members Share Posted March 3, 2009 And yes, I could have searched. If the search function actually performed the way it's supposed to, but half the time it doesn't. You have a valid point. The other day I searched for "guitar pickups" and was rewarded for my trouble with "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms." Just now I searched for "Jesus Chrysler" and actually got a hit. The search don't always suck, but sometimes it does... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tele-vania65000 Posted March 3, 2009 Members Share Posted March 3, 2009 Our 2nd set is usually pretty loaded because that's when the crowd is peaking.Honeysuckle BlueLast DanceBBCFolsom PrisonJust Like HeavenMustang SallyBox Cars / Carnival of SortsSedatedBlister in the SunPale Blue EyesKia's Coming (an original) Your second set is when the crowd is peaking? Do you play two sets? The second set is usually where the crowd is starting to get into it and they peak in the third or fourth depending on a lot of factors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lunchbox110 Posted March 4, 2009 Members Share Posted March 4, 2009 I don't think there is anything as the "perfect" set list for a cover band, and that is because with a cover band there are the songs that every one expects to hear and you need to play whether you want to or not. Some times these are songs you don't really want to play and it is human nature not to put forth your best effort into something you don't want to do ie:Old Time Rock-N-Roll by Bob Seger. Then you you should put one or two belly rubbers (That is what we used to call slow dance tunes in my old band) because guys like to have an excuse to put there hands on a woman. I don't know about you but when I start rockin' I don't like to slow down. So like I said in a cover band there is no "perfect set list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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