Members worthyjoe Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 Do a lot of you incorporate medleys into your sets? For whatever reason I was never interested in them until recently and now I love them. It's perfect for songs with popular "hooks" but not necessarily songs people want to hear start to finish. It's also great for songs your band just doesn't feel like playing start to finish, or the bridge or whatever. thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fastplant Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 I like melodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members worthyjoe Posted August 23, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 Originally posted by fastplant I like melodies. true. my gf calls them melodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members elbow Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 We've incorporated some medleys into our sets.. depending on the place we play. There are just so many good songs our there, it's a good way to get some more material packed into a limited time frame for barely any more effort. examples: La Bamba and Beatles' Twist and ShoutAllman Bros' Midnight Rider.. just a verse, then wail into American Woman.. full lengthLot's of CCR stuff hangs together nice.. Born on the Bayou to Green River to Suzie Q, etc What you have to be a little careful of is not to string a 15 minute medley together and wear it out. Medley's were meant to be just a verse or so from each song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Botch Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 We do several: LA Woman/Roadhouse Blues House is a Rockin/Betty Lou Walkin on the Sun/Evil Ways and our 50's medley, about eight songs mashed together in 7 minutes, all in the key of B and we have a dance contest and give away a Puddlestone t-shirt to the winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mchen Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 We like to chain together tunes that have similay structure, but have little or nothing in common. Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison) into Whip IT (Devo) As Tears Go By (Rolling Stones) into Thank Yo (Led Zepplin) I love the looks we get when we transition into Whip It from the Pretty Woman tag line! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Roy Brooks Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 One of the bands I play with combines a couple tunes every now and then, tunes we play in the same keys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Outrider Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 Our best one, one that we've done for years in my all-purpose cover band, is our "disco medley": Play that Funky Music --> Get up offa that thing --> Get Down Tonight ---> Shake your Booty --->back into Funky Music. All singable, silly dance stuff. Keeps em on the floor the whole time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members worthyjoe Posted August 23, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 We do the following as medleys: Medley 1500 Miles - Proclaimers (2 verses and choruses)intoTake Me Out - Franz Ferdinand (2 verses and choruses)intoStacy's Mom - Fountains of Wayne (2 and 2)back into500 Miles (1 final verse and chorus) Medley 2Semi Charmed Life - 3rd Eye Blind (2 and 2)intoFlagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger (2 and 2)intoMr. Brightside - The Killers (full song) Medley 3Swing Swing - All American Rejects (2 and 2)into1985 - Bowling for Soup (2 and 2)intoLittle Black Backpack - Stroke 9 (just the chorus twice in a row)intoScars - Papa Roach (full song) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members worthyjoe Posted August 23, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 Originally posted by Outrider Our best one, one that we've done for years in my all-purpose cover band, is our "disco medley":Play that Funky Music --> Get up offa that thing --> Get Down Tonight ---> Shake your Booty --->back into Funky Music.All singable, silly dance stuff. Keeps em on the floor the whole time. nice! that's not a bad idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wheresgrant3 Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 Over 40% of our setlist is comprised of medleys. Some might think that is overkill, however our reputation, draw and niche in our region has really evolved around our ability to move from song to song and keep the crowd moving. We like to keep them grouped by genre's as mini sets. We have a New Wave medley that includes tunes by Devo, Adam Ant, and Flock of Seagulls is 11 minutes long and consists of 9 songs. We have a Rap/'Hip Hop/Disco/Funk Medley plays everything from Dave Matthews to the Ohio Players to Nelly that is 10 songs and 14 mins. And we've just put together another mini set of 80's hair rock that includes Bon Jovi, Metallica and Van Halen. It's pretty cool when you see someone in the crowd, who looks like he never listened to anything but punk rock his entire life staring at chicks grinding to "It Getting Hot in Here". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tucktronix Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 With the funk/R&B band, we do a couple of them. One of them is the medley done in The Gap Band Live CD with the intro, ending with "Outstanding". We also do a Parliament/Funkadelic medley incl "Cosmic Slop", "One Nation Under A Groove", "Flashlight", "Knee Deep", "Aqua Boogie" and "Tear The Roof Off". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JBJ Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 just now we're doing: libertines can't stand me now(full song) into the middle 8 and big ending of coldplays fix you and it sounds great Johnny B Goode into rockin all over the world I'm working on how to incorporate kaiser chiefs i predict a riot into the Clash's i fought the law too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members superiorparts Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 we do play that funky music and groove straight in to some george clinton we want the funk song and then we groove into crowd participation with the roof is on fire we dont need no water let the mf burn, after the crowd is really belting it out, the singer motions me and i do a low d note on my five string and we go into another brick in the wall and at the end of the solo we go back into funky music and rap it up. it works great. kevin james www.monkeyboneband.ocm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members srsfallriver Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 My current band: Superstition -> Funky Music Can't Help Myself -> Mustang Sally -> Love Shack I Will Survive -> Le Freak One of my old bands did some interesting medleys but I can't remember all the tunes in them. They changed tempos and keys throughout. One was a fifties medley that started slow (Oh Donna?) and after 3 or 4 slow tunes went to Run-around Sue (which starts slow and then picks up). The medley then stayed upbeat with 3 or 4 other tunes. I think it ended with Johnny B. Good. Another was a disco medley. We started with I will Survive and moved through several disco tunes (That's the Way I Like It, Get Down Tonight, were two) and ended with Disco Inferno and YMCA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Terry Allan Hall Posted August 23, 2005 Members Share Posted August 23, 2005 We do a few w/ my trio...we have a "Beatles Medley" (Day Tripper/Just 17/Ticket to Ride/Get Back), "Stones Medley" (As Tears Go By/Dead Flowers/Honky Tonk Women/Paint It Black), a "Celtic Medley" when Valerie joins us on fiddle and Kat plays mandolin instead of percussion (Red Haired Boy/Wind That Shakes The Barley/Soldier's Joy/Whiskey Before Breakfast/Cliffs of Brittainey/Davey The Gypsy) and a "Pink Floyd Medley" (Wish You Were Here/Time/Hey You/Pigs On The Wing/Comfortably Numb)... Depending on the crowd, we'll do one or more per gig, but rarely more than one per set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members axe2 2001 Posted August 24, 2005 Members Share Posted August 24, 2005 We have the typical Pfunk medly then we do... pink panther... batman.... wipe out... mission impossible and end it with peter gunn. About half of each song and each filled with blistering leadwork and bass/drum solos. We usually hear alot of "Holy {censored}!" and {censored} YAAAA!! at the end and people have that deer in the headlights look! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members e-b-e Posted August 24, 2005 Members Share Posted August 24, 2005 My Band does a medley of: What I Like About You/R.O.C.K in the USA/Cherry Cherry (Neil Diamond)/What I Like About You I dig medleys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tedster Posted August 24, 2005 Members Share Posted August 24, 2005 Medleys aren't gay...they have a purpose. If they don't fit your band's style, don't use 'em. I think more in terms of stringing songs together without a break...but shorter song clips (medleys) work fine too. ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN... (song)...(big, dance floor clearing "Freebird" style 5 minute ending where everyone plays every lick they know while the drummer whaps his snare)...(3 minutes of dead air while we argue about what song we should play next). Remember, we're competing with DJs a lot more these days, and DJs segue from tune to tune. Keep da booty on da floor... Did one the other day for our barbecue contest gig. We had three rehearsals to learn a set's worth of songs, so needless to say, we kept 'em simple. We did a three song medley of "Green River", "Fortunate Son", and "Little Bit Of Soul". Some nice oldies. Went over very well...like someone said...that bit where you change into the new song is great. We did "Green River", then modulated up to the G and chucked on that. When I started playing that simple little "Fortunate Son" intro lick, the crowd went crazy. Yeah, buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members worthyjoe Posted August 24, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 24, 2005 Originally posted by Tedster I think more in terms of stringing songs together without a break...but shorter song clips (medleys) work fine too. ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN...(song)...(big, dance floor clearing "Freebird" style 5 minute ending where everyone plays every lick they know while the drummer whaps his snare)...(3 minutes of dead air while we argue about what song we should play next). Yup. Dead time between songs is horrible and should be kept to a minimum. I think of medleys as usually not full songs.... maybe a VERSE/CHORUS/VERSE/CHORUS --> next song. We are always looking for ways to minimize down time... like making the setlist so that I change guitars on songs where the drums and bass start the groove. I think it's important to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Strings74 Posted August 24, 2005 Members Share Posted August 24, 2005 Originally posted by worthyjoe We do the following as medleys:Medley 1500 Miles - Proclaimers (2 verses and choruses)intoTake Me Out - Franz Ferdinand (2 verses and choruses)into This is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members worthyjoe Posted August 24, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 24, 2005 Originally posted by Strings74 This is awesome. thanks. 500 miles probably gets the most reaction of any song we play. People love that song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Strings74 Posted August 24, 2005 Members Share Posted August 24, 2005 Originally posted by worthyjoe thanks. 500 miles probably gets the most reaction of any song we play. People love that song. I was trying to get our guys to do Take Me Out and it just wasn't working out. Tricky feel. Maybe we'll revisit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members worthyjoe Posted August 24, 2005 Author Members Share Posted August 24, 2005 Originally posted by Strings74 I was trying to get our guys to do Take Me Out and it just wasn't working out. Tricky feel. Maybe we'll revisit. We skip that whole intro and just start with those series of hits before the main riff starts. Then we stop after the bridge thing ("i know I won't be leaving here... "). We probably couldn't pull off the whole song but it works well in a chunk like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fastplant Posted August 24, 2005 Members Share Posted August 24, 2005 We split these up by song for easy download, but this is all one big medly: http://www.sideshowband.com/media.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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