Songs you WANT to play, but...

What songs do you guys really want to cover, but for some reason or other, dont, or cant? Either too technical, too obscure, too out-of-genre for your band, whatever.

For me, I would love to do some TOOL, but it aint going to fit in real well with our crowd, and keeps getting shot down. Oh well.

What do you all think?

I'd like to do a lot of the old White Trash R&B...Turn on Your Lovelight, Jive Jive Jive...doen't go over here very much

My favorite all time rock song to play was Closer To Home...also doesn't go over here...not very danceable.

Liked playing the old Chicago stuff...now have no horns to cover

Your Move/All Good People...vocals are lacking in my band

At some point, I'd like to play in a band where horns are the lead. Instrumental would be even better. Maybe some funk or big band.

I would love to play early Grand Funk Railroad (think the Red Album) or Steppenwolf, buy can't seem to find a bunch of people that share my love for that type of music any more.

It is fun...we had a total of 5 horns in the Admirals so we did a lot of the Chicago/multihorn band stuff, plus pseudo big band arrangements as well...

horns definitely ... stuff by Cold Blood, Dreams, Chase ...

Free's obscure stuff ... add some Trapeze to that

Bloodrock

early Jethro Tull (1st thru 3rd albums)

I could go on and on ...

There's plenty I'd like to play but not a whole lot that I'd like to play long-term in a functioning band...

As it is, I get to play my all-time favorite band (The Clash) exclusively in a side-project, and one of my favorite overall genres/eras (80's classic alternative/new wave) in my primary band, so I'm pretty well satisfied, although I wouldn't mind getting to the point where finding a full-time/dedicated keyboard player for the 80's band made sense (vs. our frontman playing on a small portion of songs), so we could cover even more material.

But I don't spend time regularly playing music that I'm not a pretty big fan of to begin with as it is, so I don't get the burn-out on material that many of you talk about (in the "Never play again" thread). Color me lucky.

I guess if pressed for it, if I could get in on a serious Bowie or Who tribute, I'd do so, given that those are both at the very top of my favorites as well.

Beyond that though...I don't feel like I'm lacking much.

I'd love to have some type of horn funk band, doing TOP, Earth, Wind and Fire, Chicago, etc... that would be awesome.

My hard rock cover band has always wanted to throw down some Sevendust, Chevelle, Tool, and other stuff, but it's just too heavy for most places. We do one song by each, but they're the radio hits you can get away with.

Personally, I'd love doing some King's X and Extreme, but let's face it -- not the world's best known bands.

That's one factor I miss about my original rock band -- when we'd toss out covers, we picked ones we loved that more or less sounded like us. We got away with covers of Fuel, Incubus, Muse, Alter Bridge, Killswitch Engage.... and of course Corey Hart.

Seeing a real quality Bowie tribute would be VERY impressive. There's such a catalogue and variety of sound/ style with his career -- if you found some top notch guys and one hell of a frontman, you'd be rolling in the green!

I recently auditioned for a Who tribute, and surprisingly got the gig. However, I bailed on it, as I didnt particularly care for some of the guys I would be playing with. I would love to be part of something like that, and a Bowie tribute, done right, would be awesome, but I feel you REALLY need not only quality players, but quality BAND MATES for that type of thing. Real committment, willingness to work the songs out, not just hadk away at them...I didnt feel this would be that type of situation.

Still, nice to get the gig, though.

Lots of guys here like horns!

Stuff I wanna do would require too high a level of player. Moot though cuz I'd be the one along for the ride.

I don't know about that...I think there would be opportunities, but I've spent the past few years working with very specific, yet ultimately niche, genre and act focused bands (verging on tributes), and it can be hit and miss. Unless you're willing to travel big distances, acts that are that specific and that niche face challenges with regular bookings, and let's face it, outside of Ziggy, Let's Dance and a handful of other songs, Bowie is relatively niche somehow, despite such a long and successful career.

Would I pay to see a top flight Bowie act? Yes. But I am the exception, not the rule.

That being said, as long as I could have the opportunity to play a song like Rock & Roll Suicide, or especially that awesome and simple intro to Five Years, yeah, I don;t care too much how good the $ would be.

Would love to put together another early era,balls to the wall Fusion band, but finding the personnel to pull it off is a real challenge, and the lack of venues to perform it, at least in these neck of the woods, anyway, are as scarce as hens teeth.

Same goes for a good Progressive Rock band.

Maybe if I ever relocate, I'll pick a resort/entertainment type of location.

Some Jeff Beck,Zappa ,early Rush,early J. Tull ,Megadeath and maybe some Alter Bridge.Working to get those kind of chops,not there yet.So on for more lessons for me.

I love the idea of a fusion thing, Fusionfunk, but Im in the same boat as you: no venues interested. Actually theres no venues here on Long Island interested in much at all...

There's some 80's, 90's stuff that would be fun to do:

XTC (Black Sea, Drums and Wires and English Settlement era)

Oingo Boingo (pre - Dead Man's Party)

INXS

The Producers

The Pretenders (pre - Learning to Crawl - the more punkish stuff)

And:

Zappa's "Apostrophe" is a great jam tune! Or anything off "Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation"

Galactic's Ruckus CD would be so much fun.

Maybe some Little Village

Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Dixie Dreggs

Return to Forever

Lots and lots of really great stuff to choose from.

If I had my druthers and could play whatever cover tunes I wanted (with a smokin' band), I would do some Count Basie stuff, maybe some Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich tunes. Stuff like Splanky, Chameleon (Ferguson arrangement), Basically Blues, Readymix, Bags Groove. Stuff like that. I love reading big band charts and setting up and nailing the kicks, comping behind solos, the whole deal.

I'd love to be in a Rutles tribute band.

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Was in a band (The Relics) that did early GF,Neil Young,Steppenwolf.Along with later stuff from J.Geils(which is still OLD stuff),some Kid Rock.I really liked it,but it fell apart when the singer left.

Damn...totally forgot:

I would consider crime for hire to get involved with a top flight serious Adam and the Ants act, complete with horns, dual drumming, etc.

I would like to get in a band playin music like Coldplay and The Fray or originals that are along those lines.

Seriously? I dont mean that in a wiseass way...its just out of left field, but that WAS some great stuff. Underrated for sure!

100% serious. If you knew me, you wouldn't think it out of left field at all.

When I was 11, 12, 13 or so, I loved that stuff and listened to it (and solo Adam Ant) constantly. Strip was actually the first full-length new LP (that's vinyl kids) I bought myself (prior to that it was all 45s and used albums).