Good cover songs

[Dumb Snowman]

[Molina]

[Felonius_Monk]

[Felonius_Monk]

[Dumb Snowman]

Not a big fan of cannonball?

[shamdonk]

[shamdonk]

[MecosKing]

[shamdonk]

[emmasdad]

[Dumb Snowman]

[Felonius_Monk]

[JDLush]

My last band did a bunch of covers that were kinda out of the ordinary, maybe because we all had different tastes. Here's what I remember of our set list: We had 2 guitars and the other guitarist played some keyboards.

Gimme Shelter - Stones
Would - Alice In Chains
Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple (yeah, as corny as you'd think it is, people LOVED it)
The Trees and La Villa Strangiato - Rush (more to make me happy, I could play Lifeson licks all day long.)
Turn The Page - Seger (we did it ultra heavy WAY before Metallica covered it)
Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd (the singer dude could nail the vocal on this)
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
Vacation - GoGos (not uber heavy, kinda punkish heavy, like super fuzzy Green Day)
What Deener Was Talking About - Ween (we dabbled with other Ween stuff but no one knew it)
Whipping Post - Allmans
Soulshine - Allmans
Long Way Down - Goo Goo Dolls (way underrated song IMO)
Hold My Hand/Let Her Cry - Hootie and Blowfish - singer had the perfect Hootie voice and everyone loved to sing along
Hey Joe - Hendrix (yeah, us and a zillion other bands)
Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck (this was our 'hey I broke a string, gimme 2 minutes to fix it' song)
Burnin Love - Elvis (this song rocks when you heavy it up a bit)
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Badge and Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
Powderfinger and Like a Hurricane - Neil Young (sometimes Rocking In The Free World too)
One - Creed
War Pigs & Paranoid - Sabbath
Shot In The Dark - Ozzy
a shitload of others I can't remember right now

Songs we messed with but never played out:

Hum - Stars (drummer loved it but bass player hated it)
Torn - Creed (we broke up soon after this came out, never fully worked it out)
Man In The Box - Alice In Chains (none of us could hit the high notes, as horribly as we tried, lol)
Knocking At Your Back Door - Deep Purple (don't know why we dropped this, I love it)

Here's the deal - the songs that the average bar patron wants to hear are what they hear on the radio. In other words, you are gonna have a hard time playing the songs YOU (as a musician) want to play, cuz the average drunk bar hopper won't know how cool the harmonized 2 guitar parts are in Allmans or Skynyrd tunes, they just know how to sing "I Got Frennz in low friggen places bra!!!!" when they are hammered.

Good luck, I wish I still played, I really miss it but don't have time to get back into it. If you want an asskicking Hughes & Kettner combo amp let me know. it's dusty, but should still work. Not the loudest on the planet but the tone was beautiful.

[Dumb Snowman]

[MecosKing]

MONK! I just noticed your castigation of me. Lemme just get the formalities outta the way. FUCK YOU YOU SCONE-FUCKING SCONE FUCK-ER!

okay, perfunctory scone-reaming references aside, i oughta tell you that if you like cash, and also seein how much you like blues, i think you oughta look into old country if you havent all ready. Stuff like Merle Haggard, The Highwaymen (can you beleive that willie nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson we ALL IN A SINGLE BAND TOGETHER?!?), Ernest Tubb, Johnny Paycheck etc. This type of country is called 'outlaw country'- guys that were real drunks, degenerates, criminals, pill poppers, etc...actual outlaws and not just gay guys with southern accents like most new stuff.

Its good shit- Trust me i never thought id like country music, but it started when i heard Social D sing ring of fire, and i found out it was by cash, then i bought a cash album, and the rest is pretty much history...

Unfortunately theres not alot of new outlaw country out there that i know of except for Hank Williams III, whose new album is pretty damn good, but just a tad bit on the contrived side, and a little bit juvenile at the same time.

You can hear alot of this crap on myspace if your on there, just goto the 'music' tab, and type in the names, and itll take you to pages where you can just click the links and listen to some music, its sorta tite.