Your favorite cover tune to play bass to?

#103
Favorites to play...

"Alright Now", Free
"American Girl", Tom Petty
"Big Shot", Billy Joel
"Immigrant Song", Zeppelin
"Just What I Needed", Cars
"Listen to the Music", Doobies
"Living on a Prayer", Bon Jovi
"Miss You", Stones
"No Matter What", Badfinger
"Saturday in the Park", Chicago
 
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#105
Old P Bass Guy said:
I went into a "Black Hole" of absence of music around 1976 and didn't emerge until around 2007 (retirement "). This is a shameless way to get myself up to speed on what I have missed over half of my life.
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Don't feel bad. My Black Hole started about 1973 and lasted until 1997. I didn't pay much attention to popular music in the 80's or 90's so it's surprising how much stuff people want to play that I've never heard.

But 1960-1980? I got it.

Some of my favorites to play:

Pipeline
Green Onions
Time is Tight
Pretty Woman
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Clapton unplugged)
Various Creedence tunes, including Fortunate Son
ZZ Top: LaGrange and Cheap Sunglasses
 
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TE="Pilgrim, post: 20978799, member: 44180"]Don't feel bad. My Black Hole started about 1973 and lasted until 1997. I didn't pay much attention to popular music in the 80's or 90's so it's surprising how much stuff people want to play that I've never heard.

But 1960-1980? I got it.


Some of my favorites to play:

Pipeline
Green Onions
Time is Tight
Pretty Woman
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Clapton unplugged)
Various Creedence tunes, including Fortunate Son
ZZ Top: LaGrange and Cheap Sunglasses[/QUOTE]
Yup, it's like a bad version of "back to the future" or like being in a coma for 40+ years..
 
#111
True-Spandau Ballet
Dance With Me-Orleans
Love's Gonna Live Here-Buck Owens
You're The One That I Want-Grease
What Is And What Should Never Be-Zep
Hey Baby-Ted Nugent
Little Sister-SRV
If You Love Me Let Me Know-Olivia Newton John
When Will I Be Loved-Linda Ronstadt
 
#112
A Remark You Made. Weather Report
Starship Trooper. Yes
Yours Is No Disgrace. Yes
A Night in Tunisia.
Seven Days. Sting
Saint Augustine in Hell. Sting
30 years. UK
Please Don't Worry. GFR
Man Facing North. Yellowjackets
 
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#116
Right now on bass:

Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes
Tool - The Pot
Yes - Roundabout
Big Wreck - Ghosts
Muse - Hysteria

And on sax:

Chicago - Introduction
Men at Work - Overkill
Double - Captain of her Heart
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
 
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#117
2112 said:
Right now on bass:

Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy
Porcupine Tree - Blackest Eyes
Tool - The Pot
Yes - Roundabout
Big Wreck - Ghosts
Muse - Hysteria

And on sax:

Chicago - Introduction
Men at Work - Overkill
Double - Captain of her Heart
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
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Love Blackest Eyes, months ago I tried to get my boys to play this, Muse's City Of Delusion or ANY Yes. They wanted to regurgitate '70's pop radio crap non-stop instead. Their new bass player just quit also.
 
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#118
tubedude said:
Love Blackest Eyes, months ago I tried to get my boys to play this, Muse's City Of Delusion or ANY Yes. They wanted to regurgitate '70's pop radio crap non-stop instead. Their new bass player just quit also.
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We just did a gig where we played Blackest Eyes and Ghosts and the audience seemed to like them pretty well. I'm not sure we could get away with filling up a set with deeper cuts like this unless we played in a college town or other area more receptive to not hearing the same old bar crap... but it is sure nice to change it up from time to time.

Not sure why it's okay to play originals but not cover deeper cuts. In the end it's all the same anyway: they're all songs nobody ain't never heard before.
 
#119
It would be so refreshing to find a gig where the audience was stoked about hearing good music, instead of only liking something they've heard 10,000 times. Oops, that would be a jazz gig. Maybe vocals are an impediment to hearing music for the general population. Anyway...
 
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