jam night favourites / standards

[clare_bear]

Related to my first foray into the local jam night (or going along and having a look, anyway ), what do you consider as jam night 'standards', so that I can go prepared next time?

I think we already have:

Sweet Home Alabama
Hey Joe
Johnny B Goode
Alright Now


What else?

Hotel California, must qualify? - (I can play that one )

[Fwonk]

Any classic late-60s/early-70s number that can be jammed out for indefinitely long solos really. I'd suggest Hey Jude, Sympathy For The Devil, Won't Get Fooled Again perhaps even Comfortably Numb.

[martynq]

[Don't know.... starting to look like a list of songs that I'm too incompetent to play...]

[jezrogers]

there's the neil young department... Cortez the Killer, Cowgirl in the Sand, Keep on the Rocking in the Free World, Tonights the Night...

[clare_bear]

[Don't know.... starting to look like a list of songs that I'm too incompetent to play...]

Me too

[Fwonk]

Same here, but I'd do the tried and trusted "play the chords, play some harmonies and stick a bit of a lick in there now and again" technique as opposed to "10 minute sweep picking solo" technique!

[solar]

Hey Joe
Red House
Little Wing
Voodoo Chile
Sunshine Of Your Love
Sweet Home Chicago
Every Day I Have The Blues
Pride and Joy

For the more "classic rock" audience:

Sweet Child O Mine
Paranoid
Crazy Train

[clare_bear]

Awesome stuff, solar - cheers

Fwonk - sounds like a sensible approach to me!

[Jamieh]

I played Crossroads and Voodoo Chile the other night

Others have been Red House, Walking by Myself, Sweet Child of Mine, Living on a Prayer, some originals, some Floyd.... all sorts actually, but the standards are 12 bars in A or E!!

[BikeLovinAde]

Stormy Monday.

Never been to a jam when they didn't play that...