covers bands - setlists - post em up....

[bigdawg]

Female singers? Hope there's a Pink song or two in there as well..

nothing so....modern

most of the list is 5th post down by the way...

[RocknRollDave]

nothing so....modern

most of the list is 5th post down by the way...

Oops, so it is!


*must start actually reading threads*



Great list of songs, btw

[digitalscream]

LOL!

That's what we tried to do but ended up with all the usual shite.

K

That's our aim, too. We're only just getting started, but so far we've got:

Get The Funk Out
Raise Your Hands
Sober (Pink)
Beat It (MJ/FOB)
Hysteria (Muse)
Hash Pipe
Sweet Child o' Mine

Yeah, Sweet Child doesn't really fit with the "unique" aspect, but we do it just to keep the singer happy. Prospective/likely songs coming up are:

Wasted Years
One Day Remains (Alter Bridge's only good song)
Let Me Hear You Scream (Ozzy)
Star (Extreme, if I can ever figure out how to play it without making a fool of myself)
The Pretender (Foo Fighters)

Most of those are pretty uncommon in my experience, but feel free to tell me I'm wrong

[thereformant]

We win at most unique covers sets:

Save yourself - Stabbing Westward
The Pot - Tool
Die Die Die my darling - Metallica / Misfits
The thing that should not be - Metallica
Mama Said - Metallica
Ghost of perdition - Opeth
Toxicity - System of a Down
Stupify - Disturbed
Ace of spades - Motorhead
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Black night - Depp Purple
Dont fear the reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
walk - Pantera
halo - Soil
before I forget - Slipknot
Outshined - Soundgarden
Negasonic teenage warhead - Monster Magnet
Bullet with the butterfly wings - Smashing Pumpkins
Born to be wild - Steppenwolf
Poison - Alice Cooper
Go with the flow - QOTA
Immigrant song Led Zeppelin

We're an originals band really though.

[erictheweary]

not looking to nick anything really looking to make sure we've got a unique setlist...honest...

heres what Ive got...

Cant Explain
Sunshine of Your Love
Somebody to Love (Jefferson airplane)
Paint it Black
Fire (jimi Hendrix)
Hey Joe/Purple Haze/voodoo child medley
Feeling Good
Dakota
Californication
Boom Boom – john lee hooker
Summertime
The Wall – Pink Floyd Really?
My Generation
Sympathy for the Devil – Rolling Stones
Heartbreaker – Led Zepellin
Whole Lot of Love – Led Zepellin
Rock’n’Roll – Led Zepellin
Break on Through – Doors
Light My Fire - Doors
Higher Ground – Stevie Wonder / RHCP
White Room – Cream
I Feel Free - Cream
La Grange – ZZ Top
Pinball Wizard
Foxy Lady - Hendrix
Voodoo child – Hendrix
Piece of my Heart – Erma Franklin/Janis Joplin
Bartender – Stereophonics
I love rock’n’roll – Joan Jett
Bad Reputation – Runaways (Joan Jett )
Bad Thing – Jace Everett excellent choice
Ever Fallen in Love – Buzzcocks
Teenage Kicks – Undertones
Black Velvet – Alana Myles Oh dear God no...
Cardigans – Favourite Mistake
Whats Up – 4 non blondes
Baracuda – Heart
Summertime
Piece of my Heart – Erma Franklin/Janis Joplin
People get ready – impressions
Stay with me – lorraine Ellison
Natural Woman – Aretha Frankin
Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone _ Temptations
Son of a Preacher – Aretha Franklin
I feel love – donna summer
Respect – Aretha franklin
Think – Aretha franklin
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
Hold On - Sam & Dave
Ive never loved a man – Aretha franklin
Shout - Isley Brothers

let's face it I'm on no position to criticise, I play in a ska covers band you could guess our set list, with no clues, and be 99% right.

[bigdawg]

yeah alana myles I may lose from the list ...

Id love to be in a ska covers band I imagine the atmosphere at the gigs is brilliant...

[erictheweary]

yeah alana myles I may lose from the list ...

Id love to be in a ska covers band I imagine the atmosphere at the gigs is brilliant...

its a funny thing - its quite safe music for those remembering the 80's ( I don't think we get audiences who remember Jamaica in the early 60's!) and most of the stuff is well known to even quite young kids. But, also the music of choice for massive shaven headed blokes who like bobbing up and down and knocking over everything in their sight.

Still, you can't fail with Baggy Trousers. It is pretty much a riff based rock song with a couple of little spaces to insert minor pentatonic solos so it would also be ideal for a rockier cover.

[Not_the_DJ]

Still, you can't fail with Baggy Trousers. It is pretty much a riff based rock song with a couple of little spaces to insert minor pentatonic solos so it would also be ideal for a rockier cover.

Weird coincidence, our drummer's listed that one on our latest 'possible songs to learn' mammoth list.

I just don't get Ska at all (sorry), but maybe we should give it a try.

[erictheweary]

Weird coincidence, our drummer's listed that one on our latest 'possible songs to learn' mammoth list.

I just don't get Ska at all (sorry), but maybe we should give it a try.

TBH oustide of listening stuff to learn or as possibles for the set I don't really listen to ska. My listening these days is about 90% country ( although most people don't get that either).

However, its simple music to dance to and part of the same family tree as blues so yer( well, my) blues scale and pentatonic based licks will usually work.

On Baggy Trousers I'm just doing clean rythmn somewhere in the background ( which is all there is guitar wise on the original) but that main riff is pretty much a big dumb power chord riff crying out for a load of distortion. However badly we play it its the most crowd pleasing song I've ever played.

Our singer is quite keen on us doing the ska version of Black Night ( not an original thought, Bad Manners did it) but that would be giving up the very last shreds of my rock youth to do that...

[paganskins]

It's slightly depressing and slightly reassuring the overlap between the set lists above with each other and with ours (thinks this is a bit out of date now):

Thriller - Michael Jackson (Halloween special)
Creep - Radio Head
Many of Horror - Biffy Clyro
Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
Standing in the Way of Control - Gossip
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
Bohemian Like You - The Dandy Warhols
Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
All the Small Things - Blink 182
In the Morning - Razorlight
Have a Nice Day - Stereophonics
Sit Down - James
Who Knew - Pink
Save Tonight - Eagle Eye Cherry
Never Forget You - The Noisettes
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something
Mercy - Duffy
Feeling Good - Muse
Dream Catch Me - Newton Faulkner
New Shoes - Paulo Nuttini
Hard to Handle - Black Crowes
Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
The Fear - Lily Allen
You've got the Love - Florence and the Machine
Hanging on the Telephone - Blondie
Love Machine - Girls Aloud
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon