Set list - what do you think?

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I'm joining a working cover band and have my first rehearsal with them this Sunday. Here's the set list they asked me to learn. What you do think?

Open up your eyes - Tonic
My Sacrifice - Creed
Selling the Drama - Live
Interstate Love Song - S.T.P.
Unglued - S.T.P.
Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray
Funk 49 - James Gang
Flag Pole Sitta - Harvey Danger
Times Like These - Foo Fighters
Danni California - Red Hot Chiili Peppers
Good - Better than Ezra
Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
All Right Now - Free (Paul Rogers)
Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Figured You out - Nickleback
Remedy - Seether
Tush - ZZ top
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
You Really Got ME - Van Halen
Panama - Van Halen
Paralyzer/Take me out - Finger 11
Dirty Deeds - AC/DC
Crazy Bitch - Buck Cherry
Some Kinda wonderful - Buddy Guy
Brick House - The Commodores
Play That Funky Music White Boy - Wild cherry
I Want You to want me - Cheep Trick
Control - Puddle of mud
Fake it - Seether
Sober - Tool
Killing in the name of - Rage Against Machine
Alive - Pearl Jam
Plush - S.T.P.
Bound For The Floor - Local H
Mr. Brown Stone - Guns & Roses
Good Times Bad Times - Led Zepplin
Give it away - Red hot Chilli Peppers
Holiday - Green Day
No Way Back - Foo Fighters
Man In The Box - Alice-n-Chains
 
ectoflanger said:
It's eclectic fer sure!
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And I think that's why I like it! I've been talking with the drummer a lot lately and he wants to add some Billy Joel to the list. Now that broadens things out even more!
 
Looks tip-top.

Just be careful where you play that Buckcherry song.

I've had some trouble with that one before. ;)

(Right after it came out, at a bar (none the less) the
manager wasn't too pleased with the non censored
rendition which was played, and sung along too by
the crowd. I guess a tiki bar next to a family restaurant
isn't the best venue to unveil a new song though.)
 




What is the personnel/make-up of this band ?

I'm tempted to think that if it takes on some
Billy Joel then it prolly oughta match that with
some Frank Sinatra, but I wouldn't wanna try
that with just a basic geetar band so thaz why
I asked about the band. Horn and KB ?

See, while I'm only vaguely familiar with the
material on the set list, the general content of
the list, at just a glance, hits me as requiring
no more than a basic geetar band .... so I got
to wondering, as we PKs tend to do, wazzup ?
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I spoze itz just a lowly geetar band, most honorable PK! drummer, guitarist, guitarist/singer, and me on the down low...I'm inclined to believe that they'll tend to take some serious liberties with the mellower tunes and slather them with a healthy heap of harmonic wailing, and other geetar trickery. no horns, doo-wap gurls, or KBs.
 
One thing that did pop into my mind regarding the set list-- how about Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side? The bass is cool.;)
 
I looked at the list again and perhaps Walk on the Wildside's beat is too laid back to fit with the set. I'm familiar with most, but not all of the songs in it. Interesting song though. It was the first song I ever karaoked, but the people dug it.

I noticed you have a fretless Corvette as well. What songs do you use it for?
 
Maybe it's me not being in a band, but that seems like a lot of songs to learn. How much time do they give you to master all of that?
 
ectoflanger said:
I noticed you have a fretless Corvette as well. What songs do you use it for?
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I may not use the fretless at all with this band, just to keep the logistics simpler (it's just a bar band ya know..) but to answer your question, I suppose the Pearl Jam song is a likely candidate for the fretless. maybe some others as well. one concern i have with using the fretless (or switching basses in general during a set) is adjusting levels and EQ on the fly. there's a huge difference in the output of my $$ vs. the passive fretless and I could really mess up the balance of the band.
 
ectoflanger said:
One thing that did pop into my mind regarding
the set list-- how about Lou Reed's Walk on
the Wild Side? The bass is cool.;)
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Big +1.

... and it medlys real cool into their
version of "Sweet Jane", which even
as the Lou Reed version will please
your Stones fans as well !

The SJ bass line is a repetitious no
brainer, so you can chick out the
scenenickry in the house, but it's
still fun to hear yourself play it.

The Lou Reed stuff is a really great
excuse to play your FL, too !
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Gerry said:
Maybe it's me not being in a band (the number of songs), but that seems like a lot of songs to learn. How much time do they give you to master all of that?
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I'd say it's pretty typical for a cover band, and most of the stuff is simple to play. For me, the challenge is always remembering the song structure....that's probably true for most others as well. I'm currently outta work so I was able to put in about 3-4 hours a day, cramming these songs into my head.

Anywayz..the original plan was that I was going to get about 2 weeks, then play a gig with them w/out any prior rehearsal (yikes!). Ya see, the band was playing regular gigs and their bass player just up and quit. They made a mad scramble and found me on the Bandmix website. I was more or less ready, but they managed to get a buddy of theirs that had played with them before to sit in for that gig...which let me off the hook and gave me a few more weeks to get cozy with the set list. In the meantime the singer left the band as well! The drummer, who had been responsible for booking gigs and was generally the driver behind the band lined up another (better) singer and now the band has been reconstituted. so with a guitarist and drummer who've been playing together for many years and know at least 60 songs I think we'll be gigging very soon. can't wait.

-Gerry ;)
 
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Looks good, Gerry. I haven't played in a cover band for years, but the theme doesn't change much. A fairly 'typical' cover list for the most part, but you have to play what the clubs want you to play. Be sure to have a say in any new stuff they bring in - it's easy to get burnt out if you aren't playing a few things that you really want to play. And you should add a newer Tool song for me... Ha!
 
Gerry said:
Maybe it's me not being in a band, but that
seems like a lot of songs to learn. How much
time do they give you to master all of that?
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Warning: Sweeping Generalization Ahead !

Most of the titles I can recognize as quite
commonly found in bar juke boxes. From
what has penetrated my defenses while
in such places, I'd say that, just to get
rolling at first, over half of the songs can
be well-enuf served with maybe just 2
or 3 bass lines [in various keys, tempos,
and rhythms].

Thaz just to get rolling. It's not long after
that that the songs themselves will lead
you to individualize the bass more and
more for each song.

Thaz the easy road. One COULD dive in
feet first and have a signature bass line
for every tune before the first gig. If the
pay rate justifies the time up front, you
just DO it, cuz it pays.

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There's a $$ Corvette black ash on the rack at the local GC and the price is liable to go down (and tempt me). This GC is liquidating their Warwicks and there's only two left in the store, another std fretless 4 string and the $$. I bought my 4 string fretless there for 839.00 in January (down from 1239.00 in late-December). The last 4 string fretless was priced at 739.00 a week ago when I went in to buy some picks. I'll keep an eye on that $$.

Which leads up to the question-- What do you like to use yours for compared to your other Warwicks?
 
I just called them and they just priced it at 994.97. A brand new Corvette $$ BO. Temptation, temptation......
 
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