Favorites and least favorites...

[meenahga]

A couple of questions:

1.What's your favorite top 3 cover tunes to perform while gigging out with your band?(if your not currently playing out, that's ok too.) And why are they favorites?

2. What's your least favorite and why? (maybe a good tune, but you've played it a gazillion times.)

 

[Astrofreq]

Covers?

 

[JMB27]

covers - yes, they still get played .... sometimes those are the better payin' gigs

most favorite?

Honky Tonk Woman - Rolling Stones
Long Train Running - Doobie Brothers
Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh

least favorite?

Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison ..... while always a crowd pleaser, it is just one of those songs that I'd rather let someone else do

 

[leftyguitarblue]

Favorite...

Tool - Sober
Foo Fighters - Best of You
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home (love the solo on that one, classic 80's)


Beaten to death, least favorites, that people still go "crazy" for...

Tommy Tutone - Jenny 867-5309
Violent Femmes - Blister in the sun
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69

 

[wired]

3 favorites:
Man in the Box (Alice in Chains)
Sober (Tool)
Holiday (Green Day)

3 I'm sick of playing:
Roadhouse Blues (The Doors)
American Girl (Tom Petty)
Laid (James)

My band doesn't do much heavy stuff anymore, so I look forward to the few songs that have some balls.

 

[paranoid70]

Favorites -

Ziggy Stardust
Rockin in the Free World
Sugaree

Least-

Honky Tonk Women (overplayed)

 

[threeminutesboy]

Favorites

1 Comfortably numb (Pink Floyd)
2 Creep (Radio head)
3 Sultans of swing

least favorite

1 Stand by me

 

[robelinda2]

favorites

1 Sultans of swing - Dire Straits ( BIG solos!)
2 Take it easy - Eagles ( i get as much solos as i like!)
3 Cry in Shame - Johnny Diesel & the Injectors - big solos at the end for me!

worst

1 Kryptonite - 3 doors down
2 Anything by Simple Plan/Nickleback
3 Anything by Pearl Jam!

 

[JasonT]

Favorites:

1. Crazy B*tch - Buckcherry; it rocks and depending on your crowd, chicks dig it.
2. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - Ra version of The Police song; fantastic arrangement that rocks
3. Mr. Brightside - Killers; a sense of accomplishment because this was a pain for me to learn (I've seen other bands not do it well) and because chicks dig it.

Least Favorites:

1. Beverly Hills - Weezer; lame song (yet goes over well - I'll never know why)
2. Last Nite - Strokes; not a big fan of this one
3. What I Got - Sublime; good song but bores me

 

[Jason5150]

Favourites:

1. Let there be rock - AC/DC
2. Evie - Stevie Wright
3. Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe

Least favourite:

1. Mustang Sally - nuff said
2. Brown Eyed Girl
3. Sweet Home Alabama....although I admittedly love this song it is played to death.

 

[Bungo]

Faves

1) Spirit Of Radio - Rush (I will never tire of this song)
2) Basket Case - Green Day (Always energises me)
3) Out In The Fields - Gary Moore (Again, always gets me going - Love the M8)


Least?

1) Hmmm quite a few but to pick one - Paranoid! (People still want to hear it though??????)

 

[Spudmurphy]

1. Allright Now - as long as the bass player comes in at the right place and the proper lead solo is played. Gotta have a good vocalist too!
2. Mary had a little Lamb - short n snappy by SRV
3. Good morning little schoolgirl

Least fav
Freebird - hate it !!

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

My least favourite to cover is Sweet Child 'o' mine. I have played that song on average of once a week for 15+ years and I am sick to death of it!

 

[Sub1 Zero]

Do songs that other people butcher in jam sessions count too?

 

[TNT]

Favorites - way too many to name!! However, one thing for sure, we're all spoiled in one sense!!

Just imagine if you are in a "signed band", e.g., Aerosmith, Ac/dc, Van Halen, etc. . . whatever, just imagine how tired you may get of the songs you play over and over again throughout the decades (and you have NO choice of song variety outside your band's song compilation - it's your band's songs ONLY!!)

So, when you have the opportunity to "glean" songs from any artists out there, imagine how much those guys would enjoy doing that if they could!!

Just a thought guys.

 

[mikeller]

Top three favorites that I play with my current band:

1. Jose - Steely Dan
2. Can't Stop Believin - Journey (cut me slack on this - its a crowd pleaser)
3. Golden Slumbers thru The End - The Beatles

Least favorites...hmmmm, I don't care to discuss!!!