Set List Recommendations

[Ralph E.]

Building a "classic rock" setlist for the new cover band i'm in, hit me with your recommendations for some good 70's/80's rock.

Not being a big fan of 70's rock, I don't want to miss anything... [img]graemlins/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

R

[atomic charvel guy]

Re: Set List Recommendations

you gotta do "get down tonight"
by K.C. and the Sunshine band.
it's always a crowd favorite and gets 'em dancin.
the song sounds great through blazing marshalls.

[PowerTube]

Re: Set List Recommendations

My list (some are actually Sixties):

Open with... Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Rush - The Spirit of Radio
Montrose - Rock Candy
Van Halen - Panama
Van Halen - Eruption/You Really Got Me
Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Judas Priest - Livin' After Midnight
Cream - White Room
Led Zeppelin - Rock and Roll
Queen - Tie Your Mother Down
Guns-n-Roses - Sweet Child `O Mine
Ozzy/Randy Rhoads - Crazy Train
Doobie Brothers - China Grove
Close with... Beatles - Sgt. Pepper Reprise

Hope this helps!

[Budman68]

Re: Set List Recommendations

What song is it ya'll wanna hear??

FREEBIRD!!!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[JacksonConcept]

Re: Set List Recommendations

I played in a 60's, 70's classic rock band once for a year, even though I'm an 80's Metal head [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] , and here's a few we played:

Let it Ride - BTO
Fortunate Son - CCR
Too Rollin' Stoned - Robin Trower
Day of the Eagle - Robin Trower
Hold on Loosely - 38 Special
Little Wing - Hendrix Version
All along the watchtower - Hendrix
Wind cries Mary - Hendrix
Stranglehold - Nugent
Hey Baby - Nugent
Gimme 3 steps - Skynard
Simple Man - Skynard
Paranoid - Sabbath
Cold Shot - SRV
Voodoo child - SRV version
Pride and Joy - SRV
Rock n roll Hoochie Koo - R. Derringer
Rock n Roll - Zeppelin
Houses of the Holy - Zeppelin
Commun. Breakdown - Zeppelin
Ain't talkin' bout love - VH
Rock Candy - Montrose
Detroit Rock City - Kiss
While my guitar gently...- Clapton
I'm your Captain - Grand Funk Railroad
I'm 18 - Alice Cooper
Snortin' Whiskey - Pat Travers
Bar line 99 - Ian Moore

I wanted to play 80's Metal but our "leader" liked OLD stuff. The rest were originals that sounded Classic rock.

[ June 02, 2004, 01:52 PM: Message edited by: Gary Powell ]

[Ralph E.]

Re: Set List Recommendations

Originally posted by Gary Powell:
... even though I'm an 80's Metal head [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sounds like you and I would get along real well, I have over 1500 cd's, and they're all in the 80's hard rock/metal vein. [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

Not much variety for me. [img]graemlins/refuse.gif[/img]

[~K~]

Re: Set List Recommendations

Originally posted by Ralph E.:
Building a "classic rock" setlist for the new cover band i'm in, hit me with your recommendations for some good 70's/80's rock.

Not being a big fan of 70's rock, I don't want to miss anything... [img]graemlins/images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

R

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">How about a new Bass player [img]graemlins/poke.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Newc]

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The one, the only, Cat Scratch Fever [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

We got the absolute BEST reactions when we started that one. They knew it by the opening riff. Hell, most of em knew it on the first bent note before the first chord [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

I snuck in a part of the solo to Freebird in a jam once - even played it really slow - and about half the crowd caught it and liked it [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Personally, I wouldn't attempt Freebird unless you had 3 guitarists - they had that many guitarists for one reason - the solo to Freebird [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Depending on the area you're in I'd go with:
-Cat Scratch Fever to get them up and hollerin early
-Born To Be Wild to keep them up and drinkin
-Already Gone (Eagles) - to get them boots to scootin
-Wonderful Tonight (Eric CLapton) to get the ass-grabbers on the floor
-Sweet Leaf to get the heads rollin
-Old Time Rock-N-Roll for the Hell Yeahs
-I Love Rock And Roll - because it's easier to chorus than We Will Rock You [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
-Bad On The Phone...I mean...Bad To The Bone - cuz the chicks dig that [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
-Tough Enough (Fabulous Thunderbirds) cuz the guys dig that, and you have to give them back their women [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
-Cocaine - need you ask?
-Anything from SRV with words in it - average Joe don't give two shits if you can play Chitlins Con Carne note-for-note, and they will let you know they don't give two shits really fast.
-Gimme Three Steps, What's Your Name, or Saturday Night Special by Skynrd - avoid Freebird at all costs [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
-Hold On Loosely
-I Want You To Want Me
-Eminence Front (The Who) is a damn good groove for the dancers to get with

I'd suggest avoiding the "musician's music" for bars, as you're going to get slammed by the musicians in the crowd 9 times out of 10, and the non-musicians just don't give a damn. Also avoid the socio-political songs (Holy Wars, Lord Of This World, Jeremy, etc etc) as Joe Barfly came for a drink and to escape the real world, and you're dicking with his escapism.

Course, you could whip out Christie Lane's "One Day At A Time" - that's a classic for the Teary Beers

Don't forget Rawhide

Newc

[StukaJU87]

Re: Set List Recommendations

Can't get Enough - Bad Co.
Boys are Back in Town- Thin Lizzy
Takin' Care of Business- BTO
Bad Boys of Rock and Roll- Twisted Sister
Round and Round- Ratt
Rock you Like a Hurricane- Scorpions
Surrender- Cheap Trick
Ace of Spades- Motorhead
Highway Star- Deep Purple
Can't Happen Here- Raindbow
I Surrender- Rainbow
Number of The Beast- Iron Maiden
Wrathchild- Iron Maiden
Cat Scratch Fever- Nugent
Black Dog- Zep
Flirtin' With Disaster- Hatchet
Heading out to the Highway- Priest

...just to name a few. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Newc]

Re: Set List Recommendations

Damn, when I started that reply, Budman's was the last post. It took me 10 minutes to type that reply and half of them were mentioned by someone else [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Newc

[JacksonConcept]

Re: Set List Recommendations

Originally posted by Ralph E.:
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Gary Powell:
... even though I'm an 80's Metal head [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sounds like you and I would get along real well, I have over 1500 cd's, and they're all in the 80's hard rock/metal vein. [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

Not much variety for me. [img]graemlins/refuse.gif[/img] </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thats about all I listen to is 80's Metal with the exception of a FEW modern bands such as: Disturbed, BLS, Velvet Revolver. I only have about 100 80's metal cd's and about 300 mp3's.
It's hardwired into my brain and playing style. [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

The classic rock band was a great experience though, I learned a different approach to playing.
I'm not wanting to do that again though. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Newc]

Re: Set List Recommendations

Ok, despite Kid Rock's attempt, I'd go with Feel Like Makin Love, Shooting Star, or All Right Now.
Don't forget the ACDC and ZZ Top, as well as Cream (Sunshine Of Your Love, not Anyone For Tennis).
Black Magic Woman - because you can for once get away with being a great guitarist and NOT get bashed by the crowd as a showoff.

Lights (Journey)

Wipeout if your drummer is worth a damn, and you can trade solos with him. I always did very fast-picked and percussive one-note solos that basically spelled out the melody line that the drum solo rhythm was hinting, with a fast descending run to go back into the main verse section. Also I threw in pinch harmonics at the end of each measure just before the chord change (during the solo).

Newc

[Tekky]

Re: Set List Recommendations

Originally posted by budman68:
What song is it ya'll wanna hear??

FREEBIRD!!!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Ahh yes... Chicago influences the world!! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[Tekky]

Re: Set List Recommendations

"Wheel in the Sky" - Journey

[markb]

Re: Set List Recommendations

How bout:

No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
Dream Police - Cheap Trick
Everything Works if You Let It - Cheap Trick
Heart to Heart - Aldo Nova
Ain't Talkin Bout Love - VH
Enough is Enough - April Wine
NIB - Sabbath
Tooth & Nail - Dokken
Wasted Years - Maiden
Balls to the Wall - Accept
Blackout - Scorpions
In Trance - Scorpions
Loving You Sunday Morning - Scorpions
Public Enemy #1 - Crue
Hey What Can I Do - Zeppelin
Slide it In - Whitesnake
She's Not There - Zombies
Shapes of Things - Yardbirds
Fight From the Inside - Queen
Sleepin On the Sidewalk - Queen
Wish You Were Here - Floyd
She Said She Said - Beatles
The Ripper - Priest
Photograph - Def Leppard
Ramblin Man - Allman Bros.
Phoenix - The Cult
She Sells Sanctuary - Cult


there's a few anyway...hope it helps!