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    Hey you playing in a band!!! --> Instrumental tunes

    I need some help here.

    I'm starting a new band (power trio) and while we are looking and auditionning to find a singer, we decided to have fun trying to play a few instrumental songs.

    So, I'm curious to hear what instrumental tunes you guys play with your band?

    Up to now we're challenging ourselves with these tunes:

    Losfer Words (Iron Maiden) - using my Boss GT8 programmable harmonizer to cheat the harmonies. Sounds not bad

    Orion (Metallica) - same as above for the harmonies

    YYZ (Rush) - Ok, we are far from playing it good but we are having a lot fun!

    Other World (an original I did) - see sig to hear it.

    I'm looking for songs that will be fun to play as a band, rather than songs for guitar players!
    JB aka BenoA

    Clips and other tunes by BenoA / My Soundcloud page / My YouTube page
    Guitar And Sound (GAS) forum / Boss Katana Amps FB group
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    Never could get an instrumental going with my old band - singer wouldn't shut up

    How about:

    Rat Salad - Black Sabbath

    First song on side 2 of Everclear's So Much For The Afterglow (I think it's the only instrumental on that one - I had the cassette, not the CD).
    I want to depart this world the same way I arrived; screaming and covered in someone else's blood

    The most human thing we can do is comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

    My Blog: http://newcenstein.com

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    • #3
      "Earthtones" by Ted Nugent, from "Craveman" LP. Fucking brilliant.
      So I woke up,rolled over and who was lying next to me? Only Bonnie Langford!

      I nearly broke her back

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      • #4
        summer song. My old band used to do Mr. scary, but that was in 89-91. More people knew it then.
        Its a complete catastrophe. But Im a professional, I can rise above it. LOL

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        • #5
          we have done "mr. eliminator" by dick dale, "pipeline" and "apache" by the ventures, we did a modified version of a bo diddley song that i THINK was called the "diddley stomp".....we do a lot of surf tunes or stuff from the 60's, from bands like the shadows.....it is a lot more fun than pulling out some stupid metal instrumental or a shredder "song".....plus, gotta have your right hand tremolo picking in top shape to play dick dale!!!!!
          GEAR:

          some guitars...WITH STRINGS!!!! most of them have those sticks like on guitar hero....AWESOME!!!!

          some amps...they have some glowing bottle like things in them...i think my amps do that modelling thing....COOL, huh?!?!?!

          and finally....

          i have those little plastic "chips" used to hit the strings...WHOA!!!!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by markD View Post
            we have done "mr. eliminator" by dick dale, "pipeline" and "apache" by the ventures, we did a modified version of a bo diddley song that i THINK was called the "diddley stomp".....we do a lot of surf tunes or stuff from the 60's, from bands like the shadows.....it is a lot more fun than pulling out some stupid metal instrumental or a shredder "song".....plus, gotta have your right hand tremolo picking in top shape to play dick dale!!!!!
            Duane Eddy too.

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            • #7
              la villa strangiato

              plenty for all 3 musicians in that one
              the guitar players look damaged - they've been outcasts all their lives

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              • #8
                Super thanks to everyone! And good idea about the 60s tunes. I would never have tought about that. I'll keep ya all posted.
                JB aka BenoA

                Clips and other tunes by BenoA / My Soundcloud page / My YouTube page
                Guitar And Sound (GAS) forum / Boss Katana Amps FB group

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                • #9
                  Cissy Strut by The Meters
                  "There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

                  "To be stupid, selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost" - Gustave Flaubert

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                  • #10
                    My band loves this style : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qtk9c6ZGcM
                    This is my signature:This is my signature:This is my signature.

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                    • #11
                      Hoey's version of Hocus Pocus.
                      Dreaded Silence - Boston Melancholic Metal

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                      • #12
                        Instrumentals go over like a turd in a swimming pool in this region.
                        "POOP"

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Endrik View Post
                          Cissy Strut by The Meters
                          Great tune! I used to do that one with my funk band back in the 90's. Two more that we did were Pick Up the Pieces and Cut the Cake by Average White Band.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by SEEGERMANY View Post
                            Instrumentals go over like a turd in a swimming pool in this region.
                            Only because you don't know the words.
                            So I woke up,rolled over and who was lying next to me? Only Bonnie Langford!

                            I nearly broke her back

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                            • #15
                              The only one we do is Ides of March, but to me that is basically just the intro to Wrathchild.
                              Scott
                              Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Be brave and upright, that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong.

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