Favorite Songs to Play

[Alvin_Wilson]

Dokken - Dream Warriors, In My Dreams
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
Ozzy - Rock 'N Roll Rebel
Shinedown - Shed Some Light, Simple Man, Save Me
Kingdom Come - Do You Like It
KISS - Black Diamond

[semagic]

barracuda...
rock n roll...
man in the box...
are you gonna be my girl...

great thread...

[demeyes]

I usually jam along with
Maiden - Loads of songs
Thin Lizzy - Loads of songs
Childen of Bodom - Silent Night
Megadeth - She wolf, SoD
Vinnie Moore- Lifeforce

I'll also put on backing tracks of songs and solo over them - FTLOG is real fun as is any fast bluesy stuff like Testify(SRV)

[mjl927]

In no particular order....

Ozzy - bark at the moon, crazy train, I dont know, mr crowley, over the mountain, flying high again
Dio - last in line, we rock, dont talk to strangers
black sabbath - too many to list. I'm digging some dio era stuff right now though
Maiden - play alot of their tunes but I think like phantom of the opera best.
Priest - freewheel burning, victim of changes, breaking the law, electric eye
metallica - creeping death, ride the lightning, seek and destroy, four horsemen
megadeth - looking down the cross,
king diamond - know several tunes but my fav is welcome home
mercyful fate - again, know a few but I like playing satans fall and egypt the best
scorpions - love all the old uli roth stuff the best. sun in my hand in particular.
Slayer - always loved metalstorm/face the slayer
testament - practice what you preach, souls of black
overkill - wrecking crew, hello from the gutter

eh...thats a good list.

[MetalGrasshopper]

Megadeth- Holy Wars/Hangar 18

Metallica - Puppets

Children of Bodom - Chokehold (Locked n loaded)

[levantin]

practising on my own,

Nevermore - Tomorrow turned into yesterday
Dream Theater - Lie, Caught in a Web
Steve Vai - Erotic Nightmares
Opeth - Serenity painted death, the leper affinity

Cover songs w/ the band,

Megadeth - Hangar 18, skin of my teeth
Judas Priest - Turbo lover
Slayer - Dead skin mask

[DonP]

Just got done playing a bunch of Queensryche.

[atomic charvel guy]

once i got comfortable and could say i can play a guitar, I stopped playing other people's tunes and worked hard on original material. sure ,warming up you bang out a few great song riffs , but i knew early on if you wanted to truly hit paydirt ,you had to have a sound , and most importantly a good or great singer. that was a commodity item back in the 80's. now more than ever, i bet everyone on this board can do cookie monster vocals without one singing lesson.

[Robert Burns]

Faves to play (lots of different stuff here):

Sniff N The Tears - Driver Seat
Ratt - Lay It Down
VH - Unchained, Aint Talking Bout Love
W.A.S.P. - Wildchild
Catherine Wheel - Broken Nose, Ursa Major Space Station
Aldo Nova - Fantasy
Donnie Iris - Ah Leah (my daughter loves it coz that's her name)
Harlequin - I Did It For Love
Pearl Jam - State Of Love An Trust

and basically any Iced Earth, Priest, Maiden or Death Angel album - put it on a play along!

Lately I've been jamming along to these songs regularly:

Judas Priest - Desert Plains, Worth Fighting For

Iron Maiden - Lonliness Of The Long Distance Runner, Brighter Than A Thosand Suns

Ensiferum - Token Of Time

Wintersun - Deathg And The Healing (still working on that lead - holy shit!)

******** That Donny Iris "Ah Leah" is one of the greatest solos ever
imo! What tone!

[thetroy]

once i got comfortable and could say i can play a guitar, I stopped playing other people's tunes and worked hard on original material. sure ,warming up you bang out a few great song riffs , but i knew early on if you wanted to truly hit paydirt ,you had to have a sound , and most importantly a good or great singer. that was a commodity item back in the 80's. now more than ever, i bet everyone on this board can do cookie monster vocals without one singing lesson.

This is why I've stopped learning Malmsteen and started learning how to sing. Some of my favorite songs to play or sing:

Dio - Holy Diver, Don't Talk To Strangers, Rainbow in the Dark, Heaven and Hell
Damn Yankees - High Enough
Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
Styx - Blue Collar Man, Renegade
Bon Jovi - You Give Love a Bad Name, Bed of Roses
Whitesnake - Crying in the Rain, In The Still of the Night

Pretty much any cool/cheesy 70's/80's rock

[drockilles]

Testament: Trail of Tears, Burnt Offerings, The New Order
Morbid Angel: Blessed are the Sick
Megadeth: The whole Rust in Peace album
Dying Fetus: Praise the Lord

[mhalsey]

AC/DC: Back In Black, Let's Get It Up; Have A Drink On Me; Let Me Put My Love Into You; For Those About To Rock

Black Sabbath: Paranoid; Into The Void; Symptom Of The Universe

Blue Oyster Cult: Godzilla

Cinderella: Gypsy Road; Somebody Save Me

Def Leppard: Let It Go; Switch 625; Wasted

Judas Priest: Breakin' The Law; Victim Of Changes

Metallica: Fade To Black; For Whom The Bell Tolls

Mountain: Mississippi Queen

Ozzy: Mr. Crowley, Crazy Train, I Don't Know

Poison: Talk Dirty To Me

Scorpions: Big City Nights; Rock You Like A Hurricane

[skorb]

YYZ Rush
La Villa Strangiato Rush
Alone + Easy Target Foo Fighters
The Wizard Uriah Heep (acoustic)

[darrellm]

Omg, somebody else actually plays Beyond the Realms of Death. That and Coast to Coast by the Scorpions.

Me too (the latter) - never ceases to amaze me how many people know Coast to Coast and how well it goes down live, plus it gives the poor vocalist (sob) a break. Always try to play it on my Flying V, if I haven't broken a string on it earlier in the set.

Another song I love to play is Cold Sweat by Thin Lizzy.

..and Wasted Years by Maiden, we might even get it in the set one day when the vocalist can be arsed to learn the words

[psychlops]

Fates Warning - Through Different Eyes
Yngwie Malmsteen - Crying [Just the first six or so bars]
Intro to Hendrix' - Burning of the Midnight Lamp
Ratt - Lay It Down
Judas Priest - Bloodstone [imo the intro is mighty tough to play]
Whitesnake - Crying in the Rain
Dokken - Kiss of Death and Sleepless Nights
TNT - Seven Seas

I wish I could play:
Steve Vai - Tender Surrender
Steve Vai - Blue Powder [the f'n song]