Basshole Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Ok are band "Alida" is going to be playing at a bar. This bar mostly brings in mid 20's college students. I would like music that is good to play in a bar. We need about 3 1/2 hours of material. I might be bumbing this for awhile. I have Freebird and Layla on demand for when A drunk person screams it out. So far I have: Def Leppard:Pour some sugar on me Red Hot Chili Peppers:Dani California AC/DC:Highway to Hell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californiaman Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Guns and Roses, "One in a Million," and "I Used to Love Her," both songs are great bar songs. You should also play some Social Distortion like "Story of My Life," and "Ring of Fire," or "Ball and Chain." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fool on The Hill Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Train Kept Rolling by The Yardbirds is always a fan favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynadude Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Gotta have "Young Lust" by Pink Floyd, and "Low" by Cracker. Both are fairly easy to learn. If you can pull it off, "Swamp Music" by Skynyrd is fun song. Gets the dance floor hoppin'. Long time ago, my buds and I used to play at a bunch of hole in the wall redneck joints, and we'd do the "Munsters" theme for a break song. I kid you not, it was always the song that would pack the dance floor. It was hilarious to watch people get off to that song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckomf Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I'll Be Your Man - Black Keys How come You Don't Call Me- Alicia Keys Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley Ground On Down - Ben Harper Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones Those are my favorites, depending on the bar. And the Alicia Keys song- don't knock it until you try it. The guys I jam with laughed until we ran through it. Now it's a staple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckomf Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I'll Be Your Man - Black Keys How come You Don't Call Me- Alicia Keys Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley Ground On Down - Ben Harper Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones Can't Let Go - Lucinda Williams Those are my favorites, depending on the bar. And the Alicia Keys song- don't knock it until you try it. The guys I jam with laughed until we ran through it. Now it's a staple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuckomf Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I'll Be Your Man - Black Keys How come You Don't Call Me- Alicia Keys Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley Ground On Down - Ben Harper Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones Can't Let Go - Lucinda Williams Those are my favorites, depending on the bar. And the Alicia Keys song- don't knock it until you try it. The guys I jam with laughed until we ran through it. Now it's a staple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Sunshine Of Your Love-Cream Smoke On The Water-Deep Purple Cinnamon Girl-Neil Young Folsom Prison Blues-Johnny Cash Gimme Three Steps, Sweet Home Alabama, Simple Man-Lynyrd Skynyrd One Way Out-Allman Brothers Get Back, You Can't Do That, Come Together, Back In The USSR-Beatles Honky Tonk Women, Satisfaction, Start Me Up, Last Time-Rolling Stones That's a start, anyway...for some "Classic Rock" stuff... CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thundergod Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Steppenwolf's - Born To Be Wild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 If you have Keyboards, too... I'm A Man, Gimme Some Lovin'...Spencer Davis Group Whiter Shade of Pale (good slow song) Procol Harum Nights in White Satin...Moody Blues Margaritaville...Jimmy Buffet My Life, Piano man...Billy Joel Hang On Sloopy...The McCoys My Little Red Book...Love Some others: Browned Eyed Girl...Van Morrison Cocaine...Eric Clapton's version. Foxy Lady...Hendrix Gloria...Them Pretty Woman...Roy Orbison/Van Halen Almost any CCR Twist & Shout/Labamba...medley maybe some more, later... ;>) CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I would say as it is for a young audience these kind of songs would be good. Take Me Out-Franz Ferdinand Are We Human or Are We Dancers-The Killers Ruby-kesiser Chiefs Angry Mob-Keiser Chiefs Wonderwall-Oasis song 3 (may be the wrong title LOL)- Blur Good Ridance-Green Day American Idiot-Green Day Lithiam-Nirvanna and then classics along the line of Sweet Home Alabama-Lynard Skynard Cross Roads-Cream Rock and Roll-Led Zeppelin All Right Now-Free Foxy Lady/Purple Haze-Hendrix Knockin On Heavens Door-Dylan please let us know how it went! Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiz Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 AC/DC, but don't freakin' do "You Shook Me All Night Long". I'm talking something like: "Bad Boy Boogie", "Whole Lotta Rosie", "Love Hungry Man", "Squealer", "Givin' The Dog A Bone", or "Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution." Drinking Beer + AC/DC = Awesomeness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynadude Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I hope your gig is a few months away. That's a lot of material to learn, and you can only go as fast as your slowest band member. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Whew...when I first saw the "Need everyones help.." topic, I was afraid it was someone begging for a free Jimmy Page signature Les Paul :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 By far, the three most popular, and/or requested songs for a bar band in my neck of the woods are: #1. Mustang Sally #2. Brown Eyed Girl #3. Gimme Three Steps There seems to be no age boundries for the popularity of these songs among drunken bar patrons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicked1 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 AC/DC' date=' but don't freakin' do "You Shook Me All Night Long". I'm talking something like: "Bad Boy Boogie", "Whole Lotta Rosie", "Love Hungry Man", "Squealer", "Givin' The Dog A Bone", or "Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution." Drinking Beer + AC/DC = Awesomeness [/quote'] Apparently, "The Jack" is popular around here. Must be because nobody knows what the "jack" really is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynadude Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Apparently' date=' "The Jack" is popular around here. Must be because nobody knows what the "jack" really is![/quote'] Well? What is it? I don't think it's a card, or a thing that lifts your car up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicked1 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Well? What is it? I don't think it's a card' date=' or a thing that lifts your car up.[/quote'] It's a reference to venereal disease. Either chlamydia or gonorrhea--I can't remember which off-hand. But if she's got the "jack," you don't want it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Californiaman Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Saturday's Nights All Right For Fighting! Elton John. The Wait, by the Band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 A mid 20s bar crowd might want to hear modern stuff. The problem with a lot of modern music is, the pop songs are mostly studio creations that don't do well in a small live band situation, and the rock songs are are almost all in drop D or some other low tuning. Some classic rock songs that I found have wide appeal and will get people on the dance floor are: Hurts So Good - John Cougar (Mellancamp) Pride and Joy or House Is Rockin - SRV Can't Get Enough - Bad Company Some good 80s songs that always get a reaction are: Jenny 867-5309 What I like About You (same chord prog as R.O.C.K. in the USA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicked1 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Personally, I like Buckcherry, but Homz thinks "Too Drunk" is just a little too vulgar to do in most places. (He's an old fogie). I won't even tell you what he thinks of "Crazy B!tch." I *do NOT* dance if I can help it, so I'm afraid I'm not much help in that category. Though, I have noticed that even the most redneck of bars gets a huge crowd on the floor for "Play That Funky Music." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Well.... regardless of the song, a bit of creativity instead of a 2:30 cover of a record will help - It did from what I'm told long before I was around, let alone playing music. For Zample, normally in a three piece, you've a guitar, bass and drum - or guitar keyboard with base fill and drum. Let the guitar forget the heavier rhythm or lede thing and do a reeeeally empty vamp at chord changes and let the bass guy show his chops a big... then the guitar and base both back off and let the drum guy do something. Even if you have to think differently, it can really stretch a song without being redundant, lets you do your "cover" and yet also lets you get a bit individually creative. So your two minute-thirty second cover can end up running 10 or more just with the above in a trio since you let it go a verse or two and a bridge. Then you could also have a conversation between the bass and the guitar, guitar and drums... swapping measures more or less with the same sort of theme.... So even with a trio, now we're at 15 minutes on a piece you already know. Come home to the "cover" sound if you will at the end of the thing. ..... And of course there always are standards that aren't too hard to catch up with regardless of the age in a rock oriented bar. You can always run Stormy Monday for 15 minutes or so with a little swapping back and forth on "lead." Yeah, a guy who's pretty low on new chords playing rhythm may wonder what to do, but the advantage of a guitar is the way barre chords can be shuffled up and down the neck a fret and still have it "fit" a song. Ain't gotta be really fancy to add a different sound. Another is House of the Rising Sun that I've done in one version or another for 45 years. Heck, forget the pick, forget the finger style and just form chords and drum with your slightly tightened fingers against all the strings together near the bridge for a "rhythm guitar lead." Several 1960s number ones only had a dozen words or so repeated over and over... You can do Louie Louie for half an hour just hollering gibberish. Forget the words? Just kinda talk in the theme of the song. That works especially well with any blues. Just some ideas if your gig is coming soon and you've only got 15-20 songs ready to go. Stretch what you've got with a little creativity. Music hasn't changed so much the past cupla hundred years - heck, cupla thousand, perhaps. A look and sound of confidence will go a long way. Heck, maybe they don't know you forgot the words! I've seen guys do the old classic "blue moon" with maybe one verse they could remember for vocals, but a talking "Little darling, I remember the night we met.... and the moon was blue until I met you..." with little guitar backtalk in pauses. m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djroge1 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 While I wanted to give you suggestions like China Grove and Fly like and Eagle I realized that you will be playing to a younger crowd so only a few of the oldies should be used. Usually, I'm not steeped into most of the young "what is popular" music today, however I was sent this video of a new song that I think you should consider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macklanders Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 How about: Kings Of Leon , Pearl Jam , Silversun Pickups , Killers , Nirvana. I would think any type of Hard "Party" Rock of the '90's would be good. Mix it with a healthy dose of classic rock of the 60's and 70's and some classic 80's metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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