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04-14-2006, 12:55 AM
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04-14-2006, 01:00 AM
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i still have not yet played my own real gig -- however that's all about to change within the next 24 hrs -- my first one is tomorrow (err...today), 4/14
anyway, i threw together a list of songs below, and this was from just while i was on the train home from work the other day, so it's not my entire reportiore, but is at least a decent start on stuff that i play and would play out. i will be playing two hour gigs, so i was thinking i'd pick about 25 of the songs below (and some others that i forgot to write down). but this should given an idea of what i'm looking to play. i'm 26yrs/male/solo acoustic. ====================== The Band - The Weight The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night The Beatles - Help! The Beatles - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Ben Harper - Brown Eyed Blues Ben Harper - Burn One Down Ben Harper - Steal My Kisses Bryan Adams - Heaven Bryan Adams - Summer of 69 Counting Crows - Mr. Jones Counting Crows - Rain King David Gray - An Afternoon's Debauchery David Gray - Babylon DMB - #41 DMB - All Along the Watchtower DMB - Ants Marching DMB - Bartender DMB - Crash Into Me DMB - Cry Freedom DMB - Dancing Nancies DMB - Don't Drink the Water DMB - Everyday DMB - Grey Street DMB - Halloween DMB - Hunger For the Great Light DMB - Pig DMB - Say Goodbye DMB - Seek Up DMB - Tripping Billies DMB - Two Step DMB - Warehouse DMB - Where Are You Going Everclear - Santa Monica Foo Fighters - Times Like These Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band The Gufs - Smile Jack Johnson - Flake Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger In Paradise Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville Jimmy Buffett - Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw John Lennon - Stand By Me The Killers - Jenny Was a Friend Of Mine The Killers - Mr. Brightside Matchbox 20 - 3am Matchbox 20 - Long Day Neil Young - Rockin In the Free World Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger Oasis - Live Forever Oasis - What's the Story (Morning Glory) Oasis - Wonderwall Pat McGee Band - Rebecca Pearl Jam - Black Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind the Corner In a Small Town Pearl Jam - Last Kiss REM - What's the Frequency Kenneth Rolling Stones - Sympathy For the Devil Ryan Adams - To Be Young Sister Hazel - All For You Steve Miller Band - Serenade Steve Miller Band - Take the Money and Run Toad the Wet Sprocket - All I Want Tom Petty - American Girl Tom Petty - Into the Great Wide Open TOm Petty - Mary Jane's Last Dance U2 - All I Want Is You U2 - One U2 - Walk On U2 - With or Without You Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony Violent Femmes - American Music Violent Femmes - Blister In the Sun Violent Femmes - Kiss Off
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04-14-2006, 02:31 AM
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I don't want to make a big list but mine is like above heavy on the DMB, 20-30 songs, then....Jack Johnson, Johnny Cash, Damien Rice, James Blunt, Snow Patrol, Neil Diamond, James Taylor, OAR, Ben Harper, John Mayer, Clapton, anything where an acoustic works pretty much
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04-14-2006, 07:08 AM
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Ouch! Has it really been 25 years? All I've done publicly since then is P&W. I have no outlet for that now, so it's back to the secular.
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04-14-2006, 12:12 PM
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My list is pretty long and I don't start with a fixed set list (although I probably should). I just pull songs from my list as I feel them and try not to do too many songs by the same artist in a row.
Exceptions are songs that seem to work transitioning like: Bartender -> Don't Drink the Water Minarets -> The Maker I'm pretty heavy on the Dave Matthews stuff since people have sort of come to expect it from me and I do like to sing Dave's stuff. Pepper an original or two in there if you've got 'em. Other than Dave stuff, I play a lot of Ray LaMontagne, Paul Weller, John Mayer and a couple that people don't expect from a solo acoustic guy: Just the Two of Us - Bill Withers Eyes of the World - Grateful Dead Easy (Like Sunday Morning) - Commodores Pilgrims - Widespread Panic And some that they do: Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young Slip Slidin' Away - Paul Simon Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead One thing about being a solo act is that you're going to want more audience interaction. Think of some stories to tell while you're changing tunings or just as transitions into songs (unless you're good with the improv). Have fun! Playing solo is a blast....got my first gig of the season tonight (weather permitting) and I'm really looking forward to it!
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04-14-2006, 01:13 PM
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[QUOTE=crowdedstr]i still have not yet played my own real gig -- however that's all about to change within the next 24 hrs -- my first one is tomorrow (err...today), 4/14
Where??????? Want some vocal harmony?
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04-16-2006, 12:04 PM
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i got a regular gig at trader todd's, which is a bar on belmont/sheffield. not sure when my next one is yet, but i will keep the chicago crew posted 
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04-19-2006, 11:56 AM
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I have a pretty large list of covers I do, numbering over 500 tunes. I don't think I can copy it from my website, as I believe the grid would come along with the titles! Anyone who wants to see my repertoire can access it easily enough. Go to www.elizabethroth.com and then click on songlist.
As long as it is, I still feel like I play the same songs over and over! Haha. And I love to add tunes, but I hate to ever drop one... so some of the older ones could probably use a reworking but I try to remember I am an entertainer and try not to be an egotist about perfection...
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04-19-2006, 12:10 PM
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why not take music to some folks who cant go out and see it/hear it? maybe a hospital, jail, retirement home. maybe organize some music festival for the homeless in your city. summer's coming up. it'd be a nice time to give something fresh a shot. just thinkin outloud here. i dunno. its just that music has gotten so lame to me. theres some schmuck strumming away just about everywhere you go these days....trying to "make it"....trying to be heard.....trying...something...but it all pretty much has been done. i barely even tell ppl i play the guitar anymore its gotten so lame. anyway....
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04-20-2006, 09:57 AM
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Thanks for your thoughts. I was just asking for song lists.
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04-20-2006, 10:35 AM
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04-20-2006, 10:20 PM
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And then - if you are actually trying to do it for your main or sole income, you have to accept the fact that there are just some gigs that ARE going to feel like work. Just like other people have to work, so do I - and would it seem right if what I did for a living was always fun? No way! I don't know, maybe I am less frustrated than some because I don't understand what trying to "make it" or to "be heard" are. I'm a local entertainer and never once had the dream of hitting it big. It didn't even occur to me back when I might have been young enough to find it plausible, I just didn't recognize that I might have enough musical ability back then. So anyway, I guess I don't find it to be a "dead end" like some other people do. Instead of finding it to be frustrating, it seems like an opportunity - to make money doing something creative, and a lot of other folks don't get to do that, so I enjoy it. And I love doing covers. I don't mind doing some I wrote, but I know a lot more great covers than I do great originals. And some of those songs may have "been done" before.. but I still like them. And fortunately nobody sounds exactly alike so I guess nobody else does them exactly like me. Sorry, what was this thread about? Oh yeah, it was about set lists. To redirect, if anybody here did look at my list, they'd probably see a certain number of songs they think of as "tasty" tunes, (ones from off the beaten path)... and a whole lot of very popular well known songs. I like these songs!
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04-21-2006, 10:02 AM
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bagelsgirl, my thoughts exactly. I end up entertaining myself more then anything, and performing for people is so exciting and so different every night, it dont think it could ever get old. I have no dreams of making it, as far as I am concerned I already have it made. All it takes is seeing another fellow guitar player in the crowd staring at your fingering trying to remember it so he can go home and play it tonight to realize how blessed you are to have the opportunity to perform.
As far as the songlists go, I play the usual stuff with as much variety as I can. I love throwing people off though with stuff like this. 4 non blondes - whats going on Modonna - like a prayer Milli Vanilli - blame it on the rain the cheers theme Motley Crue - home sweet home Big and Rich - save a horse, ride a cowboy Kelly Clarkson - since you've been gone Scotty doesnt know (from the movie Eurotrip) theres more, just cant remember them all right now.
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04-25-2006, 02:46 PM
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