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Old 09-13-2007, 09:55 PM
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Try "Tulsa Time" written by the great Danny Flowers and recorded,most notably by Clapton.
Everybody knows the chorus-it's great for most any agr audience

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We always did that one in Lake Effect--so simple to play that everyone got a solo and the audience picked up really quickly on the chorus. In a band setting, "Jet Airliner" by Steve Miller really worked--especially when the crowd waited to see if we really would sing the "s" word in the last verse.
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Old 09-14-2007, 12:10 AM
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I play with a keyboard player, so some of these are easier to pull off than others if you're limited to guitars only, but here goes anyway:

Evil Ways - Santana
Once Bitten Twice Shy - Great White/Ian Hunter
Hard to handle - Black Crowes
Plush - STP
Walks like a Lady - Journey
Same old song and dance - aerosmith
Hey baby - Ted Nugent
Taxman - Beatles
Roxanne, Message in a bottle - Police
Dancing in the moonlight - King Harvest
Crazy little thing called love - Queen

Some newer ones:

This love - Maroon 5
Heaven - Los Lonely Boys
Santeria - Sublime
3am - matchbox twenty
Streetcorner symphony - rob thomas
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
Shimmer - fuel
Running away - Hoobastank
Kryptonite - 3 doors down

That's all I can think of right now, other good songs have already been mentioned. Keep 'em comin', we need to some new material too.

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I play with a keyboard player, so some of these are easier to pull off than others if you're limited to guitars only, but here goes anyway:

Evil Ways - Santana
Once Bitten Twice Shy - Great White/Ian Hunter
Hard to handle - Black Crowes
Plush - STP
Walks like a Lady - Journey
Same old song and dance - aerosmith
Hey baby - Ted Nugent
Taxman - Beatles
Roxanne, Message in a bottle - Police
Dancing in the moonlight - King Harvest
Crazy little thing called love - Queen

Some newer ones:

This love - Maroon 5
Heaven - Los Lonely Boys
Santeria - Sublime
3am - matchbox twenty
Streetcorner symphony - rob thomas
Slide - Goo Goo Dolls
Shimmer - fuel
Running away - Hoobastank
Kryptonite - 3 doors down

That's all I can think of right now, other good songs have already been mentioned. Keep 'em comin', we need to some new material too.

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That's a solid set! Very nice.

Never heard the Journey tune before.
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Old 09-15-2007, 01:39 AM
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Tonight I sat in with Jack Rabbit Slam (we decided that instead of separate sets, we'd play as a band with each member singing lead on three-song rounds in succession, with the other two improvising harmony or accompaniment). The covers that really got the crowd going were Train's (not McLachlan's) "Calling All Angels," "I Saw Her Standing There," "Driver 8," "Friend of the Devil" and "Me & Julio." (Nobody was drunk and everyone whistled!)
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Just thought I'd add "Sunshine" by Jonathatn Edwards. Haven't played for a crowd yet that hasn't loved it.
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An upbeat "oldy" that really shakes things up when you wanna get into that groove, is "Runaway", a Del Shannon song. I GUARANTEE everyone will be singing along with a smile on their face.

Another fun oldy, is "Little Darlin'" by The Diamonds.

Neil Diamond had some good songs; Kentucky Woman, Sweet Caroline, Solitary Man.

Lots of Beatles tunes; I've Just Seen a Face; You've Got To Hide Your Love Away/ I Need You (medley); I Saw Her Standing There; Help; I Should've Known Better, 'Til There Was You.

Roy Orbison "In Dreams".

Mamas and Papas "Creque Alley"

Eagles, Take It Easy, Tequila Sunrise; Deperado

Crosby Stills & Nash, "Suite Judy Blue-eyes, Love the One You're With, Teach Your Children"

Jesse Winchester, "Isn't That So".

Lots of British Invasion stuff;

Herman's Hermits, Kind of Hush; I'm Henry the 8th I Am
Rolling Stones, She's So Cold, Sympathy For The Devil
Eric Burden & The Animals, When I Was Young
Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, Little Children
Cat Stevens, Wild World
Jerry & The Pacemakers, Ferry Cross The Mersey, Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
Peter & Gordon , Nobody I Know
Chad & Jeremy, Summer Song

Lots of great folk tunes and ballads from our side of The Pond;

Kenny Loggins, Danny's Song
Elizabeth Cotten's Freight Train
Simon & Garfunkel, Sounds Of Silence, The Boxer, The Ballad of Lincoln Duncan
Peter,Paul & Mary, Puff The Magic Dragon
Bob Dylan and Gordy Lightfoot tunes galore, and so many more.

Some great tunes from down under, by The Seekers, featuring the love of my life, Judith Durham; A World Of Our Own, and I'll Never Find Another You.

Have fun.

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Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" --> EZ chords, lots of "momentum" (for lack of a better term)
We do that one -- you can hear it here -->http://thetimandbobshow.com/music.html
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An upbeat "oldy" that really shakes things up when you wanna get into that groove, is "Runaway", a Del Shannon song. I GUARANTEE everyone will be singing along with a smile on their face.
I do both the original Del Shannon and the Bonnie Raitt cover versions, since I've had to sing and play bass on both in two bands. One day my first band was auditioning drummers at my place (an apt. back then). It was a warm spring day, so we threw open the French doors from the living room to the screen-porch. We played "Runaway," and heard applause from the street below. We looked down....and it was a couple of cops. Turns out a curmudgeonly neighbor had complained; Chicago's Finest came out to investigate, listened, and told us to keep playing!
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I do both the original Del Shannon and the Bonnie Raitt cover versions, since I've had to sing and play bass on both in two bands. One day my first band was auditioning drummers at my place (an apt. back then). It was a warm spring day, so we threw open the French doors from the living room to the screen-porch. We played "Runaway," and heard applause from the street below. We looked down....and it was a couple of cops. Turns out a curmudgeonly neighbor had complained; Chicago's Finest came out to investigate, listened, and told us to keep playing!
Sounds like you "passed the audition"...
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My acoustic group often plays for rowdy crowds and we get good reactions with stuff like:
Squeezebox by the Who, also Magic Bus and Pinball Wizard
Kiss by Prince
Bust A Move, works surprisingly well acoustically
Hey Ya, though not as big as a couple years ago
Sympathy for the Devil, we have a conga/bongo player and we always pass out percussion instruments to the crowd, stuff like the Remo fruit shakers
Crosstown Traffic, with woo-doo-doo-dah-doo-dooo-dooo on kazoo and vocals
Walkin the Dog by Rufus Thomas, works great when our sax player or our harmonica player can join us
Sweet Caroline, Dirty water by the Standells, and Tessie by the Dropkick Murphys, we are in Massachusetts, so this is the Red Sox set
Gin and Juice by Snoop Dogg, the Gourds version a little more funked-up
Santeria and What I Got by Sublime
Faith by George Michael
Mary Jane's Last Dance, we speed it up a bunch

We play to twentysomethings all the way through AARP members, though the bulk of our "fans" are 35-50 yrs old.
I think the "acoustic" format affords you a lot of leeway with arrangements and tempos- anything slow can be fast and anything fast can be slow, we just have fun with it.

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I agree with most of those. For my sets, if they can't appreciate the older stuff, that's not who I want to be playing for anyhow. A couple newer ones that always get great responses though are "Drive" by Incubus and "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White Tee's.
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I do both the original Del Shannon and the Bonnie Raitt cover versions, since I've had to sing and play bass on both in two bands. One day my first band was auditioning drummers at my place (an apt. back then). It was a warm spring day, so we threw open the French doors from the living room to the screen-porch. We played "Runaway," and heard applause from the street below. We looked down....and it was a couple of cops. Turns out a curmudgeonly neighbor had complained; Chicago's Finest came out to investigate, listened, and told us to keep playing!
Great stuff Sandy, Reminds me a bit of Billy Joels' video where they play "A Matter of Trust". Just a great song and a super video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C52kn7-ky3M

Another Del Shannon song I really like is "Little Town Flirt".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiZ__...elated&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9rC15lhsvs

Yet another great "feel good" blast from the past is "The Majestic", which was done by Dion and the Belmonts according to this link. I thought Dion did this with "The Del Satins". You can really have fun with this one. Fannnnnntsatic (OMG!!! I can't believe I found this)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHyApsLaVQs

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