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A little advance planning will help make this A LOT more fun!

Right you are!

I've got quite a bit of "The Real Me" down, for example.

C'mon, boys....let's come up with a few.

Mike

PS My drummer might log on here in a few days one I give him the URL!

Most of the rock covers I play are The Beatles, U2, Tom Petty, Eagles, Mellencamp, Springsteen, Pearl Jam, CCR, Stones, etc. I even like some of the Foo Fighters songs like DOA or Times Like These;also, Van Halen songs like Ain't Talking 'bout Love.

I think some pretty basic classics that aren't too hard to learn--that we can turn into long guitar jams--will probably work out best. Chuck Berry and ZZ Top come to mind.

any more singer/guitarists got some tunes they like to play?

would gladly learn a few on the bass!

(like th zz to recomendation too!)

I've been wanting to learn ZZ Top's "Just Got Paid". I'll see if I can learn that one--it has a great riff.

Mike, what songs do you guys(the rhythm section)already play and like? I already know about the Captain and Tennille! Any songs that don't require learning a 20 minute guitar solo?

lp59pete wrote:Mike, what songs do you guys(the rhythm section)already play and like? I already know about the Captain and Tennille! Any songs that don't require learning a 20 minute guitar solo?

Well, you're right about The Captain and Tennille!

Here's a list of some of the songs we play:

Cream: I'm So Glad, Spoonful, Crossroads, Outside Woman Blues, Sunshine of Your Love, Tales of Brave Ulysses, Badge, Steppin' Out

The Who: Leavin' Here, Summertime Blues, Shakin' All Over, Young Man Blues, So Sad About Us, The Kids Are Alright, I Can't Explain

The Kinks: You Really Got Me, Tired of Waiting for You, All Day and All of the Night, I Need You

The Beatles: She Said, She Said, Yer Blues, Back in the USSR, Dear Prudence, Rain

Jeff Beck: Freeway Jam

Jack Bruce: Theme for an Imaginary Western

Mountain: For Yasgur's Farm, Nantucket Sleighride

Hendrix: Red House, Voodoo Chile

That's a partial list.

What we'd also really like to do is have a few traditional jams--where we just pick a key and go. Real jams, in other words, were there's some organization but guys essentially take off! Playing off each other. Feeling the music instinctively. Keith might start a beat, then I start a bass line, then the guitarist goes.... Or I might start a bass line, or the guitarist(s) a riff or chord.... Then ten or fifteen minutes later we end. True jams in the old rock and roll sense.

Mike

Mike B. wrote: Jeff Beck: Freeway Jam

Note to self: Pack an extra whammy bar . One of my favorites and, like the rest of your songlist, I played it when it was new.

Dave

Good list. Of course I don't know any of those songs all the way through, but I have a few weeks to work on some of them. I see a few I've always wanted to learn but didn't for some reason.

Sounds good to me, guys.

Again, the idea of having real jams is my favorite idea....

Mike

Mike B. wrote:Sounds good to me, guys.

Again, the idea of having real jams is my favorite idea....

Mike

I bet that will end up being a considerable amount of the jam time!

Oh, we can definitely do that!

Way cool!

Mike
"Talkin' 'Bout my Generation"