Spanky's Place :: Bar Band Minimum Required Playlist

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Ok class, here's today's assignment. Assume you and some buddies have formed a band, and are trying to get some paying gigs. All of you are fairly skilled, but none of you have any real club experience. You're going to be playing bars, night clubs, and private parties. You need a playlist, but you're not well known enough to play your own stuff. What is the minimum set (25 only) of songs you need to know in order to be successful?

Post your answers (or a link to your answers) below. Have fun!

Spanky's Minimum Required Playlist (In no particular order)

Ain't that a Shame - Cheap Trick
Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica (or any other version)
Smokin' in the Boy's Room - Motley Crue
(Girl) You Really Got Me - Kinks
Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
Soul Man - Blues Brothers
Boom Boom (Out go the Lights) - Pat Travers
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Johnny B Goode - Chuck Berry
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses
Takin' Care of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC
Keep your Hands to Yourself - Georgia Satellites
(I wanna) Rock and Roll All Nite - Kiss
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynrd Skynrd
(I'll Never Smoke) Weed with Willie - Toby Keith
It's the End of the World - R.E.M.
Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
I Love Rock N' Roll - Joan Jett
Mony Mony - Billy Idol
Fight for your Right (to Party) - Beastie Boys
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - George Thorogood
Closing Time - Semisonic

-Devin

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Comments

1 - Can't Get Enough of Your Love - Bad Company

Posted by Bruce At 12:05:22 PM On 02/19/2009 | - Website - |

2 - ONE Song Bruce? C'mon, you can do better than that!

Posted by Devin Olson At 12:09:33 PM On 02/19/2009 | - Website - |

3 - I only have time for one song, but it's a song I rarely hear bands cover...

867-5309 (Jenny) - Tommy Tutone

Posted by Steve Breitenbach At 12:37:24 PM On 02/19/2009 | - Website - |

4 - Okay, I went to a bar a couple of years ago and I swear this WAS their playlist!

Nice choices, can't improve on perfection!

Posted by Kathy Brown At 12:44:01 PM On 02/19/2009 | - Website - |

5 - I'll try and dig up the set lists from the band I played with 15 years ago. I know that only two of your songs were on our list: Smokin' In The Boy's Room, and Keep Your Hands To Yourself. We might have played Johnny B. Goode, too. Hard to remember. I'm sure we at least rehearsed it. And we also rehearsed Rock 'n Roll All Night, but it didn't make the cut. It never sounded right -- mainly because I had a tough time with the rhythm guitar chords that are supposed to lead the beat by a fraction of a count.

Posted by Richard Schwartz At 01:35:31 PM On 02/19/2009 | - Website - |

6 - Skynrd- Free Bird, Gimme three Steps; Steve Miller- Jungle Love, Take the Money and Run (ooh, ooh, ooh!; John Cougar- Jack and Diane......oh I have lot's more but there is a few for ya! Love and miss you brother! Emoticon

Posted by Your Sis At 03:39:33 PM On 02/19/2009 | - Website - |

7 - Also in no particular order....
1. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
2. Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
3. Never Been Rocked Enough - Delbert McClinton
4. Angel from Montgomery - John Prine/Bonny Rait
5. When the Levee Breaks - Led Zeppelin
6. Highway to Hell - AC/DC
7. Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
8. Layla - Eric Clapton
9. Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith
10. That's What I Got - Sublime
11. Knocking on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
12. Little Wing - Jimmie Hendrix
13. Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
14. Seminole Wind - John Anderson
15. The Weight - The Band
16. Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood
17. Mexico - James Taylor
18. The Whipping Post - The Allman Brothers.
19. Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
20.Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Warren Zevon
21. Lawyers Guns and Money - Warren Zevon
22. Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
23. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day - Jethro Tull
24. Gin and Juice - (The Gourds Bluegrass cover of Snoop Dog)
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25. Freebird - Lynrd Skynrd since any place that two or more drunks are gathered together Freebird will be requested.

My list is probably a bit older and more acoustic than your list because that's how I roll.

- chuck -

Posted by Chuck Dean At 04:19:21 PM On 02/19/2009 | - Website - |

8 - @7 - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner?
I had to JFGI that one. Very Nice Emoticon

Posted by Devin Olson At 05:36:56 PM On 02/19/2009 | - Website - |

9 - Zevon was one sick SOB. Sorry he's no longer around.

You need to check out The Gourd's version of Gin and Juice a friend of mine's band does it as part of their regular set.

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Posted by Chuck Dean At 05:57:52 PM On 02/19/2009 | - Website - |