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Just joined an 80s cover band. Might be fun being different than my other band. Never thought I'd be playing some of these songs. This is the first set. Some I've never heard.

Best Friends Girl Cars
Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes
Don't Change INXS
Down Under Men at Work
Funkytown Lipps Inc.
... Hey Jealousy Gin Blossoms
Hungry Like the Wolf Duran Duran
I Wanna Be Sedated Ramones
I Will Follow U2
Jenny (867-5309) Tommy Tutone
Just Like Heaven Cure
Just What I Needed Cars
Melt With You Modern English
Salt In My Tears Martin Briley
Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana
Space Age Lovesong Flock of Seagulls
Talk Dirty to Me Poison
The One I Love REM
Under the Milky Way Church
Wanted Dead or Alive Bon Jovi
What I Like About You Romantics
White Wedding Billy Idol
You Really Got Me Van Halen
Your Love Outfield

this was our last show. The majority of you will not know most these songs.


SET 1
Love in Her Eyes-Reckless Kelly
Walk Softly on this Heart of Mine-Kentucky Headhunters
Tired of Being Alone-Wade Bowen
In a Week or Two-Diamond Rio
That’s How Country Boys Roll-Billy Currington
That Girl-Kevin Fowler
Neon Moon-Brooks and Dunn
Springsteen-Eric Church
Wave on Wave-Pat Green
I Feel a Good One Coming On-Blackberry Smoke
Down and Out -Randy Rogers

SET 2
Road Trippin-Josh Abbott
Kiss Me in the Dark-Randy Rogers
Love You –Jack Ingram
Texas Angel-Honeybrowne
I Don’t Want This Night to End-Luke Bryan
Oklahoma Breakdown-Stoney LaRue
When It Rains-Eli Young Band
Time to Switch to Whiskey-Kyle Bennet
Taste-Josh Abbott
White Trash Story-Casey Donahew
4th of July-Shooter Jennings
The Rain-Sons of Bill

SET 3
Everybody Talks-Neon Trees
Amarillo Sky-Jason Aldean
Alabama-Cross Canadian Ragweed
Even if it Breaks Your Heart-Eli Young Band
Whiskey River-Willie Nelson
Saturday Night-Wade Bowen
Twelve Gauge-Casey Donahew
Buy Myself A Chance-Randy Rogers
It Was Always the Love Songs-Eli Young Band
Banditos-The Refreshments
This Time Around-Randy Rogers
Wear My Ring-Bart Crow

My instrumental band occasionally recruits a few singers and a keyboard player and we do a Pink Floyd set

Shine On You Crazy Diamond
One of These Days
Fearless
Not Now John
Mother
Time
The Nile Song
Comfortably Numb
Run Like Hell

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primeholy wrote:Just joined an 80s cover band. Might be fun being different than my other band. Never thought I'd be playing some of these songs. This is the first set. Some I've never heard.

Best Friends Girl Cars
Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes
Don't Change INXS
Down Under Men at Work
Funkytown Lipps Inc.
... Hey Jealousy Gin Blossoms
Hungry Like the Wolf Duran Duran
I Wanna Be Sedated Ramones
I Will Follow U2
Jenny (867-5309) Tommy Tutone
Just Like Heaven Cure
Just What I Needed Cars
Melt With You Modern English
Salt In My Tears Martin Briley
Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana
Space Age Lovesong Flock of Seagulls
Talk Dirty to Me Poison
The One I Love REM
Under the Milky Way Church
Wanted Dead or Alive Bon Jovi
What I Like About You Romantics
White Wedding Billy Idol
You Really Got Me Van Halen
Your Love Outfield

Bold choices are kind of odd for an 80's band, but, I would love to be in a band like this.

primeholy wrote:Don't Change INXS
Under the Milky Way Church
Your Love Outfield

Three awesome choices. Love me some new wavey INXS, before they decided to get funky. One question: do you really have a singer who can nail all these songs? That Church song is deep and that Outfield song is hiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

We do some 80's stuff. We do Relax (which doesn't go as good I had hoped), Hungry Like the Wolf, Footloose, Devil Inside (which needs another few tries to see how response is). With 80's pop stuff, I am more inclined to grab the slightly obscure side of things that the audience might not enjoy as much as I do.

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I miss the hcaf lolface.

38 Special – So Caught Up In You

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long

Accept – Balls To The Wall

Aerosmith - Dude Looks like a lady

Alice Cooper - Poison

Anthrax - Madhouse

Autograph – Turn Up The Radio

Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right

Beastie Boys - Girls

Billy Idol – Rebel Yell

Billy Squier – The Stroke

Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer

Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive

Bon Jovi – You Give Love A Bad Name

Britny Fox – Girlschool

Bulletboys – Smooth Up In Ya

Cinderella – Shake Me

Cult - Fire Woman

Damn Yankees - High Enough

Danzig - Mother

Def Leppard - Love Bites

Def Leppard – Photograph

Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me

Def Leppard – Rock Of Ages

Dio – Rainbow In The Dark

Dokken - Alone Again

Dokken – It's Not Love

Eddie Money – Shakin’

Europe – Final Countdown

Extreme – More Than Words

Faith No More – Epic

Faster Pussycat – House Of Pain

Fastway - Say what you will

Firehouse - All She Wrote

Foreigner – Jukebox Hero

Great White - Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City

Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O' Mine

Guns N’ Roses – Welcome To The Jungle

Iron Maiden – Run To The Hills

Journey - Any Way You Want it

Journey – Don’t Stop Believing

Journey – Separate Ways

Judas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’

Kiss - Heaven's On Fire

Kiss – Lick It Up

Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly

Living Colour – Cult Of Personality

Loverboy - Turn Me Loose

Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation

Metallica – Fade To Black

Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls

Michael Jackson – Beat It

Motley Crue – Girls, Girls, Girls

Motley Crue – Home Sweet Home

Motley Crue - Kickstart my Heart

Motley Crue - Looks that Kill

Motley Crue – Shout At The Devil

Mr. Big – To Be With You

Ozzy Osbourne – Bark At The Moon

Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Poison - Fallen Angel

Poison – Nothin’ But A Good Time

Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Poison – Talk Dirty To Me

Quiet Riot – Cum On Feel The Noize

Quiet Riot - Metal Health

Ratt – Round & Round

Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up

Scorpions – No One Like You

Scorpions – Rock You Like A Hurricane

Skidrow - 18 and Life

Skidrow – I Remember You

Skidrow – Youth Gone Wild

Slaughter - Fly To The Angels

Slaughter – Up All Night

Steel Heart - I'll never let you go

Steel Dragon - We all die young

Survivor – Eye Of The Tiger

Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy

Tesla – Love Song

Top Gun Anthem

Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock

Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It

Van Halen – Jump

Van Halen - Panama

Van Halen - Unchained

Warrant – Cherry Pie

WASP - I Wanna Be Somebody

White Lion – Wait

Whitesnake –Here I Go Again

Whitesnake – Still of The Night

Winger – Seventeen

ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin’

BTW... my next gig with them is at a strip club.

Loop wrote:BTW... my next gig with them is at a strip club.

How does Pour Some Sugar go over? I have contemplated adding that one, despite my seething hatred of the song lol:)

We worked on Epic a bit, but it fell kind of flat. Too obvious for the music nerds and not danceable enough for the average crowd.

cavitation wrote:

Loop wrote:BTW... my next gig with them is at a strip club.

How does Pour Some Sugar go over? I have contemplated adding that one, despite my seething hatred of the song lol:)

We worked on Epic a bit, but it fell kind of flat. Too obvious for the music nerds and not danceable enough for the average crowd.

You gotta sell it.

We get in FULL 80's mode. We even have stage names. Spandex, wigs, makeup....all of it.

Loop wrote:Steel Heart - I'll never let you go

Who sings THAT?

benjamin801 wrote:

Loop wrote:Steel Heart - I'll never let you go

Who sings THAT?

Gary does. He's a BEAST.

Me and Gene (guitarslinger) are both fill-ins for this band. Gene is a fill in vocalist, and I am fill in lead guitar. These guys are insanely good.

Loop wrote:BTW... my next gig with them is at a strip club.

Your life. I want it.

I'm not posting mine, because it's a virtual "why do we even have a guitar player in this band" snooze fest.

If it weren't for me following the bass lines with distorted power chords, and throwing licks in here and there, I prolly wouldn't be in this band.

Having said that, my schedule is full, we make bank at the weddings, and we do rock it out at some of the bars.

The Anomaly wrote:

Loop wrote:BTW... my next gig with them is at a strip club.

Your life. I want it.

I'm not posting mine, because it's a virtual "why do we even have a guitar player in this band" snooze fest.

If it weren't for me following the bass lines with distorted power chords, and throwing licks in here and there, I prolly wouldn't be in this band.

Having said that, my schedule is full, we make bank at the weddings, and we do rock it out at some of the bars.

I just wish I got to play more gigs with them. They'll play close to 100 shows this year, and I may get 10 or 12 of those if I'm lucky. It's so fun.

The Anomaly wrote:

Loop wrote:BTW... my next gig with them is at a strip club.

Your life. I want it.

I'm not posting mine, because it's a virtual "why do we even have a guitar player in this band" snooze fest.

If it weren't for me following the bass lines with distorted power chords, and throwing licks in here and there, I prolly wouldn't be in this band.

Having said that, my schedule is full, we make bank at the weddings, and we do rock it out at some of the bars.

Dude---I saw your setlist and it is awesome. Just because you're not playing VH tunes the whole night doesn't mean you can't have fun I do my own version of what you describe, play small guitar parts and horn and keys bits. People drink and dance and have fun. Plus, we get booked pretty regular.

Loop wrote:

cavitation wrote:

Loop wrote:BTW... my next gig with them is at a strip club.

How does Pour Some Sugar go over? I have contemplated adding that one, despite my seething hatred of the song lol:)

We worked on Epic a bit, but it fell kind of flat. Too obvious for the music nerds and not danceable enough for the average crowd.

You gotta sell it.

We get in FULL 80's mode. We even have stage names. Spandex, wigs, makeup....all of it.

You mean like...this




...we need more colorful outfits lol, but you get the point

Loop wrote:38 Special – So Caught Up In You

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long

Accept – Balls To The Wall

Aerosmith - Dude Looks like a lady

Alice Cooper - Poison

Anthrax - Madhouse

Autograph – Turn Up The Radio

Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right

Beastie Boys - Girls

Billy Idol – Rebel Yell

Billy Squier – The Stroke

Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer

Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive

Bon Jovi – You Give Love A Bad Name

Britny Fox – Girlschool

Bulletboys – Smooth Up In Ya

Cinderella – Shake Me

Cult - Fire Woman

Damn Yankees - High Enough

Danzig - Mother

Def Leppard - Love Bites

Def Leppard – Photograph

Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me

Def Leppard – Rock Of Ages

Dio – Rainbow In The Dark

Dokken - Alone Again

Dokken – It's Not Love

Eddie Money – Shakin’

Europe – Final Countdown

Extreme – More Than Words

Faith No More – Epic

Faster Pussycat – House Of Pain

Fastway - Say what you will

Firehouse - All She Wrote

Foreigner – Jukebox Hero

Great White - Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City

Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O' Mine

Guns N’ Roses – Welcome To The Jungle

Iron Maiden – Run To The Hills

Journey - Any Way You Want it

Journey – Don’t Stop Believing

Journey – Separate Ways

Judas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’

Kiss - Heaven's On Fire

Kiss – Lick It Up

Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly

Living Colour – Cult Of Personality

Loverboy - Turn Me Loose

Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation

Metallica – Fade To Black

Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls

Michael Jackson – Beat It

Motley Crue – Girls, Girls, Girls

Motley Crue – Home Sweet Home

Motley Crue - Kickstart my Heart

Motley Crue - Looks that Kill

Motley Crue – Shout At The Devil

Mr. Big – To Be With You

Ozzy Osbourne – Bark At The Moon

Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Poison - Fallen Angel

Poison – Nothin’ But A Good Time

Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Poison – Talk Dirty To Me

Quiet Riot – Cum On Feel The Noize

Quiet Riot - Metal Health

Ratt – Round & Round

Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up

Scorpions – No One Like You

Scorpions – Rock You Like A Hurricane

Skidrow - 18 and Life

Skidrow – I Remember You

Skidrow – Youth Gone Wild

Slaughter - Fly To The Angels

Slaughter – Up All Night

Steel Heart - I'll never let you go

Steel Dragon - We all die young

Survivor – Eye Of The Tiger

Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy

Tesla – Love Song

Top Gun Anthem

Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock

Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It

Van Halen – Jump

Van Halen - Panama

Van Halen - Unchained

Warrant – Cherry Pie

WASP - I Wanna Be Somebody

White Lion – Wait

Whitesnake –Here I Go Again

Whitesnake – Still of The Night

Winger – Seventeen

ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin’

That's pretty much perfect.

Nope... Like THIS:

Other Guitar player/Keyboardist:



Singer:



Dressing room shot of me, lol... ( I don't have any stage shots on my FB yet, since I've only played a few shows with them so far...)

^very nice

Cool setlists.

I'm not in a cover band would love to start a legit 90's cover band. Concentrating mostly on earlier to mid 90's stuff.

cavitation wrote:

The Anomaly wrote:

Loop wrote:BTW... my next gig with them is at a strip club.

Your life. I want it.

I'm not posting mine, because it's a virtual "why do we even have a guitar player in this band" snooze fest.

If it weren't for me following the bass lines with distorted power chords, and throwing licks in here and there, I prolly wouldn't be in this band.

Having said that, my schedule is full, we make bank at the weddings, and we do rock it out at some of the bars.

Dude---I saw your setlist and it is awesome. Just because you're not playing VH tunes the whole night doesn't mean you can't have fun I do my own version of what you describe, play small guitar parts and horn and keys bits. People drink and dance and have fun. Plus, we get booked pretty regular.

Thanks brah. In all fairness, that was a wedding setlist, throw that whole first set out and put in 80/90's tunes, and bookend the end of the night with Eruption, Running with the Devil, Enter Sandman, Separate Ways/Don't Stop Believin', etc, and you have our bar setlist, so, I guess I do gets mine.

It's just all that modern dance stuff that doesn't feature guitar that is tough to stomach at times.

Loop wrote:38 Special – So Caught Up In You

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long

Accept – Balls To The Wall

Aerosmith - Dude Looks like a lady

Alice Cooper - Poison

Anthrax - Madhouse

Autograph – Turn Up The Radio

Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right

Beastie Boys - Girls

Billy Idol – Rebel Yell

Billy Squier – The Stroke

Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer

Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive

Bon Jovi – You Give Love A Bad Name

Britny Fox – Girlschool

Bulletboys – Smooth Up In Ya

Cinderella – Shake Me

Cult - Fire Woman

Damn Yankees - High Enough

Danzig - Mother

Def Leppard - Love Bites

Def Leppard – Photograph

Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me

Def Leppard – Rock Of Ages

Dio – Rainbow In The Dark

Dokken - Alone Again

Dokken – It's Not Love

Eddie Money – Shakin’

Europe – Final Countdown

Extreme – More Than Words

Faith No More – Epic

Faster Pussycat – House Of Pain

Fastway - Say what you will

Firehouse - All She Wrote

Foreigner – Jukebox Hero

Great White - Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City

Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O' Mine

Guns N’ Roses – Welcome To The Jungle

Iron Maiden – Run To The Hills

Journey - Any Way You Want it

Journey – Don’t Stop Believing

Journey – Separate Ways

Judas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’

Kiss - Heaven's On Fire

Kiss – Lick It Up

Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly

Living Colour – Cult Of Personality

Loverboy - Turn Me Loose

Lynch Mob - Wicked Sensation

Metallica – Fade To Black

Metallica – For Whom The Bell Tolls

Michael Jackson – Beat It

Motley Crue – Girls, Girls, Girls

Motley Crue – Home Sweet Home

Motley Crue - Kickstart my Heart

Motley Crue - Looks that Kill

Motley Crue – Shout At The Devil

Mr. Big – To Be With You

Ozzy Osbourne – Bark At The Moon

Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

Poison - Fallen Angel

Poison – Nothin’ But A Good Time

Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn

Poison – Talk Dirty To Me

Quiet Riot – Cum On Feel The Noize

Quiet Riot - Metal Health

Ratt – Round & Round

Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up

Scorpions – No One Like You

Scorpions – Rock You Like A Hurricane

Skidrow - 18 and Life

Skidrow – I Remember You

Skidrow – Youth Gone Wild

Slaughter - Fly To The Angels

Slaughter – Up All Night

Steel Heart - I'll never let you go

Steel Dragon - We all die young

Survivor – Eye Of The Tiger

Tesla - Modern Day Cowboy

Tesla – Love Song

Top Gun Anthem

Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock

Twisted Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It

Van Halen – Jump

Van Halen - Panama

Van Halen - Unchained

Warrant – Cherry Pie

WASP - I Wanna Be Somebody

White Lion – Wait

Whitesnake –Here I Go Again

Whitesnake – Still of The Night

Winger – Seventeen

ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin’

How do you deal with the different guitar tunings? Do you bring a few guitars or do you just change the key to fit standard tuning?

Orbis_Mortis wrote:
How do you deal with the different guitar tunings? Do you bring a few guitars or do you just change the key to fit standard tuning?

We retab everything to D Standard. Works well.