Best Beatles song to play in a pub band?

[sticker]

I Feel Fine , for my money is one of the greatest "pop" songs of all time , great hooks and harmoines and all over within 2 min 30 secs .

[RhysP]

And Your Bird Can Sing.

[paul torch]

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And Your Bird Can Sing.
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+1

she said, she said is also a top one off Revolver. So many great tracks on there.

[Raslee]

We do Twist & Shout...crowds always go crazy to it

[lowdown]

[quote name='blamelouis' timestamp='1332636110' post='1591119']
Lady madonna
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Good choice.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doeNEC4WKpA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doeNEC4WKpA[/url]


Garry

[steve-bbb]

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1332669061' post='1591268']
Harmonies always seem to be the limiting factor in Beatles covers.
You don`t realise until you start messing about with them, just how much of that sound came from vocal harmonies.
We`re doing Day tripper and Saw her standing there, and I had to hammer out a 1x Morrissey tune for every extra Beatles tune type deal to prevent another 4 in the set.
First of the Gang is coming along nicely
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i would add to that even the chord voicings too

missing out even the occasional passing note is often enough to make a noticeable difference - a good beatles cover does imo require a strict musical discipline because their strength and beauty is pretty much totally encompassed in the melody and harmonic structure - unless you go the whole hog and are brave enough to do a crazy rearrangement such as esperanto's eleanor rigby!

[SteveK]

[quote name='steve-bbb' timestamp='1332927689' post='1594876']
i would add to that even the chord voicings too

missing out even the occasional passing note is often enough to make a noticeable difference - a good beatles cover does imo require a strict musical discipline because their strength and beauty is pretty much totally encompassed in the melody and harmonic structure - unless you go the whole hog and are brave enough to do a crazy rearrangement such as esperanto's eleanor rigby!
[/quote]Considering mercuryl is in a guitar/bass duo I would assume that serious rearrangement is a given. I've got to say, I'm struggling trying to imagine some of the songs suggested with such a limited line-up.

[mep]

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We do Twist & Shout...crowds always go crazy to it
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We also do Twist & Shout and the crowd loves it and starts twisting away. Also in the set is I Saw Her Standing There. Both big crowd pleasers.

Done a few other songs in my time.

[KevB]

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Considering mercuryl is in a guitar/bass duo I would assume that serious rearrangement is a given. I've got to say, I'm struggling trying to imagine some of the songs suggested with such a limited line-up.
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There's an acoustic duo round Nottingham that only do Beatles songs and they get regular gigs;
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4mZWPDwHcE&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4mZWPDwHcE&feature=related[/url]

Edited March 28, 2012 by KevB

[tauzero]

Nowhere Man would be worth a shot. A chance for some nice harmony vocals.

[lowdown]

[quote name='SteveK' timestamp='1332936535' post='1595064']
I'm struggling trying to imagine some of the songs suggested with such a limited line-up.
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Note for note/arrangement/sound, of course.
But with a bit of creativity and a little outside of the box thinking,
anything is possible with Beatles tunes.


Garry

[Dave Vader]

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Someone shouted out a request for Elenor Rigby at a gig of ours, we apologised for not bringing the orchestra that night.
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We used to do that in a 3 piece (very differently of course) started off with a stabbing telecaster Em, and was oft mistaken for London Calling...
Got very 'eavy by the middle....

[AMPEG]

We play 'come together' its unashamedly bass orientated too!

[REDLAWMAN]

'I Saw Her Standing There' and 'The Night Before': the only two songs I played at school when I was 16!

Just to digress, I thought that duo from Notts with Robert Carlisle on bass were great..!

[The Dark Lord]

[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1332937802' post='1595089']
There's an acoustic duo round Nottingham that only do Beatles songs and they get regular gigs;
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4mZWPDwHcE&feature=related[/media]
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Yeah .... I don't consider our two-piece line up to be limiting in any way. It's kind fun and uncoventional and people are surprised just how big a sound comes out of just two guys.

[mr zed]

Another vote for 'And Your Bird Can Sing' here. We play this in the middle of a set full of Green Day, RHCP, Killers, Stone Roses etc. and it works. It shouldn't, but it does. Plus it's only 2 minutes long

[Judo Chop]

[quote name='mr zed' timestamp='1334230464' post='1612850']
Another vote for 'And Your Bird Can Sing' here. We play this in the middle of a set full of Green Day, RHCP, Killers, Stone Roses etc. and it works. It shouldn't, but it does. Plus it's only 2 minutes long
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Which Stone Roses songs do you do?

[crez5150]

'Can't buy me love' I'd opt for..... always get's people up and dancing and can be played with limited instruments

[lowdown]

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'Can't buy me love' I'd opt for..... always get's people up and dancing and can be played with limited instruments
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And when you say limited instruments - you mean the Bass Gtr ?



Garry

[crez5150]

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1334236884' post='1612998']
And when you say limited instruments - you mean the Bass Gtr ?



Garry
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Indeed!

[The Saint]

If it's punchy and up-tempo you want, it has to be Revolution....

[philparker]

I've played numerous Beatles songs over the years and they're great fun: two I've played recently that went down very well, which I don't think have been mentioned - 'Norwegian Wood' and 'If I Fell'.

Don't rule out a medley neither - if you can keep it to about 5 or 6 minutes!

[mr zed]

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Which Stone Roses songs do you do?
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'She Bangs the Drums' and 'I am the Resurection' oh...... and Love is the Law by the Seahorses. Every one a crowd pleaser.

[The Admiral]

I skipped some of the posts, but no love for 'Taxman'? Great bassline - just ask Bruce Foxton, and plenty of latitude for your guitar player to give it some wallop if they want to - as in........... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OgkjcW0g4[/media]

There is also a great Stevie Ray Vaughan version, which will also appeal to the guitar fraternity.

[Judo Chop]

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'She Bangs the Drums' and 'I am the Resurection' oh...... and Love is the Law by the Seahorses. Every one a crowd pleaser.
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Even the instrumental at the end of I Am the Resurrection?