Conan Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 [quote name='allighatt0r' timestamp='1405004366' post='2497815'] What key do you do No One Knows in? [/quote] It's in C isn't it? No mentions for Green day here? They usually go down pretty well... although there best tunes certainly were more than 10 years ago, if that is important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charic Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Fratellis? Might be more than 10 years though I've always wanted to do all my life by the foo fighters live. Black stone cherry is a good shout Some of AFIs latest album is really good as is Osbournes latest album "scream" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywoodrox Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Anything by reckless love is awesome, finnish hair metal l band, their songs sound like a mixture of van halen , def leppard, ratt, and winger and guns n roses all rolled into one, proper kick ass rock n roll with catchy riffs and singalong choruses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollywoodrox Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 [media]http://youtu.be/Qy6NpF2V2xg[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Seems like a lot of these numbers wont get the band out of a pub tho...and some might not even get you in one.. I think you need to know your market and make a compromise between what you want to play... what the venues want and how much you want to get paid... If you are doing the same as everyone else, then you'll likely be able to do as well as they do..all other things being equal, but some pub sets on the heavier side ..like AC/DC and the like, for example, tend to leave the band stuck there. Those gigs will tend to pay between £200 and £500 max..and the larger fee will be the max for a party...?? Because there isn't any difference between the pub set and the party set...then also, people might begrudge paying the premium..and then they'll invite their party to your gig. Landlord and party person wins... band doesn't.. If we quote a party or beer festival for £1000, then you have to make it different than your Dog and Duck gig. We can be as pokey as most in a rock band sense, but it is the material that allows you to charge more and/or you have to have something others don't... IME. Choosing a set for a purpose can be a very hard thing to get right... Things I don't tend to like to see is ... 80's classic rock... too many of them round here. Soul/Blues Bros bands... and Rockabilly/Brat pack/crooner bands..( they tend to be pretty good tho ..) Gtr set bands... Strangely enough, the Blues scene is pretty good and most players in that scene will say of all the proper gigs they try and do..the Blues gig is the least one likely to loose them money...!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbandit599 Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 We're doing the same thing currently, have a great new girl singer. Check out Halestorm, they have some really good tunes of their own and some excellent covers of classics. Not gigged any yet, but working on several. Love Bites, in particular sends shivers up my spine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted July 11, 2014 Share Posted July 11, 2014 Steel Panther for the love of god Steel Panther or a bit of Airbourne that has always gone down well when I have seen it live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5stringdude Posted July 12, 2014 Share Posted July 12, 2014 Could try Green Day, American Idiot. We 'loomed' it in with Pretty Vacant as a kind of new punk-old punk mix. Very popular, although we had to slow down 'Idiot' and speed up 'Vacant' a little bit - Pretty Vacant is surprisingly slow. Definitely agree with most posters here, some great suggestions, particularly Muse & Fratellis. How about White Stripes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretmeister Posted July 13, 2014 Share Posted July 13, 2014 Fall Out Boy - thanks for the memories Belting tune. Always goes down well, even if people haven't heard it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Dave Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 I don't think I've listened to anything new in the last decade but based on our set the two most recent things we do are the aforementioned Black Keys thing (which I hate but other guys in the band and the williams seem to like) and - though it might not make the parameters for all I know - Country Girl by Primal somebody or other. Williams love it every time and I get to sing ' my arsehole is unclean' at the top of my voice which is obviously a bonus ! I don't know if we do it anything like the original because I've never heard it. Our guitar player sang it to me in the car ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protium Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Miles Kane and Jake Bugg are both very popular recent artists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Here you go Dave... [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLjtajNuAm8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLjtajNuAm8[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Dave Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 [quote name='KevB' timestamp='1405351666' post='2501101'] Here you go Dave... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLjtajNuAm8[/media] [/quote] Very kind of you , mate , but I don't want to know. We're a covers band but I like to have as much 'artistic' input as poss into what I do and I find I can roll my own better without too much - or even any - knowledge of the original. Besides - the sounds off and my good lady is watching Tipping Point and won't be best pleased if I turn it up ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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