AttitudeCastle Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Johnny B. Goode! We still play it too 5/6 years on haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rock Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Supersonic - Oasis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr zed Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 My first band played originals with one cover - Backdoor Man by The Doors. I would have been around 15 and the year was around 1980. Youth club do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 My Best Friends Girl by the Cars. Youth club do, and it was still in the charts, so that'd make it '78. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 The Specials, "Nite Klub" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panamonte Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 (edited) A Horace Silver tune - Liberated Brother. That was back in July 1979. Here's what it sounds like when it's played properly rather than by a bunch of teenagers. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vehbblYL_Q&feature=player_detailpage"]http://www.youtube....ayer_detailpage[/url] Edited July 29, 2014 by Panamonte Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Sam Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Cream's Badge. School gig where the crowd were shouting " Band off, Disco on." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 A song by the band I was in at the time - Lest We Forget, by The Shout. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarky Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Either Ceremony by New Order or Damaged Goods by Gang of Four in my first band in 1981 (ish) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franzbassist Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 (edited) "Since you been gone" by Rainbow, at a Secondary School end of year concert in 1980. I can remember my band's lineup too! Edited July 29, 2014 by walbassist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lojo Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 12 bar rock blues, no singer just a harp and guitar going for it, each song lasted about 20 minutes with no structure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alembic63 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 1978," Sweet Caroline " by Status Quo, complete with Saxophone player. We played 3 songs at the School Disco.....also got my first fumble off the back of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Joined my 1st band after 3 months of playing, back in 2002, I learned their 4 original songs and did those, plus Bon Jovi 'Its My Life' as an encore, kept jumping on and off the stage as they peppered those songs all around the setlist....I was 42 and terrified! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles'tone Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 The Star Wars theme tune reworked as a cocktail jazz number. We were all wearing blue boiler suits, swimming caps, blue makeup and halved ping pong balls for eyes. As you do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 1973 "The Irish Club" near Dartford Station. I was 16, played my first Bass gig, I got £4.00...! http://youtu.be/ThSIVW6eb58 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 'Fat Angel', a 'cover' of a Jefferson Airplane track. Circa 1970, with the Martin Spicer Band (schoolmates of a younger brother...), playing a white Vox Clubman. The venue was the Southville Methodist Hall, a concert auto-promoted. I made a 100w transistor amp for the occasion, using 2N3055's, and a 4 x 12 cab. I didn't have much of a clue about dimensions, so I guessed that 36" x 36" x 12" should be enough. It certainly was..! Amp and cab covered in turquoise rubbery vinyl (a floor covering, I think...). Happy days. http://youtu.be/9A7jM-7bNYs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=h8-u1ipr8zw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassintheface Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 'While my guitar gently weeps' in the school hall aged 15. The drummer was pretty dire so I pretty much spent the entire 20 min set keeping him in time, mouthing "one, two, three, four". Binned him soon after!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesparky Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Another one bites the dust. I hadn't been playing very long at all and I remember taking ages to work out the C bit. I also remember freaking out some girls in my class by turning the cassette over in a 4-track recorder so it played backwards and hearing "it's fun to smoke marajuana" instead of "another one bites the dust". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highfox Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 In 1978 at the school disco/youthclub, at the ripe old age of 15, I'd only been playing a week, Pretty Vacant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Nothing special but I will never forget. I was late into music, had my first public gig aged 50 in 2008. I opened the set playing the first notes of 'Gimmie Some Loving' and was as nervous as anything. After about 1 minute the nerves vanished and I discovered that I *really* loved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesparky Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 [quote name='Paul S' timestamp='1406624413' post='2513024'] Nothing special but I will never forget. I was late into music, had my first public gig aged 50 in 2008. I opened the set playing the first notes of 'Gimmie Some Loving' and was as nervous as anything. After about 1 minute the nerves vanished and I discovered that I *really* loved it [/quote] Great story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthurhenry Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Metallica's "Whiplash" at school (we changed some of the lyrics!) I played it in F, the rest of the band in E. Crowd went nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingnutkj Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 Town Called Malice by The Jam. I'd been taken by surprise that The Fear of being on stage had got me, but was mostly able to keep my fingers working. I was going fine until the bit where everything but the bass drops out for a couple of bars, and although I hit all of the right notes, in the right order, they were not necessarily hit at the right moments. The classic driving Motown-esque bassline was rendered in a hesitant and staccatto style. Since them, I've beaten The Fear, and feel quite comfortable on stage, but I still don't like playing that song if I can possibly avoid it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Man Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 (edited) Johnny B Goode - school gig circa 2006 if memory serves me right Edited July 29, 2014 by Rain Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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