steve-bbb Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 [quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1423671937' post='2687779'] Did 'Stop' by the spice girls once. f***ing awful faux motown bilge. [/quote] we just started doing Promise by Girls Aloud Quote
AndyTravis Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 We do 'love machine' at the minute, half way between their version and the Arctic Monkeys one. Quote
UglyDog Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 [quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1423670008' post='2687741'] I love those two songs. They are great songs to listen to and play. [/quote] Good god, we obviously have very different ideas of 'great to play' [quote] They always get the audience up and dancing (which is what we get paid to do after all). [/quote] Just like Mustang Sally! Quote
dave_bass5 Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 [quote name='UglyDog' timestamp='1423672687' post='2687791'] Good god, we obviously have very different ideas of 'great to play' Just like Mustang Sally! [/quote] Well yes, but we get paid to get audiences up and dancing, and they too seem to love these songs so i dont see how they can be as bad as you say they are. Quote
redbandit599 Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 Very loud and bad cover of No Limits by Two Unlimited, with some pre Death Metal vocals. Did it for a laugh, went down well and proved that many punters have no taste - then to our surprise on of the local 'A' list bands saw it and started trying to do it. Trouble is they key could play too well, so it lost the 'punky' charm of the original... Quote
spectoremg Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 There are still bands out there who think Mustang Sally is cool and fun! And leave Jimmy Webb alone - McArthur Park ain't for pub gigs but that doesn't make it a bad piece of music. And if lyrics were supposed to make sense etc... Quote
UglyDog Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) [quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1423672940' post='2687798'] Well yes, but we get paid to get audiences up and dancing, and they too seem to love these songs so i dont see how they can be as bad as you say they are. [/quote] Ah well. I hate it, you don't. Personal preference is a funny old thing, ain't it? Edited February 11, 2015 by UglyDog Quote
ubit Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 f***in "Angels" ! God I hated playing that, luckily everyone's forgot about it these days Quote
Nicko Posted February 11, 2015 Author Posted February 11, 2015 [quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1423670008' post='2687741'] I love those two songs. They are great songs to listen to and play. They always get the audience up and dancing (which is what we get paid to do after all). [/quote] [quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1423672940' post='2687798'] Well yes, but we get paid to get audiences up and dancing, and they too seem to love these songs so i dont see how they can be as bad as you say they are. [/quote] I honestly thoght you were being ironic in the first post, and then you went and blew it! Quote
Norris Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 After regularly playing Losing My Religion by REM for about 4 years I finally lost my will to live and simply refused to play it any more. One of the few songs I've ever got quite so sick of. In a previous band we used to do pretty much everything in the charts. The one that really sticks in my mind is (don't mess with my) "Toot toot". I can't remember who did it but it was sheer drivel! Quote
taunton-hobbit Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 ^^^^ Denise LaSalle - 1985 I have it on a cd..........I'll get me coat........... Quote
Norris Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 [quote name='taunton-hobbit' timestamp='1423678988' post='2687888'] ^^^^ Denise LaSalle - 1985 I have it on a cd..........I'll get me coat........... [/quote] Saddo And of course Frankie including the twee bass intro (which my sister named her daughter after!) Quote
Norris Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 In my defence I was on a salary and didn't have a choice in the set list. If it was in the charts and we could make a sound that resembled it, we did it. It was a great crash course in bass playing though! Quote
dave_bass5 Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) [quote name='Nicko' timestamp='1423674976' post='2687839'] I honestly thoght you were being ironic in the first post, and then you went and blew it! [/quote] Why? Because I have an option that differes from others in this thread. Is it only bass players that have this high and mighty attitude I wonder? I understand some people hate certain songs, I have no issue with that, but why do some make blanket statements that something someone else likes is crap? What gives certain people the feeling that they know better than others? If these songs weren't so popular we wouldn't have to play them. But then the general public are idiots and have no idea what they should like aren't? No having a go at you personally, it just gets my goat when I'm told by someone better than me that what I like is wrong ;-) Edited February 11, 2015 by dave_bass5 Quote
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 The passenger( Bowie/pop) truly tedious . Too hard to handle ( it's not metal!;)all or nothing ..aargh! Never did play rivers of Babylon , which would've went down a storm IMHO;) Quote
essexbasscat Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 This being a family forum, I'll refrain from expressing my thoughts about Mustang Sally. Just to say the language is decidedly viking Safe to say that one will never appear on a set list that I'm responsible for .... Quote
lurksalot Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 [quote name='Norris' timestamp='1423679272' post='2687892'] Saddo And of course Frankie including the twee bass intro (which my sister named her daughter after!) [/quote] Your sister called her daughter Twee Bass Quote
SpaceChick Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 [quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1423689119' post='2688038'] Your sister called her daughter Twee Bass [/quote] It's better than Frankie Quote
discreet Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 Holy crap, I'd forgotten about some of these horrors! Every morning I get down on my knees and thank God I'm not in a cover band. At the moment. Quote
KevB Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 [quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1423672635' post='2687790'] We do 'love machine' at the minute, half way between their version and the Arctic Monkeys one. [/quote] Same here, been in our set 18 months or so, usually goes down well. Quote
AndyTravis Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 [quote name='KevB' timestamp='1423693700' post='2688111'] Same here, been in our set 18 months or so, usually goes down well. [/quote] There's a process at the minute of going from 'Waterfall' by the Stone Roses into this. I know. 😑 Quote
Norris Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 There's another one - The Power of Love by Jennifer Rush. There are decent female vocalists out there but I can't say I enjoyed accompanying our one Come to think of it we were a bit like those awful "almost sounds like the original artist" compilation albums you used to get in Woolworth's Quote
discreet Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 [quote name='Norris' timestamp='1423694447' post='2688128'] ...those awful "almost sounds like the original artist" compilation albums you used to get in Woolworth's [/quote] I remember those, so depressing! Nothing worse than hearing some faceless session band kill a number you didn't want to hear by the original artist in the first place! Quote
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 Not music for pleasure then ? (Mfp label) Quote
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