Most unusual / obscure song you play

[silverfoxnik]

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='354045' date='Dec 14 2008, 08:27 AM']Mirror In The Bathroom - The Beat[/quote]
Great bassline! As is the Billy Cobham track Rasta mentioned...

[stingrayfan]

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='354023' date='Dec 14 2008, 02:26 AM']we do 'Mrs Robinson' by The Lemonheads.[/quote]
We're thinking of adding that Nik - how does it go down?

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

"I will survive"(samba version, going into a full blown" MR. Crowley" guitar solo(ozzy))
"Mamma Mia"(probably more commonplace now)

I was in a bluesy singles band where the tuning seemed to vary every other week!
"The letter"(box tops) was nice to play ,goodness knows what tuning I did that!

[farmer61]

Ace of Spades with two acoustic guitars and vocal, always proceeded with an apology for M'head fans in the house.

[Leowasright]

I've always wanted to do She's as beautiful as a foot, by Blue Oyster Cult......

[deaver]

Zero G (incidental music from Fireball XL5)

[Deep Thought]

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='354023' date='Dec 14 2008, 02:26 AM']We do a song called 'How To Save a Life' which is the theme tune to some US medical drama but I haven't a clue which band did it originaly?[/quote]

The Fray. It was in Grey's Anatomy. It was a massive hit pretty much Worldwide.

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='Deep Thought' post='355409' date='Dec 15 2008, 09:54 PM']The Fray. It was in Grey's Anatomy. It was a massive hit pretty much Worldwide.[/quote]


Hate that song with such a passion, I used to work nights at Wilkinsons and it used to be pumped through 5 times a night

[tauzero]

Not obscure but unusual as a cover - "Music" by John Miles.

Used to do "Fireball XL5" with one band (which was actually a white soul originals band, it was just one of those things that happens sometimes), have suggested we do it with the current one.

[Bass-ic]

Phillip Glass. 3 Minutes 11.

[Gman]

We used to do Big Spender with a male singer (he didn't change any of the words so it ended up sounding dead camp).

Currently the most obscure song is 'Love it when you call' by The Feeling - a tricky little one to get all the bvox right and play that riff at the same time.

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[WalMan]

[quote name='Gman' post='359018' date='Dec 19 2008, 06:09 PM']We used to do Big Spender with a male singer (he didn't change any of the words so it ended up sounding dead camp).

Currently the most obscure song is 'Love it when you call' by The Feeling - a tricky little one to get all the bvox right and play that riff at the same time.

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Ah yes. Years back we used to do "Falling in love again" a la Sid Viscious - My Way

[silverfoxnik]

[quote name='stingrayfan' post='354349' date='Dec 14 2008, 04:51 PM']We're thinking of adding that Nik - how does it go down?[/quote]
It goes down great in our first set Matt.. Good fun to play too. Happy Christmas by the way; have a good one!

[silverfoxnik]

[quote name='Deep Thought' post='355409' date='Dec 15 2008, 09:54 PM']The Fray. It was in Grey's Anatomy. It was a massive hit pretty much Worldwide.[/quote]
Thanks!

[Delberthot]

[quote name='tauzero' post='358917' date='Dec 19 2008, 04:00 PM']Used to do "Fireball XL5" with one band (which was actually a white soul originals band, it was just one of those things that happens sometimes), have suggested we do it with the current one.[/quote]


Many moons ago we played a wedding at Gleneagles Hotel - bottle of Becks was £3.75 at a time when everywhere else was selling it for less than £2.

Anyway this well to do guy gets up and asks to sing a song. He sounded really professional and we were wondering what it was that he was going to sing. It was Fireball XL5.


I play in a wedding/function band so we play a wide variety of music but there are a couple of songs that you'd expect from a pub band but not a wedding band. they are:

The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger
The Jam - Town Called Malice
Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire

We have been known to play the odd Glen Miller medley where the average age of the audience is over 70. Very handy since I played in a big band for a few years

Edited December 21, 2008 by Delberthot