stewblack Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Missing a few because, well, because I'm human and probably missed a few. Also not included are those I assumed weren't serious and the other Smiths song. One was too many really. Basschat Ultimate Average Punter Crowd Pleasers Set List: Sex on Fire Sweet Home Alabama Song 2 Wonderwall Mustang Sally Dakota Sweet Child of Mine Living on a Prayer Play The Funky Music. Let's Dance Smells Like Teen Spirit Chelsea Dagger Proud Mary Summer of 69 I'm a Believer Sweet Caroline Johhny B Goode All Right Now Mr. Brightside The Gambler Don't Stop Me Now Valerie Have You Ever Seen The Rain Brown Eyed Girl I'm A Believer Teenage Dirtbag You Make My Dreams BIllie Jean Walk This Way All Or Nothing The Joker I Want To Break Free Time Warp Teenage Kicks Footloose Basket Case Uptown Funk Three little birds Hey Jude Country Roads Zombie Sit Down I Am The Resurrection This Charming Man Waterfall Yellow With or without you Creep Hot Stuff Dancing in the Dark Get Lucky Superstition Hard To Handle Brown Sugar Whisky In The Jar Town Called Malice Let Me Entertain You Crocodile Rock Brass In Pocket Higher and Higher Now let's have a fight over the order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Hmmmmm. Either you'd need some serious amphetamines and play everything ar ramming speed, or you'd be playing a VERY long gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewblack Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Especially as the singer would turn up late. And the guitarist would go to the wrong pub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Maude Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 28 minutes ago, stewblack said: Now let's have a fight over the order. No need, just shoot me now! To be fair I could get a decent set from that lot but jeebus there's some some old toot in there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewblack Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 37 minutes ago, Maude said: No need, just shoot me now! To be fair I could get a decent set from that lot but jeebus there's some some old toot in there. Ah but it isn't for us. It's for them. I have never once played Valerie without people rush up to dance. No matter how dead the gig, they get up. Similarly Sweet Child. Those opening notes are like crack to them. I have passed through to a blissful place where I just love playing music for its own sake. It doesn't matter a bit to me what the song is. I think it's age. I went through a couple of years convinced that I was washed up, couldn't get a gig for love nor money. So when I landed a dep job playing stuff by bands I thought were the absolute pits, I didn't care.. Just so grateful to be making music with people. An epiphany if you like. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectoremg Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, stewblack said: Missing a few because, well, because I'm human and probably missed a few. Also not included are those I assumed weren't serious and the other Smiths song. One was too many really. Basschat Ultimate Average Punter Crowd Pleasers Set List: Sex on Fire Sweet Home Alabama Song 2 Wonderwall Mustang Sally Dakota Sweet Child of Mine Living on a Prayer Play The Funky Music. Let's Dance Smells Like Teen Spirit Chelsea Dagger Proud Mary Summer of 69 I'm a Believer Sweet Caroline Johhny B Goode All Right Now Mr. Brightside The Gambler Don't Stop Me Now Valerie Have You Ever Seen The Rain Brown Eyed Girl I'm A Believer Teenage Dirtbag You Make My Dreams BIllie Jean Walk This Way All Or Nothing The Joker I Want To Break Free Time Warp Teenage Kicks Footloose Basket Case Uptown Funk Three little birds Hey Jude Country Roads Zombie Sit Down I Am The Resurrection This Charming Man Waterfall Yellow With or without you Creep Hot Stuff Dancing in the Dark Get Lucky Superstition Hard To Handle Brown Sugar Whisky In The Jar Town Called Malice Let Me Entertain You Crocodile Rock Brass In Pocket Higher and Higher Now let's have a fight over the order. That's a very long set 😁 but a template for things to avoid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 22 minutes ago, stewblack said: Ah but it isn't for us. It's for them. I do kind of agree with you, I'm not snobby about what I play but it does baffle me that average punters will happily watch different bands, week after week, playing virtually the same set. I firmly believe that are so many great songs from the last century that we really don't need to all play the same stuff to please a crowd. Luckily one of my bands plays to a certain genre so we only play songs that fit with that, and the other band where I play doublebass has it's own style, so we take songs from all genres and change the arrangements to suit us. Both bands are popular so we can steer away from the above songs for our own sanity. As the first band is a Mod band we do All Or Nothing and Town Called Malice (I quite often sing "a man called Gladys" 🙂 ) and we occasionally do Get Lucky in the other band, on doublebass it's fun, but that's it from the list. But in the right band I'll happily play anything as long it makes people happy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Happy Jack said: Hmmmmm. Either you'd need some serious amphetamines and play everything ar ramming speed, or you'd be playing a VERY long gig. I find your lack of faith disturbing .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewblack Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 @Maude I used to be a dreadful snob! Maybe I'm really zealous now because I'm a convert. I make my living from music, such as it is. Learning those standards is my meal ticket! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 2 hours ago, stewblack said: @Maude I used to be a dreadful snob! Maybe I'm really zealous now because I'm a convert. I make my living from music, such as it is. Learning those standards is my meal ticket! Mine too, and have been for a number of years. Nowt wrong with making a living, although after today this may prove to be damned near impossible 🙁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmccombe7 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Noted that Hold The Line by Toto isn't on the list. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewblack Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 2 hours ago, dmccombe7 said: Noted that Hold The Line by Toto isn't on the list. Dave Might have overlooked a couple 😬 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaytonaRik Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 On 12/01/2020 at 09:35, casapete said: One of those songs that when you hear the original you realise it still sounds amazing, especially as it’s now around 50 years old. Great drum sound, and Andy Fraser’s bass part is sublime. Annoys the sh*t out of me when you hear covers bands killing it though, with the usual errors - wrong guitar riff, bassist playing through the verses / worst of all not playing the pedal root notes in the choruses. And relax..... Up there with bass players playing G note in the chorus of Whole Lotta Rosie instead of holding the A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 31 minutes ago, DaytonaRik said: Up there with bass players playing G note in the chorus of Whole Lotta Rosie instead of holding the A Wait..what? 😲 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaytonaRik Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) 18 hours ago, Oopsdabassist said: Wait..what? 😲 Have a listen - sometimes Mark Evans played the A through half of the verse, sometimes the A C A D A C A pattern, sometimes an octave A, but ALWAYS the A through the chorus until the final section Edited March 18, 2020 by DaytonaRik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewblack Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 Just put this lot together into a playlist as I thought it would be useful to run through every now and then. Any wedding/party dep gigs i get will most likely draw heavily from this. By the way, while we're all here, you know when we were analysing why the punter wants his weekly set chosen from a similar setlist regardless of who plays it? It just occured to me. If I go see a band, any band, and they have a couple of massive hits in their repertoire, or a song which has always gone down well with their fans, they likely play it, and usually near or at the end to send everyone home happy. I'd be disappointed if they didn't. Well your average Joe/Jo at a pub on a Friday night or a wedding reception is no different s/he just gets to hear all the favourites regardless of who wrote them, genre or whether they're 'cool'. They get Sweet Child without sitting through two hours of GnR songs they don't recognise, then they get that song off that film they like, then that one evryone knows the words to. Singing along with a bunch of other happy people is a hugely cathartic, enjoyable experience, similarly dancing while you all sing. To do this everyone needs to know the tune. Hardly surprising we end up with a set cherry picked from people's favourites. It's a bag of Revels with the disgusting coconut one taken out. Also look how long a list our little experiment threw up. There's more than one set there, so it's not as if we all play an identical bunch of songs. Interestingly I busked through a playlist on iReal Pro entitled Wedding. Almost immediately I was confronted with songs I'd never heard of and nowhere on our list. I'm going to hazard a guess it's an American list maybe? Which suggests regional and cultural differences. Be interesting to play that list to a Brit crowd and see what occured. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5r9xd8X_pqnNDSwYxSZSk2UyTRuTRU2h 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 wow, 53 songs and I've only ever done 6 of em....I feel a bit smug now!! 😋 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 21 of those, I have done at least once, if not necessarily by the specified artist. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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