Got a gig tomorrow night (setlist)

[ZoCrowes]

I am doing a solo acoustic gig at a local cafe tomorrow night. I've hopped onstage solo a few times usually just to do a song or two as filler while a friend takes a break but this is my first time alone doing more than one set. I've been performing in a band for a few years now. I'm a guitarist for a bluesrockish band (think Cream, Band of Gypsys) so being onstage does not bother me at all however I am not that much of a singer. Anyway I'm doing two sets of mainly covers so tell me what you think

Song(Original Artist)
1st Set:
Hot Burrito #2(Flying Burrito Bros)
Town Called Malice (The Jam)
Vapour Trail (Ride)
Still Got My Guitar (one of mine)
As Long As You Tell Him (Faces)
They're Red Hot (Robert Johnson)
When You Were Mine (Prince)
Lost Highway (Hank Williams)
Come Get To This (Marvin Gaye)
Don't Think Twice It's Alright (Dylan)

(15 min break)

Before You Accuse Me (Bo Diddley)
Take It As It Comes (The Doors)
Dead Flowers (Rolling Stones)
Don't Tell Me (original)
I Wanna Make It With You (Aretha Franklin)
So Tired of Being Alone (Al Green)
Cemetary Gates(The Smiths)
Remember (Hendrix)
Pretty Boy Floyd(Woody Guthrie)
I Will (Beatles)

What do ya think? Would you enjoy hearing that while reading your pretentious book of the week and drinking a way too expensive beverage?

(BTW I'm playing for free Hot Chocolate and chocolate muffins)

[no name no slogan]

1. Good mix

glad to see you squeezed in both the Smiths and Ride with Woody Guthrie.

BTW do you know about the DU Musicians Group? You may be interested in it...

[ZoCrowes]

8. Tried to cover all the bases

So that everyone would here at least one thing that might like and they are all songs I enjoy playing.

There is a musicians group? Sweeeeeet

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. I think you should do a bit of Metal Machine Music, just to get

people to take their heads out of their Nietszche and Hunter Thompson.

[ZoCrowes]

7. Well on acoustic

That would require me to just start smashing my guitar with it still plugged in...or I could just fart into a coffee can that will sound just as good

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. LOL!!

Maybe you can turn the amp to 10 and then beat some black turleneck wearing beret-sporting philosophy major to death with the guitar - or maybe just clamp a contact mike to a mike stand - and call it "music".

Oh, and run it through a fuzz box and a chorus with a 0.2 sec delay.

[ZoCrowes]

13. I like the way you think

Of course I would rather beat the fuckhead psuedo-punk wearing the buddy holly glasses, 2 sizes too small t-shirt and with the perfectly gelled bedhead look

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Oh God yes! Kill that one!!

Especailly if he's wearing green vertically striped pants and is hanging out with some chick or chicks sporting fuzzy scarves and knit hats.

[ZoCrowes]

15. Hey I dig the fuzzy scarves

but the dude must die. Whiny bitches goddamn they annoy me

[Beaverhausen]

3. Where in LA can you play two acoustic sets of covers

Just curious.

[ZoCrowes]

5. Would not know

I'm not from that LA lol

Although I wish I was

[Beaverhausen]

6. oh- I thought thats what you meant by lalaland on your profile

if you are a musician you are better off where you are. trust me on that one.

[ZoCrowes]

11. Take your word for it

actually the town I am from has had quite a few good bands signed here lately so I'm hopeful but not foolish.

I bet LA is overflowing with musicians huh?

[Zomby Woof]

4. GREAT list

A mix of classics, semi-obscurities, and styles. Good luck brother!

[ZoCrowes]

9. Thanks

I tried to cover all the bases with it and not sound too obvious. Like you will never catch me doing Yesterday or Sexual Healing.

Luck would be nice but actually having some singing talent would be a whole lot better lol

[HEAVYHEART]

12. Nice set list! Wish I could come see you! n/t

Have a good gig!

[ZoCrowes]

16. Thanks

Until I get my chops down I hope the place only has like 4 people in it lol

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. p.s. - where are you playing?

[ZoCrowes]

21. Eh

Dont really like posting my location on the net. I trust my fellow DUers I just dont trust the Freeper lurkers and such. Also when the gestapo starts coming for us it makes em harder to find me lol

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. Okey dokey - makes sense!

Just curious if you were around me, but I'd be surprised if you were. And I, like you, won't say where I am any more now that I've moved.

[GOPisEvil]

18. I wish I could come see you.

I have friends there, I'll let them know. Although they have a kid, and it's hard for them to get out, they love good music.

[Must_B_Free]

19. here's the sad tragedy of what people really WANT to hear

Song(Original Artist)

1st Set:
Heard it through the grapevine (Marvin Gaye)
Knockin on heavens door (Dylan)

(15 min break)

Light my fire (The Doors)
Satisfaction(Rolling Stones)
RESPECT (Aretha Franklin)
Foxy Lady (Hendrix)
Twist and Shout(Beatles)


plus:
Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
American Pie (Don McLean)
Cheeseburger in Paradise (Jimmy Buffet)
Louie Louie (Kingsmen)
Good Lovin' (Rascals)

.... basically the cheesiest schlock crap you can think of. People don't know what they like as much as they like what they know.

[ZoCrowes]

23. And I try like hell to avoid that

I hate it at gigs when performers do the most obvious covers. It boring I want to hear you do something that shows you are a fan of who you are covering.

[personman]

30. Purposely picking lots of obscure covers

can be just as bad, unless your playing for an audience of musicians who share your exact taste. In the words of Joe Dirt, "It's not what you like, it's the consumer". I'm a bit of a musician myself, & I listen to a bit of blues rock, though admittedly not everything. I don't think I've heard a single one of those songs in your set list.

[ZoCrowes]

32. Mix of both

Tired of Being Alone was a #1 R&B hit for Al Green

Pretty Boy Floyd by Woodie Guthrie has been covered by a whoooole lot of people

I just chose songs I know well enough to play live. Its a good mix between obscure and well known. I just dont do classic rock radio songs wether I'm playing with my band or on my own. Besides I'm a 20 yr old white boy from the south if I know these songs there is bound to be someone else who has lol

[henslee]

20. Nice. Smart Could do w/o al Green.. Just burnt on that song and who

can ever touch those vocals - tuff act to follow.

[ZoCrowes]

22. I dont even try

I lower the range quite a bit. I take most of the R&B songs and turn em more into folk songs.

[henslee]

27. Where are you playing? FORGET IT, FOUND ANSWER UP THREAD.

[buddhamama]

25. a great mix

music/genres. I wish i could hear you play, i do think i'd enjoy it.

Good Luck and have fun. :thumbsup:

[leftofthedial]

26. rockin sets!

have a blast!

[Liberal_Andy]

28. great set lists!

Break a leg! (Or bust a move, or whatever it is now.)

My band is playing at a general store in Fountain NC on the 14th and a coffee shop in Wilson on the 15th.

1)
Rank Strangers
Shady Grove
Paradise
Human Highway
Long Walk Home
Fool Me Once *
Ripple
Peggy O
Greenville
(Turn This) Water into Wine *
Dark Hollow
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere

2)
Old Mill Road *
Powderfinger
Mine Tonight *
Carmelita
Drunken Angel
Long Black Veil
Friend of the Devil
The Weight
Mole on the Dole/Atlantis
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
I Shall Be Released


* denotes original songs

Remember,...LIVE MUSIC IS BETTER!

[Must_B_Free]

29. I was telling people at work today I hated the 80s music

My reasoning - prior toMTVmusic was about listening and the imagination. THen with videos they already put the pictures in your head you're supposed to see. Video took the magic out of music, but performance puts it back.

[ZoCrowes]

31. Damn good setlist

You Aint Goin Nowhere is one of my all time fav songs

[Skittles]

33. LOL

sans glasses this geezer read your thread title as (sexist) :o

[ZoCrowes]

34. How did you get out of your cage

BACK IN DEVILWOMAN!!

[Skittles]

35. I am very resourceful

do like your setlist - Jimi is my favorite. Old people can still rock ya know. Me I mean, alas, not my Jimi. :o