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guitaroo	Date: August 8, 2006 @ 2:23 PM I have a chance to do a gig but so far it looks like me on guitar and a drummer. I'm having trouble finding others who would play with us. Does anyone have any suggestions for songs that people will probably have heard of for one guitar and drums. They're looking for up-tempo classic rock songs....one of my thoughts was pipeline....anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
guitaroo	Date: August 8, 2006 @ 2:24 PM i mean wipeout i dont know why I keep mistaking the two lol
guitaroo	Date: August 8, 2006 @ 4:32 PM Anyone?
Distilled1	Date: August 8, 2006 @ 4:46 PM MOby Dick (need a hell of a drummer) alot of Zepplin could be done that way and be known
guitaroo	Date: August 8, 2006 @ 4:48 PM thanks.....ill look into it.
guitaroo	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 1:45 PM Anyone else?
JamesThomson	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 2:34 PM gay bar by electric 6 white stipes. are either of you doin vocals? or do you want instrumentals?
guitaroo	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 2:45 PM instrumentals
kingo	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 2:53 PM The White Stripes are usually just a guitar and drums and a vocalist. What about some o' that... Oh. Instrumentals.
GeneHilbert	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 3:05 PM When is the gig.....?
GreatGooglyM...	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 3:06 PM Technical Difficulties.
guitaroo	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 3:08 PM Yeah....the gig is at some point in october....im trying to find some other people who would be willing to play bass or rhythm guitar....and the white stripes wouldn't work anyway because basically they want me to play old rock because a lot of these people only listen to that.
Distilled1	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 5:53 PM oh and buy the way a lot of clasic rock 60s-70s will sound good without vocals or are you talking real clasic like oldies?
GeneHilbert	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 6:16 PM Call your gtr teacher.... see if he'll do it with you or knows some players that will. Maybe some of his other students....... Hell how much does it pay. Make it worth my while....! I'll do it with you. LOL We’ll rock the house….
guitaroo	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 6:46 PM haha....not worth your while gene....300 i think...doing it with my guitar teacher wouldn't be that fun...he'd just end up taking over everything...I'd rather just do it with the drummer I'm planning on doing it with (http://nicdrums.dmusic.net)....got an idea for another guitarist...hope it works out...
celtaidd	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 6:55 PM "Dance with the Devil" by Cozy Powell?
guitaroo	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 7:27 PM Dont really know that one...is it a real popular (old) song that people will recognize?
evansorchid	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 7:34 PM I don't mean to curb your enthusiasm, but are you sure you're ready to do a gig like this? Unless you and your drummer really have a unique sound happening, you should at the very least get a bass player or keyboardist and work out about 20 rock standards from the '60's through the '80's. I sincerely wish ya the best of luck.
celtaidd	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 8:03 PM Big hit in the Uk in the 70s. Cozy was as/is an amazing drummer,played with the big guys.
guitaroo	Date: August 11, 2006 @ 10:25 PM Thanks evansorchid....just thought about what you said and I if I don't get another guitar or bass or keys player there really is no way I could do this....
guitaroo	Date: August 12, 2006 @ 9:37 PM Sweet....now we got another guitarist who can do rhythm pretty well and a little lead plus not too bad at bass... Things are lookin a good bit better than yesterday
EvilPicnic	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 6:51 AM um... Nirvana's About A Girl is a good one with a small group. The first song I gigged was Feeder's Buck Rogers. wait..sorry..did you want instrumentals? What about the Shadows? Apache, FBI, all recognisable I would think... or the Ventures...
EvilPicnic	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 6:52 AM How long've you got to learn them...
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 8:13 AM a reasonable keys player might be able to double bass and melody, I did this for two years in a band that did OK on the local pub circuit (I split the keyboard to have a bass sound on the lower octave and other pads, strings, brass, pianos etc on the rest) , bassists who are reliable and proficient are not easy to come by.
GreatGooglyM...	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 10:04 AM If you want a good bassist, find a really bad guitarist.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 10:25 AM that would make me a bass VIRTUOSO
guitaroo	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 10:50 AM Evil Picnic: I'm looking for kinda old songs like really old oldies or some old blues and yes instrumental..are they all kinda old? We're looking at doing a song by the ventures...dont remember the name..... I've got about 2 months to learn them all. leeds: we dont really know anyone who could do that... Googly: He's a pretty decent guitarist doesn't really do improve but can pick up any melody on guitar but plays bass well enough to keep a solid rhythm. Thanks everyone
zedsalt	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 10:56 AM Ridiculous. If there's ONE guy in a band who is proficient on a number of instruments, it's usually the bassist, right? Or perhaps more accurately, the guy who almost always plays the bass for the band? Most bands avoid it like the plague in order to keep the peace, but every once in a while, we get treated to a "bassist" playing some guitar on an album, almost always making their guitar god "main" guitarist look like a ham-handed amateur. And what's with all this talk about trying to stick to arrangements which were already sparse? Wouldn't it be a lot more entertaining for everyone to interpret something that almost NEVER has such pared-down instrumentation?
guitaroo	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 11:00 AM uh what? Are you saying that we should make more originals?
GreatGooglyM...	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 12:49 PM Take an orchestral piece and play it with your band.
LiQuidMetamo...	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 1:16 PM Yeah, you're right, I think that many bands have vacancies for bassists, (the coolest guy in the band are vocals, then maybe sax and guitar, drummers and bassists are bottom of the groupie list!) so for example, I was buddies with a couple of cool guys at University a long while ago who played Nirvana-esque grunge and their bassist dropped out and went home (500 miles away) they had 2 or 3 gigs coming up. I hadn't played bass much but wanted to meet a bunch of chicks etc, so I volunteered to 'fill in' and ended up playing with them for a year, they liked my playing better than the original guy and I had barely touched a bass back then... Another guy I knew who worked in a music shop did the same (was one sh*t hot lead player) and played bass in a band that got signed and did tours all over Europe. And he'd shock the road crew and other hangers on by grabbing the lead guitar during soundchecks and blowing everyone away. Many guitarists like a dabble on the bass...
GreatGooglyM...	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 1:26 PM I played contrabass.
guitaroo	Date: August 13, 2006 @ 1:44 PM Googly: not exactly what the crowd will be looking for...lol... Leeds: That's swwweeettt
Orion	Date: August 16, 2006 @ 6:55 AM how about Deep Purple's - Smoke On The Water or ACDC's - Back In Black

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