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What are the classics every rock band simply must be able to play?
Chicago Tribune ^ | June 21st, 2018 | Randy Blaser

Posted on 06/21/2018 7:01:33 PM PDT by Mariner

I have a theory about rock ’n’ roll bands that I haven’t really expressed to many people, but I will offer it here.

I think any rock ’n’ roll band that wants to consider itself serious needs to be able to competently perform a certain set of standard rock songs. If they can’t play these songs, they should just stop the music and get day jobs.

I’m talking about classic songs that are basic to the genre.

Let me explain.

Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi were not blues musicians. However, they knew enough about music to know any band worth its salt had to be able to perform certain standards at any time.

Thus The Blues Brothers were born. The idea led to a hit album called “Briefcase Full of Blues,” which contained the standards, and a hit movie. The song “Soul Man,” was immortalized thanks to The Blues Brothers.

So it should be with any competent rock band. If you want to be good, if you want to entertain, there are certain basics which must be mastered.

But which songs are the songs that must be part of any competent band’s repertoire.

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TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; songs
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To: Mariner

What I Like About You


41 posted on 06/21/2018 7:49:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

Little Wing. But by Stevie Ray Vaughn.


42 posted on 06/21/2018 7:49:46 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Billthedrill

Yessir!

But,since we seem to be equating Rock with the earlier stuff on this thread,

Tony Williams Lifetime
Mr Spock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtD8IQLlfqU

Red Alert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Qb4DTmLsg

Dixie Dregs
Blood Sucking Leeches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfwsR1shno8

Sleaze Factor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7RoPQLfbaU


43 posted on 06/21/2018 7:50:10 PM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: Mariner

All Right Now should be in the band’s repertoire.


44 posted on 06/21/2018 7:50:18 PM PDT by deadrock
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To: Mariner

I’ve been watching some Foo Fighters live videos on Youtube lately. Not a big fan of them but Dave Grohl puts on a good show.

He claimed they knew 70 classic rock songs then qualified it by saying “but we only know about the first 70 seconds of them.”


45 posted on 06/21/2018 7:50:51 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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To: Mariner

Boom boom out go the lights

Day tripper

The locomotion

Slow ride

Jonnie b Goode


46 posted on 06/21/2018 7:51:13 PM PDT by Spruce
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?
Ooh, yeah. I don't think the Dregs actually wanted to be a mainstream band and just sort of got sucked into it...

We're gittin' old. Buckethead has a heart issue and Tony McAlpine is recovering from colon cancer surgery.

47 posted on 06/21/2018 7:53:47 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Mariner
The French Armenian kid who got into somebody's 1950s record collection. Many videos over several years of varying production quality and he's visited Tupelo and Graceland. Also a contestant on the French The Voice this year.

Roffi Arto

48 posted on 06/21/2018 7:53:53 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Mariner

Amazing Grace...


49 posted on 06/21/2018 7:53:55 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: irishjuggler

I came here to post that. Thank you, Irish Juggler!

All bands, whenever there’s a lull in the music and crowd noise, get asked to play Freebird!


50 posted on 06/21/2018 7:56:09 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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To: virgil

Rock Lobster


51 posted on 06/21/2018 7:56:44 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Mariner

Yeah.

KHIT Radio!

Where we play all the hits.

All Day Every Day.

All 5 of Them.


52 posted on 06/21/2018 7:58:21 PM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: Mariner

Louis louis, Gloria, Wipeout, and that slow song.


53 posted on 06/21/2018 8:00:07 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Spruce

I saw Foghat at a county fair last year. They sang Slow Ride. They were pretty good.


54 posted on 06/21/2018 8:03:48 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Mariner
One of the first songs any band should learn to play is a simple thing called “Gloria.”

Good choice!

Gloria--Arthur Lee Maye & the Crowns (1956)

55 posted on 06/21/2018 8:12:51 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: llevrok

I used to think rock was dead too. When all I listened to was commercial radio. Do a little research. Modern contemporary rock music is very much alive and well.

Hey, hey, my, my.....


56 posted on 06/21/2018 8:14:51 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Mariner

“Candyman” by Sammy Davis Jr.


57 posted on 06/21/2018 8:15:49 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: Mariner

Suzie Q


58 posted on 06/21/2018 8:16:24 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Mariner

Proud Mary
Johnny B Goode
My Girl
Hush


59 posted on 06/21/2018 8:16:37 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: Mariner

Get some early Eric Clapton. Cream. Derek and the dominoes. Clapton has influenced hundreds if not thousands of musicians.


60 posted on 06/21/2018 8:16:57 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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