Posted on 06/21/2018 7:01:33 PM PDT by Mariner
I have a theory about rock n roll bands that I havent 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 cant play these songs, they should just stop the music and get day jobs.
Im 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 bands repertoire.
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When I was a kid, if we didn’t play “Pinball Wizard” they’d throw soda bottles at us.
The Highway to Hell in the first video is entirely too diluted. But that’s a pretty clever version of Back in Black using whatever that odd musical instrument is.
Whether it’s crap or not nobody wants to hear almost anyone’s original stuff.
“People don’t know what they like.”
“They like what they know.”
Howard Roberts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Roberts
School house rock.
You have the best list on this entire thread.
“Time Has Come Today”
Chambers Brothers.
Covered that at CBGB’s with 4 different bands
Crucial
I forgot Satisfaction.
Thank you much.
Great minds, etc. :)
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