[l'ignorante]

Yes I am (but not giving up the day job!)
Guitar: Yamaha pacifica, '78 Ibanez (LesPaul style).
My repertoire of covers is from the stone age:
-come together: Beatles
-I want to hold your hand: Beatles
-waiting on a friend: Stones
-happy together: Turtles (as played with lord Frank Zappa)
-Sweet dreams: Eurythmics
-Teenage kicks: Undertones
-Under the Bridge: RHC Peppers
-Camarillo Brillo: F. Zappa
-She: E. Costello (or Charles Aznavour)
-Every breath you take: Police
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and about 25 more I'll post later when I remember them (like I said: old! man)

[analogika]

Whatever the project requires.

[l'ignorante]

Originally Posted by analogika 

Whatever the project requires.

surely you have some favorites..

[BlueSky]

Comfortably Numb -pink floyd
Man on the Moon -REM
Losing My Religion -REM
Across the Universe -beatles
If I Fell -beatles
This Boy -beatles
Pocahontas -neil young
Thrasher -neil young
lotta stuff by neil young

hmm, i'm an old fart.

[scaught]

I used to be in a band, not specifically a cover band at all, but we used to throw one in for giggles every once in a while. The Trooper was regularly covered. I think we did "running with the devil" once but it didn't work out that well.

[Doofy]

Only ever played two covers.

All or Nothing.
Sunny.

Quite a bit heavier than the originals, mind.

[Andrew Stephens]

I do a mean cover version of Lilly the Pink, by the Scaffold. Well just the chorus actually, but it is TEH AWESUMZ!

[RAILhead]

We did Maneater once.

[flabasha]

"Dixie Chicken" Little Feat
"One Way Street" Aerosmith
"Thorn in my Pride" Black Crowes
"Jockey Full of Bourbon" Tom Waits
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" Buddy Guy
"Dr. Feelgood" Aretha Franklin
"Always on the Run" Lenny Kravitz and Slash

Gibson Les Paul Standard through a Marshall, with a Line 6 POD in between for cabinet emulation/FX...

[smacintush]

Black Squier Telecaster custom, Jasmine acoustic, Dean Markley practice amp.

"Wish You Were Here" Pink Floyd
"You're Beautiful" James Blunt
"Hurt" Johnny Cash
"Happy Birthday To You" Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill

I can almost get all the way through most of those songs.

Cuz I'm THAT awesome.

[Doofy]

Wait. Why are we listing gear?

[RAILhead]

For real. I don't have enough space to list all mine -- but I have most of it viewable on my main web site:

http://www.maurymccown.com/index.php/music/mygear/

It's missing a couple of guitars, and my pedalboard is way different now I'm using mostly my own, custom-built effects.

[SeSawaya]

I was in a strickly cover band a few years ago. We ha about 250 that we could do VERY well at a moments notice.
'Dead skunk in the middle of the road' was a crowd favorite for some reason & stands out in my crazed mind tonight.

Most of my tunes I play solo now are covers too http://www.kentarnsbarger.com - then 'song list'

[moonmonkey]

Im brilliant at chopsticks.

[flabasha]

Wow. I'm man enough to say I covet your guitar collection. Fine work.

[RAILhead]

If you're talking to me, thanks! I've collected some jewels in the last 18 years.

My current go-to -- other than my Les Paul -- is my Gretsch GT6196T COuntry Club. I haven't taken a pic of it yet, but here's what it looks like:



She plays AWESOME, and can, literally, cover any base from jazz to metal -- for real.

[Doofy]

I'm much more boring. I have five of these:



One of these:



And an orange one from 1989.

...only necks capable of achieving ultra-Doof-speed.

[James L]

It varies, but this was from the last band (copy and paste, messy formatting!):

1. Born To Run Bruce Springsteen
2. Bad Case Of Loving You Robert Palmer
3. Hard Days Night Beatles
4. Saw Her Standing There Beatles
5. Hey Jude Beatles
6. Ballad Of John And Yoko Beatles
7. Stuck In The Middle With You Steelers Wheel
8. You May Be Right Billy Joel
9. Still Rock And Roll To Me Billy Joel
10. No Matter What Badfinger
11. Only God Knows Kid Rock
12. You Sexy Thing Hot Chocolate
13. New Orleans Is Sinking Tragically Hip
14. Little Bones Tragically Hip
15. Blow At High Dough Tragically hip
16. Courage Tragically Hip
17. Mama Let Him Play Jerry Doucette
18. Summer Of '69 Bryan Adams
19. Cuts Like A Knife Bryan Adams
20. New Girl Now Honeymoon Suite
21. Ocean Pearl 54-40
22. Nice To Luv Ya 54-40
23. All Right Now Free
24. Two Tickets To Paradise Eddie Money
25. Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd
26. Born To Be Wild Steppenwolf
27. Mustang Sally Buddy Guy
28. Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison
29. Some Kinda Wonderful Grand Funk
30. China Grove Doobie Brothers
31. Woolie Boolie Sam the Sham
32. Bad Moon Rising C.C.R.
33. Tush Z.Z. Top
34. I Thank You Z.Z. Top
35. Hard To Handle Black Crowes
36. Keep Your Hands To Yourself Georgia Sattelites
37. Honky Tonk Woman Rolling Stones
38. Pride And Joy Stevie Ray Vaughan
39. Pink Houses John Cougar Mellencamp
40. Hurts So Good John Cougar Mellencamp
41. The Authority Song John Cougar Mellencamp
42. Rock 'n' Me Steve Miller
43. Swing Town Steve Miller
44. Youngblood Bad Company
45. Last Kiss Pearl Jam
46. Already Gone The Eagles
47. Hot Dog Led Zeppelin
48. 867-5309 Tommy Tutone
49. Pretty Woman Van Halen
50. You Really Got Me Van Halen
51. Ain’t Talking About Love Van Halen
52. Ice Cream Man Van Halen
53. Little Sister Dwight Yoakam
54. Taking Care Of Business Bachman Turner Overdrive
55. Mony Mony Billy Idol
56. Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry
57. Beat Goes On / Switching To Glide The Kings
58. Santa Maria Trooper
59. Two For The Show Trooper
60. Take A Picture Filter
61. Should I Stay Or Should I Go The Clash
62. Blue On Black Kenny Wayne Sheppard
63. The Wanderer Dion
64. Drift Away Doby Grey
65. Patio Lanterns Kim Mitchell
66. Sultans Of Swing Dire Straits
67. She’s A Lady Tom Jones
68. Mac The Knife Bobby Darin
69. I Want You To want Me Cheap trick
70. Gel Collective Soul
71. Rock And Roll All Night Kiss
72. Roadhouse Blues The Doors
73. You’ve Got Another Thing Coming Judas Priest
74. The Way Fastball
75. She Ain't pretty The Northern Pikes
76. When I Come Around Green Day
77. Basket Case Green Day
78. Smoking In The Boy's Room Brownsville Station
79. Angels Of Harlem U2
80. Kryptonite 3 Doors Down
81. Long Train Running Doobie Brothers
82. Gimme 3 Steps Lynyrd Skynyrd
83. Dead Flowers Rolling Stones
84. Sunspot Baby Bob Seger
85. Midnight Rain Wide Mouth Mason
86. La Grange Z.Z. Top
87. The Boys are Back in Town Thin Lizzy
88. Sweet Caroline Neil Diamond

[l'ignorante]

I'm impressed ! Funny thing whenever I decide to work out a new cover it seems like " oh, this one is easy' and then I start listening to the song over and over till I hear sounds I never distinguished before and at the end it always turns out much more difficult. For instance the bending in the "very simple" guitar solo in come together (beatles) requires very good hearing.Easy to srcew up! The 2nd guitar in Camarillo Brillo needs perfect timing. Well you figured out I´m not a pro, and after 35 years of playing I still only own 2 immitations of the real thing, and a cheesy little amp...You guessed it, I´m the Joe from 'Joe´s garage'.

[Laminar]

Originally Posted by l'ignorante 

Well you figured out I´m not a pro, and after 35 years of playing I still only own 2 immitations of the real thing, and a cheesy little amp...You guessed it, I´m the Joe from 'Joe´s garage'.

I feel like this isn't actually a joke.

[l'ignorante]

certainly not a joke! Mind you I'm not a bad guitar player, just better at other things.

[Laminar]

I wasn't referring to the content of what you were saying, but the post itself.

[Cipher13]

Originally Posted by smacintush 

"Hurt" Johnny Cash

You mean NIN.

[Dakar V]

Originally Posted by Cipher13 

You mean NIN.

I imagine that depends on what rendition you're performing.

[smacintush]

Well considering it took Johnny Cash to actually make a version that didn't sound like a whiney little drama queen bitch…yeah, I meant Johnny Cash.

[Cipher13]

No, it doesn't really depend on that at all.

[analogika]

Originally Posted by Cipher13 

No, it doesn't really depend on that at all.

I realize you're just being contrarian, but every band I've ever played in, the cover songs were specified by version we were covering.

[James L]

Originally Posted by analogika 

I realize you're just being contrarian, but every band I've ever played in, the cover songs were specified by version we were covering.

Same, hence the reason Last Kiss has the artist listed as Pearl Jam in my list.

[Person Man]

I'm not a musician, but my father is (semi-retired).

He plays Greek music.

His instrument:



His amplifier:



At the last gig he played, the bass guitar player he had was eying his amplifier jealously.