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If you were in a cover band, which song would you open with?

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Claptons "Wonderful Tonight" great opener.  Drinkers like it, chicks love it

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Wonderful Tonight is a great song and we have done it before, but really not one you want to open with. From experience, when you are playing on a Friday night with a bunch of rowdy drunk people the last thing they want to hear is Wonderful Tonight, unless you are Eric Clapton. Have to come out rocking.

 
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easy.....whichever song you do best....as in closest to original version.....immediately legitimatize the band....you're OK the rest of the way...
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I've seen hundreds of cover bands...even if you are billed as a classic rock band, people still like to hear something a bit different every once in a while - just for a change of pace.

Play a song that just about everyone likes. Rockers, Bikers, Alternative kids:  She Sells Sanctuary by the Cult. Great lead in of a song, and just about everyone knows it. Gets the blood going. Black Betty is a great song as well like suggested, everyone knows that one.

I see you have I Love this Bar in your playlist. Try a Johnny Cash song...Everyone likes Johnny Cash. Ring of Fire, or Folsom Prison Blues. Maybe throw one in the first set someplace.

 

I think it is important to really get the feel for an audience. What's working and what isn't. Set lists should never be in stone. You need to get the girlies up dancing right away, then the guys will follow. Dance, female friendly songs (if that makes sense) should be the order of the day in the first set. By set 2 everyone is usually so pissed it doesn't matter too much 

 
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We have a good time, our audience gets into it. We are always changing the sets. During Mustang Sally we invite all the ladies on stage to sign "ride sally ride". They really get into it.

If you have enough women out that are obviously in a party mood and dancing, throw that in the first set. You play it too late in the day...

Honestly the second set is better than the first. Maybe it is just me, but too much Neil Young can kill a show. Not being a prick, but list your other songs; maybe the guys in this thread could come up with something

 
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this weekend im playing a party paid gig, and the opener is kid rock - bawitda. dont ask me i have no choice, its really short and easy song on guitar.
 
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I'd probably start with something from the Kooks... naive or ooh la.
 
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My nephew was in a band (late 90's) and he would listen to my albums from 60's-70's to get songs to play as a goof on hippies/yuppies music. Well I suggested they they try ElvisCostello rocker/great lyrics "Peace Love and Understanding".When they played it at the bars the younger patrons liked pissing on the hippies with a beat and the older patrons rocked out and liked the anthem quality. Its a song you could cover with the 4 of you.
 
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Keep Yourself Alive By Queen
 
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47 minute version of 'In-a-gadda-da-vida'...It would be totally epic dude.

 
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Quote Originally Posted by WhiteMice:

Claptons "Wonderful Tonight" great opener.  Drinkers like it, chicks love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaMuBX4aMmw

 
 
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Keep it simple any song with 3 chords and vocals that are actually reachable for you're frontman or woman.  Played in a few cover bands 2 with men singers one guy who mostly screamed but had great stage presence and the other guy was more like what you see in a school play.  Best band and singer I ever played with was a chick good looking and could sing anything but for whatever reason most people don't like hearing a chick cover a song that was originally sang by a guy so we basically turned into a Heart cover band.
 
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My Sharona

Everybody loves that tune... it rocks
 
 
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