What is the FIRST song in your gig setlist?

JayGee

Handle With Care last time out.. :-)

stickyfiddle

Only three gigs in with my current lot but openers have so far been Ain’t no Mountain High Enough, Proud Mary, and I’m a Believer

ANM is great for the crowd but bloody hard to play right up if the monitors aren’t well-sorted…

fastonebaz

Steven Tyler's version of Another Piece of My Heart complete with a splendid shred guitar solo in the middle

p90fool

Quite often it's Move Your Feet by Junior Senior, as it uses both singers and has enough gaps for me to be able to tweak monitor levels from the stage.

vasselmeyer

Either Bad Case of Loving You by Robert Palmer or Chris Rea's Road to Hell. Easy enough and both pretty danceable.

26.2

We used to start with:

Cast A Spell - The Open Mind

https://youtu.be/od-f_70iMPQ 

Or more often You’re Too Much - The Eyes

https://youtu.be/vc0HJO9ZBC0

fretmeister

Think. Aretha / Blues Brothers.

Longtallronnie

Spread Your Love by BRMC in the soon to be defunct band. 

The first song in my acoustic set atm is Ticket to Ride. 

fastonebaz

Death by Rock and roll -  The pretty reckless

viz

PolarityMan said:

Currently this:

Awesome. 

Nyquist

Time Is Tight (Booker T & The MGs) - fairly straightforward to play and we felt it was the best song to let everyone know what we do and what to expect for the rest of the set

NickB

Midnight Rambler - The Rolling Stones.

ScreamingDave

Nyquist said:

Time Is Tight (Booker T & The MGs) - fairly straightforward to play and we felt it was the best song to let everyone know what we do and what to expect for the rest of the set

Yeah, us, too!  Thought I’d be unique with that one.  We then run straight into Tainted Love in the original soul style, not Soft Cell

Rocker

Past the point of rescue. 

hollywoodrox

Aeromike said:

Although we've yet to gig our new set list, we will be opening the first set with N.I.B and the 2nd with Surfin' with the alien. 

Sounds like a cool gig 

bloodandtears

Quite often it's DLR's Just Like Paradise.. and occasionally it can feel tinged with irony.

thebreeze

Runnin down a dream by Tom Petty.

It’s got that distinctive, impact riff to kick everything off with and is generally quite simple.

Rkphilpot

Bulls on Parade - RATM

BahHumbug

Yesterday it was ‘I wanna sing that rock n roll’ (acoustic trio) and ‘Oye Como Va’ (instrumental ensemble).

viz

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