No not songs about sofas !
Looking for some suggestions to revitalise our set list.
We are just bass , drums and guitar.
Please don't suggest "punked up versions" of anything. There is IMHO nothing more tedious other than maybe a middle age blues band in your local boozer playing what appears to be the same song all night.You know the sort leather waist coated recovering alcoholic who thinks every song sounds better with a harmonica! Usually accompanied by a dentist with a Strat or PRS.
Current set list includes; the stones,pixies,the cult,stone roses,CCR,TheBlack Keys,The Who and everything in between so we will have ago at most things.
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Summer of 69
Sharp Dressed Man
Eton Rifles
Sunshine of your Love
Dancing in the dark
Black Magic Woman
Pump it up
Ever Fallen in Love
I'm a Hog For You baby
All Day and All of The Night
Taxman
Johnny B Goode
There are also a couple we do now where the other guitarist only adds minimal rhythm support while focusing on backing vocals. If two of you sing it opens things up a bit more.
Free and Bad Co were essentially 3 Piece bands with occasional piano, avoid alright now!
A couple of the Del Amitri songs kick along nicely as do some of Aztec Cameras songs.
Deacn Blue - Fergus sings the blues, wages day.
I always thought The king is half undressed by Jellyfish would work in that scenario and be quite different as high energy but not punk. The faces/small faces stuff can work if you have the voice(s).
Anything you fancy by the Police or cream who are the classic 3 piece outfits.
The Police or Cream?
I missed the second guitar a little, but I am sure the audience didn't.
In my opinion, what makes the biggest difference in filling out the sound isn't the guitars but it's making sure to fill out the backing vocals as much as possible.
As others have said, the sky's the limit really.
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Can't understand why no one has yet mentioned the most classic of 3 piece bands with a singing bass player as yet:
Budgie
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The film had Judie Dench as a lesbian schoolteacher.
I'm the single guitarist in both covers bands I play in. We did have second guitarists in the past, but through various reasons not any more....and we only dropped a tiny amount of songs when that happened.
In the old set there was an awful lot where both guitars were pretty much doing the same thing, apart from solos. All that happens now is the bass player gets a bit busier in those parts.
We did think about adding back in a second guitar, but more room on stage, more money each, and it's been quicker to get new stuff in the set, so all good!
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Err, songs - IIRC the second song in on Gary Moore's One Night in Dublin dvd is Jailbreak done as a 3 piece, a song you might think needs a second guitar but is truly fine in that version. Despite my random memory I kept that idea locked away somewhere as a good idea.
Oh, Blue Collar Jane by The Strypes.Great fun to be had with your trousers on there.Definitely needs a second vocal line though.
I knew a chap who ran a 3-piece who wasn't averse to doing all kinds of stuff (even Focus instrumentals) - his bass player worked very hard and between them they covered all the harmonies that were in the original record so you didn't miss the organ or the 2nd guitar. IIRC he did Vas Dis once, you'd have thought that 2 guitars was mandatory for that, but not in his band!
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
That's not to say they can't be done, but in my experience quite a few of the more well-known ZZ Top numbers actually sound a bit lacking when played by a strict three piece.
I've been listening to a lot of ZZ Top this last week (got the albums box set) and there's a hell of a lot of other stuff going on, even on the earlier ones. Very few three pieces actually record as a strict 3 piece.
Sorry, thread derail.
@not_the_dj is right. For example Gimme All Your Lovin' - on the intro alone you have a lead part and a rhythm guitar knocking out the chords.
The Double Down dvd has a set from 1980 which is the basic 3 piece approach, although pre the big hits. Includes Heard it on the X. Although, I seem to remember having a go at it once and deciding my fingers were 2 inches too short.