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If i was still playing pubs and that circuit, i would definitely be doing this and loving watching the crowd realise it's two songs melted together. I appreciate you're going to get the nutters who come up afterwards to tell you that you played it wrong but what the hell, if you want to make things interesting, try these.....
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right, done as a 50s rock’n’roll dance number .
Kylie - Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, done as an alt-rock song with a heavy crunch rhythm sound throughout and a wah solo.
(If you work out the chords it was clearly written on a guitar, so it’s a much easier conversion than it sounds.)
Any good song will work if you just strip it down to the chords and the vocal line and start again...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Can't Get You Out written by a former member of The Sweet, IIRC, so maybe at heart it's a rock song anyway. I remember seeing Robert Plant doing a rock version of I Should Be So Lucky.
The giveaway for it being written on a guitar is the BbMaj7#11 chord... otherwise known as A Major moved up a fret .
I found an old demo recording .
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tauy2muj0smd6n2/Can't Get You Out Of My Head.mp3?dl=0
Not great quality but you'll get the idea. It sounds like I did the solo with a filter plug-in after the event, but I always played it live with a wah pedal.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
If the OP or any other covers band is checking in, may I suggest:
T-Rex "Metal Guru"
Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House" and "Girlfriend is Better"
James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend"
La Bamba
Spaghetti Western Mashup
Beach Boys' Surfin USA
Dire Straits "Walk of Life", and as a real left fielder, their single "Twisting by the Pool"
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.