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Also Crazy Little Thing Called Love - the Queen classic that gives your bass player a chance to warm up!
And Black is Black. Play the opening riff and the floor is full. In a few seconds.
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Sad to read this my friend. A lot of musicians, including guitar players, like to give some enjoyment to others by their playing. You don't have to make a 'statement' every time you pick up your instrument.
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mind you, even the folks currently in care homes are prolly too young to really appreciate (or care about) such golden oldies!…
Sure you can populate a setlist full of Robben Ford, Alan Holdsworth and Dream Theatre covers - turn up at the Dog and Duck ready to unleash you and your bandmates quite staggering technical prowess to a doubtless eager, salivating pub regular crowd...and marvel at the tumbleweed blowing across the beer sodden wooden (and empty) dancefloor at the end of the night whilst the landlord ponders why his takings are down that night.
If you want regular bookings on the UK pub rock, social club circuit that generally means playing Mustang, Brown Eyed Alabama with a side helping of Se*x on Brightside 69. And boy you'd better look like you're having fun doing it !! ;-)
(though I must give kudos to the band in a Brixham pub I once saw doing 10CC's Art for Art's sake - that was brilliant - and I'm not being insincere here).
And for all that this is a bit about clichés there is something about doing less obvious covers and getting a response that way. You just have to work on the assumption that the average punter has a poor attention span and you have to come back in with something they can hum in their sleep straight after.
None of the above is mutually exclusive, and these false dichotomies are not useful, and they are the exact trolling behaviour that you always accuse me of.
If you're not making a statement with your playing, then you're just making noise. Pretty ironic really, considering your comments on my tone and my playing.
Those other scenes support original music, and they support live music, and they invest in their art.
And people wonder why the UK government doesn't take the arts seriously. I wouldn't either.... if I was in power, there's no way I'd want to spend money funding grandad and his ineffective spineless AC/DC and Guns & Roses covers bands.
Pure vomit.