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Topic: Songs the band made you play that you despised |
Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 15 Apr 2018 9:26 am |
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| Hotel California |
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Ronald Heinzel
From:
Hollister, California, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2018 10:29 am
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| Redneck mother |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2018 10:59 am
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| Wagon Wheel, Boot Scootin' Boogie, Achey Breakey, Adalida. I cringe anytime I have to play any of these. Three others would be Farewell Party, Look At Us, and Together Again when we can't do them in the original keys. Together Again in A or Look At Us in C, or Farewell Party in G or C really suck. |
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Jim Robbins
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Ontario, Canada
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Posted 15 Apr 2018 7:02 pm
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| Anything by Kenny Rogers, "It's hard to be humble", "Wasn't that a Party", and many of the above. Although I enjoyed the Rodeo Song and fondly recall knocking it out of the park on (the song) Cocaine in a bar in Orangeville many years ago. |
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2018 11:40 pm
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Born To Boogie. Super Duper Love. Gimme 3 Steps. Couldn’t stand them even when they were brand new hits. Haven’t had to play these or most of the other tunes mentioned here for many years, thankfully.
That Wagon Wheel-free stage sign is hysterical! |
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Bobby Nelson
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 2:46 am
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| Mustang Sally - you're so right Rich, how could I have forgotten.Not only tired of playing it but, tired of hearing EVERYBODY ELSE play it too. |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 4:01 am
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Fender Kingman, Sierra Crown D-10, Evans Amplifier, Soup Cube.
Last edited by Joachim Kettner on 18 Apr 2018 9:32 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Roger Hand
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 5:17 am unliked songs
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| I agree with 99.99 % of you , but we played them because we wanted to play [ steel ] music. how many steel players get to pick & choose the songs to play ? |
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Jim Cooley
From:
The 'Ville, Texas, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 5:32 am
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The Jamestown Ferry
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Hey, mister, how do you pedal that thing anyway?
"The worst an honest man can do is make an honest mistake" - Augustus McCrae
"From the sweet grass to the packing house, birth 'til death, we travel between the eternities" - Prentiss Ritter
Too many steels, amps & other stuff, and an open mind. I have tube amp bias. |
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Mike Kowalik
From:
San Antonio,Texas
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 10:42 am
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| Boot Scootin Boogie and Neon Moon..... |
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George McLellan
From:
Duluth, MN USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 10:56 am
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Don't Be Angry, Blue Kentucky Girl, SGR and lbnl - Crazy.
Geo |
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Larry Robbins
From:
Fort Edward, New York
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 12:07 pm
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Johnny B Goode and Free Brid!!
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Twang to the bone! |
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Bob Watson
From:
Champaign, Illinois, U.S.
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 4:14 pm
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| Anything by the Eagles. |
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Dan Robinson
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 6:26 pm
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Cruise/Florida Georgia Line.
But it is making me a better steel player. Learning to "play in the holes." There aren't any. |
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Bill L. Wilson
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2018 9:10 pm I Like’em All.
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| I enjoy playing all of the songs that ya’ll seem to hate. Our band gets requests for all of these songs and we play’em. I even had to hook my amp back up one night after I had torn down, to play guitar on “Green Riverâ€.....The $100 tip was worth one song for our band of four.....Now I’m retired and having fun playing music, steel guitar on the country stuff, rockin’ guitar on the rock stuff. The crowd still goes nuts when you start “Sweet Home Alabama†or “Brown Eyed Girlâ€.....And they’re the ones that pay the bills. |
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2018 10:15 am Re: I Like’em All.
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| Bill L. Wilson wrote: |
| I enjoy playing all of the songs that ya’ll seem to hate. Our band gets requests for all of these songs and we play’em. |
They’re all better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick while digging a ditch in hard clay when it’s 15 degrees below zero and...is that a semi truck jacknifing right toward me and my ditch?
Yeah. Compared to that, I love playing The Macarena |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 17 Apr 2018 11:11 am
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Fender Kingman, Sierra Crown D-10, Evans Amplifier, Soup Cube.
Last edited by Joachim Kettner on 18 Apr 2018 9:32 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Andrew Krebs
From:
Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2018 11:56 am Re: I Like’em All.
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| Fred Treece wrote: |
They’re all better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick while digging a ditch in hard clay when it’s 15 degrees below zero and...is that a semi truck jacknifing right toward me and my ditch?
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Oofta. Too close to home. How do you think I paid for this glorified table with a fretboard and lever do-hickeys? |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 17 Apr 2018 1:08 pm
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| Joachim Kettner wrote: |
| I love this comment Fred. Good taste can be a curse, it is sad that many people in the average audience don't have it. |
So, when people like something you don't like, it's bad taste?
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Lee, from South Texas - Down On The Rio Grande
There are only two options as I see it.
Either I'm right, or there is a sinister conspiracy to conceal the fact that I'm right.
Williams Keyless S-10, BMI S-10, Evans FET-500LV, Fender Steel King, 2 Roland Cube 80XL's,
Sarno FreeLoader, Goodrich Passive Volume Pedals, Vintage ACE Pack-A-Seat |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 17 Apr 2018 3:02 pm .yltnereffid ti ta kool tsuJ
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| Having played everything from "Hava Nagila" to "Runaway", and from "Sink The Bismark" to "Thus Spake Zarathustra", along with just about every country rock, and soul song from 1955 to 1995, I can't say I really "hated" any of them. When we had requests to repeat silly songs like "Achy Breaky" several times a night, I just played them differently to avoid ennui. |
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Bobby Nelson
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2018 4:12 pm
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So, when people like something you don't like, it's bad taste?
I don't think it's as much that as, some (like me) Just get tired of playing the same hing over and over. I loved the song Wasted Days And wasted nights until I sang it for the thousandth time.
In all honesty though: I never played in a top 40 type band. I refused to - I couldn't do some of that stuff. |
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Tracy Sheehan
From:
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2018 6:27 pm Two come to mind.
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OBS and steel guitar rag. I play fiddle and steel both.
I got to where I made out like I had never heard either. After many years playing steel I was sorry I ever told any one I also played fiddle. I could not believe any one really wanted to hear either but mention fiddle and the first thing any one thought of was OBS and mention steel and I give 3 guesses what some one would request and the first two do not count. 
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2018 6:37 pm
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| Lee Baucum wrote: |
| So, when people like something you don't like, it's bad taste? |
Nail on head. That is exactly how it is. Thanks, Lee 
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 18 Apr 2018 2:29 am
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Fender Kingman, Sierra Crown D-10, Evans Amplifier, Soup Cube.
Last edited by Joachim Kettner on 18 Apr 2018 9:33 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2018 5:17 am
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Sweet Home Al.,Freebird,Silver Wings,Home with the Armadillo or whatever it's called. There's more but I'm getting in a bad mood just looking at those.
Oh and Cocaine too.
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