Open mike night tomorrow...I need 3 good acoustic songs to play

[hobo_baggins]

any suggestions?

Its a coffee house, so i want something that fits the atmosphere

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young

Great song, wonderful with just acoustic guitar.

[hobo_baggins]

2. hmm..i love neil young...never heard that one though...i'll download it

i was thinking maybe harvest moon or unknown legend

[arwalden]

3. Annie's Song, Danny's Song, and Sweet Baby James

[hobo_baggins]

4. i was definately thinkin a JT song...but wasn't sure which

I was thinking something less known like riding on a railroad or you can close your eyes.

[Blue-Jay]

26. If you're thinking JT, do "Something in the Way She Moves"

Not quite so popular, but very nice guitar and easy vocals.

[hobo_baggins]

27. i was looking at that, fortunately i know the lyrics...

I'd just have to learn the guitar part...i don't think its too hard

[WritingIsMyReligion]

7. Another vote for "Sweet Baby James"

Just BEAUTIFUL with acous. guitar.

:hi:

[Beaverhausen]

5. Knockin' on Heaven's Door, You've Got to Hide Your Love Away &

Big Yellow Taxi.

[ghostsofgiants]

6. "High and Dry" by Radiohead

[hobo_baggins]

10. good pick! i was contemplating no surprises, but i like yours

[taterguy]

8. Nazi Punks Fuck Off

Heard Eugene Chadbourne do a splendid acoustic rendition of it once

[ghostsofgiants]

15. That sounds pretty badass.

[hobo_baggins]

17. im gonna try and download it, see if it'll work...

[asthmaticeog]

9. The Kinks "Nothin' In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl"

[KurtNYC]

11. Come As You Are - Nirvana

Into The Great Wide Open - Petty
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot or anything by Tracy Chapman or
Burning Down The House - Talking Heads

[hobo_baggins]

12. a burning down the house acoustic version might be cool

I dunno if i could pull it off in such short notice though...but i'd rock the house with it

[Earth_First]

13. Inlaw Josie Wales (TAB within):

http://www.xguitar.com/guitar-tabs/phish/farmhouse/inlaw_josie_wales.txt

[hobo_baggins]

14. haha, i love that song...might work good for the middle song

i wanna have some stuff with lyrics though...maybe lifeboy, i always loved the guitar part to that.

[Earth_First]

16. lifeboy would be a good lyrical selection...

the musical composition is appealing as well.

[progmom]

18. who is Mike? and what are you doing to him?

:o

[billyskank]

19. He's an agent.

Haven't you heard of him? :hi:

[hobo_baggins]

20. its open mike night...surgical dissection style

we pry him open with a pair of pliers and watch how his innards function, while i play acoustic music to match his screams. Its a gas for all. You should check it out.

[Tikki]

21. Three suggestions...

"You're a Big Boy Now"...."youre' a big boy now....come on and take a bow....'cause you're a big boy. now"......John Sebastian
"i Wanna be Your Boyfriend"....Do you love me babe?... what do you say?... do you love me babe? What can I say?... because I wanna be your boyfriend".....Ramones
"Handyman"...."Hey girls, gather round....Listen to what I'm putting down...Hey baby, I'm your handyman"....Jimmy Jones/Otis Blackwell




Tikki

[hobo_baggins]

22. i was actually playing handyman earlier today...maybe its a sign

its pretty easy too...thanks for the suggestions!

[hobo_baggins]

23. Here were the 3 i was considering....

Me and julio down by the school yard - paul simon
redemption song - bob marley
ziggy stardust - david bowie

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Go with your gut...

Sing what you want to, totally from your heart.

Have fun! Where's the open mike?

[hobo_baggins]

40. on the university of maryland campus.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

41. Not College Perk?

I'm in Riverdale...about a mile away from UM. I'd love to hear you!

[hobo_baggins]

42. yeah, i guess its central perk...you know where that is?

its on the main strip in college park

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. I didn't know there was more than one...

Is it the place almost at the corner of Route 1 and University Blvd?

[hobo_baggins]

46. yup, thats the one...i just said umd cuz everyone from umd goes there

[sakabatou]

24. Let's see (tabs)

Real Folk Blues: http://members.tripod.com/~Dark_Schneider/anime/CowboyBebop-song.txt
H.T. http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Springs/3950/tabs/trigunht.html
Ride on Shooting Star http://www.cjas.org/~smoo/tabs/flcl-ross.htm

:shrug:

[hobo_baggins]

25. ha, even though i don't speak japanese...

i've seen cowboy bebop enough to know all the words to real folk blues...i wonder how that would go over in a coffee shop setting...fuck them, i should do it just for kicks.

[sakabatou]

28. I'm a pianist, so what do I know about guitars?

[hobo_baggins]

31. yeah, i wish i could do some piano songs...but they don't have one set up

so im stuck playing guitar.

[SmileyBoy]

29. You should pick THESE THREE!!!!

1) "Lighning Crashes" by Live
2) "Rain" by Breaking Benjamin
3) "Polly" by Nirvana

Perfect acoustic songs.

[LynneSin]

30. Something by the Beatles

:D

[Orsino]

32. "Fire And Rain," "Brown-Eyed Girl" and "Margaritaville" n/t

[Tsiyu]

33. Something Marley: Stir it Up or No Woman No Cry

Something Fogerty: Deja Vu All Over Again

Something Dylan: Your choice, but I'd go for a love song


Just read that you were thinking Redemption Song. I almost rec'd that one....I like your own list! :hi:

[hobo_baggins]

36. yeah, maybe redemption song, and you ain't goin no where by dylan

i love that song

[Tsiyu]

38. me too, and it's easy to play

Sounds like you have a short list going....Good luck :)

[Taverner]

34. Waste by Phish

I Know You Rider and Classical Gas

[hobo_baggins]

35. a band i was in used to do china cat into i know you rider all the time

i love those songs...i should try them solo

[hobo_baggins]

37. we also used to do a kick ass tweezer reprise

brought down the house

[ET Awful]

44. Jim Croce - Operator

Something by Cat Stevens . . . nothing too cliche like Moonshadow though . . . maybe "If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out".

close with Ripple by the Dead.

:P

[hobo_baggins]

45. wow, you're speakin my language...i know all those songs...

i was thinking father and son by cat stevens, or maybe changes IV, and ripple was definately being considered...and i love jim croce.

[ET Awful]

47. Changes IV would be a good up-tempo number to add in.

The others are kind of mellow.

Maybe do Croce's "Box #10", not extremely well known, but a GREAT tune.

[Ravenseye]

48. Wish you were here by Floyd

Sort of trite but can sound nice in that setting if you like that sort of thing...which I do...

[hobo_baggins]

49. yeah, i do that one pretty good, but i dunno if it'll work in that setting

the coffee shop people are kinda pretentious, they might think im a poser or something

[Ravenseye]

50. Hmm pretentious.....

OOOOO....I got one...Don't know if you'll be able to play it...

Gangsta Trippin'...the version done by the white guys that's all calm, you know that one? That'd be hilarious.

[hobo_baggins]

52. haha...yeah, i know it...but im tryin to be taken seriously too

such a fine line between genius and stupidity.

[Ravenseye]

58. hmm pretentious.... serious....that's tough

It's hard to know what a pretenious person will take seriously on any given day...they're so fucking flighty...

It's gotta be something where you can show your chops but also be cool, but the kind of cool that's cool before it's cool, right before it is cool...That or so retro-cool, that it's cool because it was cool, but it's not so uncool as to be uncool yet...Very tough...

How bout something like Beck-Odelay or...Dunno...Go back further and do David Bowie's original Major Tom song and then morph it up into Peter Schillings version....heh....retro

[hobo_baggins]

62. yeah, i was going the david bowie route...

its hard for anyone to say that ain't cool

[ET Awful]

53. How about a slow spacy version of "Number of the Beast" as featured

in the movie "Spun"?

That was cool :P

[Whoa_Nelly]

51. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right--Bob Dylan

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter, anyhow
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never did before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

I'm walkin' down that long, lonesome road, babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, gal
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

[hobo_baggins]

54. hell yeah, i love it...it'd probably go over big too

just wondering if i remember all the lyrics

[Whoa_Nelly]

55. Put a lyrics note sheet on the top edge of your guitar

With your own shorhand/memory jog.

Lots of people do that

[hobo_baggins]

56. yeah, but i hate doing that

i used to play professionally for a few years, and it was looked down apon, i might as well be singing kareoke

[ET Awful]

59. Hey, if the Dead can use teleprompters . . .

:P

[Whoa_Nelly]

63. Then do what I do

I put a picture in my head for each verse of what the lyrics are, especially easy with this song. I used to play this song a lot using rhythm finger picking...song just moved right along.

[hobo_baggins]

64. yeah, im usually really good about learning lyrics

theres nothing i hate more than a lead singer that doesn't know the words to a cover hes doing...but i was in a band once where the singer just couldn't learn them, and i wanted to choke him!

If i had another day or so, but tomorrow night might be a little early to learn that many words.

[ET Awful]

57. How high can you go vocally? How about 'Can't Find My Way Home'

It's pretty damn hard to hit Steve Winwoods highs, but it's a great frickin' song :P

[hobo_baggins]

61. i can hit a high c if pressed...

but i feel comfortable about an octave below that.

[flamingyouth]

60. How about something by Black Flag? Like "TV Party"

That's always one of my faves. :)

[yellowdogmi]

65. Two out of three ain't bad.

Jane Says, A pirate looks at forty, stumped on number three. Good luck.

[bridgit]

66. here's yer 3...

If you want I'll be by your side
And if you don't maybe suicide
It's my love, that'd kill me, dear
If you won't hold me, and have me near
Don't you fret and don't be scared
'Cause baby I am a millionaire
I'll make you a star, and I'll make you a queen
I'll put your face up on a magazine

Okay, so I lied, and none of that's true
But not having you is making me blue
And I want you for the rest of my life
Yes, I want you, to be my wife

I'll give you a ring and a home sweet home
And if you want you'll be free to roam
But not too far I'm begging you please
Begging you please upon my bended knees

'Cause if you don't love me I'll kill myself
If you don't love me I'll kill myself
If you don't love me I'll kill myself
If you don't love me I'll kill myself

I need you more than a sailor needs a breeze
I need you more than an Eskimo freeze
I need your loving more than money or air
And if you don't love me, baby, that's not fair

'Cause I'll be good to you in every way
I'll give you loving baby every day
A loving that's good, a loving that's all right
A loving like an oven on the coldest night
Woo!

'Cause if you don't love me I'll kill myself
If you don't love me I'll kill myself
If you don't love me I'll kill myself
If you don't love me I'll kill myself
If you don't love me
If you don't love me

- Pete Droge, If you don't love me

______________________*

Another turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.

It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.

Hang it on a shelf
In good health and good time.

Tattoos of memories
and dead skin on trial.

For what it's worth,
it was worth all the while.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life

- Green Day, Hope You Had The Time Of Your Life

_______________*

I'm just average, common too
I'm just like him, the same as you
I'm everybody's brother and son
I ain't different than anyone
It ain't no use a-talking to me
It's just the same as talking to you.

I was shadow-boxing earlier in the day
I figured I was ready for Cassius Clay
I said "Fee, fie, fo, fum, Cassius Clay here I come
26, 27, 28, 29, I'm gonna make your face look just like mine
Five, four, three, two, one, Cassius Clay you'd better run
99, 100 101, 102, your ma won't even recognize you
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, gonna knock him clean right out of his spleenf.

Well, I don't know, but I've been told
The streets in heaven are lined with gold<
I ask you how things could get much worse
If the Russians happen to get up there first
Wowee! pretty scary !

Now, I'm liberal, but to a degree
I want ev'rybody to be free
But if you think that I'll let Barry Goldwater
Move in next door and mary my daughter
You must think I'm crazy !
I wouldn't let him do it for all the farms in Cuba.

Well, I set my monkey on the log
And ordered him to do the Dog
He wagged his tail and shook his head
And he went and did the Cat instead
He's a weird monkey, very funky.

I sat with my high-heeled sneakers on
Waiting to play tennis in the noonday sun
I had my white shorts rolled up past my waist
And my wig-hat falling in my face
But they wouldn't let me on the tennis court.

I gotta woman, she's so mean
She sticks my boots in the washing machine
Sticks me with buckshot when I'm nude
Puts bubblegum in my food
She's funny, wants my money, calls me honey.

Now I gotta friend who spends his life
Stabbing my picture with a bowie-knife
Dreams of strangling me with a scarf
When my name comes up he pretends to barf
I've got a million friends !

Now they asked me to read a poem
At the sorority sister's home
I got knocked down and my head was swimmin'
I wound up with the Dean of Women
Yippee ! I'm a poet, and I know it
Hope I don't blow it.

I'm gonna grow my hair down to my feet so strange
So I look like a walking mountain range
And I'm gonna ride into Omaha on a horse
Out to the country club and the golf course
Carry the New York Times, shoot a few holes, blow their minds.

You're probably wondering by now
Just what this song is all about
What's probably got you baffled more
What this thing here is for
It's nothing
It's something I learned over in England

- Dylan, I shall Be Free #10

[Maddy McCall]

67. Danny's Song. Perfect for a coffee house.

Love the girl who holds the world in a paper cup, drink it up,
Love her and she'll bring you luck.
And if you find she helps your mind, buddy, take her home,
Don't you live alone, try to earn what lovers own.

[greendog]

68. Ramblin' On My Mind ...Robert Johnson

Boots Of Spanish Leather...Dylan
To Live Is To Fly...Townes Van Zandt

[Shine]

69. You simply cannot go wrong with James Taylor.

'nuff said.

Good luck and have fun!
:hi:

[WCGreen]

70. Beatles.... Hide your Love Away......

Eagle... Take it Easy....
Fleetwood Mac... Go Your OWn Way....