My friend Johny G. has been getting some great regular gigs lately, and on the occasions I manage to make it out, he sometimes lets me take the stage for a while. I’ve come to realize that I let my skills really fall to the wayside over the past few years and there’s been only one way to remedy it – practice!
I’ve written some nice short songs that I’m quite proud of, and unleash them upon captive bar audiences more often than not – but I used to play some covers and that’s what gets people going. With that in mind I’ve been setting out to learn and re-learn a sampling of covers from various artists that I enjoy. Some are relatively obscure but they say variety is the spice of life.
Here’s a brief list of what I’ve practiced enough to play passably in front of an audience:
- Headstones – Tweeter and the Monkey Man
- Headstones – Three Angels
- Neil Young -Rocking In The Free World
- Bob Dylan – Knocking on Heaven’s Door
- Nirvana – Polly
- Nirvana – Rape Me
- Marcy Playground – Poppies
In the works or planned to be:
- Sublime – What I Got
- Nirvana – Heartshaped Box
- Neil Young – Hey Hey, My My
- CCR – Fortunate Son
- CCR- Who’ll Stop The Rain
- Moist – Push
- Matchbox Twenty – 3 A.M.
- Oleander – Why I’m Here
- Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
- Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
- Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
- STP – Plush
- STP – Creep
- STP – Interstate Love Song
Plus a handful of others. Here’s hoping I can get my chops up enough for these all. 🙂
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