what's the worst song you ever played at a gig?

Rockstar by NickelBack.

We took it off our song list, and I'll be happy to NEVER play it again.  It's not a bad song on bass, but it just sucks overall.

Cold Hard biatch by Jet. The song has the worst groove ever, can't dance to it, lyrics make little sense....

Billie Jean. Crowd favorite, band sounded great doing it. SO embarrased to stand on stage and play it...

Well they had a song called Khe Sanh (after a battle in the Vietnam War I believe)

And all the punters loved it.

I played it so many times I promise I will choke the next person who requests it

We used to do that.. in a medley with milkshake & the thong song...

We've also played (with Male singer):

Girls just wanna have fun,

Time after time,

Stay (lisa loeb?),

Pink-U & ur hand,

Umbrella,

Lets go crazy,

Hot n cold (Katy perry),

I kissed a girl (Katy perry),

Just dance,(lady gaga),

Love game(lady gaga),

 and more

Don't get me wrong...We do rock songs too..

But I'm not afraid to 'sell out' to the masses.

Ive never been embarresed to play any song.(if they are crowd pleasers)..unless it sounded bad.

...c'mon guys... you knew pics were coming

T$

Dang you, Spine and your gig pics!  Massive jealousy!

I have a whole list of songs I hope to never play again.  If I have to pick one, I guess it'd be:

I Wanna Rock - Twisted Sister.

But ranking right up there:

You Got Another Thing Coming/Breaking the Law - Judas Priest

Metal Health -  Quiet Riot

The Jack or anything that sounds like it - AC DC

Well on occasion I have been forced to perform Dreams by Fleetwood Mac. For some reason as I play that song, wether the crowd likes it or not I can only envision killing myself. Usually I try out different methods. And try to figure out the slowest and most painful. Also I once designed a way to turn a toilet into an electric chair while playing that song. Am I the only one who wants to die when I hear Fleetwood Mac?

Sorry

Stevie Nicks' voice annoys me.

Great looking chica,

but that voice...

I feel the same about Phil Collins...

except he aint a great looking chica

so he has no redeeming value for me.

I dig stevie nicks, but I'm right there with you about Phil Collins. not a fan at all.

I've only played in one cover band so it was a stretch for me from the get go spine. I did dig watching people dance all night, and get crazy, but at the end of the day I felt like a jukebox. Good experience but not something I could focus on again. reproducing other people's music is cool I suppose, just not really my bag

Yeah, its something you gotta get used to.

When I first got the list of songs to learn, I was like ?...what?..are u friggin kidding me?

He said the chicks dig it and if the chicks are there...the guys are there. So I gave it a shot.

And I also gave up on makin it big with the original thing years ago.

So...I decided to join a coverband , and capitalize on the successful hits that are already popular.

T$

yeah, making it big to me now is getting a good night sleep bewtween the two kids and stresses of life! The cover band I was in was pretty cool- actually we played a bunch of tunes that the crowd loved AND I could stomach playing.

Spine, that setlist is awesome.  Im not even joking id rock the crap out of those songs haha.

but then again, im a sucker for a good pop song.  Thats right, I said it.

anyswayze, to further confuse you all, Id say that anything by the band Disturbed makes me physically ill.  One cover band I was in played about 3 of thier songs and I HATE them with a passion.  But, like the man says, you play what the crowd wants to hear, and these folks be liking some Disturbed.

still gives me the chills to think about.

rock.

DDD

Ironically Disturbed is one of my favorite bands, I would love to play their covers.

I've never been in a cover band, but my bands have done covers from time to time, the worst for me is probably G N' R's - Sweet Child O' Mine. We only played it once that I can remember and it just wasn't a favorite of mine.

Certainly FM's You Got Another Thing Comin' is right near the top of the list though. I detest playing that one.

Runnin' With The Devil is one I won't play. Period.

I was invited to try out for a band playing newer metal-style tunes and some of the bass parts are pretty cool. However, I doubt a younger crowd would appreciate an old geezer like me playing that stuff and so I passed on it. I think a lot of that would involve a fiver anyway and we know that's anathema to me.

I think, what I would like at this point in my playing would be an original project that would be creative and open-ended regarding genre. A mix of various styles like jazz and funkiness would be a real treat to play. With so much time devoted to the family, finding like-minded musicians is more than a bit challenging though. We'll see what transpires.

I gotta tell ya guys, you are all such a trip!  Dan, I gotta learn Down with the sickness which is a great song, but I thought, I am already down with sickness do I have to play about it?..LOL

Worst for me vocally was the consistent request that I sing Me and Bobby MAFREEGINGEE every 10 minutes at a biker bar in the nineties!  I was about to shoot somebody!  I don't mind doing a little Janice but it wrecks my voice so I was always trying to keep all her stuff to the last set!  Never worked for me! 

Worst instrumentally has to be FREE FREEKIN BIRD!  This is the utmost south boyz and I guarantee you DRUNK FREEBIRD PEOPLE are the norm in any bar around here!  Me and Ken just lift the middle finger ever so gently and tell them all, 'Here's ya freebird! 

Another one I don't want to learn at the moment is anything by Avenged Sevenfold cause it's not that I don't like them, but it just seems it's all been done to death! 

I do however wanna play the Black Crowes Cover of Velvet Undergrounds Sweet Nothings!  It is absolutely soul stirring and mystifying!  Check it out on Youtube!

I also play drums. Two songs that I refuse to play are Johnny B. Good and Wipeout.

... Talk Dirty to Me...  yea... I know.

I've done that one too, but what we did to make it fun was slow it down a bit, drop it down a whole step and I doubled the guitar lead on bass. Made it sound like a good grinding, stripper-pole tune.

Yup...we do that too...

Haha, nice!

rock.

DDD

Beverly Hills by Weezer is our worst moment on stage. The damn song is so easy the twanger and I would forget which riff was next. There were only two really easy riffs, and it went riff 1 2X then Riff 2 1X, totally so easy you could teach a child that song in a matter of minutes. Well, the twanger and I would be so bored playing that song we couldn't keep track of the riffs and would always mess it up playing riff 1 3X or something. We pulled it out of shame after playing it at about 3 gigs.

Beverly Hills by Weezer is our worst moment on stage. The damn song is so easy the twanger and I would forget which riff was next. There were only two really easy riffs, and it went riff 1 2X then Riff 2 1X, totally so easy you could teach a child that song in a matter of minutes. Well, the twanger and I would be so bored playing that song we couldn't keep track of the riffs and would always mess it up playing riff 1 3X or something. We pulled it out of shame after playing it at about 3 gigs.

Man -I love the easy 3 chorders.

Gives me more time to run around and jump off $h!t.work on my sweet moves, socialize,..things like that.

Of course...Beverly hills is kinda slow for runnin around jumpin.

thats why we had it in a medley:

Whitesnakes -here I go again ,into Steve millers -the Joker ...into weezers -Beverly Hills

Most of whitsnake then after the solo, the joker for a verse and chorus, then a verse and chorus of weezer.

Keeps the boring a lil more interesting.

T$

sounds like medleys are the way to go... I think that def caters to the low attention span generation which im a part.

awesome.

rock.

DDD

Speaking of easy 3 chorders, and this could be a whole thread unto itself, there are some that I enjoy that seem to be hated by other bassists.

Sweet Home Alabama, Can't You See, Last Chance with Mary Jane, etc.  I love playing those tunes.  To me, they're like one long bass solo.   I don't just play the roots!  Imagine that.

We used to do The Joker into Don't Come Around Here and back in to the Joker.  Always cool.

Last Dance with Mary Jane is actually 4 chords. 

One of the best songs I've written thus far is 4 chords... and only 5 notes on the bass!  (If you don't count octaves)

We used to do all those songs... I enjoyed them.  At least I could do something and not be bored out of my mind.

Worst song for me - Margaritaville. I hate that freaking song.  I would end up screwing something up every time due to just trying to imagine my happy place until it was over.  It never helped that the crowds seemed to LOVE it so we end up playing it ever gig and sometimes twice.  

Oh, I remember another one we used to play that I hope I never have to play again:

Say What You Will by Fastway.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpUCznIaFlw

 I found out a few weeks ago that the screamer we used to play some of these songs with passed away.  44 years old.  Don't know what happened for sure.

So, in some weird way, maybe I would have enjoyed playing it with him one more time.