Is there really a single, great set list?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:52 pm

Born to be Wild is a sure hit in a biker bar.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:53 pm

another song we love to hate ... "Wonderful Tonight"

telebob · Post by **telebob** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:45 am

Yup, we play it. We roll our eyes and make them feel Wonderful Tonight as the alcohol consumes them and they grind each other on the dance floor while contemplating which seedy motel they'll go skulking off to later. Ah yes, mating rituals at their finest.

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rictified · Post by **rictified** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:50 pm

I can play just about any of the old warhorses people always request and still even like some of them like Mustang Sally for instance (I funk it way up so that it takes on a life of it's own) or Born to Be wild although that's a little sickening, but It's wonderful tonight makes me want to vomit. I haven't played it for years thank God.

expomick · Post by **expomick** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:58 am

Early August 1985 in Edmonton, Alberta. We were playing in a club called "Rockers". A four night stint Wednesday through to Saturday, which went rather well. Corey Hart (!) and one of his manager's showed up for a set, but our lead singer insulted him from the stage, so he understandably left.

As we were 22 years old at that time, we thought that was great that he left.

Actually...still do.

Anyhow, there was a biker gang dubbed The Animals that attended the Saturday night show. Our band was a hybrid of 60's Rolling Stones/1984 R.E.M./Rank-and-File/early Who kinda sound.

But, we did cover "Born To Be Wild". Did it during one of the set's, and the Animals, who were rather receptive to our original music (drunk, obviously), charged onto the dance floor and danced their boots off.

So...come the end of the evening and the "inevitable" encore, we broke into "Born to Be Wild" again...and the Animals came charging onto the dance floor. I recall that it seemed like everyone else LEFT the dance floor at this point.

Burned into my memory forever, was about half-way through the song, our lead singer (I played bass - a nice black Fender Precision), elbowed me to get my attention.

In order to show their appreciation for us playing "Born To Be Wild" a second time, all the old ladies of the Animals (probably about 10 of them) had lined up along the front of the stage, and had lifted their tops to reveal their bare breasts to us.

And standing a bit behind them, were their dancing, drinking, grinning biker boyfriends...a couple of them gave us the thumbs-up sign.

Now, being 22 years old and on the road (we were from Ottawa), bare female breasts were a pleasant sight. But that wasn't my reaction at that moment; I was caught off-guard and recall that I played my bass parts rather sloppily for a few bars as I scanned the front of the stage.

Thank-you Animals.

Yup, "Born To Be Wild" works with bikers.

winston · Post by **winston** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:32 am

That's a great story Mick.

captsandwich · Post by **captsandwich** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:09 am

Halloween gig, we left the singer backstage & came out wearing spandex & long wigs. You would think that the horn section would be the giveaway that we weren't a metal band. Launched into Born to be Wild. Scooter boys in the crowd start booing relentlessly. We are afraid and stop about a minute in, as the singer strolls onto the stage and we start our normal set. We thought it was funny, but the crowd didn't seem to know what was going on, thinking they had paid for a ska show and were getting a hard rock band.

geddeeee · Post by **geddeeee** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:39 am

We play Born To Be Wild a little differently. In the middle it gets a bit 'proggy' due to me clanking along on my Rick and losing my head a bit, plus the reggae section.... Don't ask LOL!