Your favorite songs to play

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Your favorite songs to play

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Mine:

1. American Girl - Tom Petty
2. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Stones
3. The Last Time - The Stones
4. Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
5. I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better - The Byrds
6. You Can't Do That - The Beatles
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Iron Maiden - 22 Acacia Ave
Iron Maiden - Revelations
Motorhead - Overkill
Motorhead - Iron Fist
Motorhead - Capricorn
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
Thin Lizzy - Hollywood
Thin Lizzy - Mexican Blood
Thin Lizzy - Sun Goes Down
Judas Priest - Diamonds and Rust
Judas Priest - Grinder
Journey - Wheel in the Sky
Great White - the whole first album
WASP - the whole first album
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In no specific order of preference, and off the top of my head:

1. Mr. Tambourine Man (all the verses; Dylan/Byrds)
2. Chimes of Freedom (Dylan/Byrds)
3. My Back Pages (Dylan/Byrds)
4. Lyin' Eyes (the Eagles)
5. Nowhere Man (Lennon/McCartney)
6. The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee (Charlie Poole, it works very nicely with McGuinn's hybrid picking)
7. Mr. Spaceman (McGuinn; but not played in his style, finger picked a la Merle Travis)
8. Amelia Earhart's Last Flight (McEnerny)
9. If I Needed Some One (Harrison)


That's enough for now.
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My own.
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sloop_john_b wrote:My own.
Oh well...yeah. There are those, too. :)

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jimk wrote:Oh well...yeah. There are those, too. :)
:lol:

Lately i've been on a Reverend Horton Heat/Setzer kick, so i've been trying to work out a lot of that stuff on guitar. I really don't sit back and play bass recreationally, but If I did, it'd be Pepper-era McCartney stuff.
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You need a Gretsch!

I saw the Fab Faux on TV doing Penny Lane and it was #$%^&ing amazing. Will Lee on a 4001 MG didn't hurt either.
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sloop_john_b wrote:
jimk wrote:Oh well...yeah. There are those, too. :)
:lol:

Lately i've been on a Reverend Horton Heat/Setzer kick, so i've been trying to work out a lot of that stuff on guitar. I really don't sit back and play bass recreationally, but If I did, it'd be Pepper-era McCartney stuff.
Any time I pick up my 6120 I have to play a few Setzer licks. Usually it's "Baby Blue Eyes" or something off one of the first two imports.

Ditto what you said in your previous post; I'm usually playing my own stuff, since we have rehearsals, gigs, and lately, recording... :D
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jdogric12aolcom wrote:You need a Gretsch!
This week; trying to decide which one to get. :D
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sloop_john_b wrote:
jdogric12aolcom wrote:You need a Gretsch!
This week; trying to decide which one to get. :D
It's a difficult decision, isn't it?! :shock: :D

The next two on my list are the `55 era White Falcon with De Armond pickups and a Bigsby whammy, and a Chet Atkins Roundup Western Solidbody, again with De Armonds, to go with my Western 6120
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paologregorio wrote:It's a difficult decision, isn't it?! :shock: :D

The next two on my list are the `55 era White Falcon with De Armond pickups and a Bigsby whammy, and a Chet Atkins Roundup Western Solidbody, again with De Armonds, to go with my Western 6120
I used to have a 6120 w/ Dynasonics and the fill-tilt western motif (edit: this one). I liked the guitar quite a bit, but I like Filtertrons more.

I'm mainly torn between a Country Gent and a White Falcon right now.
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MMMMMmmmmnnn White falcons i love, stunning geetars
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Depends on my mood. But most of them are in Russian, so the titles won't tell you much, if anything. My own, too. Since i wrote them myself, there's no complicated stuff about them, such as solos and all.
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I'm Not Like Everybody Else - Kinks
Loser - Grateful Dead
Not Fade Away - Buddy Holly/Grateful Dead
King's Highway - Petty
Chimes of Freedom - Byrds
These are all on guitar
Donna Donna - Donovan
Julia Dream - Floyd
Bang Bang-Nancy Sinatra

On bass
Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead version
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
Money - Floyd
Nexus - Fogelberg
Mondance - Van Morrison
Dear Prudence - Beatles
Manic Depression-Hendrix
Hey Joe-Hendrix

I am sure there are more.
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Lelasan Megat Yeh ('Lizard Crosses The Water')...Cendrawasih ('The Bird Of Paradise')...Dongkang Menek Byu ('Toad Climbs The Banana Tree')...
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