Need help with a set list. Any takers?

[Bonhomme Richard]

Basic classic rock stuff for your standard bar crowd.
I have reworked our set list and could use any advice as to layout. We used it last night at a gig but I am not real happy with it and wondered if anyone had any ideas as to a better sequence.
Any help would be appreciated.

Set 1
Glory Days
Old Brown Shoe
My Back Pages
If I Needed
Horse with no Name
Amie
While my Guitar Gently Weeps
Brown Sugar
No Time
I'll Cry Instead
It's all Over
Don't Let Me Down
Waiting on the World
Black Magic Woman/Oye Como Va

Set 2
Me & Julio
Running on Empty
Ohio
Can't You See
Feel a Whole Lot Better
Mr. Spaceman
Something
Jet Airliner
Werewolves of London
Bell Bottom Blues
867-5309
Ballad of John & Yoko
Jessica

Set 3
Do it Again
Sympathy for the Devil
Friend of the Devil
The Weight
Like a Rolling Stone
Wild Horses
Margaritaville
Handle with Care
Layla
Roadhouse Blues
You Wreck Me
American Girl

Set 4
Mean Mister Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
The End
Cocaine
White Room
Jumping Jack Flash
Knocking on Heavens Door
Good Loving
Taxman
Gloria
Last Time
Closing Time

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1. Wow

There are a lot of great tunes on that list. You would fit in So. Ga. like a custom made glove. Do you have a myspace page or a website? My bands style of music is very different than yours but I would love to hear a some of these song performed well. You could pm the site if it makes you more comfortable with the board rules if any.

Is guitar and bass tuning a factor?
Are your strongest songs at the end of the sets?
Why were you not happy with this set list as written? Just curious.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. A little background............

The band is seven piece. We have three guitar players, of which I am one, a bass player, keyboard, percussionist, and drummer ( if a guitar isn't needed then that player will also switch over to a percussion instrument.) so we can do some things that other bands don't have the hands to do. Another factor is that there are no ego's so there isn't any fighting between the guitar players for attention (I actually claim we are all just really lazy and are happy not to work so hard,Ha ha)

Guitar and bass tuning are not a factor at all
I don't know about strongest songs at the end of the set but I do like to use the songs that have the most impact, with the exception of the second half of Abbey road we start the last set with. It is hard because a crowd usually thins out as the night gets on 1:00 AM and you don't want anyone to miss a great tune. Choices?
About the set list....It just didn't feel right to me......we played last night and I was right. The beginning of the first set seemed to be a bit dragging. My mistake. I tried to lump some of the songs I play acoustic on together in order to cut back on instrument changes but it didn't feel right. Four sets are new to us also. We used to play three long sets but I decided that we needed more breaks so I went to four sets.
Anyway I am going to have to surgically remove some tunes because we have too many. We never actually get a chance to play everything. Typically by the end of the night we are picking and choosing what we will play.
What king of stuff do you play? LOL, most of us are a bunch of old farts.

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5. Old Farts lol

We are too. But we are a hard rock band and get away with it in the south.lol Your last two sets have some great tunes. The End by the Doors, I don't think Ive heard half of your songs covered in a bar. That just seems like a tough list to cull. But there is only so much time you can play.

[Bonhomme Richard]

6. I did re-work the list and

I guess I will see if it works out. We are opening the gig with Sympathy for the Devil and also dropped some tunes like Amie and No Time. We can always throw them back in if we feel the crowd is right. I figure the percussion opening will grab their attention. The song "The End" isn't the Doors tune but the last song on the Abbey Road album.

[JeffR]

3. I have no good advice for you, BR, but I did want to comment that

any band with Old Brown Shoe in its repertoire has just got to be a great band.

[Bonhomme Richard]

4. The band had no intentions of playing out when..................

we started hanging out. We played what we wanted to play - it was like a Tuesday night poker club. Then it took on a life of it's own and morphed into a gig playing band. For a while we played a lot of Harrison but some of what we did, like Beware of Darkness, didn't translate well to the bar crowd. We kept Old Brown Shoe and it goes over well. We play it like it was played on the Concert for George DVD. It has a lot of energy and it gets everyone loosened up.

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. Revised set list for those interested.

It worked well last night though set 3 is still too long.
Set 1
Sympathy for the Devil
Glory Days
My Back Pages
If I Needed
Horse with no Name
Friend of the Devil
Brown Sugar
Jet Airliner
I'll Cry Instead
It's all Over
Don't Let Me Down
Waiting on the World
Black Magic Woman/Oye Como Va

Set 2
Me & Julio
Running on Empty
Ohio
Can't You See
Feel a Whole Lot Better
Mr. Spaceman
Something
Cinnamon Girl
867-5309
Werewolves of London
Ballad of John & Yoko
Jessica


Set 3
Do it Again
Old Brown Shoe
Layla
While my Guitar Gently Weeps
The Weight
Like a Rolling Stone
Cold Shot
Margaritaville
Handle with Care
Roadhouse Blues
You Wreck Me
American Girl

Set 4
Mean Mister Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
The End
Cocaine
White Room
Jumping Jack Flash
Knocking on Heavens Door
Taxman
Closing Time

[east texas lib]

8. Perhaps...

Rockin' in the USA, Small Town, Hurts So Good---John Mellencamp
Rain, Feel So Lonely, Helter Skelter---Beatles
Midnight Roundevous, Headfirst, Missing You---Babys/John Waite
Waitin For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago,---Z.Z. Top
Thunderbird, Hot Blue And Righteous
Radar Love, When The Bullet Hits The Bone---Golden Earing
You May Be Right, We'll All Go Down Together---Billy Joel
Tequila Sunrise, Lyin Eyes, Life In The Fast ---Eagles/Henley/Frey
Lane, Drivin' With Your Eyes Closed, Take It
Easy, Smuggler's Blues, Who Owns This Place
You Got Lucky, Change Of Heart, Break Down---Tom Petty
Run To You, Cuts Like A Knife, Let Him Know---Bryan Adams
Amy ---Pure Prarie League
Hot Rails To Hell---Blue Oyster Cult
Srut---Bob Seger
On The Dark Side---Eddie And The Cruisers


Hope this is helpful! All tried and true tunes from a fellow old fart.

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. Some good tunes/suggestions in there and.............

a few we have already done.
Thanks

[immoderate]

10. Looks good to me -- great songs. I also love "Old Brown Shoe"

Where's Chuck Berry? Just sayin'.

--IMM

[paparush]

11. Dead Flowers - Townes Van Zant

I always have that in my set..somewhere.
:-)

But then, I luvs me some TVZ!