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"My next gig."

I don't think this is going to rock as much as the first one, because we've introduced a rule where each member of the band can choose a song that we have to play...and the guitarist is into Bon Jovi...and there was a Bon Jovi song on the 'potentials' CD he gave me...quite worried. Also the drummer wants to play that awful new Greenday song that sounds just like Wonderwall. Double worried.

Saying that, we are going to do some choice numbers:

Judas Priest - "Breaking the Law" (*dun dun* yay!)
Billy Idol - "White Wedding"
Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Weezer - "Buddy Holly" (my choice)
The Beatles - "Ballad of John & Yoko" (doesn't quite fit, but still fun)
Spencer Davis Group - "Keep On Running"
REM - "Losing My Religion" (maybe a rocked-up version, if that's possible)
Thin Lizzy - "Boys Are Back In Town" (it was a cover on the CD, so we'll probably do an even more different version)
The Killers - "Mr Brightside"

So a bit of variety there, but we mixed lightweight rock with heavy rock before and it worked really well. And we can pick any of the 15 tracks we played before to pad it out, or even play about 25 songs and have a break in the middle. Should be cool though, and we've got a deal with a local pub where they only want the bar takings...last time on the door we made £460, but most of that went to the venue!

As far as i can remember, the song from bill and ted was done by kiss, but the guitar solo at the beginning of it, and the little air guitar licks all the way through the film are Steve Vai. one of the guys had a ZZ top stylee beard at the end of the film when they were were playing. all sorted?

My next gig will be pitiful, "Billericay battle of the Bands 2005". We only get a 20 minute set, including setting-up time, so we're doin:

Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions
Intravenous - Half Life
Metallica - Master of Puppets

The Bill and Ted version was Kiss, was originally done by Argent in '72.

Good old allmusic.com.

monkey_man wrote:
> I thought Steve Vai did the one from B&T?
>
> [EDIT: Nope, it was Kiss]

Steve Vai did have some music on the "bogus journey" soundtrack though.

Doesn't look as good a setlist.

Few good ones though, Killers one could be cool.
Also, possibly the worst Beatles song you could have picked.

Just to add to the confusion..., I thought it was from Excellent Adventure rather than Bogus Journey. But either way it was definitely Kiss who did it.

Ah, I'm no longer confused. :)

Ah yeah, Bill and Ted just looked like ZZ Top when they sang it. Tsk, memories aren't what they used to be...

I thought Steve Vai did the one from B&T?

[EDIT: Nope, it was Kiss]

I'm confused.

Hedfix wrote:
> If prefer the Kiss version off Bogus Journey.

Now that was ZZ Top. No idea who did the original.
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