GEdwardJones Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 It happens to everyone sooner or later. Someone in a group of friends: Hey, you play guitar? You: Yeah Them: Here's my acoustic, play something for us. You: I'm not really an acoustic player. I don't really know any sing-along type songs Them: Awwwww, you're just shy. You: A little, but seriously, the last song I learned to play was off the new Ministry album Them: Come on You fiddle around, jamming on bits and pieces of various King's X songs for 5-10 minutes. Someone in the Crowd: "Play Me and Julio down by the Schoolyard" You: Someone kill me. What are your best emergency acoustic numbes. I have a couple of King's X tunes that are good for me (Summerland, Over My Head, Goldilox and Pleadies, plus Doug Pinnick and I have a similar vocal range, which is good) that's about it. Anything easily learned and strummable is good for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weezerboy Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 trust me hey ya by outkast is a saviour when surrounded by stupid people g c d e all the way through Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saber Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Blowing in the Wind. Let It Be and other Beatles tunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southpa Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 cumbaya my lord...cum..BA...YAAAAHHHH lol, juuuuuuuuust kidding. I spent many an hour around the fire with many an old acoustic guitar. People get drunk and start yelling into my ear while I'm playing. "Hey man! Do ya know any NEIL YOUNG!!??" So I start into The Needle and the Damage Done or something like that and some guy, who thinks hes Neil chimes in with his falsetto voice. Fine, doesn't bother me, my voice is crap anyway. Songs, songs, songs Ballads like American Pie by Don McLean are good. Everyone joins in at the chorus because its the only words they know in the song. A few others. Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd End of the Line - Travelling Wilburys Time of Your Life - Greenday The list goes on. If you want to impress the girls (and sleep with them....maybe, ) you could try songs like Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyG Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 i normally just play my own stuff on my acoustic so its a little hard when someone asks me to play stuff lol. my fal backs are to just play some blues rock variation using 7th bar chords and pentatonic progresions oh and i can play Time of your Life by green day, its a pretty simple song to play and everybody knows it so its a good one lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 one time i was over at some dudes house that plays the bass.he had this old crap guitar with only 4 strings on a floating trem... he and his buds kept saying...play something...i refused...said i needed all the strings.they thought i was a snob by the looks on their faces. i showed back up at 7 am the next day with my half stack and my guitars ,woke him up,and showed him exactly why i needed all 6 strings. i HATE it when people ask me to play some piece of junk. and i am the same about acoustics...don't much like em Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drak Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Campfire winners? Surf, blues, and '70's hits man. Bo Diddley. John Lee Hooker. George Thorogood (see John Lee Hooker) Walk, Don't Run Tequila Wipeout Secret Agent Man James Bond Theme AC/DC riffs work too, most people are familiar with them, and you can really bang those bar chords out on an acoustic. Finish up by quickly tuning it to an open tuning, E or A, maybe G, do some easy greasy slide licks, then hand it back to them like that when your done...hehehe... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEdwardJones Posted January 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Finish up by quickly tuning it to an open tuning, E or A, maybe G, do some easy greasy slide licks, then hand it back to them like that when your done...hehehe... Maybe if one of the other guys on the porch wasn't a professional blues man of some notoriety in the tri-state area. Which is what happened to me... It just so happens that said blues man is one of my wife's friends' uncle (and let me tell you that family is one of the most interesting ones I've ever met.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyG Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 one time i was over at some dudes house that plays the bass.he had this old crap guitar with only 4 strings on a floating trem... he and his buds kept saying...play something...i refused...said i needed all the strings.they thought i was a snob by the looks on their faces. i showed back up at 7 am the next day with my half stack and my guitars ,woke him up,and showed him exactly why i needed all 6 strings. i HATE it when people ask me to play some piece of junk. and i am the same about acoustics...don't much like em been there done that lol a friend of mine wanted me to teach him some guitar licks, so at 10 in the morning (guven this is duringschool hols so we both normally got up at lunch) i went to his house with my guitar, went to his bedroom, hooked up and everything while he was still sleeping. and then promptlly blasted out some deftones goodness. he loved me for that lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Off the top of my head, these are the songs I play a lot as encores to my gigs... Summer of 69 April Come She Will Cats In The Cradle The Free Electric Band Medley of Born To Be Wild and A Horse With No Name (E-Minor ) Father and Son Wonderwall Wanted Dead Or Alive A Little Less Conversation (in a special transposed version that's got a little Hendrix sound and is great fun to play) Fields Of Gold The Three Great 90s Acoustic Rock Ballads, epitomy of what pop songs were supposed to sound like in those days: To Be With You More Than Words Every Rose Has Its Thorn Now and Forever Right Here Waiting seems like I need some more uptempo songs in my unplugged repertoire, huh? so long ace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Jailhouse Rock Burning Love Proud Mary Everybody Must get Stoned Born to Run Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 My personal favorite is when everyone finally goes to bed, break out the acoustic and start playing the duelling banjo's thing from the movie Deliverance It's funny as crap for the people that get it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Gordon Lightfoot-The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. 3 chords. the words are tough though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 My personal favorite is when everyone finally goes to bed, break out the acoustic and start playing the duelling banjo's thing from the movie Deliverance It's funny as crap for the people that get it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whisky182 Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Stairway to heaven and greenday's 'time of your life'/'good riddance' saved me at a campfire situation once!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbkim Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Time to Change - Brady Bunch Kids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Rosenberger Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Stairway to heaven Can't you read the sign? It says no Stairway Wayne's World reference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reaper Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 Stairway to heaven Can't you read the sign? It says no Stairway Wayne's World reference *gasp* Stairway... denied! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbkim Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 And if no one's sick of it yet... Signs - The 5 Man Electrical Band Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowser Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 how about zepp's over the hills and far away "hey lady, you got the love i need......" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gobbo Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 My personal favorite is when everyone finally goes to bed, break out the acoustic and start playing the duelling banjo's thing from the movie Deliverance It's funny as crap for the people that get it haha my idea too! someone says "hey? you can play guitar? here play me somethin" i usually go with that. everyone always gets at least a chuckle out of it. when im done that, if they still nag me to play, ill go with "last kiss" by pearl jam. girls love it, guys usually get me to stop playing. therefore i dont have to play any more, and i get to talk to all the girls =D. but if the guys are too drunk or gay to make me stop, ill stick it out with time of your life, paint it black (acoustic has a pretty cool sound.. at least my acoustic) scar tissue, almost anything from great big sea, and classical gas always means im done. if im ever out playin and i get so far as to play classical gas, i demand a free drink from anyone whos pushin. "ok, i have one song in my head left thats better than the rest of these songs put together, but im going to have to charge you a drink to play it" "what? no, fine stop playing" {plays the first little bit} "hey why did you stop?" "gunna pay up?" "yea, here" {plays classical gas} classical gas. i love it to death! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wylde1919 Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 Southern rock is a good acoustic standby i.e. Sweet Melissa by Allman Bros. or Freebird. I perfer to throw out Dee by Randy Rhoads or comp some "rhythm changes" (for those who aren't jazz heads its the chord progression ito I got rhythm ---eveb if i dont know hot to spell it----a whole genre was created from those changes). It throws people off. They usually expect dust in the wind or yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEdwardJones Posted January 30, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 Southern rock is a good acoustic standby I am genetically bound to play "Sweet Home Alabama" whenever possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goat Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 "The Rain Song"-Led Zeppelin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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