Bar Band Essentials
Just for fun, a few bar and garage band faves for the weekend:
How can you not love this? That opening guitar moan is practically heavy metal, it sounds outrageous but the words don’t say much at all, and it is, shall we say, extremely forgiving to both singers and players. Just get up there and emote!
The definition of frat rock. This video has the words the way the Kingsmen did it, but if you do it right, you can pretty much just sing “Louie-LouAYE” and “yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah” with any other words you want — or no intelligible words at all, as the famous court case concluded.
A lot harder to play than the first two — and you have to do it in Spanish — but what’s more fun than this if you can get around it?
If Joan can sing it, so can you!
Pete, you’ve done the bar band thing from time to time — what rocks the room?
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February 3rd, 2010 at 5:40 pm
Bar and garage bands, I’ve known a few of each over the years, and boy this was fun!
“Wild Thing” always a favorite, makes me want to dance, and I really don’t dance much :)
“Louie Louie” is just another great song, always a favorite, even when played on the bagpipes!
“La Bamba” is one I grew up with. My Aunt was on a Junior High School playground when the plane crashed and she still talks about it. Of course living in San Fernando my whole life we learned the words at a very early age (and they do come back believe it or not).
Finally, “I Love Rock & Roll” too much fun and a lot of really great memories from it.
Thanks Bridey, this one is a definite share!