...you've had a few beers, and somebody produces a guitar. Full of the brave juice and wanting to get the party going you grab the guitar and scream "I'll give you a song", so what do you play?

It happened to me a couple of weeks ago, about 3am after being at a wedding all day and seriously under the influence, so I played

1) Squeeze box
2) Honky Tonk Women
3) Dead Flowers
4) Ballad of John & Yoko

Nothing too technical and all easy to play when you're drunk.

I think I've bust a button on my trousers....

house of the rising sun
wild horses
tangled up in blue

ROCK AND ROLL ALL NITE

I've always wanted to play the lead on "I Don't Know Why".


Wasn't looking too good, but I was feeling real well.

any Ramones song....basic chords and fun!!!!

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> I've always wanted to play the lead on "I Don't
> Know Why".
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...and you don't know why?

I should prepare myself for that situation, really.
It has to be a song in standard tuning, because not too many people have a guitar in G-Tuning laying around and when I am drunk I don't want to tune it to G - would be a mess. So I usually just fool around with some country and blues tunes (Love Hurts!) if it's an acoustic - I sing like an angel, but only to my ears


Belgrade-Bucharest-Budapest-Brno

Done this a few times.

I love playing Tumbling Dice, IORR, and YCAGWYW.
They're great for setting a groove, getting everyone singing along, and trading off verses and licks. And everybody knows 'em.
I also like playing deep-blues riff versions of Let It Bleed and Miss You. Miss You makes for a great blues tune and it shakes everybody up when they hear the blues bones of the song.

"DAZED AND CONFUSED" the 20 minute live version from SRTS

I had a cousin, a Stones fan and a junkie, who got up on stage to sing at his brother's wedding. He sang "Dead Flowers" and the Beatles "This Boy". God, that was peculiar. But one of the best performances I've ever witnessed.

I was at a party not too long ago and when the guitars came out late night, everyone did a singalong of "The Weight."

Really emotional--uplifting, but with a bunch of meloncholy. With all due respect to the Stones, I can't think of a better song or a better recording.

The KKK took my baby away, away from me...

RIDE ON TUSSLER!!! HEY HO LETS GO...ONE TWO THREE FOUR!!!!!!

I would give the guitar to someone who could play and start singing TNT by AC/DC or something by the Stones. I don't know what. Maybe No Expectations. lol

I'm supposed to be playing at my friend's wedding next weekend. Not the thing you're talking about here but anyway... I'll be damned if I don't get to throw in Brown Sugar, Start Me Up or the like... I hope the boys in the band know these tunes.

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> I'm supposed to be playing at my friend's wedding
> next weekend. Not the thing you're talking about
> here but anyway... I'll be damned if I don't get
> to throw in Brown Sugar, Start Me Up or the
> like... I hope the boys in the band know these
> tunes.


You know what I hate, when I'm at a wedding and a Rolling Stones song comes on, and since everyone knows that I love them so much, they immediately start starting at me like I'm gonna jump on the floor doing a Mick Jagger impersonation, then I don't even want to dance. It really takes the fun out of it.

I like the TNT and Ramones suggestions.
Sittin here in Queens, eating refried beans.....

and our troubles never end...daddy likes men!!!....pure comedy genius plus great rock...best wishes all you stonesniks!!!!

That really is a great song! It makes me laugh every time.

Wasn't looking too good, but I was feeling real well.

ramones....love 'em...they gave rock (back in 76) a nice kick-in-the-ass.....r.i.p. joey, johnny & dee dee...best wishes all

Ok, now you've got me thinking about them and I don't have any cd's on me. I'm gonna have to run right home and put on Commando.

Wasn't looking too good, but I was feeling real well.

ride on cindy...leave home...YEAH!!!...and while were at it....ITS ALIVE!!...oops this isnt a ramones thread.....best wishes all

If you want a good party, start with The Boatmans Call with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds...then Ramones

i dont know most of nick cave & the bad seeds...but i heard "release the bats"...loved it...greatly insane!!!...best wishes

I have always wanted to sing "Me and Bobby McGee" in its entirety to any gathering that would listen..but I gues I have never been under the influence that much:
"Busted flat in Baton Rouge
Waitin' fer a train,
I was feeling just as faded as my jeans..
Bobby flagged a diesel down, just before it rained"
Well, you know the rest
By the time the "na na na na na na NA nana" comes around ..everyone needs to be drunk!

Okay, when you listen to the boatmans call, you get really sad, then you play Ramones and you suddenly are up in the sky.
If you don`t have any Nick Cave-cd, buy Murder Ballads, it`s increible good. BUY IT!

On the intro-trip for the grade school teacher seminar I was on a few weeks ago I brought my guitar. Songs I remember playing:

Everybody Hurts
Sway
Love In Vain
I Just Wanna Make Love To You
Better Off Without A Wife
Singapore
Sweet Jane
Dead Flowers
Country Honk
I'll Be There For You (I know. Kill me)
Clap Hands
Let It Bleed
Please Please Me
A Hard Days Night
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Love Is Strong
Sweethearts Together
Rough Justice

JumpingKentFlash

Spent the holidays with lots of friends in Italy and also lots of musicians whom I met and we had huge sessions everynight. Being at once the only singer and the worst guitarist, all the pros had to adapt to me - since I can only play what I know beforehand but they can play on anything. Pays off to be bad!

So there was these percussionists and a pro harmonica player (chromatic) and we had such fun on Miss You and Sympathy, but also on lots of old reggae tunes.

AND - this was just so great - there were these three chicks who sing traditional pugliese music in trio, fab voices and great mastery of harmonies. So I had backing vocals on Tumbling Dice, YCAGWYW, Honky tonk women, Hit the road Jack, Message to you Rudy etc.

SOooo cool! This is one thing I had never experienced, to have this great layer of vocals and be able to interract as you want, totally confident in the fact that the song is rolling. Loved it.

I'll give you a song! With all the talent I could muster (which ain't much) I'd hit them with the best, most rockin' version of Ice Ice Baby I could muster. Followed of course by Achy Breaky Heart. And for those hold outs I'd finish with Dancing On The Ceiling.

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> >
> I'll give you a song! With all the talent I could
> muster (which ain't much) I'd hit them with the
> best, most rockin' version of Ice Ice Baby I could
> muster. Followed of course by Achy Breaky Heart.
> And for those hold outs I'd finish with Dancing On
> The Ceiling.


I'd love to go to one of your party's! "Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it, Ice Ice Baby, doo doo doo dodo doo doo"

I think I've bust a button on my trousers....

lt it loose
torn and frayed
sweet virginia
here comes youre man
make no mistake
angie
give me a hamburger