I'm playing tomorrow night. Acoustic. I need some suggestions - I'm looking and I KNOW I'll think of a million on Friday morning.

HELP!

Suggest some groovy shit I could play on acoustic with a beat box.

Do like me;

Play whatever you want but end every 4 bars with a slightly bent G on the low E string followed by an open E chord.

The girl I play with regularly will take requests, and say "Oh, yeah, yeah, I think we can do that one!" and then just throw a lyric or two from the song INTO a different song that she's already doing.

I'm thinking about just playing all my shit and telling them "yeah, yeah, that was from Isaac Hayes' unreleased Acoustic Love record, and now i'm gonna throw a little something at you that I co wrote with India Arie and Stevie Wonder"

2Pac's "Thugs Mansion".


Peace,
JD

Lawd, I can't stay out of here.

Well, with that SLY voice of your O...
maybe:
Just Like A Baby - Sly (and yes it can be done)
Anything from P's 'Truth'
Elvis Costello - Tiny Steps
def. a Bob Marley song - you'll have every1 joining in
maybe some Curtis
Freddie King - Ever Loved A Woman
Bobby Bland - Reconsider or 2 Steps from the Blues
Stones - Lil Red Rooster, Fancy Man Blues, Keif's 'Wicked As It Seems' dayum it I love it when he plays that...anon anon
Cat Stevens - he's about to become very popular again
oh hell...and if it's really late sumphin by Sam & Dave.

Runnin'

actually Big O...I think you're humor could carry at least 1/2 the set. We like 2 laugh 2...go 4 it.

Red said:

Yeah. that's my plan. but to get there, I'll need to knock back a few Vodka Colas, get lit, and then turn the whole thing into a Lewis/Martin show.

Probably too late, but Use Me by Bill Withers ranks high in my 'acoustic funk' list. Two-chord wonder, but it's stuck right down in that groove.

MaggotBrain said:

Oh, and Cookie Jar (Fuzzy Haskins - there's a CD called Sweet Taste of Westbound that has a slightly more grooving acoustic version).

Talkin Heads - Psycho Killer... Good Accy number with beats...

joker001 said:

That's how most of my set last night ended up sounding - I programmed some loopy loops into my drum machine - used the 808-type sounds so it had that 1980 rhythm machine feel to it, and just laid out my originals and some covers.

Of course, the place was dead until I said "okay, I used to be in a big hair metal band with a lot of the high wailing - suffice to say, my pipes are shot now, so, after hearing this next song, once the bleeding from your ears ceases, please go tell your friends how awesome we are" and I broke into CREEP by radiohead... you know that part where he goes RUUUN!!! whooo.

Dogs bowels were emptied 5 blocks away, it was so bad. But the place just DIED laughing and started cheering me on to do more of that horrid shit. So I then broke into Drops Of Jupiter in a key that would castrate peter pan. More pain for them, but somehow they seemed to appreciate my self-effacing wit.

So, in the end, I won them over by sounding like shit and being funny.

Which was then a shame this morning to find that Johnny Cash and John Ritter both died yesterday. I'll never forget 9/11 now as the day that we lost two towers in entertainment.

Ain't kidding either.

John Ritter may be a punchline somewhere, but he was funny as hell when I was a kid and that new show of his was great. And Johhny Cash's version of HURT ripped my heart out - especially on the heels of my son's death from addiction earlier this year.

So what a total loss yesterday. 'Cept for my kickass standup routine.

lol, S.H.AL.

U can put some Bill Withers in the mix 2.
I love the song Who is he,& what is he to you
& that works well with acoustic guitar 2.
/peae Manki

otan said:

Wow, that is so poetic. I didn't even think of it that way.


I would watch Three's Company all the time. It's so weird that as we get older, the people we grew up watching/listening too start to fade away. But I guess that's the way time works. We were on our way home, in a hotel room on Thursday, so Friday morning we got the news of John and Johnny. They showed the Hurt video and it was so touching.