Your First Band - Your First Five Covers!

Does playing air guitar in my bedroom (as an adolescent, of course! :wink: ) count?
Sadly, not all of us got to do the real thing!

You didn't miss much Olgs. Basically it was about your parents and friends telling you that you'd never get anywhere and eventually being proved right.....

Yeah, sad but true!

But hey, they weren't such great shakes, either!

Wouldn't The Tragics be a great name for a band?

We were folkies:
Two guitars, a five string banjo and my twelve string:

I don't we ever had a proper name. We just showed up at Thee Coffe House in San Angelo. Jim(r.i.p.), Jerry, Paul(?) and me. (1970)

CSN&Y "Find the Cost of Freedom"
Dylan: "Bob Dylan's Dream"
Mitchell "Woodstock"
Country Joe and The Fish "Viet Nam Rag"
Dylan: "Times they are a'changing"

Joe(I still talk with Jerry)Nation

Yashu SChwestak and the Wyomissing accordion ensemble.

Kinda lame but I was like 9

LAdy of Spain
Peg-O-my-hearth
Moon River
Yedze Boat
Vlas Kotek

Canada has(d) a band called 'The Tragically Hip' .

Thanks for sharing Joe. I don't think I've talked to anyone from my band for 5 years, only one death (that I'm aware of).

I did a pretty good, extraordinarily impassioned cover of Like a Rolling Stone - in my bedroom. In my imaginary band.
I was great!

Reprise please. with pics.

Later, maybe! :wink:

Seriously, there was nothing better than being Bob, all that snarling, the passion.....!

What a blast!

You're got a lot nerrrrrve, to say are my friend!
When I was down, you just stood there grinning .....!

The Midnite Skulkers-
what were we rhinking?

circa 1966

Hang On Sloopy
I'm A Man
Sleepwalk
We Gotta Get Outta This Place
Last Time-Stones

Bad Company - Feel Like Making Love
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Golden Earring - Radar Love
Jim Croce - You Don't Mess Around With Jim
Cat Stevens - Father and Son

Yipes! 35 years later and I'm still playing the same tunes in similar venues.

Hey, that's not at all a bad selection for 1966, panzade!

(Apart from Hang on Sloopy! :wink: ) Sleepwalk is a mystery: please explain! )

The rest is absolutely fine!

Sleepwalk - the dreamiest slow dance...make-out anthem


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAk_0N85wNk

I was 16 when I joined my first band, a suburban teenage whitey blues band I'm sorry to say, with two other fellas. We called ourselves the Boogie Chillen' after a John Lee Hooker tune. Yes, there was vernacular in our name. What did we have the blues about? Oh, the snotty bitches abounding in our otherwise utopian village.

I rocked an early 80s (this was the mid-90s) Pearl Maxwin drum kit. A. played a crummy Squire II. When T. was finished with swim practice he would "howl" into A.'s mother's church microphone. We'd jam in my parents' basement until my mom got pissed. Our until A. broke a string, whereupon we'd walk to Wade's guitar shop and sneak behind the dry cleaners for a cigarette on the way.

Our covers included:

1) Hoochie Coochie Man--Muddy Waters
2) I'll Play the Blues for You--Albert King
4) San-Ho-Zay--Freddy King

To round out the list, I'll have to briefly mention the stoner-funk band I joined a year later, after the anticlimactic dissolution of the Boogie Chillen'. This new band, the Ropers, was another trio. Most of what I remember involves me stoned out of my mind, staring at our guitarist's father's Playboy calendar as I banged away.

Our covers included:

1) In the Meantine--Spacehog
2) Chameleon--Herbie Hancock
3) The Girls of Porn--Mr. Bungle

I'd like to note that playing in bands coincided, mysteriously, with quitting high school sports.

This thread rules.

Santo and Johnny, right?

To any young fellas reading this thread, put that **** on the next mixed CD you give your sweetheart. Man, I remember with a young lady to that song at the Green Mill many years ago.

We stormed the music industry with our band called Platform 5. There was only four of us so where the 5 comes into it, god only knows.
We so wanted to be the next Led Zep but couldn't afford a decent amplifier, so made do with accoustically murdering numbers such as "Fog on the Tyne".
The singer sent a demo cassette to Mickey Most, but it must have got lost in the post, because we got no reply.

"We can swing together, we can have a wee wee, we can have a wet on the wall".

4) San-Ho-Zay--Freddy King

when you're learning blues guitar...this be the cat

Ah. Thanks, panz!

I'll check that out during a slow internet time. ( Dial up here!)

The Hustlers 1960 or 61

A couple of Ventures tunes
Green onions
Johnny Be goode i think

I don't remember much else. I played a J Geils silvertone with the amp built into the case.