Songs the band made you play that you despised

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 15 Apr 2018 9:26 am

Hotel California

Ronald Heinzel · Post by **Ronald Heinzel** » 15 Apr 2018 10:29 am

Redneck mother

Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 15 Apr 2018 10:59 am

Wagon Wheel, Boot Scootin' Boogie, Achey Breakey, Adalida. I cringe anytime I have to play any of these. Three others would be Farewell Party, Look At Us, and Together Again when we can't do them in the original keys. Together Again in A or Look At Us in C, or Farewell Party in G or C really suck.

Jim Robbins · Post by **Jim Robbins** » 15 Apr 2018 7:02 pm

Anything by Kenny Rogers, "It's hard to be humble", "Wasn't that a Party", and many of the above. Although I enjoyed the Rodeo Song and fondly recall knocking it out of the park on (the song) Cocaine in a bar in Orangeville many years ago.

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 15 Apr 2018 11:40 pm

Born To Boogie. Super Duper Love. Gimme 3 Steps. Couldn’t stand them even when they were brand new hits. Haven’t had to play these or most of the other tunes mentioned here for many years, thankfully.

That Wagon Wheel-free stage sign is hysterical!

Bobby Nelson · Post by **Bobby Nelson** » 16 Apr 2018 2:46 am

Mustang Sally - you're so right Rich, how could I have forgotten.Not only tired of playing it but, tired of hearing EVERYBODY ELSE play it too.

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 16 Apr 2018 4:01 am

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Roger Hand · Post by **Roger Hand** » 16 Apr 2018 5:17 am

I agree with 99.99 % of you , but we played them because we wanted to play [ steel ] music. how many steel players get to pick & choose the songs to play ?

Jim Cooley · Post by **Jim Cooley** » 16 Apr 2018 5:32 am

The Jamestown Ferry

Mike Kowalik · Post by **Mike Kowalik** » 16 Apr 2018 10:42 am

Boot Scootin Boogie and Neon Moon.....

George McLellan · Post by **George McLellan** » 16 Apr 2018 10:56 am

Don't Be Angry, Blue Kentucky Girl, SGR and lbnl - Crazy.
Geo

Larry Robbins · Post by **Larry Robbins** » 16 Apr 2018 12:07 pm

Johnny B Goode and Free Brid!!

Bob Watson · Post by **Bob Watson** » 16 Apr 2018 4:14 pm

Anything by the Eagles.

Dan Robinson · Post by **Dan Robinson** » 16 Apr 2018 6:26 pm

Cruise/Florida Georgia Line.

But it is making me a better steel player. Learning to "play in the holes." There aren't any.

Bill L. Wilson · Post by **Bill L. Wilson** » 16 Apr 2018 9:10 pm

I enjoy playing all of the songs that ya’ll seem to hate. Our band gets requests for all of these songs and we play’em. I even had to hook my amp back up one night after I had torn down, to play guitar on “Green River”.....The $100 tip was worth one song for our band of four.....Now I’m retired and having fun playing music, steel guitar on the country stuff, rockin’ guitar on the rock stuff. The crowd still goes nuts when you start “Sweet Home Alabama” or “Brown Eyed Girl”.....And they’re the ones that pay the bills.

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 17 Apr 2018 10:15 am

Bill L. Wilson wrote:I enjoy playing all of the songs that yaâ€™ll seem to hate. Our band gets requests for all of these songs and we playâ€™em.

Theyâ€™re all better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick while digging a ditch in hard clay when itâ€™s 15 degrees below zero and...is that a semi truck jacknifing right toward me and my ditch?

Yeah. Compared to that, I love playing The Macarena

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 17 Apr 2018 11:11 am

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Andrew Krebs · Post by **Andrew Krebs** » 17 Apr 2018 11:56 am

Fred Treece wrote: Theyâ€™re all better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick while digging a ditch in hard clay when itâ€™s 15 degrees below zero and...is that a semi truck jacknifing right toward me and my ditch?

Oofta. Too close to home. How do you think I paid for this glorified table with a fretboard and lever do-hickeys?

Lee Baucum · Post by **Lee Baucum** » 17 Apr 2018 1:08 pm

Joachim Kettner wrote:I love this comment Fred. Good taste can be a curse, it is sad that many people in the average audience don't have it.

So, when people like something you don't like, it's bad taste?

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 17 Apr 2018 3:02 pm

Having played everything from "Hava Nagila" to "Runaway", and from "Sink The Bismark" to "Thus Spake Zarathustra", along with just about every country rock, and soul song from 1955 to 1995, I can't say I really "hated" any of them. When we had requests to repeat silly songs like "Achy Breaky" several times a night, I just played them differently to avoid ennui.

Bobby Nelson · Post by **Bobby Nelson** » 17 Apr 2018 4:12 pm

So, when people like something you don't like, it's bad taste?

I don't think it's as much that as, some (like me) Just get tired of playing the same hing over and over. I loved the song Wasted Days And wasted nights until I sang it for the thousandth time.

In all honesty though: I never played in a top 40 type band. I refused to - I couldn't do some of that stuff.

Tracy Sheehan · Post by **Tracy Sheehan** » 17 Apr 2018 6:27 pm

OBS and steel guitar rag. I play fiddle and steel both.
I got to where I made out like I had never heard either. After many years playing steel I was sorry I ever told any one I also played fiddle. I could not believe any one really wanted to hear either but mention fiddle and the first thing any one thought of was OBS and mention steel and I give 3 guesses what some one would request and the first two do not count.

Fred Treece · Post by **Fred Treece** » 17 Apr 2018 6:37 pm

Lee Baucum wrote:So, when people like something you don't like, it's bad taste?

Nail on head. That is exactly how it is. Thanks, Lee

Joachim Kettner · Post by **Joachim Kettner** » 18 Apr 2018 2:29 am

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Dick Wood · Post by **Dick Wood** » 18 Apr 2018 5:17 am

Sweet Home Al.,Freebird,Silver Wings,Home with the Armadillo or whatever it's called. There's more but I'm getting in a bad mood just looking at those.

Oh and Cocaine too.

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