Topic: What should i play??

Me and a friend are pretty medium-advanced guitar players i ve been playin for 10 yrs, she for 8. We're playin soon at a Human Rights fest with LOTS of hippies and classic rock lovers. we both play acoustic, though i can play electric 2 if needed. what kinda songs should we play to please the audience, we've never played for these type of ppl b4, and r unsure of what to do. suggestions please!!! thanx, gabby  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_razz.gif" border=0 alt="Razz">

Re: What should i play??

I would suggest some Joan Baez or "The Band".  I think they sing a song call "The Weight".  Good stuff from the 60's.  Or, that song: I like to teach the world! 


Hope these help!


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Me and a friend are pretty medium-advanced guitar players i ve been playin for 10 yrs, she for 8. We're playin soon at a Human Rights fest with LOTS of hippies and classic rock lovers. we both play acoustic, though i can play electric 2 if needed. what kinda songs should we play to please the audience, we've never played for these type of ppl b4, and r unsure of what to do. suggestions please!!! thanx, gabby  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_razz.gif" border=0 alt="Razz">
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thanx, i'll look those up <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy">

Re: What should i play??

Lots of old hippies and classic rock lovers will be there?  It will probably be great fun!  Being sort of an old hippie, here are some tunes on chordie from that timeframe (and a couple of others) that will resonate well with such a crowd.  They will also lend themselves nicely to 2 players/voices:

Ripple; Grateful Dead

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People Get Ready; Curtis Mayfield

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Peter Pumpkinhead; XTC

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A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

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Christmas at Ground Zero; Weird Al Yankovic

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Change; Tracy Chapman

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Spanish Pipedream; John Prine

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Peace Train; Cat Stevens

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Hope this is helpful - James

"That darn Pythagorean Comma thing keeps messing me up!"
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_comma[/url]

Re: What should i play??

Good luck to the two of you. Throw in some Bob Dylan and you can't fail.

Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??

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Well, I take it Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies, will be a big no no!  <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_lol.gif" border=0 alt="Laughing">


I'd just like to echo the advice to play The Band - The Weight. Terrific song.


Anything by CCR, Crosbie, Stills, Nash and Young, Janis Joplin.


Maybe,

The Who - We're not gonna take it.

Joe Cocker - With a little help from my friends.

The Doors - Spanish Caravan.

Hendrix - Hey Joe.


I reckon the hippies would maybe like that sort of stuff.


Craig.

Blind acceptance is a sign, of stupid fools who stand in line.  John Lydon.

'Mod' is a shorter word for 'young, beautiful and stupid' - we've all been there." - Pete Townshend.

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Me and a friend are pretty medium-advanced guitar players i ve been playin for 10 yrs, she for 8. We're playin soon at a Human Rights fest with LOTS of hippies and classic rock lovers.
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You <u>Have</u> to play Dylans' Masters of War, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muQRIUVd6Aw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muQRIUVd6Aw</a>

   

Barry McGuires' Eve of Destruction

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ESOKkU1ho" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ESOKkU1ho</a>


Peter Paul & Mary, Light One Candle <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43J-gYOnLoI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43J-gYOnLoI</a>


Joan Baez, Joe Hill <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR6SMAJQW8Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR6SMAJQW8Y</a>


I feel as if I could go on and on there are so many songs writen to cause awareness. Seems that we haven't come as far as we could have in the past 50 - 100 years. Break a leg at the festival. Remember that you will be doing an honor to all the musicians that went before you. You now have the right to sing songs that others were <b>Jailed</b> or <b>Banned</b> for singing not so long ago. Make them proud!

I may be goin' to hell in a bucket babe

Re: What should i play??

Wow, thanks a lot for all the suggestions, this sure helped!!!

Re: What should i play??

Canned Heat: let's work together

& Going up the country.


Arlo Guthrie: Coming in to Los Angeles

Re: What should i play??

Just about anything from Woodstock or Monteray Pop.

"Nobody paints by ear so why would I play guitar by sight?" hmm