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Just added Air Supply's "All Out Of Love" to my line up. I play the intro and first two verses all pretty and sweet and then I BUST into a triple tempo punk rock version for the remainder of the song. It's fun, real fun!!!

Give everything but up.

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I admire everyone's courage....I have a singing voice best suited for announcing train arrivals, but I love Bette Midler's The Rose - really chunky chords and cos I'm not much of a player, a nice simple song (though I do venture out and barre up for the Em).

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Southpaw, have you ever heard of the band Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies?  Their whole spiel is to punk out "normal" songs, broadway tunes, standards--it's very, very fun stuff.  If you like to rip into Air Supply, you'll deffinitely like these guys.

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25Frankster wrote:

Southpaw, have you ever heard of the band Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies?  Their whole spiel is to punk out "normal" songs, broadway tunes, standards--it's very, very fun stuff.  If you like to rip into Air Supply, you'll deffinitely like these guys.

Yes, I'm familiar with these guys. It's nice to see/hear a new twist some a sometimes previously mundane musical existance and the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes for shure do this, in a kick butt way! I especially like their cover of Jerry Reed's 'East Down and Bound' and Willie Nelson's 'On The Road Again'. Something about a country song sped up and punked out I really seem to like, and so do audiences.(mostly)

Give everything but up.

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I love me first and the gimme gimmes.
A few of their best are
Seasons in the sun
take me home country road
somewhere over the rainbow
nobody does it better
and..... puff the magic dragon, pure classic!!!1


I should learn puff the magic dragon gimme style

ken

ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending

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there ar'nt any bad songs, they just sound bad when we try to copy the original.stay cool...

love is life ,life is for love,keep a true heart and live life to the full....stay cool

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here's one -- it isn't very politically correct, and you'd better not play it in mixed company -- although Martin Mull did when he wrote it way back in the 70s (i think),  it's caled  "Pig in a blanket."  I play it once in a while for a laugh, or to piss people off.

A bahamian friend of mine had a good one called "my pussy".  in the end, you find out it's about a cat.