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Proposed Geodaze playlist:

Can't Explain
Blitzkireg Bop
Apeman
Beat on the Brat
Head On
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Steppin Stone
Gloria (move to encore?)

and possibly?:

If there is an encore:
House of the Rising Sun (fast version)

If we get our act together:
something by Esther

Other stuff in holding pattern:
Rebel Rebel
Cactus

Ok, time to start focusing on a few songs for our Geodaze debut. Here are some that we came up with as good possibilities on 12 Nov '11.

Posted 20 August 2011, here are some new good easy ones

Posted 15 July 2011, a couple to work on for next time

Posted 2 Sept '10: stuff to focus on for next time?

Songs that several or all of us decided on 23 May 2010 would be good to learn

Songs

Songs in holding/bullpen

Cielito Lindo (could be fun to do an old mariachi standby in fast psychobilly?)
Holiday Song (Pixies)
Zamboni (Geardaddies)
Stupid Boy (Geardaddies)
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (Del-Lords)
Hometown Blues (Steve Earle)
Mercenary Song (Steve Earle)
Barn Burning (Dave Alvin)
Please Don't Bury Me (John Prine)

Last updated 12 March 2010

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4 September 2009

Hey Guys: new songs: Mr Grieves (Pixies), Cactus (Pixies), Head On (Pixies cover of song by Jesus and Mary Chain)

More coming soon! Practice!

3 September 2009

Ok guys: rather than sending an email I thought I'd post this message on our new band website. Which brings up the first item of business...I feel like Murray in Flight of the Conchords here...Band Meeting...Brett?...Jermaine?...anyway...

Band website: Needs work, I know. First, should we get a domain that we all have access to and can modify, add tabs, chord progressions, lyrics, etc., so that we can see them and all access them? Anyone have such a domain? Rick: you're a high-tech nerdy kinda guy--you have access to a private server?

Next session: Unfortunately I can't get together this Saturday. But in general, would Saturdays in the late afternoon/early evening work for you guys? If not, what would be better? Do you want to schedule something routine? I would like to.... NEXT Saturday the 12th? (crap, I actually have something then, but I could forgo it if you guys are available then...or we could start later...like 8? that night)?

Mechanics: I was thinking that maybe a good way to work on getting a few tunes that we can all play reasonably, or at least we know when the chord changes are, would be to pick out a few, get the chord progressions or tabs and lyrics, scan them into a pdf form, and then project them onto the wall using our lab's computer projector. That way we don't have to crowd around a single sheet. This takes a little prep, but I'm willing to put some time in, especially if it's music I'm making you play. If you have tunes you want us to play, how bout you do the scanning and creating of a pdf, and I'll put it in the compilation? Also, listening to a few tunes that we play might be a good idea. At the moment I don't have a great way to share and/or transfer mp3's or anything. Anyone have a good idea for this? Should we burn a CD from our private collections? Not sure how we'd do it.

But the real key (I think; hell what do I know though?) is finding chord progressions, lyrics, and maybe tabs, that we can share. So if you wanna volunteer a song, see if you can come up with some. Have you seen chordie.com?

Specific songs: Personally I kinda like the rockabilly/psychobilly thing we experimented with the other day, doing fast punky versions of House of the Rising Sun and Almost Heaven. But that's just my taste, which tends to veer towards twangy fast rock. Along those lines I also like the Del-Lords, Dave Alvin, Geardaddies, etc. But more importantly, we don't need to settle on our "artistic" groove today. We need to practice playing together and get a few staple songs down.

Songs I can get the sheet music too, so we can project it and try it (a mix of ones I like and ones that are just handy):
House of the Rising Sun
Almost Heaven
Gloria
Hurts So Good (I know, cheesy, but what the hey)
I Fought the Law
Cielito Lindo (could be fun to do an old mariachi standby in fast psychobilly?)
All Apologies

Songs I can put together the chords and lyrics to, and then project:
Zamboni (Geardaddies)
Stupid Boy (Geardaddies)
Thumbelina (Pretenders)
My City Was Gone (Pretenders)...though I gotta learn some riffs in addition to the chords
Cactus (Pixies)
Alone Again Or (Calexico)
How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live (Del-Lords)
Hometown Blues (Steve Earle)
Mercenary Song (Steve Earle)
Barn Burning (Dave Alvin)
Please Don't Bury Me (John Prine)

Songs/groups that I think would be fun but am not sure how to get...maybe you guys know
stuff by Cake--they do a killer version of I Will Survive that I'll bet we could get the chords to
stuff by ZZ Top...Tush? I love that song: My Head's in Mississippi...
Other stuff?

Ok, time for me to get back to my day job.

Pete