good acoustic guitar party songs?

[Talon2.5]

which ones are the best to you guys?

[CDave]

Tesla-Five Man Acoustic Jam

Alices Resturant :D

[Maureen M]

oh, I think everyone would love a "best of the indigo girls" set, lol :p

that was a good Tesla album though...I have to pick that up on cd. I think the tape I had broke years ago.

Maureen

[pyro]

Skynard- Quite a few there, take your pick
GNR- Used to love her, Patience, Sweet child
Stones- Honky tonk woman
Sublime- Santeria
VH- Ice Cream Man

Some butt rock ballads are always good. Dokken, Great White, Poison, Slaughter, Skid Row, Warrant, maybe some Bon Jovi?

Any number of Eagles songs.
If you do Hotal California, do it right, capo on the 9th fret. Get a friend to do the solo, but ONLY if he can do it note for note. This song drags on a while, so the mood has to be right to do it.

Pink Floyd is good.

Counting Crows had a few good tunes for acoustic.

I'll think of more later. I work in a music store for God's sake, the other guys will give me some ideas to post later today...

-Chad
Music Go Round
Ann Arbor, MI
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[sms]

Just about all the Bob & Tom songs are good funny party songs for ac guitars. Everybody knows 'em too.
A good old one that is different is Classical Gas.

[american xtreme marine]

Oh yea, those Indigo Dikes really get the crowd on their birkenstocks, especially bikers.
Let's not forget Puff the Magic Dragon by Michael Rodabodashur.

The Lion Sleeps Tonite is also good if you've got people singing the baweemba way's.
What if God Smoked Cannibus and Wasted Away Again in Marijunaville always get laughs.
Castles made of Sand
Any Johnny Cash tune

Check out Michael Hedges live, covering Prince, Nenah Cherry or Hendrix. Clearly one of the greatest acoustic players ever, yet seldom heard and scant noteriety. Saw him one week before his tragic and untimely death.

Are there any other musicians in my area? I'm looking for players to jam/form band.

[Talon2.5]

i remember last year one night late at the rumble halveb and i were messin with the acoustics at the pavillion, he was showing me tom petty free fallin so i downloaded that tune, it was funny.....some dude riding his bicycle came rollin down the hill kinda fast carrying beer i believe and slammed head on into an oak tree like he never saw it, ( i think we heard the UUMPH )we busted out laughing (although asking if he was ok) and a little later that guy and a buddy came over to the pavillion where we were and we all laughed together :D

[P man]

"WHEN THE LEVY BREAKS"
Always a great late night drinking song!!!
any slide guitar goes over well lol

[pyro]

Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song

Pearl Jam - Better Man...

[american xtreme marine]

Did anyone get that?

:confused:

[halveb]

Hey Skip,

Hows about any of Clapton's unplugged album, The Band "The Weight", Blind Faith "Can't Find My Way Home", Clapton "Willie and The Hand Jive" or "Wonderful Tonight", Bob Seeger "Night Moves" and "Turn The Page", Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here", Eagles pretty much any of the earlier tunes, Marshall Tucker "Fire On The Mountain".

I can never remember them when its time to play though. Its almost like you need someone to play, someone to sing, and someone to think of the songs to sing and tell the other two what to play. :D

BTW....Vicki had a name for that guy...I think it was Crash. He was walking around all night with a buggered up face....it was pretty funny though. Good thing he had on a real thick pair of beer googles cause I think they saved his life. :eek:

[pyro]

In 1972, my Dad's band backed up Bob Seger and they went on the road. Their manager, Punch Andrews (also Kid Rock's manager to date), was also Seger's manager at the time. The tour together was his idea. They all had long hair, and rednecks would threaten to beat their ass in the truck stops and restaurants while they were on the road between shows. "Turn the Page" was a song about this stressful tour around the eastern half of the nation. My Dad (Mike) played bass at the time. Randy on drums, and Bill and Cal on guitar.

-Chad

[AnthonySS]

I'll add a few to an already good list

Love to Change the World - 10 Yrs after
Wish you where Here - Floyd
Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You - Zep
Stairway..._ Zep
Take it Easy - Eagles
Message in a Bottle (acoustic version)- Sting (police)
First Cut ...._ Cat Stevens, Crowe etc.
Happy Together - Turtles
For What it's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Blowin in the Wind - Dylan
Have You Ever Seen the Rain - CCR

Like pyro said...80's ballads

Wanted Dead or alive
Every Rose...
Fly to the Angels
Heaven
More then Words
Silent Lucidity
Two Steps behind (90's)

Newer Stuff

Everlong (Acoustic version)- FooFighters
Wonder Wall - Oasis
Time of Yopur Life - Green Day
No One needs to know - Twain
Here Without You - 3 doors down

Oldies

Last Kiss - pearl jam (?)
Hide your love away - Beetles


and on and on...

some sappy tunes but folks like em:)

[Talon2.5]

man thats quite a list so far :eek:

i remember talking to a guy at the music store, he showed me a few things and discussed the fact that he knew and played i think it was 300 tunes !! man thats alot to remember!!

[Trikki1010]

Definitely Clapton - Wonderful Tonight, Layla
EAGLES - Desperado, Peaceful Easy Feeling
CSNY - Love the One your With;), Woodstock
Skynyrd - Doors - Croce - Green Day

STP is hard to reproduce

[pyro]

WONDERFUL TONIGHT
This great tune was co-written by Eric Clapton and a female singer named Marcy Levy. She was one of the backup singers that performed in my Dad's band back then, "JULIA."

-Chad

[Trikki1010]

That's cool Pyro,

It's all about Linda Harrison I believe, cool tune

[AnthonySS]

Cool Story CHAD

[rev.ronnie]

Could This Be Magic - Van Halen, It would be a great song if you could pull it off. It tends to promote a sing-a-long...

Another one would be Signs by The 5 man Elec. Band, but do it Tesla, acoustic style.

Look to James Taylor, for Fire & Rain etc, depending on the mood of the room.

The most ultimate acoustic song ever though....

HAS to be; Got Me Wrong, by Alice & Chains.....listen to it, the whole unplugged album for that matter, Jerry Cantrell and Scotty Olson are awesome. That stuff would be tough to pull off.

You could do a lot of Lenny Kravitz stuff From "Let Love Rule", and you'd get a pizza for sure.....When I say pizza, I mean pizza azz.

Heart's Grown Cold, by Nazareth is a pretty great song too,

[outboards4life]

I can give you recent stuff
Sevendust-Angel's son
Nickelback-leader of men
Finger Eleven-one thing

[northeastcat]

A few of the more recent tunes I like to do,
Drive ; Incubus
What I got ; Sublime
Counting Blue Cars ; Dishwala
Then the ole standards , for me anyway,
Squeeze box & Behind Blue Eyes ; The Who
Mellisa ; Allman Bros.
Rocky Racoon ; Beatles
Brown Eyed Girl ; Van Morrison And a lot of what has already been mentioned.
And of course always have to close with American Pie.
It amazes me cause I play a string of campfire gigs at a summer camp every year and the age groups rang from 5th graders to 12th graders and everyone loves American Pie and almost all the kids know all the words.

[Laker]

SpongeBob Square pants Campfire song!
If you every Saw the episode or heard it you know what Im talking about!

Oh and VanHalen Women and children first.:D

[Capt Walker]

MTV has put out some amazing unplugged sessions from David Bowie to Alice in Chains. Check out there catalogs.

[Talon2.5]

laker, one of my fondest memories of guitar is your pavillion rendition of six string sting :D hehehehe man that was fun :D

northeastcat, that summercamp fire gig for the kids is cool!! hats off to ya!! they know the words to american pie....awesome!!

[fastboat]

I can't believe that no one has mentioned "The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy" - David Alan Coe.

[Trikki1010]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned "The Boss"

Springsteen !!! I'm on Fire,

[Maureen M]

Depress everybody!
Play Sabbath's "Solitude" :D


Maureen