Songs you used to play...

I used to play Lamenting Kiss by Virgin Black, it is insanely good for timing practice.

I don't really play it anymore because it isn't the most exciting drum piece to play.

I also used to play Break on Through by The Doors and Paint It Black by The Stones. I stopped playing those because I moved onto focusing on original compositions.
 
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Too many to remember. Not including all the originals, this will be a good test of my memory ...
Smoke on the Water (Purple)
Paranoid (Sabs)
Soul Stripper (ACDC)
Johnny B Goode
Jean Genie (Bowie)
Little Queenie (Stones)
Brown Sugar (Stones)
Tumbling Dice (Stones)
Honky Tonk Women (Stones - more cowbell!)
Bitch (Stones)
Anarchy in the UK (Pistols)
Bodies (Pistols)
Roadhouse Blues (Doors)
School's Out (Alice Cooper)
Whole Lotta Love (LZ)
Wild Thing (Troggs/Jimi)
Once Bitten Twice Shy (Ian Hunter)
Nutbuch City Limits (Ike & Tina)
Ain't Too Proud to Beg (Stones)
Sweet Virginia (Stones)
Down to the Doctor (Dr Feelgood)
Dust My Broom (Elmore James)
Mannish Boy (Muddy Waters)
Green Onions (Booker T)
Living Loving Maid (LZ)
Cold Turkey (Lennon)
Take It as It Comes (Doors)
Peace Frog (Doors)
Fire (Hendrix)
Love Me Two Times (Doors)
Birthday (Beatles)
Should I Stay Or Should I Go (Clash)
Couldn't Stand the Weather (SRV - love to play this again)
Little Sister (Elvis)
Boots
White Room (Cream)
Strange Brew (Cream)
I Can't Explain (Who)
Rock My Plimsoul (Jeff Beck)
Last Goodbye (Jeff Buckley)
Play that Funky Music (Wild Cherry)
Walk On By (Strangers version - current band's version is a mix of this and Dionne Warwick's)
Smash It Up (The Damned)
Superstition (Stevie)
Black Magic Woman (Santana)
Locomotive Breath (Tull)
You're So Vain (Carly Simon)
Fame (Bowie)
Golden Years (Bowie)
Suck My Kiss (Chilli Peppers - that was fun!)
Love Rears Its Ugly Head (Loving Color - even more fun!)
Cocaine (Clapton)
For the Love of Ivy - Gun Club
Burning Down the House (Talking Heads - those fills were fun)
Can't Get Enough (Bad Company - also fun)
You Really Got Me (Kinks)
All the Day and All of the Night (Kinks)
Stone Free (Hendrix)
California Dreaming (Mamas and the Papas)
Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins)
Hound Dog (Elvis)
Jumpin Jack Flash (Stones)
Reach Out (Four Tops)
You Keep Me Hanging On (Vanilla Fudge version - I enjoyed that!)
Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood)
Space Oddity (Bowie)
Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
Evil Ways (Santana)
Knock On Wood (Bowie Version)
Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)

Only a fraction - I've forgotten most of them. At this age you forget more than you remember. Most rock drummers my age would have played most of these staples - and many more - at some stage or another. I always preferred playing originals anyway.

One thing that struck me as I put the list together is how I never even liked most of them! That's the bummer about drumming - you have to play what the singers and tuned instruments want to play and get very little say.

holy hell!!! you've forgotten more songs then ive ever known polly lol.
 
holy hell!!! you've forgotten more songs then ive ever known polly lol.

... and I usually played in originals bands ... it's one of the joys of being ancient, Joey! When you're an old fart you'll have a list like that too :)

I haven't included the songs in a restaurant band I did fill-ins for at a time when I was broke - stuff like When I'm Sixty-Four, Breezin' and Girl from Ipanema etc. Pretty dire but it paid almost as much for a Friday night as I got from study assistance - plus free soft drinks and a Malaysian meal at the end :)

I wish I could remember the other covers ... it's a bummer to have those blanks ... was Patty Smith's Because the Night in there? Did that one with a scratch band. One song I always wanted to cover but never did was Zep's What Is and What Should Never Be.
 
My band plays a version of One After 909. While I like playing it, nobody seems to know the song. The audience gets all excited when you say you're playing a Beatles song, and then are let down because it's not one of the 50 Beatle songs they know. :(

I'm going to try and get it replaced with Back In The USSR,
 
We used to do lots of Talking Heads and Elvis Costello back in the late 80's, but that music seems to have been lost to most people. Although my band does play Take Me To the River, and I get to sing lead.

I've got tickets to Elvis Costello concert in May. Can't Wait! I think with the 80's revival that seems to be happening in pop culture right now...he is being "discovered" by some new fans lately...probably not near enuf though.
 
Too many to remember. Not including all the originals, this will be a good test of my memory ...
Smoke on the Water (Purple)
Paranoid (Sabs)
Soul Stripper (ACDC)
Johnny B Goode
Jean Genie (Bowie)
Little Queenie (Stones)
Brown Sugar (Stones)
Tumbling Dice (Stones)
Honky Tonk Women (Stones - more cowbell!)
Bitch (Stones)
Anarchy in the UK (Pistols)
Bodies (Pistols)
Roadhouse Blues (Doors)
School's Out (Alice Cooper)
Whole Lotta Love (LZ)
Wild Thing (Troggs/Jimi)
Once Bitten Twice Shy (Ian Hunter)
Nutbuch City Limits (Ike & Tina)
Ain't Too Proud to Beg (Stones)
Sweet Virginia (Stones)
Down to the Doctor (Dr Feelgood)
Dust My Broom (Elmore James)
Mannish Boy (Muddy Waters)
Green Onions (Booker T)
Living Loving Maid (LZ)
Cold Turkey (Lennon)
Take It as It Comes (Doors)
Peace Frog (Doors)
Fire (Hendrix)
Love Me Two Times (Doors)
Birthday (Beatles)
Should I Stay Or Should I Go (Clash)
Couldn't Stand the Weather (SRV - love to play this again)
Little Sister (Elvis)
Boots
White Room (Cream)
Strange Brew (Cream)
I Can't Explain (Who)
Rock My Plimsoul (Jeff Beck)
Last Goodbye (Jeff Buckley)
Play that Funky Music (Wild Cherry)
Walk On By (Strangers version - current band's version is a mix of this and Dionne Warwick's)
Smash It Up (The Damned)
Superstition (Stevie)
Black Magic Woman (Santana)
Locomotive Breath (Tull)
You're So Vain (Carly Simon)
Fame (Bowie)
Golden Years (Bowie)
Suck My Kiss (Chilli Peppers - that was fun!)
Love Rears Its Ugly Head (Loving Color - even more fun!)
Cocaine (Clapton)
For the Love of Ivy - Gun Club
Burning Down the House (Talking Heads - those fills were fun)
Can't Get Enough (Bad Company - also fun)
You Really Got Me (Kinks)
All the Day and All of the Night (Kinks)
Stone Free (Hendrix)
California Dreaming (Mamas and the Papas)
Blue Suede Shoes (Carl Perkins)
Hound Dog (Elvis)
Jumpin Jack Flash (Stones)
Reach Out (Four Tops)
You Keep Me Hanging On (Vanilla Fudge version - I enjoyed that!)
Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood)
Space Oddity (Bowie)
Brown Eyed Girl (Van Morrison)
Evil Ways (Santana)
Knock On Wood (Bowie Version)
Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)

Only a fraction - I've forgotten most of them. At this age you forget more than you remember. Most rock drummers my age would have played most of these staples - and many more - at some stage or another. I always preferred playing originals anyway.

One thing that struck me as I put the list together is how I never even liked most of them! That's the bummer about drumming - you have to play what the singers and tuned instruments want to play and get very little say.

Bodies is one of my favorite songs of all time....that record changed my life.....
 
i will avoid any and all classic rock if i can haha. played that stuff for tooooooo long.
 
Too many to remember. Not including all the originals, this
Once Bitten Twice Shy (Ian Hunter).

Haha would you believe, that my friend is my Grandfather, Ian Hunter (Patterson). OBTS is one of my Favorite songs my Grandad has written, I have always loved his Ballard, The Golden Age Of Rock And Roll, and who can forget All the Way to Memphise. I believe he is touring the States this year, so look out for a town near you. He'll be touring the UK after like he does every year.
 
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