J. Dan Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Not to dilute my other thread, I thought it would be fun to start a thread of Christmas songs for bar playing rock bands. These are the ones I'm learning for this Saturday: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa - John Mellancamp Merry Christmas Baby - John Mellancamp Please Come Home for Christmas - Eagles Santa Claus is Comin to Town - Bruce Springsteen While they wouldn't work with this particular band, there's that Waitresses one, Do They Know It's Christmas (the Band Aid thing), the Paul McCartney one with the horrendous delay timing on the synth.....any other good rock Christmas songs that would work in a bar full of drunk people? Dan Acoustic/Electric stringed instruments ranging from 4 to 230 strings, hammered, picked, fingered, slapped, and plucked. Analog and Digital Electronic instruments, reeds, and throat/mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timwat Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis may have them getting misty if anyone listens to all the words. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stoken6 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Slade-Merry Christmas Everybody Cheers, Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Paxton Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis may have them getting misty if anyone listens to all the words. For years I've tried to find a singer to do that song with me. No luck yet, but I'm not giving up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickd Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I've got a one-off Christmas gig tonight in my duo, with a crooner... so not sure many of the songs we're doing would work in a bar band! It's Cold Outside can be a good duet (as done by Tom Jones etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clpete Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 I cant imagine a bar full of drunk people wanting Christmas music at all. But then again I think most of is just plain silly. You can hear it 24 hours a day at Wallymart, every other retailer and gas stations. We are not learning any. Our fearless may and may play it as a sing along as he did last year. We played on Christmas though. BahHumbug!... Get off the snowman on my lawn! We play for free. We get paid to set up and tear down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markay Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 The Pogues - Fairytale of New York A misguided plumber attempting to entertain | MainStage 3 | Axiom 61 2nd Gen | Pianoteq | B5 | XK3c | EV ZLX 12P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Ranger Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)- the U2 version works pretty well. I also do 2000 Miles by the Pretenders around this time of year, both in my solo-acoustic shows & with one of my cover bands. Not exactly rockin' but drunk people can sway to it. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PianoMan51 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Please Come Home for Christmas - Eagles - Charles Brown Check him out. Songwriter, pianist, singer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threadslayer Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 As far as solo piano and vocals go, Joni Mitchell/Lyle Mays' River always slays around this time of year. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musicale Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Should that not be Sleigh ? Musicale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threadslayer Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Should that not be Sleigh ? Musicale Oh deer. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -Mark Twain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shamanczarek Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Here are some I'm doing this year with an 80's band : Wonderful Christmastime - Wings Last Christmas - Wham Winter Wonderland - Eurythmics Santa Baby - Madonna Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch - Whirling Dervishes Christmas is the Time to say I Love You - Billy Squier Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles C3/122, M102A, Vox V301H, Farfisa Compact, Gibson G101, GEM P, RMI 300A, Piano Bass, Pianet , Prophet 5 rev. 2, Pro-One, Matrix 12, OB8, Korg MS20, Jupiter 6, Juno 60, PX-5S, Nord Stage 3 Compact Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfD Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Any standard Christmas song could work. Just a matter of putting a Rock remix on it. In my head, I can already hear "Let It Snow" with a Green Day treatment on it. PD "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return."--E. Ahbez "Nature Boy" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockinredeye Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 My son with a Learner's Driving Permit gets to play anything on the radio while we practice driving. This season looking at Christmas lights in different neighborhoods and of course listening to the channel that plays Christmas music, Bruce's Coming to Town comes on and I don't say a thing. After it plays for a couple of minutes, my son makes a face and we agree that the song is terrible, the singer's out of tune and should look for another line of work. I explain to him that Bruce is very popular and Coming to Town is not necessarily indicative of all his other work, but my son doesn't change his mind. I don't either. That's not bluesy note bending, he's just not getting there and he should have made another take. Eagles-Please Come Home - Joe W. nails a wonderful solo. Kurzweil PC4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokely Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Great topic, just learned a few for a corporate party we did! Jingle Bell Rock - they requested this (and then we proceeded not to play it for some reason...oh well) Merry Christmas Baby - the live Clapton/Sheryl Crow version, real bluesy Run Run Rudolf - Live Skynyrd version *HOW THE HECK does he play piano that fast.....* ... and ... Father Christmas by the Kinks That last one...I'd never heard that in my life. What an odd, odd song. All the breaks are different lengths and not always on the beat, so this was a nightmare to try to learn exactly. We made it more "regular". In the end, we'd spent more time on this than the other three combined and simply decided to drop it. Weird choice by our singer in the first place IMO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BEMcCut Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Run Run Rudolph covered by Chuck Berry, Bryan Adams and Skynyrd and others. I always like Bryan's version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Clark Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 [video:youtube] Soul, R&B, Pop from Los Angeles http://philipclark.com Cannonball Gerald Albright Signature Alto, Yamaha YC73, Fender Rhodes, Roland Juno-106, Yamaha MX61, Roland VR-09, MicroKorg XL, Maschine Mikro, Yamaha Reface CP, Roland MKS-50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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