Your Favorite Rock Song To Jam To?

[Ben Cooper]

Hey, How about Baba O'Reilly? (The Who)

[Barry Wilson]

yer so bad, tom petty... i like a lot of petty stuff. have a cigar by pink floyd is one of my favs too on mando, lunatic on the grass... I adapt folk and southern rock stuff to mandolin.. know very little bluegrass or old timey stuff really. does band of heathens qualify? jackson station is too much fun

[Ed Goist]

...snip... tom petty... i like a lot of petty stuff. ...snip...

"Mary Jane's Last Dance" ... Oh yea...Killer jam!
Verse: Am (played h5-2-0-0)-G-D-Am
Chorus: Em-A-Em7-A7-G
Solo out of the Am pentatonic scale: (use notes A C D E G)
Sweet!

[Ben Cooper]

have a cigar by pink floyd is one of my favs too on mando, lunatic on the grass...

Very Cool!

[Ben Cooper]

"Mary Jane's Last Dance" ... Oh yea...Killer jam!
Verse: Am (played h5-2-0-0)-G-D-Am
Chorus: Em-A-Em7-A7-G
Solo out of the Am pentatonic scale: (use notes A C D E G)
Sweet!

Sounds Good!

[Richard J]

Rag Mama Rag, from the Band

[Paul Merlo]

Sounds Good!

I love Tom Petty. I love "Time To Move On" from Wildflowers.

Here's a version of Mary Jane's Last Dance w/ yours truly on mando:
http://archive.org/details/thesquareboys2012-03-24
(play the first track, I'm not on the rest of the set tho)

[Ed Goist]

Nice job Paul. Sounds great!

[Eric C.]

Tree Top Flyer. What a cool tune to just jam on. I'm not a huge fan of jam tunes (I can't stand when songs just go on-and-on-and-on so people can "just jam", but that song is just fun.

[sgrexa]

Lately, Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" Part 1 and 2 is a cool exercise in Dm using some interesting right hand technique to emulate that lovely delay David uses.

Sean

[Eddie Sheehy]

New Day Yesterday - Jethro Tull

[Ed Goist]

Love Jethro Tull! Eddie, thanks again for your tab of Aqualung. Awesome stuff.
Are you going to Jim's Camp next week? I'll be missing it this year as I've now got two music projects I'm involved in and my son is coming home on leave from the Navy next week. I'll sure miss the experience though, especially the jamming!

[dcoventry]

www.rukind.com has a fairly complete set of Grateful Dead tabs and is a great resource.

Samson and Delilah was built for mando, Cumberland Blues is a country swing tune, Black Peter is a GREAT blues tune, Brown-eyed Women, Big Railroad Blues, and Candyman is just a killer tune.

Go look for yourselves and get to it. The GD were an acidified bluegrass band at their core.

[goose 2]

My picking buddies will jam on Little Wing by Jimi for half am hour sometimes. Great song to pick on all the bluegrass insteents

[Mike Snyder]

White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day

[Pasha Alden]

Any song by Dire Straight, or Led Zepelin!

[Ed Goist]

"Going to California" is great fun to play (mando, octave, and GDAE tenor guitar):
G D G D G D (play single notes out of chords)
F-G-D X2 (play full chords, faster tempo)
G D G D G D (play single notes out of chords)
Dm A7 A Dm A7 A (play single notes out of chords)
repeat

I'd love to play some Dire Straits / Mark Knopfler but almost all that stuff is above my pay grade.

[Paul Brett]

The Violent Femmes, Blister in the Sun.

[Carleton Page]

I like playing Opheila by the band. Gibson brothers did a cool version of it.

[fernmando]

Rush- "Subdivisions", King Crimson- "In The Wake Of Poseidon", Led Zeppelin- "The Ocean", Led Zeppelin- "The Wanton Song".

[Ben Cooper]

i like playing opheila by the band. Gibson brothers did a cool version of it.

yessah!!!

[Barry Wilson]

at yesterdays gig with the house band the female vocalist asked if I could learn battle of evermore... I think I like hearts version best. it is a fun tune to jam.. just started today

[mandocrucian]

When you tend to play your mando instruments (acoustic, 8-string electric, 5-string electric, mandola etc. whatever) as if they were (and function as) alternately tuned electric guitars, playing rock and blues stuff is the norm, not the aberration/exception.

I like doing power trio stuff, especially when I don't have to sing as well. That said, surfing on a Grateful Dead shuffle with a fuller lineup is always nice. Or Fairport Convention, or (Peter Greene) Fleetwood Mac, or Santana, or Commander Cody's Lost Planet Airmen or QMS/Copperhead. Whose guitar style do you feel like trying to channel today? - Thompson, Garcia, Trower, SRV, Jimi, BB, Fripp, electric Clarence, Cooder, Lindley.....

Once you break though the "play mandolin like a mandolin" glass ceiling mindset, you'll feel like Prof. Moriarty unchained!



(Ironically, these days I spend most of my practice time learning that electric guitar stuff on flute, with the aim of pulling it out of its belt scabbard and taking second rides on the tunes.)

[Eddie Sheehy]

Thank's for reminding me, Ed

- A Q U A L U N G !!!!!!!!! by Jethro Tull

I'm skipping Jim's camp this year too, I blew my wifey credits on the Mandolin Symposium...

[jaycat]

Van Morrison -- And It Stoned Me, Tupelo Honey, Crazy Love, Domino . . .