Your Favorite Rock Song To Jam To?

[Grandpa Markley]

Personally I love the simple riff in Sunshine of Your Love by Cream. It's one that everybody instantly knows and enjoys. What is everybody's favorite?

[Mike Snyder]

Jessies'Girl- By Rick Springfield- hearthrob.

Yeah, I feel so dirty when they start talkin' cute.
I wanna tell her that I love her, but the point is prob'ly moot.

[tree]

Crossroads. One Way Out. Thunderbird. What's So Funny 'bout Peace, Love and Understanding? Badge. Statesboro Blues. Waitin For The Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago.

Not on mandolin, though.

[AlanN]

Not so fast there, tree. A banjo buddy did Crossroads on a solo record he did, had Sam Bush, Barry Mitterhoff, yours truly on it. It can be done...

[tree]

I heard Sammy play Crossroads on a radio broadcast, may have been Prairie Home Companion. He did it kinda like Eric does it these days, which is a much different tempo/feel than the Cream version. It's good - but that Cream version is the one that I jones for - sheer adrenaline.

I do love Sammy's cover of the Randy Newman song Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man). I have messed with that one on mandolin. It's fun.

[Ed Goist]

Any song by Gov't Mule!

[Paul Merlo]

I like to give Johnny Cash's Big River a good run now and then. Also, Ripple is one of those songs I know well enough that I can adapt it to whatever mood I might be in. But really, some of my own spontaneous 'jams' are what I like to get going on when I'm inspired.

And a big +1 to Ed's mention of Gov't Mule. They're one those bands that 'does it' for me every time I see them live or throw on a bootleg. I've got a killer acoustic set from back when Woody was still alive and wailing on his mandolin to John The Revelator that makes me wonder where they'd be now if he was still with us. I've never really tried to translate the Mule to my mandolin, but I'm thinkin' that Soulshine might be in order tonight since we're talking about them.

[Denny Gies]

Does the Eagles "Lyin' Eyes" qualify?

[Bob Kirkland]

"All Along the Watchtower" and "Moondance" are two of my favorite jammers. Also "Bertha", "Sugaree" and "Tangled up in Blue" (the 20 minute version with a break or two between every verse).

[zombywoof]

It runs all over the place. One day it might be the Easybeat's "Friday on My Mind" and the next Mitch Ryder's "Devil with a Blue Dress" medley. Really depends on who hanging out. Tunes that show up alot though and I love to play on several instruments:

"Mercury Blues" - Dave Lindley
"I Can't be Satisfied" - Muddy Waters
"Promised Land" - Chuck Berry

[swain]

Crocodile Rock
Stairway to Heaven
Whiter Shade of Pale


swain

[rico mando]

lately its been "Detriot rock city" by kiss

[Markus]

Dead Flowers, Big River, If only you were lonely (Westerberg) are all a lot of fun to play acoustically. Among many others ....

[swampstomper]

Wild Thing. "Crossroads" is blues, it was Creamified, then brought back to blues by Clapton. No, the Eagles do not count as rock and roll.

[Keith Witty]

Love Alive- Heart, awesome song.

[Rob Norton]

One of my favorites for electric four-string, is "Let Me Outta Here," by Leslie West.



If you play it in Dm, it really falls perfectly on the instrument.

The CD it's on, "Guitar Speak," is has several killer guitar instrumentals -- Randy California, Alvin Lee, etc..

[mandopops]

I have Comcast for my cable. Up in the 700 channels are about 20 stations each featuring a different Music Genre. They'll play tunes with pix on the screen and little trivia info. I keep my Amp on the coffee table so I'll plug in one of my Electrics and put on the Blues channel and play along for a while. It could come up as a Chicago Blues, or Jump blues, or Funk, Acoustic, etc. Just keeps changing. It's quite fun. Never know what will come next. Could be jammin' w/ Little Walter one second then Bobby Bland or Brownie McGee the next.

[Ed Goist]

I have Comcast for my cable. Up in the 700 channels are about 20 stations each featuring a different Music Genre. They'll play tunes with pix on the screen and little trivia info. I keep my Amp on the coffee table so I'll plug in one of my Electrics and put on the Blues channel and play along for a while. It could come up as a Chicago Blues, or Jump blues, or Funk, Acoustic, etc. Just keeps changing. It's quite fun. Never know what will come next. Could be jammin' w/ Little Walter one second then Bobby Bland or Brownie McGee the next.

Great idea!
I have "Music Choice" also on my cable system, and Bobby Bland is on the Blues channel right now!

[Larry R]

Supernought by Black Sabbath
Burning Ring Of Fire by Social Distortion
Ziggy Stardust by the Spiders From Mars

[Ed Goist]

Supernought by Black Sabbath
Burning Ring Of Fire by Social Distortion
Ziggy Stardust by the Spiders From Mars

Larry; I find myself wishing we lived closer so we could jam!

[Big Rig]

Back a few years when I had a guitarist I would jam with every Wednesday "Little Wing" hands down was my favorite. We used to jam on that for 15-20 minutes.

[Ben Cooper]

Times Like These, Like a Hurricane, Battle of Evermore, Dead Flowers, Let It Bleed, Ring of Fire (Johnny Cash, Haven't tried Social D yet). I am newbie and am learning more and more...

[Eric C.]

Hurricane, Levon Helm is a fun tune to jam to.

[Markus]

My bandmate has been on a Tom Waits kick recently. It ain't 4/4 rock, but Jockey Full of Bourbon is fun as heck.

As has been Nadine by Chuck Berry and Checkin' on My Baby by Howling Wolf.

So many fun songs, so little time.

[Ben Cooper]

I also think I want to learn "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart".