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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Ryan on December 15, 2008, 04:53:44 am
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hello music forum its your friendly neighborhood moderator!!!
My band is going to tour this summer as a cover band (we need money for equipment, basically.)
We're trying to come up with a setlist that people would want to hear in a bar or a club or wherever. Basically: if you were in a bar with some buds trying to have a good time, what would you want to hear from the band playing? this is a serious topic so no shitty replies please (ie ANAL CUNT - I CUM BLOOD HEH HEH) Also note that we are touring Southern Virginia. that means people like southern rock around here.
Some songs we already have down:
Red hot chili peppers- Fight like a brave, Taste the pain
Days of the New- Touch, Peel, and Stand
Janes Addiction- Jane Says, Just because
Rage against the machine- Bulls on Parade
Blind Melon- No Rain
Steve Miller band- Jungle love, Jet airliner
Alice in Chains - Man In The Box
Pearl Jam - Alive
Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
Black Sabbath - NIB
Tool - Schism
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
thanks!!! :fogetcool:
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Steve Miller Band rocks, my dad has been in a few different cover bands over the years (usually with other doctors, they do a lot of charity stuff) and they always did Jungle Love. I can't really vouch for any of those other songs but especially in the south Steve Miller Band will go over just fine. It's music that people in those areas like that aren't total shit to hear or play.
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i feel bad for you lol
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i feel bad for you lol
..why, exactly?
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why don't you just play a couple of those songs that people generally like and then like play something YOU like to sort of introduce them to it? If people are drunk and the song sounds good they aren't really going to complain about it much, they might not know the words but I honestly wouldn't give a shit if it was good music.
I cant think of much other than Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, The Who ect... That people would generally be into and familiar with. I'd also make my OWN covers of those songs too, so you could practice some music writing and shit like that.
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..why, exactly?
cover bands are........how you say........"gay as fuck"
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I'd also make my OWN covers of those songs too, so you could practice some music writing and shit like that.
what does this mean? If you mean like writing our own version of SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT or whatever that is a terrible idea. I think you're missing the point! We do write our own music, we're just gonna tour for a summer to get our local popularity up and to raise some funds for stuff like studio time (to make a demo) and to maybe pay for new equipment like new amps, mics, etc. It will also help us get tight and accustomed to each other's playing styles so when we do start touring for our own material we'll be really tight and concise.
Cover bands typically make boatloads more money than just a typical band. Of course I'd much rather write and play my own stuff, but I don't mind playing covers. I don't really hate any of the songs I listed in my first post. (I don't really like Steve Miller and Blind Melon, but it's not like we're playing Green Day and Linkin Park and shit.)
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idk every time i've seen a cover band (as in, a band that plays NO ORIGINAL MATERIAL WHATSOEVER) i cannot help but find them kind of pathetic. i understand it since you need $$$ for equipment but if i had to get up on stage and play a bunch of lame covers of TOOL SONGS and shit i would feel like an incredibly huge douche hence I FEEL BAD FOR YOU LOL
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No it isn't look at atari, couchfiend, or ptizzle they covered those kinds of songs for that GW album.
I'm not saying rewrite it or whatever but you could adapt it to the kind of sound you guys make imo playing the same shit is really boring and bland but if you added your own spin to it then it could be pretty cool.
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Yeah I agree it would be kinda stink and a lil pathetic or whatever, but as long as you have fun and play songs you actually like then I don't really see the problem. Its just like any other job like working in a video or grocery store or something.
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youre music isnt saving anyone...................::l,ights strat on fire, throws it off stage::
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No it isn't look at atari, couchfiend, or ptizzle they covered those kinds of songs for that GW album.
I'm not saying rewrite it or whatever but you could adapt it to the kind of sound you guys make imo playing the same shit is really boring and bland but if you added your own spin to it then it could be pretty cool.
hahaha there's a difference between THE REAL WORLD and a GW troubadours album. I add my own spin to covers when we improv around them or when I play a solo. I'm not going to waste my time rewriting a cover! That kind of misses the point. I'M ONLY IN IT FOR DA MONEY
BACK ON TOPIC:
LYNYRD SKYNYRD - SWEET HOME ALABAMA
and yeah afura playing a summer of shows where I make $50-80 a night for playing my guitar for an hour really beats waiting tables or working at fucking walmart! it's killing two birds with one stone: my band gets better as a whole and we raise money to reinvest for later tours.
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AHAHAH but then again I could just wait tables at a busy restaurant and make that much money more than ONE OR TWO days a week without being a whore for a bunch of drunk rednecks.
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idk every time i've seen a cover band (as in, a band that plays NO ORIGINAL MATERIAL WHATSOEVER) i cannot help but find them kind of pathetic. i understand it since you need $$$ for equipment but if i had to get up on stage and play a bunch of lame covers of TOOL SONGS and shit i would feel like an incredibly huge douche hence I FEEL BAD FOR YOU LOL
i mean if i had it my way we'd be playing shit like sonic youth and dinosaur jr and stuff (well if i had it my way (burgerking..) we wouldn't be touring as a cover band) but you've got to look at it realistically! when you live in areas like i do (shitty ones) you've got to play stuff that lets you get booked. once you get more popularity and people are willing to book you you can start playing what you actually want to play but i figure since i've got to start playing stuff like this i'd much rather play the CREME DE LA CREME as opposed to 45 minutes of wake me up when september ends and sweet home alabama.
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AHAHAH but then again I could just wait tables at a busy restaurant and make that much money more than ONE OR TWO days a week without being a whore for a bunch of drunk rednecks.
yeah, you could! have fun doing that though, i'll be getting paid to play music.
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i dont think i differentiate in the quality of a job where you wait tables and one where you have to play sweet home alabama. i dont think there's anything objectively good about playing music for a living when theyre bad songs for a bunch of drunk yokels. seriously i think i would rather do what harry said and wait tables or something 2 days a week and make as much money as you would playing 4-5 gigs and PLAYING MUSIC the other 5 days than playing shitty covers 4-5 times a week and spending the rest of the time doing whatever. maybe playing music but then again maybe you are sick of it from playing tool 5 nights a week.
drop out of school and risk it all in a daring move to nyc to hit it big :cool:
actually thats a joke but i would try to think of what the people i like a lot would've done. would sonic youth have become a classic rock cover band to get booked? orrr would they have been like FUCK THIS maybe and moved to new york or someplace in an attempt to make it as musicians. idk i feel like a lot of the people i admire the most as musicians were less LOOK AT IT REALISTICALLY type people and more ROLL THE DICE AND GIVE IT A SHOT people
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panda is very OPINIONATED ABOUT SUMMER EMPLOYMENT, who really cares man summer work is never the coolest but as long as you have fun with it whats the big deal?
eat a bowl full of numerous mixed dicks imo
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really? you would really rather wait tables than play shows? i don't really understand that!
also i'm pretty sure Thurston Moore and Lee ranaldo played in tons of bands before actually forming Sonic Youth. and for every DARING ROLL OF THE DICE that succeeds there's hundreds more than run out of money and have to call mom to come get them. Sonic Youth also started in NYC which is much more open and accustomed to people playing GOOD MUSIC than shitty dive bars in Lynchburg are. (also fuck you i like Tool!)
i'd much rather play several gigs a week where i am at least free to be as creative as i want (we jam quite a bit as a band) than waiting tables, but whatever!
plus.. the beatles started as a cover band...
also i think you guys don't really understand how expensive it is to have an even remotely successful band. to even get booked at most places you need a decent quality demo and a PRESS KIT. that includes posters, buttons, shirts, stickers.
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if youre playing at bars with people who like southern rock how many of them are gonna recognize stuff like fight like a brave? might as well throw in a few originals
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well, obv not everyone is just in to southern rock. we are going to start inserting originals in to the set list, we just need time to flesh them out and fully develop them.
this first 'tour' is going to be predominantly covers, but we're going to start adding in more and more originals as time goes by. i also figure the more we have played together the better our stuff will sound, we'll each recognize each other's styles more easily etc.
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also haha you'd be surprised, man. with my old band we used to cover shit like californication and give it away every now and then and i heard guys from the crowd shout stuff like "YERTLE THE TURTLE!!" and "STONE COLD BUSH!" quite a bit.
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whelp sorry afura. guess i'll just....take these opinions on home. sorry folks, move it along, no opinions wanted here. hey i got a joke. two opinions walk into a bar and ask for a drink. the bartender slowly reveals a shotgun he keeps under the counter and says, "we don't serve your kind round here" and tells them to get the fuck out. also the bar is the music forum. and the bartender is afura
anyway yeah i would because bars, especially southern bars filled with drunk white racists, are shitholes so yeah go figure i don't really think of the IDEAL JOB as anything involving being in one. idk i do not view anything ASSOCIATED WITH MUSIC as a dreamjob and i definitely wouldn't want to play cover songs in dive bars multiple nights a week. that sounds like a nightmare, honestly. i really fucking detest bars. if you desire this then i am happy for you and HAVE FUN but i do not understand it. i worked with this woman who was apeshit about films once, and she said she'd do anything as long as it related to the film industry. just being some set hand on shitty movies was enough.
i mean partially i'm just fuckin with you (trolled ya lol) but i do really think being in a cover band playing shitty southern bars is probably the least desirable job you could have short of handling the trash in shitty southern bars. i don't fault you for it tho because if you need ducats you need ducats
also how many of those pre-sy bands played rhcp covers (none hopefully). idk i respect people who take risks for shit they want instead of compromising at every turn
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also do all along the watchtower or someshit. is that a popular cover?
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also i think you guys don't really understand how expensive it is to have an even remotely successful band. to even get booked at most places you need a decent quality demo and a PRESS KIT. that includes posters, buttons, shirts, stickers.
man equipment i wouldve given you a pass on, because pa systems/mics/amps/guitars/basses/drums/whatever else is exorbitant but decent demos can be cut for relatively low amounts of money and posters/buttons/shirts/stickers are not particularly expensive either!!
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ps funny story i walked into a white redneck bar type of place a few nights ago because they have WINGS and theyre the best fucking wings ever you have no idea and everyone literally turned and looked at me, and continued looking at me, until i left. im not paranoid or anything usually but i was seriously half-expecting some kind of fucking ENCOUNTER on the way to my car from the way some of these dudes were looking at me. and this is in northeastern ohio, not virginia!!! be thankful you are not black bucko. i suspect you have an entirely different perception of these places than i do but for me they are very high on the list of places you do not go
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nah actually i try to stay away from the really southern bars. lynchburg is a college town so thankfully the majority of the bars here cater to shitty students as opposed to gross white racists.
once we get a little bit more concise as a group we're going to start branching out to bigger cities like Charlottesville (UVA is here) and Richmond. (black people are here) maybe even down in North Carolina like Durham.
man equipment i wouldve given you a pass on, because pa systems/mics/amps/guitars/basses/drums/whatever else is exorbitant but decent demos can be cut for relatively low amounts of money and posters/buttons/shirts/stickers are not particularly expensive either!!
demos are a lot cheaper now because you can do a lot of it on your own PC but dude 250 buttons costs like $70. big professional quality posters can cost quite a bit too, as do shirts! you'd think 250 buttons would last a while and when you first start out it does but once you get more popular you can easily run out after a single show.
also if you want a studio-quality demo (3-4 songs) it usually runs you around $2000. you need a studio quality demo to play any of the legit venues/music clubs in bigger cities.
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also tool is a cool band whats wrong with them man!!!!
like the fans are often gay and maynards a dick but w/e !
next person to post an opinion in this topic gets a warning from yours personally! watch your step folks!!!!!!!!!
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wanna see a vid of my band rehearsing guys??? here it is...
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PSYBURN IS ON VOCALS
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well shitty student bars arent so bad! idk i think if i lived in REDSTATE i would just try to leave. my mom lived in west virginia so i have been there a great deal and i cannot imagine being there ALWAYS. i make fun of cleveland but it'd be 10x worse if it was in the south.
i mean, they're buttons, dude. you can buy button-making machines! posters probably add up if you have to go to a print shop or something but it isnt that bad. if you're going through 250 buttons and a ton of shirts/posters in a single show, it means they are SELLING VERY WELL so none of this is bad because everything i've read from underground acts in reference to SHWAG SALES say that they're profitable. it's not like you're selling a ton of them at a loss.
this is kind of interesting though, whats studio quality? i have heard demos of very good quality cut at local recording studios by acts i've known and they weren't $2000! maybe you have much higher standards but yeah, i've heard impressively high quality stuff that people have told me cost them under a grand to cut. if it's $2000, would it not just be more economic to buy $2000 worth of recording gear and do it yourself?
i thought that was really your band till i clicked the youtube :(
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well, by studio quality i meant recorded at an actual studio. i mean it's certainly possible to get it done for less than $2k, but the last band i played in's demo came out to around $2000 (i didn't play on it, i joined a few months later) when i played on a local country/bluegrass ep (i think it was an ep, can't remember) i got payed around $70 per song to just add in a little bit of lead guitar.
from everyone that i've talked to though it costed them all around $2000 after it was all said and done to record their demo, then pay for the actual CDs to be printed.
also i loled so hard when the singer in that vid started doing that obnoxious dance thing anthony kiedis does. if my singer ever did that i'd kick him out of the band right that minute.
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ps funny story i walked into a white redneck bar type of place a few nights ago because they have WINGS and theyre the best fucking wings ever you have no idea and everyone literally turned and looked at me, and continued looking at me, until i left. im not paranoid or anything usually but i was seriously half-expecting some kind of fucking ENCOUNTER on the way to my car from the way some of these dudes were looking at me. and this is in northeastern ohio, not virginia!!! be thankful you are not black bucko. i suspect you have an entirely different perception of these places than i do but for me they are very high on the list of places you do not go
Man I can guarantee you that if we ever hung out and a guy was looking at you or giving you shit we would totally have your back and no one would fuck with you because that kind of shit is really really stupid and disgusting imo. And I know it sounds stupid as hell over the internet but that is something I see worth fighting over and worth getting stomped by a dozen old drunken rednecks for if it came down to it.
Also yeah I get what you're saying about playing cover music and even though I hang out at a few bars from time to time they're never REDNECK JOINTS even though I've been to a few of those too but the way I see it if you're playing GOOD SOUNDING MUSIC and a tune that people recognize from time to time then no one would really care.
Like if I ever learn how to play guitar fairly well or get with someone who does, I would totally do some covers but I'd do stuff I liked playing and fit my style. But that would just be to get used to playing and not necessarily because THE REDNEKC WANT IT.
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Like if I ever learn how to play guitar fairly well or get with someone who does, I would totally do some covers but I'd do stuff I liked playing and fit my style. But that would just be to get used to playing and not necessarily because THE REDNEKC WANT IT.
i mean i definitely prefer playing music that fits my style of playing, but i'm not the only guy in the band you have to remember! i would never play shit like LYNYRD SKYNYRD or ALAN JACKSON or whatever. I.. I have standards...
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also the point of this topic was for you guys to suggest me GOOD MUSIC that you would like to hear live that's not totally awful or played 30 times a day on classic rock radio. if i asked guys at my school i'd just get LINKIN PARK and GREEN DAY and NICKELBACK.
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yeah i like tool. they can get a tad bit pretentious but they're pretty good imo.
edit: thx for deleting your post afura :fogethuh:
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sorry i panicked
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you could do the allman brothers, maybe?
afura: i'm studyin for a final and also workin on the rap I PROMISE
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really? idk you seem more into HENDRIX//LED ZEP//CLASSIC ROCK AND FUNK than punk/noise shit so i assumed it'd be right up your alley
also HMMM maybe the 2-3 people i have talked to on this HAD THE HOOKUP or something. idk, it sounded really good and i thought under a grand was just the GOING RATE for 3-4 song demos. and yea the keidis emulation is sad but i did not laugh; it was just embarrassing to watch. also NO SHIRTS
also i dont know man, does it have to be SHIT REDNECKS WOULD LIKE? becase that is just not a very big segment of the music i listen to! i could just suggest <generic hendrix song> but you already know this soooo. do queens of the stone age maybe. theyre a decent band imo, and barfucks would probably like them. maybe some smashing pumpkins. they'd probably like violent femmes too, depending on the song. also i like murder by death a lot but it is accessible enough at times that i think it'd go over well in a bar, like if you played BROTHER or some shit. how do you feel about ohia? that might do okay too
tools p gay though imo. i didnt know anyone besides atari actually still liked them
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you could do the allman brothers, maybe?
afura: i'm studyin for a final and also workin on the rap I PROMISE
hahah your ok!
Man I really like Tool, I don't care too much for their pretentious message but I think the music itself is pretty sweet. Even APC also, except of course EMOtive was pretty average
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you could do the allman brothers, maybe?
afura: i'm studyin for a final and also workin on the rap I PROMISE
also i was kind of joking when i said shit rednecks like. i just meant stuff the average dude would listen to. i'm thinking of covering teen age riot and maybe a pixies song. only problem is the weird ass tuning they use. queens of the stone age are pretty good. i like the allman brothers, too.
smashing pumpkins are alright too, they're pretty hard to cover though because of the vocals. i've only listened to the violent femmes a little bit, suggest me a song or two and i'll check them out.
also our drummer is really good, he plays a lot of jazz and shit but god damn he also listens to like green day. i don't want to be some dictatorial dick and just be like NOPE WE'RE NOT COVERING THAT DONT CARE IF ITS YOUR FAVORITE SONG but i am not covering a fucking green day song :(
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Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Audioslave - Like a stone
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Counting Crows - White Stallions
Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole
Living Color - Cult of Personality
QOTSA - The Art of Keeping a Secret
STP - Creep, Dead and Bloated
The Who - Baba O'Riley, Behind blue eyes, Who are you
Soundgarden - Fell on Black days, Burden in my hand
Any old smashing pumpkins, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, or Pink Floyd
those are fairly classic songs the hill people should know
also how is QOTSA hard to cover vocally? I mean I practice with the art of keeping a secret alot and thats a pretty fucking easy song to sing, the dude sings pretty low and high sometimes but it isn't that hard to get close.
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velvet underground, too. i want to cover a VU song. the only song i know how to play iirc is After Hours but it's no biggie i can learn most songs in a few hours.
i'd love to do heroin but it's pretty hard to cover it and make it.. work.
also harry thx but as far as The Who go they're hard as a bitch to cover live. unless it's like behind blue eyes or one of their earlier songs. the synthesizers make it pretty impossible to work out a decent version.
also no i hate blue oyster cult and if i was gonna do a dylan song i wouldn't do hurricane. i'd do like a hard rain's gonna fall or even like a rolling stone, even though it's been done to death.
i'm probably gonna do QOTSA - little sister. i like that song, and it's really catchy. we're already doing a zep cover (dazed and confused). i like audioslave but i'd probably do I Am The Highway if i was gonna cover them.
thanks though that's the kind of shit i need! one of the more difficult things about doing a lot of covers is you typically have to learn a shitload of songs so you can have really varied setlists.
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do brother man. it's so catchy. idk what you'd do for the cello parts, but theyre not very prominent
white people love this shit right???
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I love that cello chick nothing is hotter than a girl with a cello solo
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yeah shes ridiculously hot. gimme some of dat cello
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i've only listened to the violent femmes a little bit, suggest me a song or two and i'll check them out.
blister in the sun would be the one to cover live obviously, why cant i just get one kiss is a rad song,
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hey everyone this is my band Handful of Ryan. im Ryan White, the lead and on lead guitar, heh, yeah thanks. that's Ryan Stoge, on the bass, and his wife Briana on the synth, they just got married, five months ago. Ryan Schwartz on drums, and of course, the Big Dog, all about the tude, Ryan Wolfe, give us a howl on that rhythm guitar. ok lets get ready, were gonna play a little song called Free Fallin but first Stogey's gonna slap out a tune I call..the Seinfeld theme, hit it!
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whos on "vox"
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ryan white but brianna does some of the encore songs; the guys dont like to play non bro rock this was pretty established in the anecdote panda...
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i think it should be wolfe, is all
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he just unnecessarily howls at the end of every song. even the slower ones. the band sells it as a gimmick but really they think it might be a brain thing. he's also sleeping with Briana.
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i'll start draftin the rp
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thx for shittin up my topic :crazy:
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thanks for shitting up shitty dive bars..............................................NOT. hi my name is Ryan Borat, i'll be opening for you guys sunday. my refreshing bledn of observational humor and pitch perfect imitations will be a good counterpoint to your music.
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Heh, have fun in your college, sheep. Baah baah. I'll be out entertaining your girlfriend friday night at Moe's. She really likes my cover of What's That Smell. Heh she'll probably ask for an encore... after the show's over.
Feh, you sheeple.
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that smells your gfs vag on my moose knuckle.
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play a show of only sage francis covers with live musicians
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fuck sage francis