Footage of my band playing Thin Lizzy's "Cold Sweat"

[ELVIS]

What else is the internet for ??

This site especially...

[Hardrock69]

That is one of the reasons I am not into playing covers. People hold you to the standard of whether or not you can play it exactly like the original. Whereas if you are playing your own originals, they have nothing to compare it to.

Not a thing wrong with being a covers band though. You have 100 years worth of music to choose from for your setlist, and you can choose to play nothing but Top 10 singles if you want, which the audience will love if you can do them well enough.

One of my closest friends is a monster fucking musician. Incredible guitarist, with a voice that resembles a cross between Ronnie James Dio, and the original singer for Nazareth as he sounded in their heyday in the 70s. And he is a fucking encyclopedia of rock, metal and pop music from the early 1960s to the present.

When he writes originals, they are good songs.

But he just prefers to play his favorite music, which is mostly classic hard rock stuff, and he makes a living at it. Does not work a day job. He is not making a fortune, but he is playing several nights a week, at least 50 weeks a year, and has been for the past 20 years. Before that, he worked assorted day jobs, but he has been playing in bands since about 1980 or so. I met him in 1982, and within a few years we got to be best of friends.

Too bad he never made it big, though he had a couple of producers fly him out to L.A. and recorded some demos in a studio back in the early 90s. The typical "We're gonna make you a star, kid!" type story, where they were letting him stay at some mansion in Beverly Hills. In this case, the two producers ended up having some kind of falling out, and nothing ever came of it.
So he just went back to the hometown and picked up where he left off. Has been doing it ever since.

Badguy, sounds pretty good. Guitarist did fine also. You gotsa good band. Keep kicking ass!

[Mr Badguy]

Thanks, guys.

We ain't giving up our day jobs.

We're just a bunch of guys who love playing our old favourites, for fun.

Elvis, I'll save you a front row seat when we hit the Superdome!

[hideyoursheep]

We're just a bunch of guys who love playing....

That's all that matters.

[ELVIS]

Elvis, I'll save you a front row seat when we hit the Superdome!

I'll be there, but you gotta eat some alligator and crawfish...

[ThrillsNSpills]

I could have done a bit better, I think anyway...

most of the musical braggarts I've known once you get them plugged in they sound like a six year old with downs syndrome.
You probably sang Moon with a c anyway.

Rock on BG. A singing bass player's a great combination.

[ELVIS]

I know who you sound like vocally, Badguy...

Wendy O!!!



That's not a bad thing...

[Guitar Shark]

Thanks, man.

"Stay Clean" is in the set.

Mostly all Maiden, Scorpions, Lizzy, AC/DC, Van Halen and Ozzy.

Keeping the Metal alive!

Sounds great, bro! Thanks for sharing.

[ELVIS]

Add some WOW to the setlist...

[Seshmeister]

Perhaps without the leather bikini...

[ELVIS]

Sesh, back me up on this...

Does he sound a bit like Wendy or what ??


Similar hair too...

[chefcraig]

In my lifetime, there have been two women on tv that scared the crap out of me. The first was Eartha Kitt whe she played Catwoman on Batman in the sixties, and the second was Wendy O. Williams appearing on SCTV sometime in the eighties.

[Mr Badguy]

That's it, Elvis.

"Bump and grind" is going in the set.

I don't care how uncomfortable it makes the guys in the audience feel.

[Dave's Bitch]

Im diggin' it Mr Badguy .What maiden do you do??

[Mr Badguy]

"Phantom of the Opera", "Run to the hills", "The number of the Beast", "Flight of Icarus" and "The Trooper" have all been in the set at various points.