We'll be playing a halloween-themed show on October 28, and we're working up a few songs specific for the show:
Of course, we've got some other regular tunes, like Zombie, that fit in with the theme.
- The Time Warp (Rocky Horror)
- The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead (XTC)
- The Undertaker (Southern Culture on the Skids)
Anybody else got Halloween-themed tunes they're playing?
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I've heard a band rough up little red ridin hood.. has a nice, evil quality to it...
Also... believe or not, I've heard a band do a acoustic version of tubular bells... freakin creepy...
"Fool me once, shame on..... shame on me... fool me twice... shame on ... shame on... IF YOU GET FOOLED ONCE YOU CAN'T GET FOOLED AGAIN".-Our Good bud George W.
I seriously think that "Monster Mash" would be a lot of fun to play, if someone in your band can do Bobby Pickett's overblown "Boris" routine.
I love "Peter Pumpkinhead" (the Crash Test Dummies verson is in constant rotaiton in my iPod) and "The Time Warp."
How 'bout Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein?"
"Season Of The Witch"
"I Put A Spell On You"
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
"Witchy Woman"
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
"Cemetery Polka" by Tom Waits
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Rats!
Everybody else got the ones I was thinking of.
If, at first you don't succeed, don't try skydiving.
Two leaps per chasm is fatal!
"People Are Strange" is a good, creepy song.
Fun to play too.
Love the solo.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
Werewolves of London.
A friend in need is a good reason to screen your calls.
We usually throw in some older ones like :
Haunted House - Jumpin' Gene Simmons
The Blob - The Five Blobs
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley
I Put A Spell On You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Martian Hop - The Ran-Dells
“To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.”
you guys are so shallow. Death walks behind you -ATOMIC ROOSTER, doa-bLOODROCK,mR. cROWLY-ozzy....edit_not really.I like those other songs also.PS< maybe some ALICE cOOPER?SICK THINGS??
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We do a cool instrumental version of The X-Files Theme (it morphs into Out of Limits).
You could also do The Munsters Theme.
Years ago I had an album that had a bunch of monster themed music. It took popular songs of the day and did parodies of them with a fake Dracula type voice, like...
I Want to Bite Your Hand.
Yeah you
You got that something
I think you understand
when I fly in your window
I want to bite your hand.
I want to bite your ha-a-and
I want to bite your hand.
Chorus
And when I bite you
I feel happy, inside
It's so delicious that my thirst
I can't hide, I can't hide I can't hide.
etc.
VM
If aliens listened to our current top 40, they'd think that the entire planet was populated by sexually ambivalent robots with ethnic insecurity.
and ...Originally Posted by NeoFauve
Everything Goes to Hell
Down Down Down
No One Knows I'm Gone (brilliant but Fender guitar not required)
Dead and Lovely
BTW, I don't like Halloween.
I could have been someone... but so could anyone
Sorry, one of my favorites. When else can kids go to strangers' houses and beg for candy.
Unfortunately, most parents won't let them do that anymore.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
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orange picks
People tend to get paranoid these days.
My kids (now 22 and 26) always looked forward to Halloween and took full advantage of it.
Another candidate: Werewolves of London
[edit: oops, telecast already came up with that one]
I could have been someone... but so could anyone
Yep. It's school time again, and parents are out waiting for the bus with their ten and twelve year olds.
C'mon. I live in very suburban/rural area, a town of around 20,000 residents. When I was a kid,
I'd be ashamed to be a kid today.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
If Amsterdam was in Canada, all children up to 18 would be required to wear life jackets.
I could have been someone... but so could anyone
I used to play in an orignal band that did a lot of hard blues based stuff and punk. We played at a Halloween party and played our original "Hollow Weenie" along with a couple of covers: Shout at the Devil and I Put a Spell on You. Weird night, but definitely one of our best...
If you really want to set the mood there are tons of old murder ballads you could dig up.
"Go Team Venture!"
The Torture Never Stops (Zappa) will do too
I could have been someone... but so could anyone
Here's a couple, don't know how 'approproate' the lyrics have to be:
"Halloween", Misfits
"I turned into a Martian", Misfits
"Rockin' in the Graveyard", HellBilly's
"Return of the Fly", Misfits again.
"Spooky"
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
"Feed My Frankenstein" by Alice Cooper is cool too! I love those ripping chords.
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Long Black Veil
Being in the same boat as Kap, we've tossed it around and pretty much decided on the following:
Time Warp
I Put Spell On You
Monster Mash
Haunted House
Ghostbusters
We're just going to learn them at home and do them on stage, no rehearsals. I'm a bit concerned about the Ghostbusters theme, although I've never listend to it closely, it sounds like it might be a bit more difficult arrangement-wise than the rest. Maybe not.
A friend in need is a good reason to screen your calls.
Stupid trivia time....
Ray Parker Jr. sued Huey Lewis a while back, saying that I Want a New Drug was a rip-off of the Ghostbusters Theme.
Pretty funny, considering that the Ghostbusters Theme itself is a ripoff of Soul Finger, which curiously appeared in an earlier Dan Ackroyd film Spies Like Us.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
You should do a medley.
Call it, "I Want A New Ghost Finger."
Be sure to credit everybody though.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
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