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Re: (TV) Set list order suggestions?



You guys did great w/ 'marquee moon', ever thought of covering 'Zuma' ? My
embryonic band just started learning 'Driveback' yesterday. The list below
is great and very obscure as I can truthfully say I've heard of half the
songs. I'd start w/ "The Witch".
Good luck!


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:32 AM, andy fekete <andy.fekete@gmail.com> wrote:

> On April 29th, Amps Do Furnish A Room unveils its psychedelic garage show*.
>
> Here's our set list.  As you folks seem to know your obscure garage
> rock and proto-punk, I thought it would be interesting to hear your
> suggestions on the optimum order:
>
> Shape of Things - Max Frost and the Troopers ('Wild In The Streets'
> star Christopher Jones backed by Davie Allan and the Arrows)
> YouTurned Your Back on Me - Scott Bedford Four
> Just Like Me - Revere / Raiders
> Fire Engine - 13th Floor Elevators
> Wild Man - Tamrons
> , Come On - Atlantics
> Buzz the Jerk - Pretty Things
> Stop It Baby - Heard
> Shakin All Over - Johnny Kidd / Pirates
> Riot on Sunset Strip - Standells
> Open My Eyes - Nazz
> Cool One - Sounds Unlimited
> Rich with Nothin - Spit Ends
> See My Friends - Kinks
> The Witch - Sonics
> Cool One - Sounds Unlimited
>
> For reference, these songs will be available here for a limited time:
> http://www.sendspace.com/file/m3lqjd
>
> Looking forward to your comments...
>
> -A
>
> Amps Do Furnish A Room
> http://www.youtube.com/user/ampsdofurnisharoom
>
>
> * Some background: in 2008, after studying Television's "Marquee Moon"
> LP for year, Amps Do Furnish Room began casting about for suitable
> follow-up.
>
> Our first choice, The Byrds' "Notorious Byrd Brothers", just didn't
> work out.   After four months of learning more than half the record in
> great detail we felt the result, while sounding very accurate, just
> didn't roar sufficiently to warrant playing live unless we were very
> unfaithful to the material (ie - we didn't want to subject our
> audience to a set where each song sounds like Husker Du covering
> "Eight Miles High" on a bad night ).  To be fair to the Byrds, Marquee
> Moon and NBB are arguably very different from an aesthetic standpoint.
>  We make no claim as to which is the superior work;  what we do know
> for certain is that after playing Marquee Moon live, NBB seemed to
> lack...oh, I dunno, what's the word.... voltage?
>
> So, we shelved the Byrds, and started fooling around with obscure
> garage / early psychedelic rock gems from the mid 60s, with an ear for
> the stuff that might have inspired young outsiders a decade later to
> plug in and bootstrap what was to become the punk movement...
>
> To that end, since last summer each member of Amps has been selecting
> one proto-Iggy / proto-Television / proto-whatever song from the
> mid-60s to study in minute detail, for a total of four songs for the
> band to study.  When we felt sufficiently comfortable with these four,
> we'd select another four...
>
> We've now done this four times -- hence the 16 songs you see listed above.
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