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Favorite Pearl Jam song to play on an instrument?

parel jamparel jam Posts: 7,223
edited February 2007 in Musicians and Gearheads
Oh man, just played Spin the black circle again...love to play that song - even on an acoustic guitar...

Other favs from mine are: Light Years (nice chord progression), Off he Goes, Do the Evolution, Nothingman, Glorified G....
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

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  • NovawindNovawind Posts: 836
    Comatose, Life Wasted (really easy to improv on), Down, I God Id
    If idle hands are the devil's workshop, he must not be very productive.

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  • parel jamparel jam Posts: 7,223
    Novawind wrote:
    I God Id

    I forgot that one...nice song to play too!
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    http://youtube.com/watch?v=U_-WGNRyRzU

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  • senninsennin Posts: 2,146
    Just started playing I Got Id. Love it.

    Now I just sit in front of the TV....unplugged....playing the intro over and over. :p

    ....slowing it down for more drama.....or speed it up just for fun.
  • exhaustedexhausted Posts: 6,638
    i'm working up a version of i got id right now for fun. just one acoustic and in a different key etc. but i enjoy playing it.

    oceans is fun to play on bass.
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Yellow Ledbetter by a mile.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • WESWES Posts: 168
    can't keep on the uke.
  • swans05swans05 Posts: 108
    too many to list really green disease is under rated though and much better live (from the dvd and cd's anyway) than studio

    i love playing animal loud although i can't do ther little fill thing properly between the A in the verses but i give it a go...when it's loud you can't really tell the difference anyway
  • SweetHarmonicsSweetHarmonics Posts: 290
    lately its been Porch
    hate was just a legend
  • Dirty MosquitoDirty Mosquito Posts: 621
    I don't know many, but I love "Insignificance"
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  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Alive is great for soloing but I love playing long road on my acoustic and singing it too :) even if my voice sucks...
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  • MishralMishral Posts: 211
    Alive is a killer to play on electric.

    Also I really like to play Better man, nothingman, Immortality on acouctic and sing with... But my voice sucks, so I don´t do it so often because I need to be alone to do it.. :P
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  • xtremehardy388xtremehardy388 Posts: 2,759
    Yellow Ledbetter, Immortality, and Army Reserve. RVM is up there too! Nothing As It Seems too.
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  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    evenflow (Dave A era), evacuation, animal, and rats...on drums
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  • MichaelMcKevinMichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    Yellow Ledbetter
    In Hiding
    Do The Evolution
    Faithfull
    Porch
    Hail Hail
    Evenflow
    Last Exit
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    SOLAT (classic Dave style) on drums.
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  • lukin420lukin420 Posts: 80
    Acoustic Top 5 ( no order)

    Low Light
    Hard to Imagine
    Light Years
    Nothingman
    Untitled

    Covers

    Throw your Arms Around Me
    Don't be Shy
    I am a Patriot
    I Got You
    Crown of Thorns
  • bzborow1bzborow1 Posts: 8
    1. Alive
    2. Even Flow
    3. Garden

    The best song to play for a chick. Betterman.
  • satansbedbugssatansbedbugs Posts: 2,412
    sennin wrote:
    Just started playing I Got Id. Love it.

    Now I just sit in front of the TV....unplugged....playing the intro over and over. :p

    ....slowing it down for more drama.....or speed it up just for fun.


    fun song ...so is long road
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  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    bzborow1 wrote:

    The best song to play for a chick. Betterman.

    just hope she doesn't know what it's about
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  • satansbedbugssatansbedbugs Posts: 2,412
    bzborow1 wrote:
    1. Alive
    2. Even Flow
    3. Garden

    The best song to play for a chick. Betterman.


    well some of us should stick to the easy ones...lol...jk
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    New York- 2008, 2010
    Boston - Fenway 2016 (night 2) , 2024 (night1)
    East Rutherford, New Jersey- 2006
    Chicago - Lollapalooza 2007
    Seattle- Gorge 2005
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  • i_am_a_wishlisti_am_a_wishlist Posts: 628
    Here's my favs:

    Acoustic G:
    -Off He Goes
    -Thin Air
    -Immortality

    Electric G
    -Lukin
    -Wishlist

    Uke:
    -Soon Forget
  • spongersponger Posts: 3,159
    hail hail is my fav on guitar. easy chords and easy rhythm but still jams.
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Long Road
    I Am Mine
    Cordurouy
    Not For You
    In My Tree

    on electric gee-tah
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  • Drew263Drew263 Posts: 602
    I've only been playing less than a year so my list is small but it's still a blast.

    Comatose
    Big Wave
    Life Wasted
    Corduroy
    WWS
    Grievance
    Severed Hand
    Fortunate Son
  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    I'm surprised no one said this, but "Sad" is easily my favorite to play. I love playing that riff and the chorus rocks pretty damn hard.
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  • senninsennin Posts: 2,146
    I like to play Tremor Christ on the oboe.
  • bacchanalbacchanal Posts: 149
    I frequently play rearviewmirror on my kazoo!!!
  • i_am_a_wishlisti_am_a_wishlist Posts: 628
    ledvedderman wrote:
    I'm surprised no one said this, but "Sad" is easily my favorite to play. I love playing that riff and the chorus rocks pretty damn hard.

    I wish i could play Sad. Probably one of the best Pearl Jam riffs ever.
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    i_am_a_wishlist wrote:
    I wish i could play Sad. Probably one of the best Pearl Jam riffs ever.


    yeah me too... i find it a bit tricky, just as i find the opening riff of MFC a bit tricky!

    i'll get there eventually though !!!
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • MichaelMcKevinMichaelMcKevin Posts: 1,161
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    yeah me too... i find it a bit tricky, just as i find the opening riff of MFC a bit tricky!

    i'll get there eventually though !!!

    A big thing that helped me get MFC, at least the speed of it, was playing Untitled right before it. If you play those songs together, Untitled is kind of a warmup for it. Try it out. If you need to hear the track, it's on both Live on 2 Legs and Touring Band 2000. Here's the tab

    http://www.pearljamonline.it/curiosit%E0/tabs/guitars/Pearl%20Jam/tabs/Live%20On%20Two%20Legs/Untitled.txt
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