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Post subject: What audition song got you the job?
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So you go to audition for a band. What song did you nail perfectly that got you the job with that band?

circa 1967-I auditioned for a band in school and I could play "House of the Risin Sun", using bar chords.

circa 2001-I auditioned for a country band and could play all of Brent Mason's lics in Alan Jackson's "Mercury Blues".

Anyone else?

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i've never really had any auditions, typically my bands were just a bunch of friends thrown together or people I met through people, etc.

But at a label showcase in 03 for Go-Kart, everyone was pulling out their hardest core songs, their anthems, going all out, as a gas I pulled out the Top Gun theme. It was a hit.

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For the past 20 or so years I've played in all-originals bands, so auditioning wasn't like that. They'd show me a song of theirs, I'd figure out what I was going to do with it, and either we clicked or didn't.

In most cases, there wasn't even an audition per se.
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It's really never been about a particular song or whatever. It was always more about whether or not I was capable of picking up what that band was playing at the time.

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Miami Mike wrote:
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I think a lot of us did that one Mike!! :lol: At the Sock Hops! :wink:
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Brian Krashpad wrote:
For the past 20 or so years I've played in all-originals bands, so auditioning wasn't like that. They'd show me a song of theirs, I'd figure out what I was going to do with it, and either we clicked or didn't.

In most cases, there wasn't even an audition per se.



+1 but change 20 years for 10 years.

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Once I played Frankenstein, nailed it perfectly. Then I had to do Wayward Son, another one.

Other than those two particular songs, it's usually me already learning their entire set list, or all their originals.
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