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    Default Favorite Rock And Pop Songs To Play On Mandolin

    Some of my favorites to play are

    Over The Hills And Far Away by Led Zeppelin
    Norwegian Wood by the Beatles
    You Got To Hide Your Love Away by the Beatles
    All The Young Dudes by Mott The Hoople
    Old Man by Neil Young
    Ring Of Fire by Social Distortion
    the parts of Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull that I can play

    And how about the strangest you've ever played ? Mine would be
    Bad Romance by Lady Gaga
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    see this thread for the general list: http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...-songs-w-mando

    my favorite is boat on the river by styx. i love playing that song. love it. also losing my religion REM. and battle of evermore is pretty great.
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    Knockin' On Heaven's Door - Dylan
    Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
    Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds - Beatles
    Country Honk - Rolling Stones
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    Songs for which I have solo versions on 5-string:

    Good Day, Sunshine
    Drive My Car
    For No One
    Hot Rod Lincoln
    Wait 'Til Tomorrow
    Cissy Strut (a la Scofield)
    Cosmik Debris
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    Who you jivin' with that Cosmik Debris?...
    (Now is that a real poncho or is that a Sears poncho?)
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    Peaches 'en Regalia
    Anything by George Clinton
    Anything Motown
    Free Bird, not because it's so much fun, but it IS fun to launch into the really recognisable part if some fool hollers, "Free Bird!", as fools frequently do.
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    something by george harrison
    If I had known how much easier it is to carry the mandolin around instead of a strat and a half-stack, I'd have been playing mandolin this whole time.

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    Default Re: Favorite Rock And Pop Songs To Play On Mandolin

    Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin.

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    Default Re: Favorite Rock And Pop Songs To Play On Mandolin

    There She Goes by The La's (Worked this one out a this afternoon, and it just as fun to play as I thought it would be)
    Several Tom Petty songs
    Several Beatles tunes
    I don't care for it much anymore, but people tend to like Dance Tonight by Paul McCartney still.
    Losing My Religion by REM
    Radio War by Iron and Wine
    Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon
    Lawyers, Guns, and Money by Warren Zevon

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