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FenderPriest
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Date Joined May 2004
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Posted 10/16/2004 6:47 PM (GMT -6)

I haven recently seriously contemplated grabing my guitar, and a few friends and getting a good bit of songs together to go and just play in bars. Not necessarily sing songs about Jesus, or anything like that, I just want to play good songs from the secular world that have good messages and such things, but not be preachy. I guess I get this feeling from just wanting to be apart of peoples lives, and to stop living in this Christian bubble of abstinence from the “evil world.” Don’t get me wrong, I think drunkenness and such things are sins, but I can’t get past the fact that Jesus himself hung out with people who were apart of sinful lifestyles, and would more likely found in a bar today then a church. But anyhow, I’m wondering if anybody has any suggestions on what songs, or if any of you might have some experience in this area, or if you might have some theological dissertation on the subject?.....

In Christ
Jacob

"Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts hav any relation to reality at all."
- G.K. Chesterton

Similitude
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Date Joined Apr 2004
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Posted 10/16/2004 7:06 PM (GMT -6)

FenderPriest,

I think you probably could get a good collection if you checked for songs over a range of several years. If the audience wants a repertoire from the last year or so, however, that would be harder to do, I bet. Don't really know what's in demand in the bar scene.

wjs

the Wicker Man
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Date Joined Sep 2004
Total Posts : 73

Posted 10/19/2004 3:52 AM (GMT -6)

Fenderguy, bars have different clientele which would necessitate different sets of songs. "Freebird" is a necessity in a biker bar, whereas you'd play nu-metal shite in a college bar.

Find out the clientele of the bar you'd play at or develop a repetoire and find a bar that suits it.

If you hang out in some of the guitar forums, you'd learn what songs to use where

http://www.guitardiner.com/
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/
http://www.fenderforum.com/forum.html

The working guitarists in these forums often post their set lists.
Some of these guys are Christians as well.

/twang on my friend

uromancer to the stars

1Heart
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Date Joined Feb 2004
Total Posts : 1128

Posted 10/29/2004 3:12 PM (GMT -6)

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Originally posted by FenderPriest

I haven recently seriously contemplated grabing my guitar, and a few friends and getting a good bit of songs together to go and just play in bars. Not necessarily sing songs about Jesus, or anything like that, I just want to play good songs from the secular world that have good messages and such things, but not be preachy. I guess I get this feeling from just wanting to be apart of peoples lives, and to stop living in this Christian bubble of abstinence from the “evil world.” Don’t get me wrong, I think drunkenness and such things are sins, but I can’t get past the fact that Jesus himself hung out with people who were apart of sinful lifestyles, and would more likely found in a bar today then a church. But anyhow, I’m wondering if anybody has any suggestions on what songs, or if any of you might have some experience in this area, or if you might have some theological dissertation on the subject?.....

In Christ
Jacob

Jacob,
I have a friend here, who goes to our church, and is part of the music scene. She writes a lot of her own songs, and sings them in the bar. I've accompanied her a couple of times. Anyway, she would be a wonderful resource for you, if you want to send me your e-mail address, I'll give it to her. I know she'd be glad to help you with this.
God Bless,
Jo-Anne

"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."

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