The Romantics - What I Like About You

[nightwing1240]

And one for everyone on the Democrat side! I salute you all!

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Good choice!

[nightwing1240]

2. Thank you :)

[louis-t]

3. Got to play this onstage with Wally once.

Even though he didn't sing the original, still pretty cool. He brought his harps and played the solo.

[nightwing1240]

5. Oh man that had to be a lot of fun!

I would have loved to hear it

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Covered It!

From 1980 to 1982 I was in a band with a female singer. This song was actually the beginning of internal strife because THE DRUMMER brought this in with the intent of me singing it. We also did When I Look in Your Eyes from that album.

[nightwing1240]

6. I thought you may have lol

Just a fun song and one that is great to dance to

[lark]

7. Super fun to dance to!

Such a challenge to keep up with this quick beat, but what a fun one.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Yeah, I Do That A Lot!

30+ years of active bands & >2,000 gigs...
On top of that, the last band added 1 or 2 songs a month for over 18 years. There were probably close to 300 songs that band could play with over 80% covers. And, that's just one band.
It's always fun to see the songs I covered posted here because it reinforces that we chose wisely.

[louis-t]

8. I remember doing Talking In Your Sleep at some point.

Would have been '84 or '85. Jeez, we're old.

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Old?

I had a guitar student whose band did Talking...
Not my band, a guitar student's band! That's old!

[louis-t]

11. Old? I opened for U2 4 times on their first American tour.

Old? My very first band, we called it a 'combo', played Quinn the Eskimo, written by Bob Dylan and recorded by Manfred Mann. And Wipeout. We played Wipeout. Old? When I was 9, I dressed up like a Beatle for Halloween. And sang Help! in front of my entire grade school. And the song was only 3 months old!

[ProfessorGAC]

12. We're Pretty Much The Same Age

I turned 9 the year Help came out!
My bday is later in the year so I might have been 8 when it was released, but was 9 by Halloween!
If we're old, we're the same amount of old!

[louis-t]

13. Actually, I made a mistake.

U2 opened for us twice and we opened for them twice in December, 1980. Here's a link to an interview with the Edge where he mentions us by name. At 1:10 he tells the story. He says we were a Boston band. Really from Detroit. Pretty cool.

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Cool!

We opened for a few big acts. The biggest was Cheap Trick, pretty much while still at their heyday.
Their song Dream Police had an MTV resurrection in the early 80s, so they got quite a bounce.
We opened the show, but there was another bigger name Midwest act (also from Illinois) that followed us. All three bands were from 130 miles or less from Chicago!
I got to play Rick's coffee table guitar & his famous 5 neck. (Sort of. My arms wasn't long enough to get to the lowest neck!)
Back in the mid 70s, we met Rare Earth. They were Detroit guys.

[louis-t]

15. Oh yeah, a friend of mine was with Rare Earth in the '80s and '90s

Wayne Baracks. He played bass but sang the hits because he sounded like the original guy. Actually got to see Van Halen on their first tour. A show in Bay City, MI where Cheap Trick was supposed to be on the bill but cancelled. The band I was soon to join opened, then a local band filling in for Cheap Trick, then VH, then Seger.