Magenta
Platinum Member
With any luck, your bass player will feel the same as you about the song so you will be able to delegate the rationalisation of the set list to him/her.
Ultimately it will come down to whether or not your band can make the song work, I would imagine. We play a couple of songs I wouldn't normally go near, but I like what we do with them. I've had to say No on one occasion but that wasn't because I didn't like the song: on the contrary, it was one of my favourites (Africa) - I was certain that giving it our unique style of makeover was a massive error of judgement.
Ultimately it will come down to whether or not your band can make the song work, I would imagine. We play a couple of songs I wouldn't normally go near, but I like what we do with them. I've had to say No on one occasion but that wasn't because I didn't like the song: on the contrary, it was one of my favourites (Africa) - I was certain that giving it our unique style of makeover was a massive error of judgement.