The SLA

Description:

Name:

The SLA

Screen Name:

SLA

Years Together:

1

Level Of Commitment:

Just for Fun

Gigs Played:

Under 10

Tend to Practice:

1 time per week

Available to Gig:

1 time(s) per week

The SLA is a Rock 'n Roll band from the Storrs-Mansfield-Uconn area looking for a local bassist, drummer & vocalist. The SLA plays a combination 60's pop, 70's Punk and classic rock very much influenced by the Small Faces, Ramones, Johnny Thunders, The Kinks, the Cramps & Ricky Nelson.

I'm in my 40's so this is for fun and an ocasional gig, no illusions here. Looking to play out once a month or so.

Please, no kids, no goth, no screamo, no metalica, and no addicts or alcoholics, no Southern Rock, no 45 minute stormy monday blues-jam types, no metal, no grateful dead wanking. No high-school or art-school, just old school straight ahead sub-berry rock 'n roll w/attitude, something between the Ramones & Stones.

I like fun as much as the next guy, I just don't like problems, pointless jams or boring middle-age-crisis white-boy pseudo-blues. Sorry, but Eric Clapton was never god, Johnny Thunders was.

Contact: (Use below, not Bandmix)

SLA WEBSITE:

http://www.fandalism.com/index.cfm?user=kaptainsteve
http://www.slarocks.com
http://www.last.fm/music/The+SLA
http://www.swamp-ass.com

Email us at:

KaptainSteve at Yahoo Dot Com
Don't Email us here, we won't get it!

Influences:

We play originals, 50's & 60's & 70's Reeling Rock 'n Roll and punk & pop (KinKs, Ramones, Johnny Thunders, Cramps, Ricky Nelson).

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Songlist to date;
Songs by Artist/Category;

Instrumentals/Surfer;

Rumble (link Wray)
Pipeline (Safaris/Thunders)
Fat Back (Link Wray)
Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers)
Green Onions(Booker T)
Surfin' Fun (original)
Wipeout
Secret Agent Man.

Acoustic;

Joey (Thunders)
Disappointed in You (Thunders)
Arms Around A Memory (Thunders)
Boyfriend (Ramones)
Here Today (Ramones)
Strangers (Davies)
Lost & Innnocent Days (Davies)
Kizmiaz (Cramps)
Celluloid Heros (KinKs)
Sunny Afternoon (Kinks)
Diary of a Lover (Thunders)

Thunders;

Chinese Rocks
Born To Loose
Don't Mess with Cupid
7 Day Weekend
Joey
Diary of a Lover
Disappointed in You
Arms
Junkie Biz/Pills
Pipeline
Daddy Rolling Stone

Dee Dee;

Chinese Rocks/Bitch
Creepy Family
I'm Horrible
Every Else Does
Poison Heart
Cathy's Clown
Runaway
Disguises
Baby Doll

Cramps;

What's Inside A Gurl
Faster Pussycat
Goo Goo Muck
Kizmiaz
Route 66
Blue Moon Baby
Lonesome Town

Ramones;

Sheena
Rockaway
California Sun
Swallow My Pride
Boyfriend
Here today, Gone tomorrow.

Marriott;

Black Coffee
Itchycoo Park/Mother In Law
All or Nothing
Tin Soldier
Soldier Boy
My Girl
I'm REady
I believe to my Soul

KinKs;

Slum Kids
Good Times Gone/So Tired/I can Tell
Ordinary People (Live version)
Strangers
Lost & Innocent Days
Celluloid Heroes
Sunny Afternoon
Victoria
Attitude
Around the Dial
Low Budget
Where Are They Now
Survivors
Where Is Love

50's/60's Pop stuff;

YOu belong to Me (dean martin, JLL)
Travelin' man (ricky)
Bottles & Barstools (JLL)

Burdon/Animals;

Sweet Blood Call
I'm Ready
Do You Feel It

LJB;

Jubilee Cloud

Elton;

Well Known Gun
Country Comforts

SLA Originals

Surfin'
Broke Down
Glue & Wine

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Lyrics;

"Bottles and Barstools

Goodbye was very easy words for you to say

Girl you never cared the way I do

Your love is really all that matters to ole Jerry Lee

Now your gone What's left to think, I'm living in misery

Going to back to

Bottles and Barstools these are the favorite two

For any lonely fool who needs to forget

They tell your love has always been true

And Bottles and Barstools keep coming home to me and you.

Well our love can be summed up in 25 words or less

Just another fool who never really give a damn

But darling you know that i love you and i always will

But what can i do, except the only thing I ever knew

I'm going back to

Bottles and Barstools these are the favorite tools

For any lonely fool who needs to forget

Well they tell me friends in need are truly friends in

deed

And Bottles and Barstools have never failed me yet

Yes Bottles and Barstools ain't failed ol' Jerry Lee yet

Ah set me up one more

Runaway

I can't be where I am, I gotta get away
Somehow, as far, as I can from here
Somehow it's very clear now, I get bored very easily
Maybe somewhere else, Everyone would be more friendly

chorus

And I just wanna get away From everything I know
Runaway runaway runaway as far as I can go
Runaway runaway runaway away from everything
second verse

Sneaking through the mall, That's what it comes down to
No one's around in the morning, I can't help feeling so blue
Walking home down the sidewalk, I really know what it's like to be alone now
But my heart starts speeding up, as my friends drive by in their car

repeat chorus

bridge

repeat chorus

outro

Blue Moon Baby

Way down in Mexico
There's a crazy little chick that i know
In the honkey tonk on the outskirts of town
where the music's hot and the lights turn down

Blue moon baby.

Well she's sitting in the dark corner
with the skirt that's wrapped real tight
She looks into your eyes and you realize
That you don't feel well and wrong is right.

Blue moon baby.

Will you buy me a drink of tequilla.
won't you buy me a glass of wine
i can sit with you for an hour or two
would youlike a little piece of my time

Blue moon baby

Blue moon girl will make you wear a purple heart
blue moon girl will tear your heart apart
blue moon girl take your money as you can
turn around and find another man

Blue moon baby.

I'm a travelin' man
I've made a lot of stops all over the world
And in every port I own the heart
Of at least one lovely girl

I've a pretty senorita waiting for me
Down in old Mexico
If you're ever in Alaska stop and see
My cute little Eskimo

Oh my sweet Fraulein down in Berlin town
Makes my heart start to yearn
And my China doll down in old Hong Kong
Waits for my return

Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea
I remember the night
When we walked in the sands of Waikiki
And I held you oh so tight

Oh my sweet Fraulein down in Berlin town
Makes my heart start to yearn
And my China doll down in old Hong Kong
Waits for my return

Pretty Polynesian baby over the sea
I remember the night
When we walked in the sands of Waikiki
And I held you oh so tight

Oh, I'm a travelin' man
Yes, I'm a travelin' man

SECRET AGENT MAN

(P.F. Sloan / S. Barri)

There's a man who leads a life of danger
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger
With every move he makes another chance he takes
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow

Secret agent man, secret agent man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Beware of pretty faces that you find
A pretty face can hide an evil mind
Ah, be careful what you say
Or you'll give yourself away
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow

Secret agent man, secret agent man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

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Secret agent man, secret agent man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Swingin' on the Riviera one day
And then layin' in the Bombay alley next day
Oh no, you let the wrong word slip
While kissing persuasive lips
The odds are you won't live to see tomorrow

Secret agent man, secret agent man
They've given you a number and taken away your name

Secret agent man

Baby Doll Dee Dee

Have you been in love w/a pure heart
someone above sent me a work of art
the happiness i feel.
It's so very real

You smiled at me and i sat down cried
on that day all the evil in me died
i don't care what i used to do
that wasn't really me
how can i thank you.

baby doll, i will alway love you, baby doll

we walked down the isle and made a bond
the sculptor waved his magic wand
and created a work of art
you and i will never part

and know you willing to give me a child
on one condition i stop runnin wild
you taught me to stand tall
you are my baby doll.

Chorus 2X

Bridge;
You were my goddess
and god has blessed the two of us.

Solo

chorus 2X

Disguises- Dee Dee

I didn't know what was going on
I didn't know what to do
I just kept finding so many many surprises
But i still knew that i needed you

chorus;
cuz disguises can't hide your love away
cuz disguises baby i love only you
cuz if feels so nice when i hold you
in my arms like a baby

it's in the stars it's destiny
i just didn't know
i love you so
i didn't know if i was wrong
and now i just can't control my emotions

chorus

Solo

if i didn't see you for one week
and then i saw you again
i know i'd fall in love all over
and i'd still want you to be my girlfriend
baby i know i'm always gonna love you so

I'm Ready

I have an axe and pistol
my grave yard friends
shoot tombstone bullets
wearing balls and chains
i'm drinkin' tnt, smokin dynamyte

I hope some screwball start a fight
cuz i'm ready'
i'm ready for you
i hope you are ready for me

pretty little chicks with your curly hair
i know you feel that i ain't no where
just stop what you're doing and come down here
and i'll prove to you momma
that i ain't no square

Chorus

i've been drinkin' gin like never before
feelin' good, want you to know
one more drink, wish you would
take a whole lotta lovin' to make me feel good.

I believe to my soul

well one of these day
it won't be long
you gonna look for me and i'm gonna be gone

i believe, yes i believe, you're trying to make a fool outta me.

you walking 'round here with your head so high
i think i'm gonna have to use my rod.

well one night you were dreaming
and it was hard to believe
you said "oh charlie"
when you know my name is steve

Black coffee

Black coffee is my name
black coffee with not a thang
black coffee freshly ground and fully packed
hot black coffee that's where it's at

way back yonder when i don't know when
i got hung over before i was ten
my skin is white but my soul is black
a cup of black coffee is where it's at.

chorus
Black coffee, black coffee, etc.

well it's black tea it's as black as it can be
it can't compare with me
black tea, can't compare with me

well black tea, it's as good as it can be
but it's a cup of black coffee that a workin' man needs to see

in america where it's the land of the free
you can get by if you got the doe ray me
time goes by and i work like a slave
i'm independent and you know i get laid?
i got me a job and i got me a raise
i gotta a stack of black coffee and how good it tastes

a dime is all it costs in the states
for a cup of black coffee and how good it tastes.

sweet blood call

have a hard time missing you baby
with my pistol in your mouth
have a hard time missing you baby
with my pistol in your mouth
you may be thinking of travelin' north'
but youre brain is staying south

roll your pretty brown eye baby
if you intend to stay
roll your pretty brown eye baby
if you intend to stay
blink 'em just one time
and i'll blow your world away

i can hear
i can hear your sweet blood call
your tied to me baby
i can hear your sweet blood call

isee your eyes rollin''
looks like your love for me's come back
looks like your satisfied
with my one room country shack

do you feel it

do you feel what i feel
do you know what i know
do you feel what i feel
do you know what i know

i feel something strange lord is coming down
i see the whole world turning upside down

way back in the daytime
i feel it in the night
anytime can be the time
anytime at all

i feel we're just going no where ??????
it's just too hard for me to bear

do you feel it
do you feel it
do you feel it

way back in the 60's
burn baby burn
i've been a boom boom in the 70's
one thing i have learned
if you're gonna make it
dig that fox hole deep
it's a combat zone at night
out running on the street

i really do believe we can make a better day
let's make our getaway.

Tin soldier

i'm just a little tin soldier
that wants to jump into your fire
and you, a look in your eyes
a dream passing by in the sky

and i don't understand
all i need just treat me like a man
i ain't no child just take me like i am

i got to know i belong to you
do anything that you want me to
sing any song that you want me to sing to you

i dont' need no aggravation
i just got to make you, my occupation

chorus

all i need is your whispered hello
smiles melt in the snow nothing hurt
your eyes tell deeper than time
see a love that won't rhyme with out words

now i've lost my way
i need her to show me things to say
just give me your love before mine fades away

chorus

love you, love you,
i just want some reaction
someone to give me some satisfaction
all i want to do is sit with you because i love you.

itchycoo

over bridge of sighs
to rest my eyes in shade of green
under dreaming spires'
to ithycoo park that's where i'll be

what will we do there
we'll get high
what will we touch there
we'll touch the sky
but why the tears there
tell you why...
it's all too beautiful

if your inclined to blow my mind
get hung up feed the ducks with a bun
they all come out to groove about
be nice and have fun in the sun

i'll tell you what i'll do
i'd like to go there now with you
you can miss out school
why go to learn the words of fools

Equipment List:

Why you wanna know, so you can stop by my house when i'm not home and rip me off?

Members Of Band:

Me (guitar, vocals).

NEED Vocalist and/or Bass Player & a Drummer!!!!

Storrs/Mansfield Area

Audio/Video Downloads

1. Glue & Wine (SLA Original).mp3
2. Song of a Baker.mp3
3. It All Broke Down (SLA Original).mp3