wes kelley

Bass Cover Songs

Songs I've Played on Bass in Recent Years


I've been in various cover bands over the years.
I've also been used as a fill-in bass player.
Below is a list of songs I've played,
which provides an idea of my
bass background & style.

Hire me for a bass gig -- band or studio.
If you're a classic rock band, I've probably
 played many of the songs on your list.
Compare your song list to mine.
Hire me as a fill-in.
Or full-time.

Here are songs I've played in recent years:

TNT - AC/DC
Live Wire
- AC/DC
Gone Shootin' - AC/DC
Highway To Hell
- AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long
- AC/DC
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC
Same Old Song And Dance - Aerosmith
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Walk This Way - Aerosmith
You Outta Know
 - Alanis Morrisette
Melissa - Allman Brothers
Stormy Monday - Allman Brothers
House Of The Rising Sun - Animals
Midnight Rendezvous - Babys
Can't Get Enough
- Bad Company
Movin' On - Bad Company
Rock Steady - Bad Company
Live for the Music - Bad Company
All Right Now - Bad Company (Free)
No Matter What - Badfinger
Fight for Your Right to Party - Beastie Boys
Back in the USSR - Beatles
Come Together - Beatles
Don’t Let Me Down - Beatles
Dear Prudence - Beatles
Eight Days A Week - Beatles
Helter Skelter - Beatles
I Saw Her Standing There - Beatles
I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Beatles
Taxman - Beatles
Twist & Shout - Beatles
Save a Horse - Big & Rich
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers
L.A. Woman - Billy Idol
Mony Mony - Billy Idol
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
You May Be Right - Billy Joel
Hard to Handle - Black Crowes
One Way or Another - Blondie
Main Street - Bob Seger
Old Time Rock & Roll - Bob Seger
Turn the Page - Bob Seger
I Fought the Law
- Bobby Fuller Four
It's My Life - Bon Jovi
Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Smokin' In The Boy's Room - Brownsville Station
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
Run to You - Byran Adams
Love Shack - B-52's
Before He Cheats
- Carrie Underwood
Folsom Prison - Cash
Ring of Fire - Cash
Ghost Riders In The Sky - Cash
Brickhouse - Commodores
Suzie Q
- CCR
Fortunate Son - CCR
Put A Spell on You - CCR
Proud Mary - CCR
Up Around the Bend - CCR
Born on the Bayou - CCR
Green River - CCR
Hello There/Aint That A Shame - Cheap Trick
Higher Ground - Chili Peppers
Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
I Shot the Sheriff - Clapton
Electric Worry - Clutch
Shine - Collective Soul
A Change Would Do You Good - Sheryl Crow
Hanging Around - Counting Crowes
Mr. Jones - Counting Crowes
Badge - Cream
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
Strange Brew - Cream
White Room - Cream
Layla - Cream (D&D)
Only You Know - Dave Mason
Rebel, Rebel - David Bowie
Suffragette City - David Bowie
Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
New Age Girl - Dead Eye Dick
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Listen to the Music - Doobies
China Grove - Doobies
Long Train Running - Doobies
Knocking on Heaven's Door - Dylan
Already Gone - Eagles
Shakin' - Eddie Money
Two Tickets to Paradise - Eddie Money
Cocaine
- Eric Clapton
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Before You Accuse Me - Eric Clapton
Inside Out - Eve 6
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
Old Man Down The Road - Fogerty
What's Up? - Four Non Blondes
Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Breakup Song - Greg Kihn Band
I Will Survive
- Gloria Gaynor
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Some Kind of Wonderful
- Grand Funk
American Band - Grand Funk
Closer to Home (I'm Your Captain) - Grand Funk
Heartbreaker - Grand Funk
I'm No Angel - Greg Allman
 American Woman - Guess Who
Without You - Harry Nielsen
The Walk - Mayer Hawthorne
Never Been Any Reason
- Head East
Little Wing - Hendrix
Hey Joe - Hendrix
Foxy Lady - Hendrix
Fire - Hendrix
Red House - Hendrix
Long Cool Woman - Hollies
Must Have Got Lost - J Geils Band
Flake - Jack Johnson
Billie Jean - Jackson
Cold Hearted Bitch - Jet
Margaritavile - Jimmy Buffet
I Can See Cleary Now
- Jimmy Cliff
The Middle - Jimmy Eat World
I Love Rock n Roll - Joan Jett
I Hate Myself For Lovin' You - Joan Jett
Walk Away
- Joe Walsh
Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
Hurts So Good - John Cougar
Wild Nights - John Cougar
Pink Houses - John Cougar
R.O.C.K in The USA - John Cougar
Lonely Old Nights - John Cougar
Secret Agent Man - Johnny Rivers
Anyway You Want It - Journey
Faithfully - Journey
Breakin' the Law - Judas Priest
Blue on Black - Kenny Wayne Shepard
Rock and Roll All Night - KISS
American Woman - Lenny Kravitz
My Own Worst Enemy - LIT
Take The Highway - Marshall Tucker
Can't You See - Marshall Tucker
There Goes Another Love Song - Marshall Tucker
Long Hard Ride - Marshall Tucker
She's Gone - Marshall Tucker
Singing Rhymes - Marshall Tucker
I'll Be Loving You - Marshall Tucker
It Takes Time - Marshall Tucker
24 Hours At A Time - Marshall Tucker
3am - Matchbox 20
Twist, Wipeout, Hard Headed Medley
I'm The Only One
- Melissa Etheridge
Bitch - Meridith Brooks
Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues
Nothin But a Good Time - Motley Crew
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Cherry Cherry - Neil Diamond
Down By The River - Neil Young
Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young
Old Man - Neil Young
Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young
Hella Good - No Doubt
Crazy Train
- Ozzy
Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Comfortably Numb
- Pink Floyd
Mama Don't Dance - Poison
Message in a Bottle - Police
Brass in Pocket - Pretenders
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash
Lunatic Fringe - Red Rider
Beer Song - Reel Big Fish
Fire (The One I Love) - REM
Roll With The Changes - REO Speedwagon
It Don't Come Easy - Ringo
Boogie Oogie Oogie - Taste of Honey
Day of the Eagle
- Robin Trower
Too Rolling Stoned - Robin Trower
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
What I Like About You - Romantics
 I Wanna Be Sedated - Romones
Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Limelight - Rush
Paranoid - Sabbath
War Pigs - Sabbath
Smooth Operator - Sade
Where Eagles Fly - Sammy Hagar
One Way to Rock - Sammy Hagar
Heavy Metal - Sammy Hagar
I Love This Bar - Sammy Hagar
Evil Ways - Santana
A Change Would Do You Good - Sheryl Crow
All For You
- Sister Hazel
Tuesday's Gone - Skynyrd
Call Me TheBreeze - Skynyrd
Simple Man - Skynyrd
What's Your Name? - Skynyrd
Sweet Home Alabama - Skynyrd
Gimmie Three Steps - Skynyrd
Freebird - Skynryd
Little Miss - Spin Doctors
Two Princes - Spin Doctors
Glory Days - Springsteen
Everybody Wants You -- Squire
Cold Shot
- SRV
Crossfire - SRV
House is a Rockin' - SRV
Pride & Joy - SRV
Superstitions - Stevie Wonder/SRV
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
The Joker - Steve Miller
Fly Like An Eagle - Steve Miller
Plush - Stone Temple Pilots
I Got The Blues - Stones
Tumblin' Dice - Stones
Honky Tonky Women - Stones
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Stones
Beast of Burden - Stones
Brown Sugar - Stones
Sympathy for the Devil - Stones
Satisfaction - Stones
Rock This Town - Stray Cats
Jump Jive & Wail - Stray Cats
Garden Grove
- Sublime
What I Got - Sublime
Santeria - Sublime
Midnight Rendezvous - The Babys
Good Times Roll - The Cars
Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
Break on Through - The Doors
Roadhouse Blues - The Doors
Riders on the Storn - The Doors
You Really Got Me
- The Kinks
All Day & All of The Night - The Kinks
Love Potion #9 - The Searchers
The Who - I Can't Explain
Never Been To Spain - Three Dog Night
Joy To The World - Three Dog Night
American Girl - Tom Petty
I Need To Know
- Tom Petty
You Wreck Me - Tom Petty
Breakdown - Tom Petty
Won't Back Down - Tom Petty
Hanky Panky - Tommy James
Jenny (867-5309) - Tommy Tutone
Gimme One Reason - Tracy Chapman
Free - Train
Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
Brown Eyed Girl
- Van Morrison
Into The Mystic - Van Morrison
Domino - Van Morrison
Mustang Sally - Various
Blue Suede Shoes/Hound Dog - Various
Wild Thing, Louie Louie - Various
Blister in the Sun - Violent Fems
Low Rider - War
Island in the Sun - Weezer
Keep On Smilin' - Wet Willie
Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
On the Road Again - Willie
Blowin' Free - Wishbone Ash
D'yer Mak'er - Zeppelin
Rock and Roll - Zeppelin
Custard Pie - Zeppelin
Good Times, Bad Times - Zeppelin
The Ocean - Zeppelin
Thank You - Zeppelin
Whole Lotta Love - Zeppelin Medley
How Many More Times - Zeppelin Medley
Dazed & Confused - Zeppelin Medley
Cheap Sunglasses - ZZ Top
Waiting for Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago - ZZ Top
LaGrange - ZZ Top
Tush - ZZ Top

And some new country songs:

Hicktown - Jason Aldean
My Kinda Party - Jason Aldean
That's How Country Boys Roll - Billy Currington
Boots On - Randy Houser
Love You - Jack Ingram
Hillbilly Bone - Blake Shelton
All About Tonight - Blake Shelton
God Blessed Texas - Little Texas
American Ride - Toby Keith
 8 Second Ride - Jake Owen
Boot Scootin' Boogie - Big & Rich
Little Less Talk -
All My Rowdy Friends - Hank Williams, Jr.
Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off - Joe Nichols 
Guitars & Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakam
These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra
I Like It, I Love It - Tim McGraw 




The majority of these songs have been played live,
although a few never made it out of rehearsal.
I've also sang lead vocals and/or harmony
on many of these songs.


© Wes Kelley Music, 2011