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Dave Forsdyke
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I'm Dave. I'm an experienced Rock and Pop drummer. I've played with covers/function bands for over 30 years. I pick new stuff up fast.
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I'M HAPPY TO LEARN POP/ROCK COVERS AND CAN PICK NEW SONGS UP QUICKLY. HERE@S A RECENT SET LIST FROM A COVERS BAND (MAY 2023):
1 I Got A Feeling Black Eyed Peas
2 Signed Sealed Delivered Stevie Wonder
3 Happy Pharrell Willams F
4 I Knew You Were Trouble Taylor Swift
5 Forget You CeeLo Green
6 Five Colours In Her Hair McFly
7 I Got You (I Feel Good) James Brown
8 I Saw Her Standing There The Beatles
9 I’ll Be There For You Rembrants
10 Shake It Of Taylor Swift G
11 All Night Long Lionel Richie
12 Shotgun George Ezra
13 Shake A Tail Feather Ray Charles
14 Don’t Stop Me Now Queen
15 Shut Up And Dance Walk The Moon
16 Superstition Stevie Wonder
17 Can’t Stop The Feeling Justin Timberlake
18 Treasure Bruno Mars
19 Don’t Start Now Dua Lipa
20 Play That Funky Music Wild Cherry
21 Shine Take That
22 Seven Nation Army The White Stripes
23 Mr Brightside The Killers
24 Summer of ‘69 Bryan Adams
25 The Power Of Love Huey Lewis & The News
26 Thinking Out Loud Ed Sheeran
27 Uptown Funk Bruno Mars
ENCORE
28 Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
Here's a few of the songs I've played over the years;
2010s
All summer long (Kid Rock)
Cake By The Ocean (DNCE)
Can’t Stop The Feeling (Justin Timberlake)
Castle on the Hill (Ed Sheeran)
Domino (Jessie J)
Don't stop believing (Journey/Glee)
Firework (Katy Perry)
Forget You (Cee-Lo Green)
Get Lucky (Daft Punk)
I Gotta Feeling (Black Eyed Peas)
I'm Yours (Jason Mraz)
Just The Way You Are (Bruno Mars)
Mercy (Duffy)
Moves Like Jagger (Maroon 5)
Mr Brightside (Killers)
Never forget you (Noisettes)
Pack Up (Eliza Doolittle)
Paparazzi (Lady Gaga)
Price Tag (Jessie J)
Rolling in the Deep (Adele)
Run (Leona Lewis/Snow Patrol)
Sex on Fire (Kings of Leon)
Shut Up And Dance (Walk the Moon)
2000s
Amazed (Lonestar)
Dakota (Stereophonics)
Dance the night away (Mavericks)
Dancing in the Moonlight (Toploader)
I love it when you call (Feeling)
Love the one you're with (Will Young)
Mr Rock n Roll (Amy McDonald)
Rock DJ (Robbie Williams)
She's the one (Robbie Williams)
Take your mama (Scissor Sisters)
This Love (Maroon 5)
Valerie (Amy Winehouse/Zutons)
You're still the one (Shania Twain)
1990s
Angels (Robbie Williams)
Bohemian Like You (Dandy Warhols)
500 miles (Proclaimers)
Let me entertain you (Robbie Williams)
Living la vida loca (Ricky Martin)
Man! I feel like a woman (Shania Twain)
Teenage dirtbag (Wheatus)
When you say nothing at all (Ronan Keating)
When you're gone (Bryan Adams)
1980s
I Just Can’t Get Enough (Depeche Mode / The Saturdays 2008)
9 to 5 (Dolly Parton)
Livin’ on a prayer (Bon Jovi)
Addicted to Love (Robert Palmer)
Baggy Trousers (Madness)
Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)
Electric Dreams (Giorgio Moroder / Phil Oakey)
Don't stop believing (Journey)
It's raining men (Weather Girls/Geri Halliwell)
Jump (Van Halen)
Love shack (B52s)
Power of Love (Huey Lewis)
Shake your tail feather (Ray Charles)
Simply the best (Tina Turner)
Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams)
Sweet Child of Mine (Guns n Roses)
Wake me up before you go go (Wham)
Walking on Sunshine (Katrina & The Waves)
We are family (Sister Sledge)
Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
1970s
Go your own way (Fleetwood Mac)
All right now (Free)
American pie (Don McLean)
Blame it on the boogie (Jackson 5)
Brown eyed girl (Van Morrison)
Can't take my eyes off you (Frankie Valli/Andy Williams)
Car wash (Rose Royce)
Celebration (Kool and the Gang)
Come up and see me (Steve Harley)
Crocodile rock (Elton John)
Dancing Queen (Abba)
Disco inferno (Trammps)
Don't stop me now (Queen)
Mama Mia (Abba)
Mr Blue Sky (ELO)
Moondance (Van Morrison)
Play that funky music (Wild Cherry)
Since you've been gone (Rainbow)
Stuck in the middle (Steelers Wheel)
Superstition (Stevie Wonder)
Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond)
Sweet Home Alabama (Lynrd Skynrd)
Waterloo (Abba)
1960s
Brown sugar (Rolling Stones)
Daydream believer (Monkees)
Hard day's night (Beatles)
I saw her standing there (Beatles)
I'm a believer (Monkees)
In the midnight hour (Wilson Pickett)
Knock on wood (Eddie Floyd)
Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett)
1950s
Great balls of fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)
Jailhouse Rock (Elvis Presley)
Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry)
Roll over Beethoven (Chuck Berry)
Shake your tail feather (Ray Charles)
Elvis
Blue Suede Shoes
Hard Headed Woman
Teddy Bear
Jailhouse Rock
Don't be Cruel
Heartbreak hotel
I just can't help believin
Devil in Disguise
Never been to Spain
All shook up
A fool such as I
If I can dream
Hound Dog
It's now or never
I got a woman
Walk a mile in my shoes
I can't stop loving you
Always on my mind
Wonder of You
Big Hunk of Love
Suspicious Minds
Burning Love
Can't help falling in love
viva Las Vegas
Way Down
A Little Less Conversation
Polk Salad Annie
Mystery Train
Tiger Man
One Night
Kentucky Rain
Moody Blue
CC Rider
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Rock, Folk, Pop, Ceillidh, Traditional Scottish folk, Traditional English folk, Covers, Top 40, Tribute
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Fluent improviser, Audio engineer
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