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A Girl Like You — The Boom Boom (Out Goes Comfortably Numb — Smithereens the Lights) Pink Floyd (Ain’t Nothin’ But A) — Pat Travers Communication Houseparty — J. Born on the Bayou — Breakdown — Led Geils Band John Fogerty Zeppelin Aint’ Talkin’ Bout Love Born to Be Wild — Couldn’t Stand the — Van Halen Steppenwolf Weather — Stevie Alive — Pearl Jam Born to Run — Bruce Ray Vaughan All Right Now — Free Springsteen Crazy Train — Ozzy American Woman — Brown Eyed Girl — Van Osbourne The Guess Who Morrison Crossroads — Cream And Your Bird Can Brown Sugar — Rolling Cum on Feel the Noize Sing — The Beatles Stones — Quiet Riot Aqualung — Jethro Tull Burnin’ For You — Blue Custard Pie — Led Are You Experienced? Oyster Cult Zeppelin — Jimi Hendrix Can’t Get Enough — Day of the Eagle — Back in Black — AC/DC Bad Company Robin Trower Back in the Saddle — Can’t You Hear Me Day Tripper — Beatles Knocking — Rolling Detroit Rock City — Bad Love - Eric Clapton Stones KISS Bang Bang — Danger Carry on My Wayward Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Danger Son - Kansas Cheap — AC/DC Bad Motor Scooter — Cat Scratch Fever — Disorder in the House Montrose Ted Nugent — Warren Zevon Bad To The Bone — Caught Up In You — 38 (riff by Bruce George Thorogood Special Springsteen) and the Destroyers Cause We’ve Ended as Do Ya — Electric Light Bargain — The Who Lovers — Jeff Beck Orchestra Barracuda — Heart Cherry Pie — Warrant Dogs — Pink Floyd Bat Out of Hell — Meat China Grove — Doobie Don’t Fear the Reaper Loaf Brothers — Blue Oyster Cult Bawitdaba — Kid Rock Cinnamon Girl — Neil Don't Stop Believin - Big City Nights — Young Journey Scorpions Cities on Flame — Blue Don’t Tell Me You Love Black Hole Sun — Oyster Cult Me — Nightranger Soundgarden Cocaine — Eric Clapton Double Vision — Bodhisattva — Steely Come Again — Damn Foreigner Dan Yankees Draw The Line — Bohemian Rhapsody — Come As You Are — Aerosmith Queen Nirvana Dr. Feelgood — Motley Get It On (Bang a I Can’t Drive 55 — Crue Gong) — T. Rex Sammy Hagar Dream On — Aerosmith Girls, Girls, Girls — I Don’t Need No Doctor Dreams I’ll Never See Motley Crue — Humble Pie — Molly Hatchet Go All The Way — The I Need to Know — Tom Dust in the Wind - Raspberries Petty and the Kansas Gloria — Them Heartbreakers Easy Living — Uriah Glory Days — Bruce In My Dreams — Heep Springsteen Dokken Edge of 17 - Stevie Godzilla — Blue Oyster In the Mood — Rush Nicks Cult It’s a Long Way to the Enter Sandman — Golden Country — REO Top.... — AC/DC Metallica Speedwagon Jessica — Allman Europa — Santana Going Down — Jeff Brothers Band Eye of the Tiger — Beck Group Johnny B. Goode — Survivor Go Your Own Way — Chuck Berry Fantasy Girl — 38 Fleetwood Mac Journey to the Center Special Green Grass and High of the Mind Feel Like Making Love Tides - Outlaws — Amboy Dukes — Bad Company Happy Jack — The Who Just Like You — Three Fight for Your Right — Hair of the Dog — Days Grace Beastie Boys Nazareth Just What I Needed — Flirting With Disaster Hang on Loosely — 38 The Cars — Molly Hatchet Special Kashmir — Led Float On — Modest Hell’s Bells — AC/DC Zeppelin Mouse Hey, Hey, My, My — Keep On Loving You — Fly High Michelle — Neil Young and REO Speedwagon Enuff Z’Nuff Crazy Horse Keep Pushin’ — REO Flying High Again — Highway Star — Deep Speedwagon Ozzy Osbourne Purple Keep Yourself Alive — Fool for the City — Highway To Hell — Queen Foghat AC/DC Kid Charlemagne — Foreplay-Long Time — Hocus Pocus — Focus Steely Dan Boston Hold Your Head Up — Lady Love — Robin For Whom The Bell Argent Trower Tolls — Metallica Home Sweet Home — Lagrange — ZZ Top Free Bird — Lynyrd Motley Crue Last Train to Clarksville Skynyrd Honky Tonk Woman — — Monkees Free For All — Ted Rolling Stones Layla — Derek and the Nugent Hot Blooded — Dominoes Freeway Jam — Jeff Foreigner Lazy — Deep Purple Beck Hotel California — The Let it Ride — Bachman Funk #49 — James Eagles Turner Overdrive Gang I Ain’t Superstitious — Life in the Fast Lane — Gates of Babylon — The Jeff Beck The Eagles Ritchie Blackmore Group Life’s Been Good — My Kinda Lover — Billy Rock the Nation — Joe Walsh Squier Montrose Light My Fire — The Neon Nights — Black Rock You Like a Doors Sabbath Hurricane — Scorpions Lights - Journey Never Been Any Rockin’ Into the Night Like a Hurricane — Neil Reason — Head East — 38 Special Young New Thing — Enuff Rocky Mountain Way Little Wing — Jimi Z’Nuff — Joe Walsh Hendrix No More Mr. Nice Guy Roll On Down the Live Wire - Motley Crue — Alice Cooper Highway — Bachman Livin’ After Midnight — No More No More — Turner Overdrive Judas Priest Aerosmith Roller — April Wine Living On A Prayer — No One Like You — Round and Round — Bon Jovi Scorpions Ratt Locomotive Breath — Nothing But a Good Rumble — Link Wray Jethro Tull Time — Poison Run Like Hell — Pink Lola — Kinks Ohio — Crosby Stills Floyd Lookin’ out for Number Nash & Young Run to the Hills — Iron One — Bachman Oh Well — Fleetwood Maiden Turner Overdrive Mac Same Old Song & Lonely is the Night — Paranoid — Black Dance — Aerosmith Billy Squier Sabbath Satisfaction — The Long Train Running — Panic in Detroit — Rolling Stones Doobie Brothers David Bowie Saturday Night’s All — Power — Ritchie Right For Fighting Aerosmith Blackmore — Elton John Lucille Has Messed My Pretty Woman — Roy Starship Trooper — Mind Up Orbison Yes — Frank Zappa Proud Mary — Separate Ways - Ma-Ma-Ma Belle — Creedence Clearwater Journey Electric Light Revival Seven Nation Army — Orchestra Purple Haze — Jimi White Stripes Man on the Silver Hendrix Sharp Dressed Man — Mountain — Rainbow Rebel Yell — Billy Idol ZZ Top Meadows — Joe Walsh Red — King Crimson Should I Stay Or Mental Health — Quiet Reelin’ In the Years — Should I Go — The Riot Steely Dan Clash Mississippi Queen — Riviera Paradise — Sin City — The Fying Mountain Stevie Ray Vaughan Burrito Brothers Money for Nothing — Rock and Roll, Part 2 — Sister Christian — Dire Straits Gary Glitter Nightranger More Than a Feeling — Rock and Roll Queen Six Pack — Black Flag Boston — Mott The Hoople Sledgehammer — Moving In Stereo — Rock Bottom — KISS Bachman Turner The Cars Rock Candy — Overdrive Montrose Sleepwalk — Santo & Talk Dirty To Me — — Johnny Poison Aerosmith Slow Ride — Foghat That’s All Right Mama Welcome to the Jungle Smells Like Teen Spirit — Elvis Presley — Guns and — Nirvana song, riff by Scott Moore Roses Smoke on the Water — That Smell — Lynyrd We’re an American Deep Purple Skynyrd Band — Grand Funk Sophie — Jeff Beck The Boys are Back in What’s Goin’ On — Spirit of the Radio — Town — Thin Lizzy Marvin Gaye Rush The Ocean — Led Wheel In the Sky — Spooky - Atlanta Zeppelin Journey Rhythm Section The Song Remains the While My Guitar Gently Stairway to Heaven — Same — Led Weeps — The Led Zeppelin Zeppelin Beatles Start Me Up — Rolling The Story in Your Eyes Whipping Post — The Stones - Moody Blues Allman Brothers Statesboro Blues — The Stroke — Billy Band Allman Brothers Band Squier Whole Lotta Love — Stealin’ — Uriah Heep Thirty Days in the Hole Led Zeppelin Still of the Night — — Humble Pie Wipe Out — Surfaris Whitesnake Time — Pink Floyd Won’t Get Fooled Again Stone Cold — Ritchie Time — Phil Keaggy — The Who Blackmore Too Hot To Handle — Working Man — Rush Stranglehold — Ted UFO You Ain’t Goin’ Nugent Tom Sawyer — Rush Nowhere — The Byrds Strutter — KISS Top of the World - Van You Ain’t Seen Nothing Suffragette City — Halen Yet — Bachman David Bowie Train Kept A Rollin’ — Turner Overdrive Sultans of Swing — Aerosmith You Can’t Do That — Dire Straits Traveling Man — Bob The Beatles Summer Nights - Van Seger You Give Love a Bad Halen Tush — ZZ-Top Name — Bon Jovi Summertime Blues — 21st Century Schizoid You Got Another Thing The Who Man — King Coming — Judas Sunshine of Your Love Crimson Priest — Cream Unchained - Van Halen You Got Some Sweet Child O’ Mine — Voodoo Chile — Jimi Imagination - Boz Guns and Roses Hendrix Scaggs Sweet Home Alabama Vodoo Chile — Stevie You Really Got Me — — Lynyrd Skynyrd Ray Vaughan Van Halen version Sweet Leaf — Black version You Really Got Me — Sabbath Walk Away — James Kinks Sweet Lorraine — Uriah Gang You Shook Me All Night Heep Walk Don’t Run — Long — AC/DC Take Me Out — Franz Ventures Ziggy Stardust — David Ferdinand Bowie New additions

Eruption - Van Halen All Along The Watchtower - The Jimi Hendrix Experience November Rain - Guns N' Roses One - Metallica Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson Fade To Black - Metallica Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Ozborne For The Love Of God - Steve Vai Hot For Teacher - Van Halen No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers BandMoney - Pink Floyd Starship Trooper - YES Man In The Box - Alice In Chains Mean Street - Van Halen Scuttle Buttin' - Stevie Ray Vaughan Let It Rain - Eric Clapton Sweet Jane - Lou Reed Never In My Life - Mountain Green Grass and High Tides - The Outlaws (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - The Outlaws Little Miss Dangerous - Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes Black And Blue - Van Halen Beautiful Girls - Van Halen Best Of Both Worlds - Van Halen Why Can't This Be Love - Van Halen Can't You See - Marshall Tucker Band Surfing With The Alien - Joe Satriani