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A Girl Like You — The Boom Boom (Out Goes Comfortably Numb — Smithereens the Lights) (Ain’t Nothin’ But A) — Communication Houseparty — J. Born on the Bayou — Breakdown — Led Geils John Fogerty Zeppelin Aint’ Talkin’ Bout Love — Couldn’t Stand the — Steppenwolf Weather — Stevie Alive — — Bruce Ray Vaughan All Right Now — Free Springsteen — Ozzy American Woman — — Van Osbourne The Guess Who Morrison Crossroads — Cream And Your Bird Can Brown Sugar — Rolling Cum on Feel the Noize Sing — Stones — Aqualung — Jethro Tull Burnin’ For You — Blue Custard Pie — Led ? Oyster Cult Zeppelin — Can’t Get Enough — Day of the Eagle — — AC/DC Robin Trower — Can’t You Hear Me — Beatles Knocking — Rolling Rock City — Bad Love - Stones KISS Bang Bang — Danger Carry on My Wayward Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Danger Son - Kansas Cheap — AC/DC — Cat Scratch Fever — Disorder in the House Montrose Bad To The Bone — Caught Up In You — 38 ( by Bruce George Thorogood Special Springsteen) and the Destroyers Cause We’ve Ended as Do Ya — Electric Light Bargain — Lovers — Jeff Orchestra Barracuda — Heart Cherry Pie — Warrant Dogs — Pink Floyd — Meat China Grove — Doobie Don’t Fear the Reaper Loaf Brothers — Blue Oyster Cult Bawitdaba — — 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 55 — Crue Gong) — T. Rex Dream On — Aerosmith Girls, Girls, Girls — I Don’t Need No Doctor Dreams I’ll Never See Motley Crue — 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 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 Speedwagon Jessica — Allman Europa — Santana Going Down — Jeff Brothers Band — Beck Group Johnny B. Goode — Survivor Go Your Own Way — Fantasy Girl — 38 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 — Flirting With Disaster Hang on Loosely — 38 — 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 — and REO Speedwagon Enuff Z’Nuff Crazy Horse Keep Pushin’ — REO — Highway Star — Deep Speedwagon Purple Keep Yourself Alive — Fool for the City — — Queen AC/DC Kid Charlemagne — Foreplay-Long Time — Hocus Pocus — Focus Hold Your Head Up — Lady Love — Robin For Whom The Bell Argent Trower Tolls — Metallica Home Sweet Home — Lagrange — ZZ Top — Lynyrd Motley Crue Last Train to Clarksville Skynyrd Honky Tonk Woman — — Monkees Free For All — Ted Rolling Stones — Derek and the Nugent Hot Blooded — Dominoes Freeway Jam — Jeff Foreigner Lazy — Beck Hotel — The Let it Ride — Bachman Funk #49 — Eagles Turner Overdrive Gang I Ain’t Superstitious — Life in the Fast Lane — Gates of Babylon — The The Eagles Group Life’s Been Good — My Kinda Lover — Billy Rock the Nation — 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 Mountain Way — Jimi Z’Nuff — Joe Walsh Hendrix No More Mr. Nice Guy Roll On Down the Live Wire - Motley Crue — Highway — Bachman Livin’ After Midnight — No More No More — Turner Overdrive Aerosmith Roller — April Wine Living On A Prayer — No One Like You — Round and Round — Scorpions Locomotive Breath — Nothing But a Good Jethro Tull Time — Poison Run Like Hell — Pink Lola — Kinks — 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 & Lonely is the Night — Paranoid — Black Dance — Aerosmith Sabbath Satisfaction — The Long Train Running — — Rolling Stones Doobie Brothers Saturday Night’s All — Power — Ritchie Right For Fighting Aerosmith Blackmore — Lucille Has Messed My Pretty Woman — Roy Starship Trooper — Mind Up Orbison Yes — Proud Mary — Separate Ways - Ma-Ma-Ma Belle — Creedence Clearwater Journey Electric Light Revival Seven Nation Army — Orchestra — Jimi White Stripes Man on the Silver Hendrix — Mountain — Rainbow Rebel Yell — Billy Idol ZZ Top Meadows — Joe Walsh Red — Should I Stay Or Mental Health — Quiet Reelin’ In the Years — Should I Go — The Riot Steely Dan Clash — Riviera Paradise — Sin City — The Fying Mountain Burrito Brothers Money for Nothing — , Part 2 — Sister Christian — Gary Glitter Nightranger More Than a Feeling — Rock and Roll Queen Six Pack — Black Flag Boston — Sledgehammer — — Rock Bottom — KISS Bachman Turner The Cars Rock Candy — Overdrive Montrose Sleepwalk — Santo & Talk Dirty To Me — — Johnny Poison Aerosmith — Foghat That’s All Right Mama Welcome to the Jungle Smells Like Teen Spirit — — Guns and — Nirvana song, riff by Scott Moore Roses — 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 — Marvin Gaye Rush The Ocean — Led Wheel In the Sky — Spooky - Zeppelin Journey The Song Remains the While My Gently — Same — Led Weeps — The Zeppelin Beatles Start Me Up — Rolling The Story in Your Eyes Whipping Post — The Stones - Moody Allman Brothers Statesboro Blues — The Stroke — Billy Band Allman Brothers Band Squier Whole — Stealin’ — Uriah Heep Thirty Days in the Hole Led Zeppelin Still of the Night — — Humble Pie Wipe Out — Surfaris Time — Pink Floyd Won’t Get Fooled Again Stone Cold — Ritchie Time — — The Who Blackmore Too Hot To Handle — — 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 — Halen Yet — Bachman David Bowie Train Kept A Rollin’ — Turner Overdrive — 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 — 21st Century Schizoid You Got Another Thing The Who Man — King Coming — Judas Crimson Priest — Cream Unchained - Van Halen You Got Some Sweet Child O’ Mine — — Jimi Imagination - Boz Guns and Roses Hendrix Scaggs Vodoo Chile — Stevie — — Ray Vaughan Van Halen version — Black version You Really Got Me — Sabbath Walk Away — James Kinks Sweet Lorraine — Uriah Gang 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 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience November Rain - Guns N' Roses One - Metallica Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin Cliffs of Dover - Fade To Black - Metallica Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Ozborne For The Love Of God - - Van Halen - Ozzy Osbourne Blue Sky - The Allman Brothers BandMoney - Pink Floyd Starship Trooper - YES Man In The Box - Mean Street - Van Halen Scuttle Buttin' - Stevie Ray Vaughan Let It Rain - Eric Clapton Sweet Jane - Never - Mountain Green Grass and High Tides - The Outlaws (Ghost) Riders in the Sky - The Outlaws - Ted Nugent & - 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 -