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I graduated in 1971, which puts my favored songs out of synch with what the current batch of retirees probably wants to hear. (In 1971 Led Zeppelin was the hot band, and we already know your thoughts on that.



Don't be that quick to assume. I graduated in 1969 and I STILL hate Led Zeppelin. Plant can't sing, Page is WAY overrated, and Bonham was just loud and busy trying to become Keith Moon. Jones was the real musician in that band.

I suggest you spend a few nights bar hopping (drinking optional - for me it is cranberry and soda) and see what the local bands are playing. If they are getting work, by extension, they are pleasing the crowds. Not to say copy what they do, but Joe's Happy Place like Beatles music, take your British Invasion show there. If Jake's House of Jello Shots likes the Zep, take the harder set there. You may end up doing a medley of hits by The Starland Vocal Band (that would be a short show) but it comes down to how much you really want the gig. My pal is a HARD NOSED rocker and he plays country clubs with prerecorded backup and he plays 2 mellow sets, and the third is not that much more raucous with his hardest stuff Earth Wind & Fire. And always closes with Maggie Mae.

Hard for us to know your area. You are probably in a location where you have your choice of genre,. Up where I live a good country band works 3 times per month. Bad blues bands work 8 times per month. Here we have too many "jam nights" were musicians give clubs free music. I have never been to a jam night and will never go. I get paid when I play.