What Songs Are You Playing?

I've seen a lot of beautiful guitars on the site here and know some of you have new additions (Big Kahuna for one) and I'm interested in knowing what songs you have been playing and more specifically details regarding why a particular guitar is best suited to the style and or tone of that particular song/music.

Songs I've been playing:

Danzig - Mother, Twist of Cain, Dirty Black Summer, She Rides - Gibson SG Standard - fun standard rock stuff my band and I play for sound checks.

Judas Priest - All of the British Steel Album. This is my first time learning a complete album without TAB or music, leads and solos for both guitar parts - trying to get my ear training in. I'm approx 75% done now.
Also a few songs from Unleashed in the East- Genocide,Green Manlishi,Victim of Changes - Gibson SG Standard for Glenn's parts & Gibson Faded Flying V for KK's - nothing like emulating your heroes!

Santana - Black Magic Woman - Les Paul Standard mostly on the neck p/up - love the sustain and Carlos's soulful style of playing.

Black Sabbath - Sweetleaf, Snowblind, (ok no I don't do drugs...well it's been years anyway) Gibson SG Standard for Sweetleaf and Gibson Explorer for Snowblind (C#) love the arpeggiated breakdown for Snowblind.

Metallica - early stuff from Kill em All - this morning I spent 2 hours grooving the first half of Jump In The Fire - tricky little palm muted lick to get down in real time (176 bpm) still not quite there. SG again

Using my 7 String for Originals - "Black Wings" & "Deliver Us" someday I'd like to share them with you - might be a while though...

I sometimes equate my musical journey to stages in life. I'd say by looking at the list above I'm truly in my adolescence! Actually I've been a metal head all my life and thought I would start with some of the originators of the genre - I also try to get back to the roots and play some blues but it just hasn't caught me the way metal has. I will say all the talk of Strats and Tele's here has me interested again...

I intentionally left out what I'm playing through (until now) since it's all done with AMP modeling via my PODXT LIVE. I really like trying to get as close to the guitar tone as possible. This might be considered sacrilege on the TUBE FREAKS forum LOL

I haven't gigged in a few months....so outside of originals that we're working on I haven't been playing any "songs" lately. I'm generally playing blues/country riffs and comping some funky chords when I pick up the instrument.

When I pick up a guitar at the stores, outside of the usual noodling riffs, I'll maybe break into some Hendrix Castles Made of Sand or Little Wing on a Strat. Maybe drop to a low D on the E string and bust out FooFighter's Everlong or Times Like These on a Gibson. I like to think that the guitar is like Michaelangelo's block of stone....I'm only bringing out the work of art that's inside.

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besides the original music I decompose.......:

Witches-CANDLEMASS........Reign Forever World, Lord Of Desert, The Calling-VADER......Dirty Love-FRANK ZAPPA.......Richard Hung Himself--the SLAYER version.....Nailed To The Gun-FIGHT.......You Can't Stop Rock & Roll-TWISTED SISTER......Headhunter-KROKUS.....My Agony/My Ecstacy-NOVEMBER'S DOOM.....Ace Of Spades-MOTORHEAD......Desperate Cry-SEPULTURA.......Cremation-JUNGLE ROT.....etc.

Nice choice with Ace of Spades. How do you handle the vocal?

i don't......i am a horrible vocalist.....but the bass player i rent an apartment from can really do a number on it.....and just about any judas priest, deicide, venom, cannibal corpse.....he's got deadly range for vocalizing metal

whenever I pick up a guitar in a shop, I suddenly don't know what to play. It's like when you tell someone that you can speak a different language, and they say 'say something' and you can't think of anything to say.

But at the moment, when I'm at home, I'm playing Jack Johnson's 'What You Thought You Need'. He tunes the bottom E string down to C.

My wife got me a complete Led Zeppelin songbook for their first 5 albums. Working on Babe I'm Gonna Leave You. Tough song for an amateur, but fun and challenging to learn.

nice! I used to try and copy all the riffs on the live at the BBC discs. I really love Whole Lotta Love with all the blues songs they stick in the middle on the second disc. So cool.

The Zeppelin books have all the lead work in tab, and the lead from Whole Lotta Love is a blast to play. You really have to cut loose and dig in to that fretboard.