Brian Wachhorst

Brian Wachhorst(guitar/ vocals)

Brian was the founder and lead singer of the power-pop quartet, The Aftershocks.  The 1993 SF Weekly reader’s poll named them as one of the ten most popular Bay Area bands along with Counting Crows and Cake.  Brian started another project in 1994 – the Bay Area headliner YellowWood Junction.  YellowWood Junction performed regularly to packed houses across the Western U.S., sharing the stage with bands like Train and Third Eye Blind.  In 1995, KFOG featured Brian’s song “Fade to Blue” on the “10 O’clock News” radio broadcast.  This was just the beginning of his extensive international AAA radio airplay, which includes four new songs from his most recent album “The Life of Riley” (released in 2000).

As a cover performer, Brian performs 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and current material influenced by John Lennon, Elton John, Neil Young, REM, Counting Crows, and Train.  Recent clients include  Silicon Valley Bank, The Gap and The Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay.

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Song List

BRIAN WACHHORST song list

90’s & Current:

1234 — Plain White T’s
1979 — Smashing Pumpkins
3 AM — Matchbox 20
A Team — Ed Shearan
All Apologies — Nirvana
Babylon — David Gray
Betterman — Pearl Jam
Better Together — Jack Johnson
Bittersweet – Big Head Todd
But Anyway – Blues Traveler
Closer to Fine — Indigo Girls
Collide – Howie Day
Come as You Are — Nirvana
Come on Get Higher — Matt Nathanson
Could It Be Another Change – The Samples
Counting Stars – One Republic
Crash Into Me – Dave Matthews
Daughters – John Mayer
Drive — Incubus
Drops of Jupiter — Train
Everyday — Dave Matthews
Flake – Jack Johnson
Gone Gone Gone – Phillip Phillips
Hard To Handle – Black Crows
Harvest Moon – Neil Young
Hey Soul Sister — Train
Hey There Deilah – Plain White T’s
High & Dry — Radiohead
Home – Phillip Phillips
I Am — Train
I Am Barely Breathin’ – Duncan Sheik
If You Could Only See – Tonic
I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
I Will Survive – Cake version
Jane Says – Jane’s Addiction
Jimi Thing – Dave Matthews
Last Dance With Mary Jane — Tom Petty
Love Is What I Got — Sublime
Man Who Would be Santa — Vertical Horizon
Marry Me — Train
Meet Virginia — Train
Mr. Jones — Counting Crows
No Such Thing – John Mayer
Nobody’s Fault — Beck
Only Wanna Be With You — Hootie & The Blowfish
Pocket Full of Kryptonite – Spin Doctors
Right Here Right Now – Jesus Jones
Rooster – Alice in Chains
Runaway — Blues Traveler
Sixth Avenue Heartache – The Wallflowers
Slide – Goo Goo Dolls
Strange Condition – Pete Yorn
Sunny Came Home — Shawn Colvin
Three Marlenas – The Wallflowers
Time of Your Life – Green Day
Two Princes – Spin Doctors
Walk on the Ocean – Toad the Wet Sprocket
Where Are You Goin’ – Dave Matthews
Why Georgia Why – John Mayer
Wonderwall – Oasis
You Found Me – The Fray
You’re Beautiful – James Blunt

80’s:

Blister in the Sun – Violent Femmes
Fall at Your Feet – Crowded House
Free Fallin’ – Tom Petty
Ghost in You – Psychedelic Furs
Give a Little Bit – Supertramp
Is That Love? – Squeeze
It’s Only Natural – Crowded House
Just Like Heaven – The Cure
Livin’ on a Prayer – Bon Jovi
Losing My Religion — REM
Man on the Moon — REM
Melt With You – Tears for Fears
Message in a Bottle – The Police
No Myth – Michael Penn
One – U2
One I Love — REM
Rockin’ in the Free World – Neil Young
Romeo & Juliet – Dire Straits
Sweet Child of Mine – Guns & Roses
Tempted — Squeeze
This and That – Michael Penn
Under the Milky Way – The Church
Weather With You – Crowded House
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd

70’s:

Allison — Elvis Costello
Amie – Pure Prairie League
Beginnings — Chicago
Brandy – Looking Glass
Brown Eyed Girl — Van Morrison
Come Down in Time – Elton John
Come Monday – Jimmy Buffet
Cowgirl in the Sand – Neil Young
Daniel – Elton John
Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright – Bob Dylan
Drift Away – Dobie Gray
Feelin’ Alright – Dave Mason
Fire and Rain – James Taylor
Freebird – Lynard Skynard
Friend of the Devil – The Grateful Dead
From the Beginning – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Get Down Tonight – KC & the Sunshine Band
Goin’ to California – Led Zeppelin
Have you Ever Seen the Rain? – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Heart of Gold – Neil Young
Imagine – John Lennon
Jackie Wilson Said – Van Morrison
Jigsaw Puzzle – Rolling Stones
Joker, The – Steve Miller
Layla – Eric Clapton
Let’s Stay Together — Al Green
Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan
Listen to Her Heart – Tom Petty
Lola – The Kinks
Lonely People — America
Long Train Runnin’ – Doobie Brothers
Love Song – Elton John
Love the One You’re With – Steven Stills
Margaritaville – Jimmy Buffet
Me & Hulio – Paul Simon
Melissa – Allman Brothers
Mexico – James Taylor
Old Man – Neil Young
Out of the Blue & into the Black –Neil Young
Peaceful Easy Feelin’ – The Eagles
Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
Positively 4th Street – Bob Dylan
Rikki Don’t Lose That Number — Steely Dan
Ripple – The Grateful Dead
Rocketman – Elton John
Rocky Mountain High – John Denver
Seven Bridges Road – The Eagles
Shower the People – James Taylor
Sister Golden Hair — America
Something in the Way She Moves – James Taylor
Southern Cross – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Squeeze Box – The Who
Stairway to Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Stuck in the Middle with You – Stealer’s Wheel
Sweet Black Angel – Rolling Stones
Take it Easy – The Eagles
Take Me Home Country Roads – John Denver
Take the Money and Run – Steve Miller
Tequila Sunrise – The Eagles
Tin Man – America
Ventura Highway – America
What’s Goin’ On – Marvin Gaye
Wild Horses — Rolling Stones
Wild World – Cat Stevens
Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton

 

 

Retro Songs:  

Across the Universe – The Beatles
All along the Watchtower – Bob Dylan
American Pie – Don McLean
Angie — The Rolling Stones
Bad Bad Leroy Brown — Jim Croce
Boxer, The – Simon & Garfunkle
City of New Orleans — Arlo Guthrie
Dead Flowers – The Rolling Stones
Dock of the Bay – Otis Redding
Honky Tonk Woman – The Rolling Stones
Make It with You — Bread
Money – The Beatles
Mrs. Robinson – Simon & Garfunkle
Not Fade Away – Bo Didley
Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
Rocky Raccoon – The Beatles
Run Around Sue — Dion
Sweet Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby, Stills & Nash
Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones
Taxman – The Beatles
Twist and Shout – The Beatles
Up on Cripple Creek – The Band
You Can’t Always Get What You Want – The Rolling Stones
You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away — The Beatles

Standards:
Fly me to the Moon
It Had to be You
Jump Jive & Wail – Brian Setzer Orchestra
Moondance
Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My head
Route 66
Way You Look Tonight
Wonderful World

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