What We Play

Sex On Fire – Kings Of Leon
What I Got – Sublime
The Middle – Jimmy Eats World
3AM – Matchbox 20
Glory Days – Bruce Springsteen
Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots
Message In A Bottle – The Police
I Melt With You – Modern English
When You Were Young – The Killers
A Little Less Conversation – Elvis Presley
Let’s Go – The Cars
I Want You Back – Jackson 5/David Ruffin
All The Small Things – Blink 182
I Saw Her Standing There – The Beatles
Vertigo – U2
Pump It Up – Elvis Costello
Tie Your Mother Down – Queen
Summer of 69 – Bryan Adams
Workin’ For A Livin’ – Huey Lewis & the News
Hey Jealousy – Gin Blossoms
December 1963 – The Four Seasons
I Want You To Want Me – Cheap Trick
Is She Really Going Out With Him? – Joe Jackson
Sick Of Myself – Matthew Sweet
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
American Girl – Tom Petty
My Own Worst Enemy – Lit
One – U2
Hard To Handle – Black Crowes
Rock n Roll – Led Zeppelin
What I Like About You – The Romantics
Some Kind Of Wonderful – Grand Funk Railroad
I’m A Believer – The Monkees
All Right Now – Free
Bye Bye Love – The Cars
Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry
Higher Ground – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Just Like Heaven – The Cure
Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting – Elton John
How To Save A Life – The Fray
All Summer Long – Kid Rock
Working for the Weekend – Loverboy
Gives You Hell – All American Rejects
Christine Sixteen – KISS
Ultraviolet – U2
Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters
The Itch – KebMo
You Give Love A Bad Name – Bon Jovi
Lovin Touchin Squeezin – Journey
Better Now – Collective Soul
Rockin In The Free World – Neil Young
You’re All I’ve Got Tonight – The Cars
Tempted – Squeeze
Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
LA Woman – The Doors
Keep Your Hands To Yourself – Georgia Satellites
Takin Care Of Business – BTO
Walk This Way – Aerosmith
King’s Highway – Tom Petty
Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf
Before You Accuse Me – Eric Clapton
Traveling Band – CCR
Tush – ZZ Top
Cinnamon Girl – Neil Young
Mustang Sally – Wilson Pickett
Gimme Some Lovin – Spencer Davis Group
Rock N’ Me – Steve Miller Band
Can’t Get Enough – Bad Company
Brick House – The Commodores
Breathe Me In – Candlebox

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How Did We Get Our Name?

Paris Hilton... The ubiquitous socialite. She’s plastered on the cover of every magazine in the grocery store checkout lines. Stories of her vacuous exploits abound, but perhaps the only substantial story about Paris Hilton comes from the day she showed up at a Without Paris concert. This was only the second gig the band had ever played, and at the time we were calling ourselves “The Sumo Wrestlers,” and we actually performed in these fat suits and bounced up against each other on stage and stuff, but after the first show we were so sweaty that we dumped the suits and decided to call ourselves “The Skinny Sumos” instead, and that was the name on the marquis the night Ms. Hilton stopped by. We were having snacks in our dressing room after the show when we heard a faint knock. Our road manager answered the door and there she was, and he said, “Man, you look just like Paris Hilton.” The rest of us just stared at her, silent. She said, “You guys were fab, and I loooove the name!” And away she went. Back on the tour bus that night we all agreed that if Paris Hilton likes our name then there must be something wrong with it, and that’s when our driver simply said, “Without Paris.” We didn’t get what Jarvis meant, and Jarvis is a man of few words, so we knew that he wasn’t about to explain himself, and so we didn’t ask, and to this day we really don’t know for sure if he was suggesting a new band name or making a random, Jarvis-like comment, but from that moment on, we were and always will be, “Without Paris.”