I have been to BNL, Everclear, etc. where they pull someone from the audience and tell them when to "strum" or whatever and they become Instant Rock Stars (with help)...something along these lines for a guitarist with 1 year experience...Think songs the "School of Rock" kids could play...You always hear Rock is only 4 chords...Awesome songs over easy to play though...(I think a lot of bands in Indiana use this with electronic fill...)

Maybe to explicate further, the topic could be "Who Needs Lessons?: Great Rock Songs With Few Chords".

Louie Louie comes to mind first.

Any AC/DC song comes to mind - the original three chord wonders.

I imagine a lot of Ramones guitar parts would be fairly easy to learn.

nirvana

clash
who
wire,
gang of four....every punk band basically

With Gang of Four its all in how you strum the chords, kinda tricky for a beginner.

i wouldn't exactly call a lot of the clash's progressions easy either

Nor the Who. Some of those fuckers hurt.

I think some of the easiest that I've encountered have been Johnny Thunders' "Chinese Rocks" and MC5's "Kick Out The Jams"

KOTJ, more so, but...

Some White Stripes are VERY easy, like "Seven Nation Army" and "Astro", and usually when you bust the Stripes out, people will start cheering.

You're right, "Fell in Love with a Girl" completely qualifies and so does almost anything by the New York Dolls

The Animals 'House Of The Rising Sun' was the first song I ever learned. or even ten Years after 'id love to change the world' easy repetitive chords.

Joy Division - "She's Lost Control"

easiest song I can think of.

ok these are easy ones too

Bob Dylans - Knockin on Heavens Door ; or Marshal Tuckers - Cant You see

andrew wk has a fan come up on stage pretty much at every show and play along with the band on 'she is beautiful.' im assuming that must be somewhat easy.

Just about every garage band has Deep Purple's "Smoke On The Water" in their repertoire.

Had my first lesson last night--I'm beyond geeked. Keep these suggestions coming.

I've been playing for 2yrs+ and I finally got the southern rock-ish aperggio from "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", I'm pretty excited about that.

Two chord wonders:
"Battleship Chains" - Terry Anderson
"Roadrunner" - Modern Lovers (although they do succumb to the V chord once or twice, it can be ignored by the guitarist)

One chord wonder:
"Pablo Picasso" - thank you, once again, Modern Lovers
"Shotgun" - Jr. Walker & the All Stars (one chord on gtr, two if you're playing organ)

blink 182's catolouge up until recent has been fairly easy and helps with plucking and what not. all the sudden tom started addding minor chords and what not. you crazy?

weeza