What is ban worthy about Stairway to Heaven? As long as you don’t attempt to climb it in the store or carry others along with you, if you do take those stairs.
To my knowledge, I’ve never heard “Stairway to Heaven” and I really like “popular” music – music by such “popular” artists as Mancini, Jankowski, Alpert, Riddle and the like. The last “good” guitar music I heard was by Sergovia and Montgomery.
Electronic amplification sounded the death knell of real music – it’s ALL just children banging on mommy’s pans in the kitchen with a serving spoon, now.
And as far as vocalists – as I used to explain to my boys – If you can picture your favorite vocalist singing “Silent Night” acapella then they MIGHT be a vocalist, otherwise they are just children screaming for attention. And, incidentally, “Rap” cannot be in ANY WAY be considered any form of music – it is to music what those little participation trophies are to sports.
If you’re classified a “Rapper” that means you have little if any talent, but congratulations on the attempt, anyway.
It is a joke, real or not, about playing it in a guitar store. It is like saying “He who shall not be named” in Harry Potter. You just don’t do it, unless you are Jimmy Page! (or Harry Potter in this example)
catchup almost 4 years ago
In the UK the ban tends to be on bassists playing Smoke on the Water
oompa almost 4 years ago
- Insert Wayne’s World No Stairway to Heaven gif -
KenTheCoffinDweller almost 4 years ago
What is ban worthy about Stairway to Heaven? As long as you don’t attempt to climb it in the store or carry others along with you, if you do take those stairs.
pschearer Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Since I stopped paying attention to pop music in 1964, I can only guess what this is about.
Jeff0811 almost 4 years ago
Hopefully someone will enlighten me, but couldn’t Andromeda just sort of “Poof” him out?
cabalonrye almost 4 years ago
Uh? Is that stairway to heaven? And why is it banned?
weirdme Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Ed is awake? How novel!
gmu328 almost 4 years ago
I have to agree with the music store and the police, it’s been played too many times in public
wellis1947 Premium Member almost 4 years ago
To my knowledge, I’ve never heard “Stairway to Heaven” and I really like “popular” music – music by such “popular” artists as Mancini, Jankowski, Alpert, Riddle and the like. The last “good” guitar music I heard was by Sergovia and Montgomery.
Electronic amplification sounded the death knell of real music – it’s ALL just children banging on mommy’s pans in the kitchen with a serving spoon, now.
And as far as vocalists – as I used to explain to my boys – If you can picture your favorite vocalist singing “Silent Night” acapella then they MIGHT be a vocalist, otherwise they are just children screaming for attention. And, incidentally, “Rap” cannot be in ANY WAY be considered any form of music – it is to music what those little participation trophies are to sports.
If you’re classified a “Rapper” that means you have little if any talent, but congratulations on the attempt, anyway.
randoman1 almost 4 years ago
It is a joke, real or not, about playing it in a guitar store. It is like saying “He who shall not be named” in Harry Potter. You just don’t do it, unless you are Jimmy Page! (or Harry Potter in this example)
William Bludworth Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Don’t get the big stink… When I hear the phrase “Stairway to Heaven”, I think The O’Jays.
vjorgensen54 almost 4 years ago
too loooong.
mistercatworks almost 4 years ago
“House of the Rising Sun” used to get you thrown out of guitar stores.
bobw2012 almost 4 years ago
Possibly no good on the guitar. Possibly tried singing The Theme to Gilligan’s Island while playing the mandolin.
Tkdgator almost 4 years ago
How about Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4”?