… where you have lots of guitars for sale. So, they’re hanging from those holders on a wall so potential customers can take one down, plug it in, and give it a try. For security, you have a huge, muscular employee with a bad attitude. His main job is to break the arms of potential customers if they play a certain song on one of the stores guitars. Which song will you designate as the NO PLAY song?
Off the top of my head, my first choices would be
Stairway to Heaven
Smoke On The Water
Hotel California
What song or songs would you ban aspiring guitarists from playing?
OT, but I was driving home from work yesterday and listening to a Denver radio station that plays everything from the 60s to current radio hits. The DJ was playing Paranoid, which I hadn’t heard in probably 20 years. The station went to commercial, and I switched to a classic rock station – which had just started playing Paranoid.
I’d save money, skip the muscular guy, put up a big sign saying you can’t play Race with Devil on Spanish Highway. That piece is just as likely to hurt them as the big guy if they try to play it.
DMB Crash into me
Pink Floyd Wish you were here
Red Hot Chili Peppers Under the Bridge
All songs I like actually but they’re all those kind of songs guitarists just starting out seem to love to learn about halfway thru or something and then they quit playing the guitar 3 months later.
Back in the day, Boston’s *More Than a Feeling * was like that, too, along with *Sweet Home, Cat Scratch Fever *and China Grove by The Doobie Brothers.
Oh, and no one could get the timing down on the Back in Black riff or Black Dog.