# So, you've opened a music store... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2015, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317 "2015-01-30T08:34:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/1 "2015-01-30T08:34:58Z")
… 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? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/2 "2015-01-30T09:27:11Z")
Freebird! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/3 "2015-01-30T10:47:19Z")
I would have picked “Stairway,” but Wayne’s World beat me to it (too bad they couldn’t secure the rights to actually play any of the song). “Freebird” – ha! Let’s see…I’ll go with “Seven Nation Army” ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/4 "2015-01-30T10:54:53Z")
Back in the mid-90s, the answer was _Paranoid_. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/5 "2015-01-30T11:22:39Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > Back in the mid-90s, the answer was _Paranoid_. 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_. It made me feel – I dunno … ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/6 "2015-01-30T12:13:44Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > Back in the mid-90s, the answer was _Paranoid_. Or _Iron Man_. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/7 "2015-01-30T12:19:54Z")
Just finished _Soul Music_, eh? “Shouldn’t they get a warning?” “That will _be_ their warning.” ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/8 "2015-01-30T12:32:10Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Or _Iron Man_. No, it’s Ozzy’s _Crazy Train_ Anything involving a wah-wah pedal. Those things should require a license. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/9 "2015-01-30T13:10:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/10 "2015-01-30T13:35:43Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Off the top of my head, my first choices would be > > Stairway to Heaven > … No Stairway? Denied! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/11 "2015-01-30T14:09:55Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Just finished _Soul Music_, eh? To be honest, I was just reminded of _Soul Music_. 🙂 Oh, I forgot, _Sweet Home Alabama_ is a candidate too. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/12 "2015-01-30T14:14:04Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > No, it’s Ozzy’s _Crazy Train_ > > Anything involving a wah-wah pedal. Those things should require a license. What? You’re saying “Tales Of Brave Ulysses” should be a candidate? Or you mean stuff like “Theme From Shaft”? ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/13 "2015-01-30T15:15:50Z")
Eruption, or anything involving putting the right hand on the neck ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/14 "2015-01-30T15:35:26Z")
> [@jovan](#): > > 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. I once sprained my wrist just doing an air guitar version. ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/15 "2015-01-30T15:38:07Z")
Sweet Child O’ Mine… Slash was not Slash until after much, much, much more practice kiddo. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/16 "2015-01-30T15:40:12Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > What? You’re saying “Tales Of Brave Ulysses” should be a candidate? Or you mean stuff like “Theme From Shaft”? I am saying that a person coming to a wah pedal for the first time - eesh. If they can pull of stuff like Tales, yay - love that song. ---
**Author:** ![by-tor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/by-tor/32/266_2.png) [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/17 "2015-01-31T07:25:02Z")
Baby Boomer posers playing the “blues.” 😉 Seriously though, I would just have an isolation room or two to put the amps in. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/18 "2015-01-31T07:36:58Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/19 "2015-01-31T11:51:23Z")
> [@pool](#): > > 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_. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2015, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317/20 "2015-01-31T16:01:01Z")
Smells Like Teen Spirit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-youve-opened-a-music-store/711317.md?page=2)