what song shouldn't we play in public?
what song would make you look like a retarded guitar beginner?
I'm ashamed to play "Tush" and "Smoke On The Water" in a guitar shop.... you know why...
...discuss.
Song to avoid playing in public
what song shouldn't we play in public?
what song would make you look like a retarded guitar beginner?
I'm ashamed to play "Tush" and "Smoke On The Water" in a guitar shop.... you know why...
...discuss.
Don't notice most of my posts are less than 2 lines...
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Stairway To Heaven for the same reason.......
Paranoid, Intruder, Free Bird and anything by Poison.
Originally Posted by vandeleur
E- Jesus . Playing both sides because he didnt understand the argument in the first place
Eruption...
Why settle for something you have, if it's not as good as something you're out to get?
It's like putting up a YouTube of Bach and playing Chopstix on your Bontempi...
Shit C, I just picked up on that........way too early and not enough coffee
Ditto for the piano - "The sting" or "Color my world"
Oh dear.
That started a big argument in my last cover band...was playing it as a goof at rehearsal one day (w/the EVH Phase90 kicked in for accuracy...lol) and they began insisting I play it before we went into "YRGM"...I reminded them that, much like showing up at the cover gig w/a VH replica when the band ISN'T Fan Halen or the Atomic Punks, playing "Eruption" in a club in LA just ISN'T DONE.Eruption...
Yeah, Eruption and of course Stairway!
Steve's Music (Toronto's biggest music store) used to hang a list in the guitar area of songs/riffs that were banned...
Shit like...
Enter Sandman
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Paranoid
Eruption
Smoke on the Water
Pride and Joy
Cat Scratch Fever
Stairway to Heaven
Couldn't agree more with that list....
Trolls take heed...LOG OUT & FUCK OFF!!!
Dupe...
Last edited by Diamondjimi; 04-13-2010 at 05:40 PM. Reason: WTF???
Black Bird.
I've seen a fat middle aged ugly guy playing that song in a local guitar shop. he was even singing.
eh. what's wrong with Cat Scratch Fever? I like to play it...Steve's Music (Toronto's biggest music store) used to hang a list in the guitar area of songs/riffs that were banned...
Shit like...
Enter Sandman
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Paranoid
Eruption
Smoke on the Water
Pride and Joy
Cat Scratch Fever
Stairway to Heaven
Couldn't agree more with that list....
Nothing wrong with the Nuge. I dig that riffage. But to hear it played in the wrong key (open E)would drive ya nuts too.
Plus, if you're gonna do the C.S.F. riff it better be in A , and you'd better be skakin the piss out of the barred double stops!
Yeah, add "Iron Man" to that list...Steve's Music (Toronto's biggest music store) used to hang a list in the guitar area of songs/riffs that were banned...
Shit like...
Enter Sandman
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Paranoid
Eruption
Smoke on the Water
Pride and Joy
Cat Scratch Fever
Stairway to Heaven
Couldn't agree more with that list....
Even "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" in the wrong hands is quite painful...
Best thing I ever seen in a music store was a sound proof room where you could try gear out and not bother the other customers.
LOL Herb David Guitars, A2 MI
AS long as you don't play the BIG HIT...any band is fair game...I like playing "MR BIG" by FREE...and watching the old guys nod their heads....
I would say, anything played poorly is a tune worth stopping.
Saying one song or another in and of its' own virtue should not be played is just wrong, and biased.
That being said, if I walk thru a Guitar Center looking for some interesting oddity and some fag is sitting there playing "Freebird" or anything Metallica I will purposely walk past to fartscreen him.
It was known as the "wank tank" in the store I worked at back in the day...
I thought that was the name of any public restroom you're using.
Whipping out these $8 chords to these tunes usually turns heads...
He swings....he misses!!!
He swings....he misses!!!
I'd avoid Crazy Train or Free Bird. Because then a million people come up to you and ask "Hay d00d can you play this" or something like that. It's stupid. When I go out into public and play, I usually play Eruption and a few cover tunes that aren't stereotypical.
Reading Crazy From the Heat in four hours flat, in a cramped RV, on the return trip of a 3,000+ mile family outing to New Jersey is an enlightening experience you'll never forget.
Free Bird should be avoided in general, and at all costs.But take it from me, you can't play another Ozzy song at a cover gig without people going "Crazy Train!!!!!!!" the second after you finish...
Last time someone shouted "Free Bird" at a gig I walked up to the mic and said "Uh...NO."
If I never hear Free Bird again, I'll die a happy man!
well, ya will and i'm sure ya still will.
Another one of those classic genius posts, sure to generate responses. You log on the next day to see what your witty gem has produced to find no one gets it and 2 knotheads want to stick their dicks in it... Well played, sir!!
See if you don't find this frightening - Freebird was the theme of my senior prom. Is that so seventies that you can't stand it, or what?
I've gotten back to enjoying Freebird after many years of avoiding it. Bottom line, it's a great fucking tune which has been played to death by radio and countless atrocious coverbands.
Now when I hear the song I can think back to my early years of discovering new rock back in the day when it was new. It seemed more special hearing it back then because it was new...
(jmo)
- where's that groan button..
where's the "fuck off gar" button?
Eat a dick, Cumfart!
Haven't played a cover tune in a music store in over 20 years... I've got some originals I use for the style/range of what I'm shopping for. Something clean and funky for nice Fender sparkley Strat tones... couple of old blues standards for semi-dirty tube saturation type tones... then just decent finger excersizing heavy metal riffs with a lot of harmonizing notes for dirty crap.
Just remember you're there to test... not perform...
"If you want to be a monk... you gotta cook a lot of rice...”
...What used to crack me up in my music-store days were the kids that would dress up in their leather pants, eyeliner and full regalia to come in on a Saturday morning and try a distortion pedal...like they were going to get "discovered" wanking at the local guitar shop. It was just kind of pathetic when adults did it, though...
Was this in L.A. ?...What used to crack me up in my music-store days were the kids that would dress up in their leather pants, eyeliner and full regalia to come in on a Saturday morning and try a distortion pedal...like they were going to get "discovered" wanking at the local guitar shop. It was just kind of pathetic when adults did it, though...
Yeah...but not Hollywood, so was even more goofy...full leathers, 10AM. Even on Mondays, dude!
Not surprisingly, it's the non-poseur kids that are actually doing something today...
I remember TO's major music store being very similar. 10:30 in the morning, these dudes with their hair all teased and wearing the guyliner. (Can't forget the snakeskin ankle boots!)
Their routine went like this... open store door, flip hair back off of shoulders, strut to the Jackson wall, pick the one with the flashiest paintjob (Floyd Rose MANDATORY!!!), plug into PURPLE or white TIGER STRIPED Soldano or Boogie.
Play "Still of the Night" or "Round and Round" riff followed by pinched harmonic followed by dive-bomb.. REPEAT!
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