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Old April 28th, 2012, 05:51 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Guitar Shop No-Nos
I mean the tunes you really shouldn't be playing in a guitar shop when you're trying out gear.

My top three would probably be:

1. Smoke On Water
2. Stairway To Heaven
3. Sweet Home Alabama (guilty as charged on this count, your honour...)

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Old April 28th, 2012, 06:07 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Old April 28th, 2012, 06:32 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Old April 28th, 2012, 06:59 AM   #4 (permalink)
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I remember when I was 17, just starting to play guitar, and I was in a shop attempting badly to play Stairway. As if that was bad enough, I then asked the guy how to play it...luckily he didn't throw me out but happily showed me how it went. I cringe about it now.
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Old April 28th, 2012, 07:33 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I remember when I was 17, just starting to play guitar, and I was in a shop attempting badly to play Stairway. As if that was bad enough, I then asked the guy how to play it...luckily he didn't throw me out but happily showed me how it went. I cringe about it now.
"I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was 22. I think that says quite a lot." - Vim Fuego, Bad News.
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Old April 28th, 2012, 07:35 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I mean the tunes you really shouldn't be playing in a guitar shop when you're trying out gear.
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3. Sweet Home Alabama (guilty as charged on this count, your honour...)
Oh dear, me too, quite recently!
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Old April 28th, 2012, 07:40 AM   #7 (permalink)
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Old April 28th, 2012, 07:52 AM   #8 (permalink)
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That outta tune dropped D riff heavy with gain turned all the way up to sterile and volume maxed what is that song?

Seriously though:
Sweet Child
La Grange
Sandman
Stairway
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Old April 28th, 2012, 07:58 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I've yet to walk into a music store and play an electric guitar....

how does it feel?.... like a solo gig...
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Old April 28th, 2012, 08:05 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Believe it or not, apart from when budding guitarists play the opening bars, I've never actually heard Stairway. And I'm not likely to seek it out, as the Zep I have heard I don't like. All that girly squealing just sounds silly. Same with a lot of rock bands - the "singer" lets them down.

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Old April 28th, 2012, 08:11 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Any big Nirvana songs: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Come As You Are, etc.
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Believe it or not, apart from when budding guitarists play the opening bars, I've never actually heard Stairway. And I'm not likely to seek it out, as the Zep I have heard I don't like. All that girly squealing just sounds silly. Same with a lot of rock bands - the "singer" lets them down.

Tin hat on . . .
Please list your 3 favorite bands.
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Please list your 3 favorite bands.
...should be interesting
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Other no-nos include:

Plugging the guitar in when the amp is already on, and the volume is up... LOUD.

Playing out of tune. UGH.

Playing everything with saturated gain. Additional points for doing so with the volume up... LOUD.

Bending a string to where it is *just* short of the target note... additional points? Doing so with no or weak vibrato.
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It's not a crime not to like Led Zeppelin. To tell you the truth I wouldn't be upset if I never heard Stairway ever again, along with Smoke On the Water and Freebird.
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It's not a crime not to like Led Zeppelin. To tell you the truth I wouldn't be upset if I never heard Stairway ever again, along with Smoke On the Water and Freebird.
I agree, I just like to know what people are into that make comments like that and see if I have any comments about what they like.
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"I could play "Stairway To Heaven" when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't actually write it until he was 22. I think that says quite a lot." - Vim Fuego, Bad News.
'I let my guitar speak for me...'

My sister found that album somewhere, I love it.

Back on track, I've heard the chugga-chugga-chugga that you get from all the teens many times. I play Stairway, also the intro to Nothing Else Matters, but very quietly in the back corner.
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Old April 28th, 2012, 09:19 AM   #19 (permalink)
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I always play Day Tripper.....Had a clerk say to me "thank god something different finally" That intro riff is pretty neat.
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Oh good. I play Barracuda and Sunshine of your Love. But only when I'm testing out which guitar I'm going to buy

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