Why is Stairway to Heaven BANNED in Guitar Stores?
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Of course stairway to heaven backwards leads to hell. That's essentially how stairways work.
Well you're not wrong
Although technically.... no matter which way you go on a stairway... it's forward....
😂😂
wow dude nice statement!
@@curtissemon715 not if I walk backwards
I worked in a store where we put up a sign reading "STAIRWAY ACCEPTED HERE". All the local competitors guitar customers moved over to our store.
stocks
Marketing done right
Stonks
*STONKS!*
now thats business
I’m going to open a guitar store where the only song you are allowed to play is stairway
I’d go there
Where i might apply
And not simple man. Denied
...and you will want it to stay small and unpopular. If it gains any kind of large numbers of regular shoppers, the general public, you will quickly find out who is really in charge. You will get visits from the Fire Marshal, and fail inspection, the Health Dept and fail inspection, police will be dropping by for seemingly weird visits, building inspectors will find unsafe areas, mold inspectors will shut you down, city will write parking code violations,......
And play it backwards too... lol
When I started learning guitar in the early 80s, my guitar teacher said, “you’re gonna have to learn stairway to heaven, because everyone on the face of the earth is going to ask you to play it.“ And for a good while after that, he was absolutely right. And then, suddenly everyone hated it.
I think it's the same effect as listening to a song you teally like over and over and over and over until you get nauseated by hearing it again. It's one of my favorite songs but people overplaying it is probably the actual reason of the ban.
My former sister in law asked me to play STH. My reply, “Do I have to?” 😅
Baby shark
There's a guitar store in Washington that has a sign "if you play stairway to heaven perfectly and completely you get 10% off your purchase. If you just play the beginning we'll chase you out with a broom"
Well thats torture!
Where's the store at? I could use 10% off a Mesa.
Idk. My cousin just sent me a picture of the sign
Washington state? I live there
Can you run with the guitar in your hand
The fact that there's a stairway to heaven but a highway to hell says a lot about expected traffic numbers
That's deep
Lmfao.
That's crazy I never thought of that
:) Love your comment !
I love it 😂🤣☠️
My college roommate, in 1973, played "Stairway" incessantly (it was current back then). The rest of our cohort eventually got so sick of it, they forbade him from playing it in their presence. The same was true of another of his favorites, "Puff the Magic Dragon." One night, after we all were quite inebriated, he pulled out his guitar and announced that he was going to sing for us a new song he had just written. The first few bars were clearly "Stairway to Heaven," but after the intro he sang (to that music) the lyrics to "Puff the Magic Dragon." As I recall, after we stopped laughing, we threw him in the swimming pool. "Stairway to Puff," as he dubbed it, remains one of my fondest memories of my early college years.
This is actually a cool story
I love stories in the comments of random videos, it's always when people remember the past.
Now I want to hear someone play "stairway to puff"
I can't stop laughing
@@WoodsGhost I'm 76 now and all I can add is that I need to write a song that is like me as I go upstairs, "puffing up the stairway"!!! Fucking weak I admit!!! But I am in lockdown yet again.
I actually had a good friend growing up that ran a music store (80's) and the reason they didn't want people playing it was that EVERYONE would play it. He said "Working 60 hours a week and hearing it at least 50 times a day was just too much". He told me a story of one day when they finally had enough, his brother and himself decided to spend $15,000 to build a soundproof booth for people to try out instruments. No more playing out on the floor. Lol
Its because the first opening notes you can tell the quality of the guitar and it leaves them no chance to scam you with a garbage instrument thats why you cant play it
This isn't good... $15k because you're annoyed at work... Sound like a great use of money. Why not pad out an area just build a entire sound proof booth! Stupid... Like your friend
There's always fast food
Tell him the Cry a river build a bridge and get over it
Yes
If you can't play Stairway to heaven in guitar stores, you can always play Highway to hell...
Appetite For Metal or smells like teen spirit.
Appetite For Metal lol
I know right.
i played stairway sideways at 78 speed.
Lololololoo
Video idea: Walk through a guitar store and plug wireless receivers into a bunch of amps. Go back outside, start playing Stairway to Heaven randomly switching which amp you're broadcasting to. Causing the employees to run around the store trying to stop it but nobody is there!
Greshy that would be amazing 😂😂
Do it
That would be epic
Fukin genius
This....sooooo much THIS!!!
Let’s be honest every sound going backwards is scary
Agree
have you ever listened to juice wrld backwards? it’s bone chilling
yeah if you listen to it while closing your eyes it doesn’t really sound like that it’s just the subtitles
Listen to 2pacs song backwards he says “Yes I’m alive and me miss you” it’s so eerie and makes me shiver
@@lamestorybro which song??
Random story: When I was at a music shop, I joked to my dad who was next to an employee, “Imagine if I just started playing Stairway To Heaven.” *The employee immediately started playing it on the guitar.*
You never really see signs in Piano Showrooms that say "No Fur Elise."
Lol yea. Abs river flows in you too
Omg 😂 yes nobody says "no moonlight Sonata or Turkish March pls"
Did you PRACTICE today
Well I imagine the money from the sale is worth it in that case
@@chrisb.7787 No.
Now that we got songs about Stairways and Highways, I'm gonna write songs about Escalators and Freeways.
Can I write it with you?
@@brightstar9423 versus the freeway to paradise
The Escalator to Valhalla and the Freeway to the underworld or something.
@@enaecore thats actually a really good name. Mind if i use it?
@@thatlonelygiraffeinc.6989 not at all, go ahead and write a masterpiece ;)
If stairway to heaven is satanic, than highway to hell is a message from god
Satan appears as an angel of light but the wrath of God is dark in its righteousness
Seems so
God*
Whatever
LMAO
It still bugs me to this day that I was told “you can’t play that here” when I started playing Sweet Child Of Mine in a guitar store. When you’re a kid learning guitar that’s one of the first things you learn! I bought a guitar there because I knew what I wanted and was set on a specific guitar. I wished I’d walked out of that store and bought it elsewhere. This was in the mid-90s.
I thought smoke on the water was everyone's first song
@@Cjohn31 certainly mine.
*when you learned neither of those first*
My first one was UH's Lady in Black
My first was House Of The Rising Sun.
_How tough are ya?_
*I play Stairway To Heaven..*
_Yeah, so?_
*..in guitar stores.*
_R-right this way, sir!_
welcome to the salty splatoon, how tough are ya?
@@kevinsantiago3173 lmao
I do that in stores they get the he’ll away from me lmao
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Spongebob lolz
I went to the Music Store here and I asked "Why is Stairway to Heaven banned to play in Music or guitar stores" he said and I quote "Thats the first Im hearing of this, and we have been open for 50 years"
Thats wierd not normal
I think I’ll try that question next time
I am gonna start a cold calling center just calling music stores to see what their opium is ohhh I mean opinion is.
I have heard it played backwards years ago along with a couple of other songs...one by Madonna and they all gave worship to Satan. Creepy. The funny thing is that I used to play Stairway to Heaven in our band all the time. No burning deities or demons showed up so I guess it was okay. LOL. It seems like all the cool music has that crap packed in there somewhere.
@@littleshepherdfarm2128 It doesn’t work like that lol
You can’t play stairway to heaven in guitar stores “on guitar”. Nobody ever said anything about playing it on piano.
bill bayley played it on his key bord at one of his shows
There are no pianos in guitar stores😂
@@currentwork4353 most of the time guitar center has pianos
@@Haonshh Then they are 'music stores' not just guitar stores,mate🤟
What about on the flute?
I think it comes from the courtesy of not ruining the song for guitar store owners. Imagine having to hear it every day in day out being played by maybe not the best guitar players. Wouldn't be long before this beautiful song would be ruined. So i think the rule comes from an equal respect of the song and the store owners.
it doesn't make sense firstly the buyer wants to test the guitar the way he/she want to listen
This is not the reason at all. It's cause the first few notes of the song can tell how good or bad the guitar is. Meaning if they play the notes and the guitar is bad the music store won't be able to sell their garbage guitars cause experienced people will pick up how bad the guitar is and not buy it
So the actual joke comes from,
an actual guitar store during the 80's, where people kept playing it over and over again the owner of the shop hung the sign and banned people from playing it because he was sick of it being butchered and also hearing it so many times all day long due to its popularity. That is where the joke from Wayne's World comes from.
Now its just because of the movie.
The joke in Wayne's World is because they weren't allowed by the band to use the song in the film, so they were basically calling them out. The band never allowed their music to be used in films and there was a big thing around using Immigrant Song in School of Rock where Jack Black had to basically beg the band to let them use it
Hence why mike myers says "no stairway? denied" loosely translated, f you zepplin for not letting use the song in the cruising scene, instead we will use another and propell it to a number 1 hit for the second time.
Thank you
That's the way I heard it. Here in the town where I live Stairway wasn't an issue. The guitar shop put up signs for no Freebird. Same reason: Heard it too many times.
@@LordofNalicNod People don't realize it came basically from several situations, but they wanted to use the song and couldn't because of copyright came afterwards when they were already going to make a joke out of it, and even then they could still be sued for the first few notes and having a sign reference it......like I stated actual joke.
People used to do this all the time, A music store near me banned Soul Coughing - St. Louise Is Listening because they are tired of hearing it over and over again from bassists.
It's because with those opening notes you can tell the quality of the guitar right away. Leaving no chance of clearing out the garbage instruments.
RosgarTheFrog. finally someone who gives a reasonable and believable answer to why you might not be allowed to play STH in guitar stores.
Oooo this might actually make sense! I'm just not so sure-
You can do that with just noodling tho.
@@sidneyadnopoz3427 Noodling long enough to slip in stairway...
can't ruin the 666 likes
Stairway to heaven: *Starts playing*
Guitar store owners: *Demonic hissing*
HAHSHSHAHAHAHA LMAO
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I remember in The Rocks (Sydney, Australia), buskers played guitar to many songs. Two buskers played Stairway from start to finish, they dropped their guitars, sweat pouring down their faces, took some puffs from cigarettes and this guy comes along and asked if they could play Stairway to Heaven. The look from the two buskers had me in stitches.
If you play led zeppelin backwards, you should get satanic messages.
But trust me, if you play behmonth forward you WILL get satanic messages.
Yeaaaah!!! Thats why i love behmonth.
If you play behemoth backwards its a message from Jesus....Satanists are outraged by this.
When I was a kid, I played my sister's Barry Manilow record backwards.
It killed my goldfish.
Is he bluegrass?
If you play country & western songs backwards you get everything back, you get your wife back, your kids back, your house back...😁
"This is banned in all guitar stores...so I will show you how to play it"
in a guitar store
THANK YOU
And never answered the damn question. I wish they would ban these idiots off RUclips.
@@brindad1133 I can see someone saying that....
@@brindad1133 same.
There's alway Smoke on the Water and Nothing Else Matters.
John Prentice *Enter Sandman lol
Smoke on the water my old friend
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If you play Noob Smoke On The Water than yeah but If you actually play it like Ritchie Blackmore than Its acceptable
when it comes to Metallica and playing guitar in the store i usually play The Shortest Straw, Through the Never or Frayed Ends of Sanity
We were auditioning a new guitar player. When he played "Stairway to Heaven" to a country beat, and sang it as "Stairway to Austin", he got the job.
Came here to find out why it was banned. Didn't expect a full on tutorial. Still didn't find out why.
sxyzjym have you found a video v
From what I can gather doing some research online, the main reason is because back in the 70s and 80s, it was one of, if not the, first songs that most beginner guitarists learned. Due to this, the song was played frequently in guitar stores (most of the time very poorly), which annoyed serious musicians who were regulars at the stores, who would in turn go to different stores, so the stores were losing business.
@@f8a1xhorizonz It's less about "losing business" and more about annoying the hell out of every other person in the store who has to hear the same shit played over and over again all day every day. In a music store close to where i live not only "stairway" was banned but all tunes from Metallica as well, as 99% of guitar players learn to play and shred with these songs. Imagine not only listening to the same 10 riffs (NOT SONGS) again and again but these riffs are also often played in the shittiest and least rhythmic versions you can imagine - this can absolutely destroy all the joy you once felt for that melody.
MrJakeBoyman I finally understand. Thank you so much! Stairway to heaven is one of if not my favorite song, so I was always curious about this rule. :)
@@MrJakeBoyman It would be like going to an AGO convention and hearing everyone playing the beginning of the infamous Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (yes, there are competitions where everyone plays the same prescribed works). It gets old fast.
“No Teen Spirit”
my spirit: *aight imma head out*
Lmaoo😂😂
Lol same
nirvana: ight ima head out
the funny in this joke: ight imma head out
Feels good being the 666 like
I assume "(Don't fear) The Reaper" isn't popular in cowbell stores..
Wjats a cowbell store
@@nickramey7450 ruclips.net/video/cVsQLlk-T0s/видео.html
@@bogfinken uh ok.
nice
Bawhaha
I asked a Guy working in a major Store around my Place. And he was just like "Ok. Stay 3 hpours here, just follow me around, I give you a complete Tour and you can dig through all we have."
I accepted.
After one and a half hourr, I understood.
One half butchered the Thing and the others play fine - but always, just always the shown Chords in loop. It makes you crazy. Same goes for "Smoke on the Water" and "Knocking on Heavens Door". One Day in a Store and you "love" it as everyone does love to hear "Last Christmas" over and over again.
No stairway...? Denied!
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Nani
and
Stairway to heaven is banned in guitar stores.....
Let me show u how to play it real quick
He's created a monster. 😂🤣😂🤣
Was that give a little bit by supertramp at the end?
Already play it bri
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"It's hard enough to write a song forward" -- Jimmy Page
When and where
Listen to Zelda's lullaby then listen to Ballad of the goddess. Then play ballad of the goddess backwards.
They say that if you play a country song backwards you get your job, dog and wife back!
@@good_king_guitarman1334 tell that to John Wick
Lol but it only took them 10 minutes to write stairway, that doesn't seem hard at all
I'm an old rock hound and "Stairway To Heaven" has to be the ultimate step to heaven. I will be humming this song as I pass through those pearly gates.
This explained literally nothing to me.
Imagine having to listen to to the same three songs every single day for the rest of your life. Imagine the amount of Stairway to Heaven, Smoke on the Water and Teen Spirit played in guitar stores. I'd ban them if i owned one, just not to have these songs ruined for me.
Same
philipp seemann ....maybe they should get a different job instead of stopping people from trying guitars.
@@dross4207 Their store, they make the rules.
philipp seemann ...I know it’s their store. I just think that it’s the wrong business to get into if you don’t want to hear people playing the music that they are learning.
It’s kind of like starting a swimming school, and then banning the dog-paddle for new swimmers, or an art teacher that bans any drawings that don’t resemble Picasso’s work.
“I don’t care that your kid is at the bottom of the pool, I’m tired of that damned dog-paddle.”
Can we replace the ban with Wonderwall?
D Culver How?
no
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Solar yeah, I would hope not. If I hear it again I’m going to kill a baby chinchilla
D Culver for President 2020
Instead of storming Area 51, storm guitar stores with Stairway!
*raid area 51 with big en loudest speaker in world*
*en try to play stairway to heaven*
*that's really great*
Sure camo dude
Lmaoo
The raid was ment to be a joke
I like this idea
I've been playing for 28 years. I've owned 30+ guitars and played hundreds more in music stores. I've never seen a "No Stairway to Heaven" sign. Not once. That being said, just because it's a good song doesn't mean that everyone who wanders into a music store can play it well. I imagine hearing people play it with middling skill at best could get old really fast.
Exactly. Then imagine getting in the car to go home after a loooong shift, putting on the radio to hear the song again,flicking through stations only to hear it at different points in the song spread across stations, getting home and again on the radio. Every day.
For years.
Which became decades
I agree up to the part where people who don’t play it well in the stores. My reply to the store owners and workers would be, “That’s why they call it work… deal with it.” Bahaha😂 I mean if they don’t like the lousy playing, show em the right way. I do recall learning the lead to STH by a guitar store owner back in 1980. That’s a cool musician.
Let's be honest, the average player walking into a music store is not something you want to hear period. 😂
I played stairway to heaven in a piano store. Nobody cared
Piano stores would ban Fur Elise if a movie made that joke.
Lol wkwkwk
@@vinh_em more like River flows in you.
@@omniyambot9876 but that song is nice, Fur Elisa hurts my ears
@@dylansolorzano5077 never knew many people hate fur elise hehe
no one is gangsta until they play
*stairway to heaven*
in a guitar store
One of the most famous (disbanded) band in the Phils did it.
ruclips.net/video/YGiI88SCwiw/видео.html
Og loc:ok you got me there
No No.. what's even cooler is what used to happen to me
My mate used to own a guitar store
i would pick up a guitar and stay playing stairway..... Very quietly
and he would be like
No Man, it's ok,
hehe
and i'd turn it up and play it for like 1 hour
after that it was , still got the blues for you
After that.. Sad But True
you get the idea
although, even my mate said to me.... BUT...... AS LONG AS YOU CAN PLAY IT PROPERLY.
Devin Reese 🤣
That's a good way to go to jail.
The sudden cut off before the solo in the outro just made me feel awful inside.
"DENIED"
Were you not listening? lololol.
The solo/outro really is the only part of the song I can listen to anymore (actually it's been that way for 30 years LOL). Btw, I have a lesson for the solo here, if interested :)
@@PDXguitarfreak ...indeed you have a quality solo lesson...thanks PDX fret freak
@@markbaum9615 Hey thanks Mark, I appreciate the kinds words. I only have 26,000 subscribers but hopefully someday I can make to the level of our friend here.
@Rikin p Not only you man also me, I love that part too!
I like how you add to the army of stairway capable players in this video by teaching how to play the song halfway through. That was a very unexpected twist. Now I can finally play the intro correctly, so I can head into battle at the nearest guitar center. Let's end the hate on good songs just because they are popular.🎸
I tried to play it once in a Guitar store. Two security guards tackled me to the ground and tazed me.
Hilarious
That obviously didn't happen
Lies
I can confirm I was the guitar
Oh come on guys wheres your sense of humor? That was hilarious!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The awful day that we lose Jimmy Page, everyone should go to their local guitar store and play Stairway in unison.
You've convinced me. The day he dies I will learn to play stairway to heaven and go play it in a guitar store.
Jimmy Page should go into a guitar store and play it.
@@907CoolBoy same. We have to do this.
@@ZLunas Count me in. Jimmy deserves a tribute that cannot be denied.
@@ethanwelk2736 On the day he died!
You needed 7 minutes to say “because they’re sick of hearing it?”
Clickbait
Exactly
or as to not over play it and make the song cringy af.
He needs Views Goddammit :D
Thank you, saved me from watching the video.
The reason i always considered more “reasonable” is:
If you have a display guitar (which you later intend to sell as new) and people are constantly playing the same notes on it, its going to cause wear patterns on the guitar. Frets and strings do wear with use, but if you play the same thing over and over, its goinn to show faster.
“Somewhere by a campfire, someone with a guitar is trying to play ‘Stairway to Heaven’ We must find him and stop him!”
Jason will lol
I was going to like, but it’s at 69
Ur Boi fixed it for you lol
@@oreojumperguineapigs833 Now i liked it :)
While he's trying to impress some girl
And it makes we wonder if any guitar store would stop Jimmy Page himself from playing Stairway. 🎸
Dean Galloway id wanna see thay
I literally read "and it makes me wonder" in Robert plants voice from stairway to heaven
I would. Rules are rules.
I would like to see that too
In the world of music, anything is possible.
After all, it's the same world in which John Fogerty got sued for sounding too much like John Fogerty.
Instead of storming area 51, we should split in a group of 20 per guitar shop and play stairway at the same time
@Habituated Abnormality no youre dumb
@Habituated Abnormality not as dumb as everyone going to area 51 to vet shot bro
They can’t kick out all of us!
They cant stop all of us
That already happened
Because of Wayne's World. There's absolutely nothing wrong with playing stairway to heaven. I play it every time I want to hear it. It's a beautiful song, especially when you don't have to hear Plant singing.
In waynes world you dont hear any notes from the stairway intro. They did play it in the original take but it is dubbed over in the final edit. They did this because they did not get copyright licence to use the song in the movie as it would have cost too much. so ironically we get stairway denied
I saw Wayne in theaters in 92. They definitely played stairway but not on the DVD. I wonder if the laser disc had it?
It ain't because of Wayne's World. They said "Stairway to Heaven",like "Crossroads Blues" have a cursed riff. So music shop would forbid you to play it. Guitar Center used to have that rule,they since went into Bankruptcy.
Led Zeppelin: "stairway to heaven"
Iron Maiden: " Heaven can wait"
AC/DC: " Highway to hell"
Coincidence????
And now they have "tears in Heaven"
Damien Greetham I think NOT!!!!
Damien Greetham I think not...
And A1 made "heaven by your side"
They were written during a period where psychedelics took off. Angels demons and aliens are common entities described in trips.
Do some mush. You'll believe interesting things. They just put this in music as they likely were just rememberimg their roots during a trip ( 1/3 of the worlds major religion being christian) they would likely trip balls hear some melody in their head and refrence a entity.
At Least thats a theory. I guess?
"Led Zeppelin was literally the most famous band of all time... for a decade."
Well yea, he remembered that the beatles do exist.
Tahar Boujnah Beetles were fucking weird ngl
@@gizmothepiefaceman3062 weird? They revolutionized modern music bro
@@taharboujnah6102 that doesn't mean they weren't weird
@@aquapupper4938 I'm sorry, I don't agree.
And she's purchasing a Stratocaster in heaven.
Bahaha
HahHa
@@aark69 I've been auto-balanced. Now I'm just sitting in me chair and sipping me beer.
Boy, you can play. Love your rendition of this song!
I have only ever been in one store which had a sign up. It said "No Stairway and No Smoke On The Water". So naturally I played both. The owner looked at me and said "It's ok at least you're not butchering them."
Plus my son and I were the only two in the store at the time (it was small) 😁
lol
At least it's not a myth that those signs exists.. I saw one in a guitar shop in London once. No signs in my local shops though.
That's my favourite Deep Purple song. "Smoke on the Water"?....Cursed??
*Breaking the law! breaking the law!*
I think those signs are usually jokes. How dumb would it be to turn off a potential customer over a few notes. lol
Guys, it’s not actually banned, it’s a music meme that people take to seriously lmao.
Dude, saying it's not actually banned is the meme, and you obviously have bought into it as you so ignoramuntly demonstrate with your comment. Check your facts, clod! 👨🏼🦽
@@djengo77 Jeez you woke up on the wrong side of the bed need a binky to calm tf down? Sound like a toxic ass little shit to me. First off, I know what the meme is, and I’m very well aware that what you just said isn’t true at all. People sarcastically say that the song is banned in stores to play and they often times do it to confuse new players, I’ve learned that throughout the years. No, it’s not actually banned and I’ll say it again because it’s not. It’s a joke, it’s been a joke for a while now. And what’s your issue anyways? Calling me a “clod” simply cuz you think I was being ignorant? Honestly buddy, count your days, you’re not worth my time if you’re gonna act childish and toxic. Go back to bed
@@counterclockwisefilms3814Hehehe. I don't really think you're a clod, or that you were being ignorant. I don't disagree with you about the meme. I was being a troll.
@@djengo77 I thought so
@@counterclockwisefilms3814 I'm glad.
What's actually satanic are those cold dead eyes he stares the camera with.
bekosim batman Comes from playing the song. It all makes sense now!
He is a mason, for sure...
thats exactly what i was thinking lol
Love it. Cant’ hear it enough. I particularly love playing the recorder and flute parts. Just as amazing as the guitar.
On the one hand: I would totally get sick of hearing it if I worked in a music store, especially beginners who don’t play it all that well.
On the other hand: Stairway is really great for trying out a guitar as it gives you a feel for the whole guitar, it’s fairly* easy so it’s great for new guitarists (plus, there’s something special about hearing a newbie playing Stairway, imo. Like a baby bird flying for the first time haha.)
The Dislikes are from the guitar store owners.
Or Spirit fans.
Can't count them anymore
@@johndawson6057 nooo!!!!
"Forbidden because it brings bad luck, its 7 minutes long."
"It's 7 minutes long. Too lengthy."
This video: *7 minutes long*
The song was actually much longer before they put it on the album. According to legend Led Zeppelin first played the song live at a few shows before it was ever put on an album. That takes balls to just put a song out there like that would love to see modern bands do that.
A long track? It’s half the length of Telegraph Road. Both are “the dog’s.”
Rodrigo y Gabriella do an excellent version of it.
And has 7k comments 👀👀
Yeah, much too long.
Welp, comment posted, back to listening to Tool...
If you think 7 minutes is to long I feel bad for your wife.
You nailed it. It somehow resonates at an instinctive level that is hard to explain.
Why it is banned in guitar stores still eludes me.
I usually like to play smoke on the water for 45 minutes straight on the low E string but off tuned just a bit and then walk out with 10 of their picks.
☆Good looks on the likes yall, have a great day.
YoungstownKicks AHAHAH
Lol
You monster!
Your my highly irritating hero
YoungstownKicks my frackin hero brah. I pray you don’t actually ever do that but still. Funny af.
So basically, the song sounds so good that everyone wants to play it, but when everyone want to play it and you work at a guitar store, hearing it literally every second you are there gets annoying so you have to ban it.
That's kind of bullshit logic. So does that mean McDonalds should ban the Big Mac, because the workers make them all day long?
@@robertthibodeau7005 that's more comparable to an assembly line. The repetition of your own action gets dulled out after awhile. However at a guitar store, every time you head that song it sounds slightly different, which would just make it worse over time
@@robertthibodeau7005 they also could not want to get sick of the song
Shop workers come Christmas would ban Christmas songs forever...
I can relate. Menards plays commercials in their stores complete with their stupid jingle. Just shopping there i get so sick of hearing the menards jingle.
I think its just ironicly banned, noone will stop you. well people will probably just stare at you in disappointment
Edit: i Wrote it before watching, we all know the meme at this point.
Woosh
it really depends. you have to realize that most guys just butcher the song and to destroy something so nice also resonates with me on a deep human level and it leads often to strong feelings of hate. :-)
On the other side, however, if theres a guy like this dude here who jams it masterfully, I would probably applause (and ask him for lessons....)
@Daniel Brown A bigger incel would play it at a guitar store.
I would imagine you hear it a lot at guitar shops. It's like Don't Stop Believing. It's overplayed. Its more a manner of ettiquite to not play Stairway than rule of law.
@Daniel Brown really though
I just came across this video and must admit that some of the comments and theories presented here are hysterical!
Here's the real deal: I ran a pretty famous music store in Toronto throughout the late '70's, '80's and '90's called Steve's Music Store. It was a happening place where all ranks of musicians hung out and played. We encouraged anyone who wanted to try/play their choice guitar or amp to do so. On any given Saturday, a dozen or more "guitarists" would all be wanking ensemble, always out of tune. The noise level was sometimes intolerable, but it was fun and contributed to a unique vibe. There were several guitar - centric songs in vogue at the time, Strairway, Smoke on the water, Smells like teen spirit, etc. among them. One day, as a joke by/from the store staff, they created a hand written list called "the Top 10 songs you're not allowed to play", and posted it beside the cash register. #1 of course was Stairway to Heaven. It became a cultural joke; whenever someone was "caught" playing one of those songs, the staff were actually authorized to walk over to them and cut their cable!!
On one of Mike Myers' regular visits to the store, the sign caught his eye. He asked how it came to be, and so we explained it. I/we didnt think much of it at the time, but the rest, as they say, is History!!
Hey I bought my first guitar at Steve's in Montreal! I've never come close to be good at guitar but in a similar vibe to the Saturday guitarists you are describing, I remember one night I was going to a show of a local band with a friend of mine and a few hours before the show, we went to a music store nearby (not Steve's that time) and grabed guitars and played some of the band's songs. I don't know how I got the courage to do this as I am an eternal shy introvert and I was quite bad at guitar but it's a damn good memory! Thanks for reminding me 😀!
*_You just played Stairway in a music store yourself bro... Uhhhm... Wait it's your room_*
The fact that there is a stairway to heaven and a highway to hell tells you a lot about the anticipated traffic numbers.
hope they put in an escalator, Grandpa cant do stairs.
Great observation!
This was the sign on a church in the town I live in
@@iccus62 Why would they put an escalator on the highway?
I'm holding out hope that another band puts out a song called "Waiting Room to Purgatory"
Jimmy page should go to a guitar store and play stairway to heaven
@High Shaun All these younger kids that listen to today's shitty music probably wouldn't
@@Destroyer_13 ahem, excuse me?
@@Destroyer_13 ok boomer
@@malachitewallace5312 good one
The world starts burning immediatly. ;-)
Sooo.. for guitar its wonderwall and stairway to heaven, piano für elise, for bass its another one bites the dust.
Nice
Do you know why???
In a karaoke bar its MY WAY
For the accorxian, it's The Beer Barrel Polka?
@@MrPlowboy66 For the accordeon, it's EVERYTHING, EVER.
@@0x777 c'mon,give Lawrence Welk his due respect!
I'm going to play The Pretender by Foo Fighters to make the guitar store workers get worried for two seconds then be relieved
hahahaha thats actually so funny never realised
Hahahahaha well played man
Every time I play the intro someone always asks "is that stairway" no😂
That's genius
I can't unhear this now.
I still don’t understand why you can’t play it
Beginners looking for a guitar butchering it 5 days of the week
Thunder 9501 oh lol
hard to play
I believe it's because of Wayne's World. the joke in the movie surrounding stairway was that they wanted to use the song in the movie, but Led Zepplin told them they couldn't use it. So they wrote in a joke about being denied the ability to play the song in the store as a reflection of being denied the use of the song for the movie(side note, the song he starts to play in the scene, isn't even remotely stairway lol). The store in the movie still has that guitar, and that sign to this day. I think other stores just decided to go along with it for the fun of it.
@@rostundradau3442 I did that once, I'm banned from that store now haha. Been banned since 2000
I was at a Guitar Center store last weekend, with my friend Dave. He ducked into the expensive guitar soundproof room to try out a Taylor. I walked in after a couple minutes and he was playing the intro to Stairway to Heaven. I said "Dude! No Stairway!" and we got the hell out of there...
So basically, the riffs are so good, it makes any guitar sounds good.
Or quite possibly any instrument that's able to play those first few riffs for that matter
No the riffs are so good that back in the 80s when it was the most popular song in the world if you let people play it than you could essentially expect to hear it on a loop indefinitely. The rule could and should be lifted today but it’s just tradition at this point.
It has never been "banned" in any music store. No one has ever even been hassled for playing it unless quoting Wayne's world. In fact I worked at Guitar Center and honestly can't remember anyone playing it. When I was young in the game, (pre Wayne's world) my local Guitar store offered a squier strat for 99$ and they would throw in a free amp if you could play stairway. So if anything music stores encourage it.
Thats awsome promotion
I frequented many L.A. guitar stores in the late 70's / early 80's where the "No Stairway" sign was posted. That was way before Wayn'es World. The simple truth is they were sick of hearing it. Kind of like Sweet child o' mine, it was just all over the airwaves in it's time.
It's mored of a joke than an actual ban.
I've heard people playing it on stores dozens of times. It's not like they are told to stop and kicked out, but people in the store will laugh or boo at the person playing it.
Easy out: "Dude, I'm not playing Stairway, it's Taurus by Spirit!"
And you won't be lying...
but you have to be able to play ALL of Taurus to prove yourself, b/c aside from the intro Taurus is definitely a different song from Stairway.
@@almishti Sure, it's just the intro… the most iconic part of the song. Still, I'm not talking about the lawsuit, I really don't care about it, it's just a shame that maybe the most known thing of the band is copied. After hearing Taurus, I just lost all my respect for the band. It's obviously copied. It's maybe the most iconic intro in rock music and it turns out that another rock band that played with Led Zeppelin had played it before (95% of it, anyway. It's not the same thing by 5% tops). Led Zeppelin should have just gave them credit for that part and that's it.
@korrok When I hear both intros, I know which one is which as well. Led Zeppelin "just" copied 95% of the intro. 5% of it is rightfully theirs :)
@korrokHaha, if you saw my channel, you would realise I play music. I'm not the best musician ever, but I play the piano and the guitar, as you can see in my channel. This is my honest opinion and the opinion of many more people. And there are also a lot of people that have your opinion. I guess the judge will have to decide. But I really think that Led heard the intro from Taurus, who were playing with them, liked it, like most people do, and made something almost identical. You have a different opinion and I'm fine with it.
After listening to you, I've made my own theory about this: the song is so good that people resonate with it deeply.
Therefore, any out-of-tune wannabe guitar player that butchers it while trying to impress the audience produces a great discomfort.
Plus, since it's a great song it gets nauseating listening to it constantly and it diminishes its impact.
Plus again, most players that would _insist_ to play it will either play it with their own spin or not be true at all to the original.
Anyway, since it touches more deeply with the audience, people would prefer not to be 'touched' sort-of-speak.
I guess it's like tickling. You like it but you'd rather that not anyone do it to you when _they_ please.
and the joke in Wayne's World is they are the true believers who never got sick of anything they love so just don't understand why folk don't want to hear it
*If Stairway To Heaven Backwards Is Something Satanic, What Is Highway To Hell Backwards?*
ThatOneLegend A rousing gospel song...
Hell to Highway 🤷♂️🤭🤦♂️
Highway To Hell backwards is a church song.
Angelic
Highway to Hell backwards is.........Stairway to Heaven.... shit it makes sense now
But you can still play "Escalator to Hell" in any guitar shop. I wrote it, so I know.
I'd love to see Jimmy Page get banned from a guitar store for playing Stairway To Heaven. Who's gonna ban him from playing his own song?
It isn't his
Taelor Watson who plays guitar on that song then?
Tay just because he plays the guitar doesn’t mean it’s his song. If he wrote it (not sure who did) then that’s a different story.
Taelor Watson it's his song.
Durell Dailey led zeppelin stole every single hit they ever made
I'm so stoked to see you play the second and third triads using your pinky. I got so much crap from my first couple of teachers over that.
I appreciate economy and simplicity in my playing.
I own a guitar store, and if ANYone plays Stairway here are the 3 things that will instantly happen in my store:
1) The lights automatically turn off.
2) I make everyone stop what they’re doing, spark their lighters and/or turn on their phone’s flashlight.
3) Ban any and all who don’t participate.
miglior negozio di sempre
Lmao! THAT’S how ya do it!
The only logical solution
Oh PLEASE tell me this is true...I SO want this to be true
@@ENGABU1 😅😅😅 Me too!!!👍👍👍
What if Jimmy Page himself played Stairway to Heaven in guitar shops? Would the store allow it?
Funny, the comment right above yours says the same thing...
Erwin Villanueva he would be beat to an English pulp
Henry Northen Yes. I copied the comment to have many likes too...
No Stairway means NO STAIRWAY!
@@robertcarpenter6410 😂😂😂😂 excellent comment
I know nothing about guitars but it always amazes me to hear such glorious sound that can come from a few strings played properly.
I just played this, on my cheapest Squier electric guitar, played clean through to a Peavey Classic 30, like in video.
The neighbours called the police due to copyright infringement regulations, and maybe noise laws, but they got arrested.
I have worked in 3 music stores and 3 music schools....NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN....NO FUR ELISE is for the sanity of the staff.....xxxx
I can imagine that
Sorry what do you mean?
@@markkimera I think you mean "Fleur D'lise"
@@waynel2162 No it's "Lettre pour Elise" or "Letter for Elise" or "Für Elise"
@@franckbirolini4275 Thanks for the correction. I was always under the impression it was named fleur [or flower] for Elise.
How many of us now have to hear the whole song bc its stuck in our heads now
Stairway to Heaven is banned in guitar stores because everybody wants to play it, and the people who work there are damn sick of hearing it.
Thank you
Usually...people working at music stores know nothing. Fuck them
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MrJeffcoley1 This is so idiotic
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I just saw your video playing the Riff at a guitar show. I commented that this would be a great video idea, but I just saw you already did this one. Watching this one now to get my answer!
02:12
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Right: Indica
Thought it was a ministroke
lol Good call, mate!
Lol
My god lmaoooo
Yes! Bhahaha
I began playing in 1983 and honestly I had never seen that sign in a store until Wayne’s world LOL :)
Accepts Fast As a Shark and Metallicas Kill em All came out then. Yahhhhj
Yea i thought its just a joke. But some stores are serious about it for some reason?
I was curious as well lol I only know it fron Wayne's World
5:01 Holy shit wow that version
I don't know how to play the guitar but was in a music store and looking to invest in a guitar and learn to play. Someone showed me how to play a few tunes of Zeppelin, and i started playing that "forbidden riff" without knowing about it. He grabbed the guitar from me and told me to leave the store! I asked if there's a fire, or an earthquake, what's going on?! A month later i went back and he remembered me, and called the cops on me. 😒 A few months went by and i went back again; this time some ZZ TOP looking dudes were shopping for some guitars and they started playing that forbidden riff. The same almost happened to them but they were usual customers that personally knew the owner of the store, and spent alot of money there. I don't understand what the big deal is about that particular tune.
sorry sarah dee
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Easy, Wayne's world was memeing before memes were a thing
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So basically they didnt get the rights to play the song in the movie and it just got blown out of proportion?
Alacard0malley memes have always been a thing, what we now know as memes are just the latest iteration but memes have been a thing for centuries
@@CarimboHanky yeah no idk why am i replying idk if they were k bye
I'm not sure you know what memes are.
In the UK, over 40 years ago, a music shop I used had a big 'No Stairway' sign in the guitar section.
You are the reason why I never heard the song until I emigrated to Canada in 1994.
Yes, but Robert burned that that UK store down, so...
A song that I heard new on the radio. An anthem that will continue throughout the ages. Zeppelin really tapped into some kind of musical magic when they perfected this song.
I can only imagine how many weddings and funerals were centered on this song...
Go into Guitar Center, grab the best 12 string acoustic off the wall and play the theme song from King of the Hill. I've never heard a complaint.
perdition79 all I’m saying is it’s one of the greatest theme songs ever. And 12 strings only make things better so :)
@@aaronbailey6384 ...except that 12-string players spend half their time tuning, and the other half playing out of tune 8-)
Majestic.