Why is Stairway to Heaven BANNED in Guitar Stores?

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[@Baalaaxa]

Of course stairway to heaven backwards leads to hell. That's essentially how stairways work.

[@Bakotcha]

Well you're not wrong

[@curtissemon715]

Although technically.... no matter which way you go on a stairway... it's forward....

[@captainsid6765]

😂😂

[@quentiamus7223]

wow dude nice statement!

[@nixpaFPS]

@@curtissemon715 not if I walk backwards

[@EricBlackmonGuitar]

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.

[@Ederson31]

stocks

[@davidlane256]

Marketing done right

[@allainangcao28]

Stonks

[@nintony2994]

*STONKS!*

[@vicdrose]

now thats business

[@McMillanScottish]

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.

[@davidperte62]

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.

[@bachrocktheamericahatersan5799]

My former sister in law asked me to play STH. My reply, “Do I have to?” 😅

[@Jo_easy]

Baby shark

[@sludgeness1]

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

[@NAMEK.BLUDIsPurpleCodeine]

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

[@TannerisSmol97]

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

[@friedrich1957]

There's always fast food

[@atari_hmb]

Tell him the Cry a river build a bridge and get over it

[@chrisisaacs601]

Yes

[@DJCloudy_]

The fact that there's a stairway to heaven but a highway to hell says a lot about expected traffic numbers

[@hekpgn]

That's deep

[@CarieSaad]

Lmfao.

[@tuggspeadman761]

That's crazy I never thought of that

[@jonthomas9708]

:) Love your comment !

[@Brad-ut1ro]

I love it 😂🤣☠️

[@xXWyTeBreaDXx]

I’m going to open a guitar store where the only song you are allowed to play is stairway

[@laurence7246]

I’d go there

[@dangerousnooodle7079]

Where i might apply

[@markcharles2565]

And not simple man. Denied

[@AngelCintiaRockgirl]

...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,......

[@BumpNrun69]

And play it backwards too... lol

[@randomfangirl1275]

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.*

[@davidleek4407]

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.

[@jamirkuhn5206]

it doesn't make sense firstly the buyer wants to test the guitar the way he/she want to listen

[@SenpaiPR313]

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

[@Generatingmoments]

If you can't play Stairway to heaven in guitar stores, you can always play Highway to hell...

[@crabmane3710]

Appetite For Metal or smells like teen spirit.

[@numanuma20]

Appetite For Metal lol

[@JossFromAnarchy]

I know right.

[@commentfreely5443]

i played stairway sideways at 78 speed.

[@asenovbruh8575]

Lololololoo

[@Mothman1992]

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"

[@faustinjudefx8728]

Well thats torture!

[@diego2112gaming]

Where's the store at? I could use 10% off a Mesa.

[@Mothman1992]

Idk. My cousin just sent me a picture of the sign

[@jacobr6985]

Washington state? I live there

[@user-vh8pn1gj2p]

Can you run with the guitar in your hand

[@nicholasfaulkner5304]

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.

[@Cjdanks448]

I thought smoke on the water was everyone's first song

[@user-gk7zv8qz8i]

@@Cjdanks448 certainly mine.

[@simplicity7764]

*when you learned neither of those first*

[@Thoregon5]

My first one was UH's Lady in Black

[@saultfry501]

My first was House Of The Rising Sun.

[@wolfpat]

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.

[@dumpsterd.429]

If stairway to heaven is satanic, than highway to hell is a message from god

[@Linkz03]

Satan appears as an angel of light but the wrath of God is dark in its righteousness

[@EpilepticDragon]

Seems so

[@isaiescamilla550]

God*

[@braxtonbye4660]

Whatever

[@davidmanukyan7400]

LMAO

[@littlebee931]

_How tough are ya?_ *I play Stairway To Heaven..* _Yeah, so?_ *..in guitar stores.* _R-right this way, sir!_

[@kevinsantiago3173]

welcome to the salty splatoon, how tough are ya?

[@humbug-ce9me]

@@kevinsantiago3173 lmao

[@user-qt8my3mj5w]

I do that in stores they get the he’ll away from me lmao

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[@antuwan08]

Spongebob lolz

[@kevinfoo8031]

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.

[@dondamon443]

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.

[@mskellyrlv]

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.

[@ArpeggioPegasusMusic]

This is actually a cool story

[@vulpesvolatilis]

I love stories in the comments of random videos, it's always when people remember the past.

[@WoodsGhost]

Now I want to hear someone play "stairway to puff"

[@mohitblues]

I can't stop laughing

[@johnwoody9505]

@@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.

[@sebbirch1571]

Let’s be honest every sound going backwards is scary

[@rockdjjs7650]

Agree

[@stevengulick5736]

have you ever listened to juice wrld backwards? it’s bone chilling

[@griffin8276]

yeah if you listen to it while closing your eyes it doesn’t really sound like that it’s just the subtitles

[@lamestorybro]

Listen to 2pacs song backwards he says “Yes I’m alive and me miss you” it’s so eerie and makes me shiver

[@stevengulick5736]

@@lamestorybro which song??

[@andrewmize823]

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.

[@toyboy887]

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

[@bluenotgreen63]

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.

[@scamp7887]

Let's be honest, the average player walking into a music store is not something you want to hear period. 😂

[@Rabijeel]

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.

[@isaiahDAruler]

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!

[@connorjacobs3440]

Greshy that would be amazing 😂😂

[@volatile5460]

Do it

[@crushingsnakes1972]

That would be epic

[@Odenseed]

Fukin genius

[@mossadon]

This....sooooo much THIS!!!

[@fieryphoenix586]

You never really see signs in Piano Showrooms that say "No Fur Elise."

[@mansaagony366]

Lol yea. Abs river flows in you too

[@Upama.mp3]

Omg 😂 yes nobody says "no moonlight Sonata or Turkish March pls"

[@chrisb.7787]

Did you PRACTICE today

[@Backwardsman95]

Well I imagine the money from the sale is worth it in that case

[@cowcowyourking5756]

@@chrisb.7787 No.

[@theonemansausageparty5327]

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.

[@phililpb]

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

[@geraldlittle6245]

I saw Wayne in theaters in 92. They definitely played stairway but not on the DVD. I wonder if the laser disc had it?

[@troyastro]

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.

[@tuloko16]

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.

[@Mixedbag456]

Now that we got songs about Stairways and Highways, I'm gonna write songs about Escalators and Freeways.

[@cumstain8389]

Can I write it with you?

[@enaecore]

@@brightstar9423 versus the freeway to paradise

[@Mixedbag456]

The Escalator to Valhalla and the Freeway to the underworld or something.

[@thatlonelygiraffeinc.6989]

@@enaecore thats actually a really good name. Mind if i use it?

[@enaecore]

@@thatlonelygiraffeinc.6989 not at all, go ahead and write a masterpiece ;)

[@mlwy45]

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"

[@williamthurman9082]

Thats wierd not normal

[@blaqmarc]

I think I’ll try that question next time

[@wordforthespirit951]

I am gonna start a cold calling center just calling music stores to see what their opium is ohhh I mean opinion is.

[@littleshepherdfarm2128]

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.

[@mannytavarez5588]

@@littleshepherdfarm2128 It doesn’t work like that lol

[@clarencethomas01]

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.🎸

[@nathanieldiazrua]

Boy, you can play. Love your rendition of this song!

[@Haonshh]

You can’t play stairway to heaven in guitar stores “on guitar”. Nobody ever said anything about playing it on piano.

[@torquetheprisoner]

bill bayley played it on his key bord at one of his shows

[@currentwork4353]

There are no pianos in guitar stores😂

[@Haonshh]

@@currentwork4353 most of the time guitar center has pianos

[@currentwork4353]

@@Haonshh Then they are 'music stores' not just guitar stores,mate🤟

[@MrPAULONEAL]

What about on the flute?

[@nocturnal101ravenous6]

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.

[@Daveskater]

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

[@65882Plus2]

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.

[@Naranaranja]

Thank you

[@LordofNalicNod]

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.

[@nocturnal101ravenous6]

@@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.

[@user-od9iz9cv1w]

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.

[@roadboat9216]

Love it. Cant’ hear it enough. I particularly love playing the recorder and flute parts. Just as amazing as the guitar.

[@DesertRunner602]

"This is banned in all guitar stores...so I will show you how to play it"

[@dudleybarker2273]

in a guitar store

[@cruisingaltitude2976]

THANK YOU

[@brindad1133]

And never answered the damn question. I wish they would ban these idiots off KZbin.

[@cruisingaltitude2976]

@@brindad1133 I can see someone saying that....

[@derickyjr5904]

@@brindad1133 same.

[@Korone-sama]

Stairway to heaven: *Starts playing* Guitar store owners: *Demonic hissing*

[@teymiguel2511]

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[@yung_dagger619]

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[@yung_dagger619]

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[@Korone-sama]

@@yung_dagger619 Pauly?

[@cristianstoica4544]

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.

[@toyboy887]

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

[@guitarman82vet]

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[@rosgarthefrog4172]

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.

[@jschuler53]

RosgarTheFrog. finally someone who gives a reasonable and believable answer to why you might not be allowed to play STH in guitar stores.

[@syncdefamiliar5039]

Oooo this might actually make sense! I'm just not so sure-

[@sidneyadnopoz3427]

You can do that with just noodling tho.

[@ownerfate]

@@sidneyadnopoz3427 Noodling long enough to slip in stairway...

[@harzee]

can't ruin the 666 likes

[@MusicisWin]

No stairway...? Denied!

[@maverickpanda]

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[@commentfreely5443]

hearing G#+ add 9 in my sleep. [edit] that's aug.]

[@sizabil4000]

Nani

[@markopolo2224]

and

[@nathanieldiazrua]

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!

[@akplayz1154]

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.

[@andreazoli6407]

If you play led zeppelin backwards, you should get satanic messages. But trust me, if you play behmonth forward you WILL get satanic messages.

[@nicolasrodriguez-wt6yx]

Yeaaaah!!! Thats why i love behmonth.

[@Blackinterceptor999]

If you play behemoth backwards its a message from Jesus....Satanists are outraged by this.

[@witeskyn7]

When I was a kid, I played my sister's Barry Manilow record backwards. It killed my goldfish.

[@jamesstuart4037]

Is he bluegrass?

[@JohnMChew]

If you play country & western songs backwards you get everything back, you get your wife back, your kids back, your house back...😁

[@johnprentice1474]

There's alway Smoke on the Water and Nothing Else Matters.

[@cameronland4439]

John Prentice *Enter Sandman lol

[@lambsauce9404]

Smoke on the water my old friend

[@thewisebread3653]

0365

[@tepidtooth8539]

If you play Noob Smoke On The Water than yeah but If you actually play it like Ritchie Blackmore than Its acceptable

[@frozantini]

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

[@robmcmillan3625]

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...

[@jeffsazant7360]

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!!

[@alexviau6950]

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 😀!

[@cisforcringe5645]

“No Teen Spirit” my spirit: *aight imma head out*

[@joakim7780]

Lmaoo😂😂

[@spy5channel183]

Lol same

[@zeth1079]

nirvana: ight ima head out

[@n0wsinn]

the funny in this joke: ight imma head out

[@badasstrapbass2313]

Feels good being the 666 like

[@Ubebread1]

Came here to find out why it was banned. Didn't expect a full on tutorial. Still didn't find out why.

[@notdeeem310]

sxyzjym have you found a video v

[@f8a1xhorizonz]

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.

[@MrJakeBoyman]

@@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.

[@Adrenaline_Rushh22]

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. :)

[@karlrovey]

@@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.

[@sarahdee7795]

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.

[@cortz443]

sorry sarah dee

[@taunoctua245]

"It's hard enough to write a song forward" -- Jimmy Page

[@neissy]

When and where

[@GavinPhillips]

Listen to Zelda's lullaby then listen to Ballad of the goddess. Then play ballad of the goddess backwards.

[@good_king_guitarman1334]

They say that if you play a country song backwards you get your job, dog and wife back!

[@GavinPhillips]

@@good_king_guitarman1334 tell that to John Wick

[@cmacbrown]

Lol but it only took them 10 minutes to write stairway, that doesn't seem hard at all

[@bogfinken]

I assume "(Don't fear) The Reaper" isn't popular in cowbell stores..

[@nickramey7450]

Wjats a cowbell store

[@bogfinken]

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[@nickramey7450]

@@bogfinken uh ok.

[@prescriptiondrug3795]

nice

[@amberfillmore3517]

Bawhaha

[@benwu7980]

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.

[@dazeitgeist]

Nice. I just watched your video, trying to play Stairway in that expo. And I wondered, why can't that be played. I was about to investigate, then saw this video. Nice one mate!!

[@qballah0586]

Stairway to heaven is banned in guitar stores..... Let me show u how to play it real quick

[@singularity1648]

He's created a monster. 😂🤣😂🤣

[@cyb3rjake735]

Was that give a little bit by supertramp at the end?

[@mrtambourineman6107]

Already play it bri

[@yonfanga6566]

Q02 Trust and believe in the Lord He will guide you the right way if He’s dealing with you just ask Him to come into you’re heart and life and wash you clean of you’re sins and save you plus read the Bible or ask Him if you’re saved or ask me if you have any questions or concerns He has done so much for me and my family

[@solidsaturn0327]

666 likes

[@prod.stickz5183]

no one is gangsta until they play *stairway to heaven* in a guitar store

[@ShutDFckOff]

One of the most famous (disbanded) band in the Phils did it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3jMemtuiKiqn9k

[@emmanuelcalvillo6619]

Og loc:ok you got me there

[@martinkuliza]

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.

[@prod.stickz5183]

Devin Reese 🤣

[@hogant.551]

That's a good way to go to jail.

[@Kneedragon1962]

You can also insert the lyrics (and most of the melody) of the Gilligan's Island theme over it... I've heard it done ~ fits perfectly!

[@ro101anon7]

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...

[@dhculver24]

Can we replace the ban with Wonderwall?

[@MozillaFireFox1967]

D Culver How?

[@nox4298]

no

[@oresthopiak8609]

anD aFteR aAaaL, yUore mY woNdeRwaaal

[@mrcomltni]

Solar yeah, I would hope not. If I hear it again I’m going to kill a baby chinchilla

[@Grooove_e]

D Culver for President 2020

[@bellidrael7457]

This explained literally nothing to me.

[@lostandlonely2112]

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.

[@prayudinovem2110]

Same

[@dross4207]

philipp seemann ....maybe they should get a different job instead of stopping people from trying guitars.

[@lostandlonely2112]

@@dross4207 Their store, they make the rules.

[@dross4207]

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.”

[@j.s.matlock1456]

I spent 12 years as a costumed character at a renaissance festival. The medieval equivalent to Stairway to Heaven is Greensleeves. (Everybody and his dog played a version of it.)

[@robinnoelle4696]

The memories of playing greensleeves on the recorder in elementary school still haunt me to this day.

[@sambudd7592]

Awesome vid and the comments are brilliant! :)

[@MyDailyUpload]

The awful day that we lose Jimmy Page, everyone should go to their local guitar store and play Stairway in unison.

[@907CoolBoy]

You've convinced me. The day he dies I will learn to play stairway to heaven and go play it in a guitar store.

[@ethanwelk2736]

Jimmy Page should go into a guitar store and play it.

[@SuperSpartanleonidas]

@@907CoolBoy same. We have to do this.

[@johnsmith-mv8hq]

@@ZLunas Count me in. Jimmy deserves a tribute that cannot be denied.

[@kairinase]

@@ethanwelk2736 On the day he died!

[@CTXReynaldo254]

Instead of storming Area 51, storm guitar stores with Stairway!

[@randomguy245]

*raid area 51 with big en loudest speaker in world* *en try to play stairway to heaven* *that's really great*

[@richardchargingcloud6590]

Sure camo dude

[@joshlake9271]

Lmaoo

[@cindybrittain5461]

The raid was ment to be a joke

[@kamavonender7069]

I like this idea

[@LoGaSpyK-Gaming]

Nice message! I love it

[@InsomniaDaydreamer]

One time I was in a guitar center and two people were playing stairway to heaven and highway to hell simultaneously

[@riverc.931]

I played stairway to heaven in a piano store. Nobody cared

[@vinh_em]

Piano stores would ban Fur Elise if a movie made that joke.

[@andreaswhantamap5462]

Lol wkwkwk

[@omniyambot9876]

@@vinh_em more like River flows in you.

[@dylansolorzano5077]

@@omniyambot9876 but that song is nice, Fur Elisa hurts my ears

[@omniyambot9876]

@@dylansolorzano5077 never knew many people hate fur elise hehe

[@nickjones392]

I tried to play it once in a Guitar store. Two security guards tackled me to the ground and tazed me.

[@georgiahughes6404]

Hilarious

[@cheshirecqt1966]

That obviously didn't happen

[@mrwoody1413]

Lies

[@moisesmartinezmorales5885]

I can confirm I was the guitar

[@littleshepherdfarm2128]

Oh come on guys wheres your sense of humor? That was hilarious!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kailove8767]

I’m gonna use this song for my instrument audition in the fall semester

[@Whyinem]

Awesome work

[@thedevils5599]

The Dislikes are from the guitar store owners.

[@SteveAstronaut]

Or Spirit fans.

[@johndawson6057]

Can't count them anymore

[@thedevils5599]

@@johndawson6057 nooo!!!!

[@arminc4658]

And she's purchasing a Stratocaster in heaven.

[@MajorUpgrade]

Bahaha

[@evenstoltenberg3625]

HahHa

[@arminc4658]

@@aark69 I've been auto-balanced. Now I'm just sitting in me chair and sipping me beer.

[@judyrobertson5564]

Thank you so much for clearing that up often I have wondered why the POS is can’t see through it ha ha thank you so much for clearing that up. God bless you and yours like so many other things in this life that don’t make sense you made it clear God bless you and yours.❤

[@ken244]

You are just amazing bro.

[@rhmon7112]

The sudden cut off before the solo in the outro just made me feel awful inside.

[@gredangeo]

"DENIED" Were you not listening? lololol.

[@PDXguitarfreak]

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 :)

[@markbaum9615]

@@PDXguitarfreak ...indeed you have a quality solo lesson...thanks PDX fret freak

[@PDXguitarfreak]

@@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.

[@terrawind287]

@Rikin p Not only you man also me, I love that part too!

[@iflyforfree]

And it makes we wonder if any guitar store would stop Jimmy Page himself from playing Stairway. 🎸

[@bigbonede6201]

Dean Galloway id wanna see thay

[@sassysalmon93]

I literally read "and it makes me wonder" in Robert plants voice from stairway to heaven

[@edmondgreen8246]

I would. Rules are rules.

[@user-ws6rr9gp7m]

I would like to see that too

[@drtyboy]

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.

[@rickhadden1574]

It goes alon further back than Wayne's world those signs hung in guitar stores at least as early as the late 70s that I can remember , it hung in a famous store called millwheel guitars in Toronto, where Mike Myers is from

[@Voodoomaria]

I saw a Christmas movie once, The elves in Santa's workshop start singing Jingle Bells, the head elf is trying to shut them up, Suddenly Santa bursts out of the office and yells "All Right, I'm going to tell you one more time, Sing anything you want, White Christmas, Frosty the Snow man, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, but NO MORE JINGLE BELLS!!! --- Sorry for sounding a little grumpy, but over a hundred years of Jingle Bells, That's enough." Same Principle.

[@jm-mi7kl]

You needed 7 minutes to say “because they’re sick of hearing it?”

[@reecew.1903]

Clickbait

[@williamthurman9082]

Exactly

[@0truckmafk]

or as to not over play it and make the song cringy af.

[@gabrielcornejo238]

He needs Views Goddammit :D

[@goldenduck7294]

Thank you, saved me from watching the video.

[@oreojumperguineapigs833]

“Somewhere by a campfire, someone with a guitar is trying to play ‘Stairway to Heaven’ We must find him and stop him!”

[@onimusha5dm]

Jason will lol

[@urboi2252]

I was going to like, but it’s at 69

[@oreojumperguineapigs833]

Ur Boi fixed it for you lol

[@urboi2252]

@@oreojumperguineapigs833 Now i liked it :)

[@sussy_bedstain9770]

While he's trying to impress some girl

[@wadeecup]

awsome now i understand what was the energy of this song only took me 50 odd yrs

[@mankenybom9344]

I wasn't aware of this bann. I must learn this intro as soon as I can, and visit my lokal music store immediately....

[@nationalistcroat5035]

Instead of storming area 51, we should split in a group of 20 per guitar shop and play stairway at the same time

[@facingtheonlymusic7441]

@Habituated Abnormality no youre dumb

[@bigtex2478]

@Habituated Abnormality not as dumb as everyone going to area 51 to vet shot bro

[@ellaalarose2947]

They can’t kick out all of us!

[@SJNaka101]

They cant stop all of us

[@castlehill6717]

That already happened

[@sumitmhatre8419]

What's actually satanic are those cold dead eyes he stares the camera with.

[@alejandroflores1616]

bekosim batman Comes from playing the song. It all makes sense now!

[@E30Syndom]

He is a mason, for sure...

[@AlwaysApproved]

thats exactly what i was thinking lol

[@elilloyd7900]

I love the tenacious D reference here, I love the song. Fun fact, one of the members of foo fighters (I think it was them) actually voiced the devil in the music video.

[@JStudio11]

i love that epiphone in the corner

[@damiengreetham1013]

Led Zeppelin: "stairway to heaven" Iron Maiden: " Heaven can wait" AC/DC: " Highway to hell" Coincidence????

[@rockrollmusic3468]

And now they have "tears in Heaven"

[@artboi-2059]

Damien Greetham I think NOT!!!!

[@nightcrawler-nw7uy]

Damien Greetham I think not...

[@joerwinyvesvarquez8342]

And A1 made "heaven by your side"

[@lucifermorningstar6169]

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?

[@floydfreeman1318]

Jimmy page should go to a guitar store and play stairway to heaven

[@Destroyer_13]

@High Shaun All these younger kids that listen to today's shitty music probably wouldn't

[@cebollajsjsjsk]

@@Destroyer_13 ahem, excuse me?

[@malachitewallace5312]

@@Destroyer_13 ok boomer

[@haydensteder7348]

@@malachitewallace5312 good one

[@philausdemwildenwesten4158]

The world starts burning immediatly. ;-)

[@enednas801]

The guitar intro on Seether - The gift is one of my favs

[@blowinbigbuds]

I used to watch a bunch of ur videos help me out learn guitar

[@snottytoe6957]

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.

[@robertthibodeau7005]

That's kind of bullshit logic. So does that mean McDonalds should ban the Big Mac, because the workers make them all day long?

[@snottytoe6957]

@@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

[@davudedgell2772]

@@robertthibodeau7005 they also could not want to get sick of the song

[@Kittonkitkat]

Shop workers come Christmas would ban Christmas songs forever...

[@drpinky504]

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.

[@counterclockwisefilms3814]

Guys, it’s not actually banned, it’s a music meme that people take to seriously lmao.

[@djengo77]

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! 👨🏼‍🦽

[@counterclockwisefilms3814]

@@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

[@djengo77]

@@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.

[@counterclockwisefilms3814]

@@djengo77 I thought so

[@djengo77]

@@counterclockwisefilms3814 I'm glad.

[@blueeagle4661]

Imagine I almost did the S2H riff at the guitar stores... apparently it's just the Freddie Aguilar's "Anak" (a Filipino song) guitar riff at the beginning... Coincidence?

[@Redoubt1989]

Yesterday I went to the guitar store and I played stairway on a ukulele while my friend played it on the banjo

[@jonm1544]

"Led Zeppelin was literally the most famous band of all time... for a decade."

[@taharboujnah6102]

Well yea, he remembered that the beatles do exist.

[@gizmothepiefaceman3062]

Tahar Boujnah Beetles were fucking weird ngl

[@taharboujnah6102]

@@gizmothepiefaceman3062 weird? They revolutionized modern music bro

[@aquapupper4938]

@@taharboujnah6102 that doesn't mean they weren't weird

[@taharboujnah6102]

@@aquapupper4938 I'm sorry, I don't agree.

[@pete5668]

The fact that there is a stairway to heaven and a highway to hell tells you a lot about the anticipated traffic numbers.

[@iccus62]

hope they put in an escalator, Grandpa cant do stairs.

[@MysticRhythmsLive]

Great observation!

[@hangmansnoose9040]

This was the sign on a church in the town I live in

[@Uff-dada]

@@iccus62 Why would they put an escalator on the highway?

[@HailTheRegent]

I'm holding out hope that another band puts out a song called "Waiting Room to Purgatory"

[@tobesawesome914]

The first time I heard this song I scrambled to figure out what it was called. The intro had me loving it

[@allthatremain5357]

When it simplifies for a bit before it starts to swell going into THE solo is my favorite part. I don't know what it is about it. Maybe it just gives the listener the perfect amount of time to be emotionally invested in the intensity it is followed by after that little "duh nuh duh, duh nuh duh, duh nuh duh duh duh" reset.

[@satyamdey4527]

"Forbidden because it brings bad luck, its 7 minutes long." "It's 7 minutes long. Too lengthy." This video: *7 minutes long*

[@misterrbl5156]

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.

[@davidelliott5843]

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.

[@luissarmiento4108]

And has 7k comments 👀👀

[@adamkozakiewicz6766]

Yeah, much too long. Welp, comment posted, back to listening to Tool...

[@chrispchicken313]

If you think 7 minutes is to long I feel bad for your wife.

[@nevarmaor]

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) 😁

[@DamnAwesome]

lol

[@tohaason]

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.

[@troyastro]

That's my favourite Deep Purple song. "Smoke on the Water"?....Cursed??

[@zer0deaths862]

*Breaking the law! breaking the law!*

[@outdoorsanimalsandmusic3014]

I think those signs are usually jokes. How dumb would it be to turn off a potential customer over a few notes. lol

[@manuelr.s6328]

Man, I just can't get enough of this song... it's been years on listening and I don't get tired AT ALL

[@tiphmiller_sacred_ink]

Where’s the video where you play your own version of the solo at the end ? Been tryna find it for ages

[@dmdunn]

Cool. I love your version of Stairway to Heaven. Make me think a bit of Classical Gas.