What songs should be BANNED from being played in a guitar store?

[PorkPieGuy]

I have a friend that works at a local pawn shop and claims that 99% of the time when people come in to play a guitar, they play the following:

1. Any song by Creed.
2. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
3. Nirvana - Come as You Are
4. Sweet Home Alabama
5. Stairway

I thought it might be fun to compile a list of songs that should be BANNED from being played in a guitar store.

Ok, GO!

[tlovett2]

Originally Posted by PorkPieGuy

I have a friend that works at a local pawn shop and claims that 99% of the time when people come in to play a guitar, they play the following:

1. Any song by Creed.
2. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
3. Nirvana - Come as You Are
4. Sweet Home Alabama
5. Stairway

I thought it might be fun to compile a list of songs that should be BANNED from being played in a guitar store.

Ok, GO!

Blackbird, definitely.

[terrapin]

Smoke on the Water.............................

[riverman]

issac albinez (however you spell his name) - asturius (however you spell the name of the song)

I've heard maybe ten people butcher that song to death and every time, i have to bite my lip to save myself from sounding like an *** when I tell him he's doing it wrong. on a side note, that song is really REALLY hard on a ukulele!

[usb_chord]

Dust in the Wind.

[mcphersonnut]

Anything with cuss words in them. I have seen kids mainly come in and start giving a free concert with the words to go along.

[Sammy_L_D]

Iron Man. Iron Man. Iron Man.

...IRON MAN.

Smoke on the Water and Eruption are tied for second.

Those three are played more at my workplace than any other.

[strangeman]

GC Special: Anything that doesn't cause an instantanious brawl.

[HHP]

During the folk scare of the 60's, Matt Umanov in Greenwich Village banned "Deep River Blues". How times change.

[ewalling]

Anything which involves loud strumming. Some guys whack away so loudly that it's impossible for anyone else to hear what the guitar they're playing.

[Joe F]

If I never hear the intro to "Sweet Child of Mine" again it will be too soon.

[Shadowraptor]

'Classical Gas'

[TBman]

Originally Posted by ewalling

Anything which involves loud strumming. Some guys whack away so loudly that it's impossible for anyone else to hear what the guitar they're playing.

+1 on that.

[buzzardwhiskey]

Man, I'm way out of the loop. I had to google "Sweet Child of Mine" and Creed. I only have a vague knowledge of Nirvana.

[Howard Klepper]

It appears that I'm fortunate never to have heard of Creed, maybe to have seen the name Nirvana, and never to have heard a song by either one. But then I don't hang in any guitar stores other than Schoenberg's.