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07-27-2008, 05:03 PM
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Sounds like, from the tone of this thread, until I reach the "virtuoso" stage I should be forbidden from taking a guitar down and plucking a few strings. If I could play a tenth of these "banned" songs I'd be thrilled...
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07-27-2008, 06:22 PM
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#63
07-27-2008, 07:28 PM
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There are no songs that should be banned in a music store or anywhere else (unless there are offensive lyrics). Get over yourselves and remember when YOU played those songs because you were just starting out and they were easy to play but a challenge to learn.
So next time you hear one of your "Banned" songs, why not go over th ethe persn playing it, stike up a conversation and show them a few licks of your favorite song and help them out with it. Hmmm... pretty soon everyone will be playing YOUR favorite song and somebody will want to ban that!
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07-27-2008, 07:49 PM
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What songs should be banned? None. Play what you like and smile. Everyone else can think what they like.
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07-27-2008, 09:33 PM
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Because I don't work in a music store, I can be more tolerant
I would agree that if I spent day after day in a music store, listening to the same stuff over and over, especially if played badly, would probably get on my nerves.
As a player that occasionally goes into my favorite music store to find out what's new, I get more irritated by someone who hogs up the room playing on and on and who isn't any fun to listen to. Now if someone could actually play a respectable version of "Classical Gas," I would be all ears. Thanks, Glenn
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07-27-2008, 09:44 PM
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I feel somewhat intimidated. If I ever get the chance to even GO to a guitar shop, I won't be able to play anything but a few chords. I'm not even sure how I'd go about "testing" a guitar. I'd feel so dumb in front of the clerks, lol.
*strums Em, D, G, Am, etc.* "Hmm...yeah, low action...and stuff... Sounds...great.... I like it..." 
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07-27-2008, 11:41 PM
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Hey! That's my song!! I wrote that! It's called "Diddley-Diddley". Let me know who was doing it so I can send them a bill to collect my royalties. ____________ Almost afraid to admit it to all of you guys.....but my only guitar these days is a 1980 absolutely pristine Fender acoustic model F-65 that I'd seriously put up against just about anything out there since it's was recently professionally set up properly and has a brand new set of Martin strings on it. A friend of mine has a Martin D-28 Marquis that, as you know, cost big bucks. From five feet away he has trouble telling them apart.......the F-65 was a downright D-28 clone....right down to the snowflake fret markers! Fender should've been sued! I love it! And it's got great sound, too. For the type of music I play these days, I don't need anything better. In the past I've had a Framus Texan 12-string and back in my Army daze (in the 60's) I was the proud owner of a 1934 Gibson L-5 "F" hole, that someone had thoughtfully cut a round sound hole in the front of. I paid a whopping $17 for it back then........but it sounded like a million bucks!
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07-27-2008, 11:54 PM
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Just about anything by John Denver........even if John Denver HIMSELF got up out of his grave and walked into the place and did it!
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07-28-2008, 12:21 AM
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07-28-2008, 04:22 AM
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Sounds like me in a guitar store! I'd much rather hear someone strum a few chords than to hear yet another botched-up version of "Teen Spirit" cranked to 11.
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07-28-2008, 05:03 AM
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07-28-2008, 08:35 AM
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I can't imagine objecting to anyone playing any particular song. If you like, play it and enjoy it and don't worry 'bout what we all think!
I can understand, however, objecting to the manner in which certain folks "play" certain instruments in certain guitar stores which will remain unnamed but have the initials "G" and "C".  Most of us don't need audible proof that the Marshall stack in the corner is very, very loud.
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07-28-2008, 08:42 AM
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I think that we have all heard enough bad versions of "stairway" in GC to keep it on the ban list. I feel bad for those who have to work in there. Mostly, I would want to ban almost any loud metal music from the Electric room.
As for me, I play a couple of songs that I learned early and I use them on every guitar I try. Unfortunately, some of them are on the ban list. I always play blackbird first (but I don't sing), then I play layla acoustic, then some blues progressions up the neck, then I finish with some jack johnson. I could really care less what people think of me, I will only strum anything "loud" to check a guitars volume and head room. I don't even like the thought of playing in the electric room because I feel a lot more showing off happens in there...
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07-28-2008, 09:08 AM
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I heard a teenager playing Stairway the last time I was in a GC, and I assumed he learned it from his father. I thought it was kind of cool
But I agree with those who said it's more the volume than the choice of notes that gets on my nerves when something does actually get on my nerves.On another related note, my wife knows that if she hears me start playing "The Clap" then I'm thinking "I need to take this one home with me".
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