Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for November 15, 2020

In the UK the ban tends to be on bassists playing Smoke on the Water

- Insert Wayne’s World No Stairway to Heaven gif -

What is ban worthy about Stairway to Heaven? As long as you don’t attempt to climb it in the store or carry others along with you, if you do take those stairs.

Since I stopped paying attention to pop music in 1964, I can only guess what this is about.

Hopefully someone will enlighten me, but couldn’t Andromeda just sort of “Poof” him out?

Uh? Is that stairway to heaven? And why is it banned?

Ed is awake? How novel!

I have to agree with the music store and the police, it’s been played too many times in public

To my knowledge, I’ve never heard “Stairway to Heaven” and I really like “popular” music – music by such “popular” artists as Mancini, Jankowski, Alpert, Riddle and the like. The last “good” guitar music I heard was by Sergovia and Montgomery.

Electronic amplification sounded the death knell of real music – it’s ALL just children banging on mommy’s pans in the kitchen with a serving spoon, now.

And as far as vocalists – as I used to explain to my boys – If you can picture your favorite vocalist singing “Silent Night” acapella then they MIGHT be a vocalist, otherwise they are just children screaming for attention. And, incidentally, “Rap” cannot be in ANY WAY be considered any form of music – it is to music what those little participation trophies are to sports.

If you’re classified a “Rapper” that means you have little if any talent, but congratulations on the attempt, anyway.

It is a joke, real or not, about playing it in a guitar store. It is like saying “He who shall not be named” in Harry Potter. You just don’t do it, unless you are Jimmy Page! (or Harry Potter in this example)

Don’t get the big stink… When I hear the phrase “Stairway to Heaven”, I think The O’Jays.

too loooong.

“House of the Rising Sun” used to get you thrown out of guitar stores.

Possibly no good on the guitar. Possibly tried singing The Theme to Gilligan’s Island while playing the mandolin.

How about Chicago’s “25 or 6 to 4”?