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Old 09-27-2014, 08:19 PM
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I liked it when it first came out but usually change the channel when I hear it come on the radio these days. Just got tired of it. That may be why I've never learned to play it.

However, I LOVE this version of it by Heart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e2fJfiddx4
Thanks Phil
Never saw that one
Even the Haters have to appreciate it
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Old 09-27-2014, 08:28 PM
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This one takes it to a different level.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRq0zyHi0ME
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Old 09-27-2014, 09:13 PM
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This one takes it to a different level.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRq0zyHi0ME
WOW !!!
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WOW !!!
Thanks :-)
I'd rather hear Page.
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Old 09-27-2014, 09:28 PM
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I used to play this version of it, really, but no one in any audience ever got it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfoccRna6I
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Old 09-27-2014, 11:10 PM
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Stairway to heaven is something I used to play when I was just starting on a guitar. It's not a very dynamic song to play I much prefer blues or Celtic now.
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Old 09-27-2014, 11:38 PM
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There was a weekly television show here in Australia some years ago where guest bands performed their own versions of 'Stairway To Heaven'.
Here's a link to 26 versions!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...1C97ADB8ED0B89
The version by 'The Australian Doors' is brilliant, sounds like Jim Morrison.
There's orchestral, early Beatles, reggae, country, Elvis, B52's ..... enjoy.
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Old 09-28-2014, 12:43 AM
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However, I LOVE this version of it by Heart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e2fJfiddx4
That part where Robert Plant wiped a tear from his eye really got me!

That performance combined so many great things I like: Classy environment/venue, rock, execution, beautiful arrangement, and some theatrics.

EDIT - What guitar is Nancy Wilson playing, and what Taylor is the Taylor player playing?

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Old 09-28-2014, 01:10 AM
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I refuse to learn that song, so overplayed in my lifetime.
Dave
So, at what point does a song become "overplayed?" Do you apply this to classical music as well? Just asking?
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Old 09-28-2014, 01:34 AM
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I was in a store a while back that actually had a sign asking people not to play either Stairway to Heaven or Wildwood Flower. :-)
Heh, heh! I'd make it a point to play both if I went in that store.

Back in the '80s when I was actually making a decent living playing solo classical guitar (mostly in restaurants), a friend who was probably one of Led Zep's biggest fans ever asked me if I'd learn it. So I started working on an instrumental version and one day just segued into "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" at the end. Made a pretty good medley, especially with the "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" ending. It's always received good responses.

I've only been asked not to play it once and that was by some church guy who told me the lyrics were "evil." That was back in '82 when I was playing for tips and a meal at a Sunday brunch at a little hippie cafe in South Austin just up the street from my house. I told him to put 50 bucks in my tip jar and it was a deal. He went and complained to the owner and the owner just laughed and said, "I don't have any control over what he does. He just comes in here and plays." The church guy's table was next to where I was playing, so when he sat down I said, "Do we have a deal?" He said, "No," so I said, "Look, it's an instrumental, just enjoy the melody," and took it from the top. His girlfriend seemed to be enjoying it, leaned over and said something to him, and they stayed. HE never looked at me again but on their way out SHE turned and gave me a big smile. Note: I'm not against church folks. I know a lot of you are on the praise teams of your churches and mean no offense to you I just don't like it when someone interrupts me when I'm playing and tries to get in my face.
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Old 09-28-2014, 01:44 AM
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I don't happen to play it. But I do start my warm-ups every day with "Blackbird". Does that count?
"Blackbird" is one of the songs I use to quickly determine if a guitar I'm playing for the first time is set up well. Played the way McCartney plays it, you'll use the entire fretboard from the nut to the body. I never cared for the fakebook versions that keep you closer to the nut.

But in answer to your question, there are a lot of people who get their knickers in a knot over that one, too (though I'm not one of them), so yeah, I think it probably counts, at least for some.
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Old 09-28-2014, 01:50 AM
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"Blackbird" is one of the songs I use to quickly determine if a guitar I'm playing for the first time is set up well. Played the way McCartney plays it, you'll use the entire fretboard from the nut to the body. I never cared for the fakebook versions that keep you closer to the nut.
This is brilliant. Sounds like it's the guitar fretboard version of the keyboard type test of "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" to see if every letter of the alphabet types out.

I should learn this song...
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Old 09-28-2014, 05:14 AM
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Campfire song ??
I'm striving to concour it !
And
You dismiss it ??.
Go figure
Yup. It's a relic from a bygone era relegated to Muzak channels in dentists offices right along with Comfortably Numb and Hotel California! ;-)
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Old 09-28-2014, 05:42 AM
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Stairway, denied!




Actually it might not be played much now in guitar shops, but trust me, a few decades ago, Wayne will tell you it certainly was quite the song to play in the store.
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Old 09-28-2014, 05:47 AM
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Actually it might not be played much now in guitar shops, but trust me, a few decades ago, Wayne will tell you it certainly was quite the song to play in the store.
I was cruising around my local GC the other day when heard this guy playing Stairway. He was so good the whole store was listening. Totally blown away. I moved in for a closer look, rounded a row of amps, and there he was, this 12-year-old Indian kid just wailing away. Made me want to sell all my guitars and take up knitting.
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