Banned Songs, London Rock Shop

[kodiakblair]

Some of the folks on the Telecaster forum are upset about the "No Stairway" gag in Wayne's World. 

 

I have a vague memory of London Rock Shop having a sign on the door with a list of no-no tunes. Anyone remember what was on the list ?

The Birdie Song was definitely one of them.

[ezbass]

Smoke On The Water must’ve been on it.

[kodiakblair]

Just now, ezbass said:

Smoke On The Water must’ve been on it.

Aye ,that and Stairway. There was something about open strings too.

 

I can picture the list but not all the offending items 🙂

[Lozz196]

Teen Spirit & Sweet Child o Mine must have been on there.

[mikebass456]

Cover Band Bingo must have most of them listed......😂😂

Edited April 15, 2020 by mikebass456
added the bingo card.....

[Bassassin]

NO SANDMAN! was definitely a thing in the early 90s.

[kodiakblair]

1 hour ago, Lozz196 said:

Teen Spirit & Sweet Child o Mine must have been on there.

Naw. This was afore their time,probably mid 80's .

[ClassicVibes]

Seven Nation Army would definitely be the 'Stairway' today...

[paul_5]

1 hour ago, mikebass456 said:

Cover Band Bingo must have most of them listed......😂😂

14 out of 25 in nearly 25 years of gigging. Not bad.

[ezbass]

17 minutes ago, paul_5 said:

14 out of 25 in nearly 25 years of gigging. Not bad.

15 for me.

[arthurhenry]

52 minutes ago, ezbass said:

15 for me.

22!

[TheGreek]

That list is why I refuse to be in a covers band. Those and "Hey Joe"...

[Roger2611]

Only 2 for me and one in there that I have never even heard of!

What was Red House?

 

[steantval]

2 hours ago, ezbass said:

15 for me.

And 15 for me.

[steantval]

26 minutes ago, Roger2611 said:

Only 2 for me and one in there that I have never even heard of!

What was Red House?

 

 

[itu]

6! After all these years.

[Lozz196]

20 minutes ago, itu said:

6! After all these years.

Same, and that`s only cos I depped for a band on a couple of gigs, otherwise it would 1.

[verb]

4 hours ago, Bassassin said:

NO SANDMAN! was definitely a thing in the early 90s.

I'm sure that was on the wall in Musical Exchanges Birmingham.

Edited April 15, 2020 by verb

[BigRedX]

Eight for me and that was split between two different bands.

[mep]

14 for me.

[Dan Dare]

18 for me. I'll play the other 7 happily as long as you pay.

[casapete]

8 hours ago, mikebass456 said:

Cover Band Bingo must have most of them listed......😂😂

All 25 for me, honest! Has been over a period of 45 years of gigging though, and Red House was in one of my first bands (who had a Hendrix obsessed guitarist ) along with Black Night too .Most of the rest I still play now and then when doing request gigs in my acoustic duo. The shame.......

[Deedee]

10 hours ago, mikebass456 said:

Cover Band Bingo must have most of them listed......😂😂

13 for me 👀

[Chiliwailer]

17 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

Some of the folks on the Telecaster forum are upset about the "No Stairway" gag in Wayne's World. 

 

I have a vague memory of London Rock Shop having a sign on the door with a list of no-no tunes. Anyone remember what was on the list ?

The Birdie Song was definitely one of them.

Roka’s on Denmark St  had that (later bought out and changed to Rockers)  they had it at the back of the shop on the office door, way back in 1993 when I first worked there and for many years after. 
It said something along the lines of ‘Anyone playing these following songs should seriously consider if they have a career in rock n roll...’  I think the Rockers staff then put something similar on the front door about then being banned. 
The original Roka’s was a great shop - the place to get your spares before the internet. 

Edited April 16, 2020 by Chiliwailer

[Pseudonym]

This is a vague memory, and possibly wide of the mark, but I seem to remember seeing a list of banned songs in the free magazine Making Music that music shops started distributing in the mid-1980s. At least two shops I frequented (one in London's Denmark Street, the other in Aigburgh in Liverpool) had the same list. "Stairway to Heaven" was top of the list, and I think "Smoke on the Water" was at number two.

I never played either of those, but I did once play a passage from "We're Not Gonna Take It" by the Who when I was choosing my first good guitar after months of adolescent agonising. The owner burst out laughing, and said, "That's the perfect song for you, because you never [obscene gerund suppressed] buy anything!"

Shop staff got testy if you roadtested Boss effects pedals with the intro of "She Sells Sanctuary", too., but I can't remember if that was actually on the list.

Those shops were extremely patient.