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NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

darksasami — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:22:49 -0800

What's the Stairway of the violin? I've just taken up the violin, and the first thing that I intended to learn (once I got past *&^% Twinkle) was Ashokan Farewell -- until I panicked momentarily with the fear that everybody goes for that one. My instructor has assured me that this isn't the case, but it led me to wonder: what is the song, or songs, that everyone in the biz groans inwardly when they hear it coming up as a recital or an audition piece?

I'm particularly interested in the violin, but I know that vocalists have "Memories," the bass has "Smoke on the Water," and of course there's always "Stairway to Heaven," so feel free to vent about the song you're sickest of hearing amateurs mangle.

Flamenco / Spanish type Stairway To Heaven cover on Jonathan Ross

chrissyboy — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:09:06 -0800

For UK MeFites and UK TV watching MeFites: Apparently on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross recently one of the guests was a band or duo playing a spanish / flamenco type version of stairway to heaven.... ...does anyone know what they were called? A friend of mine saw it and wants to buy their album but didn't catch their name. I must have weak imdb/google/tv.com-fu because I can't find it.

Oh, and the only other thing he can remember was it was either a duo or a band fronted by a guy and a girl...

Stairway to Heaven as last dance

jb — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 14:29:27 -0800

In Toronto, the traditional last song at a high school dance is "Stairway to Heaven". Does this happen elsewhere? We thought this was true generally in Canada, maybe the US too, but it seems it is not - we've been asking around Canadian and non-Canadian friends, and only the Torontonians and some 905ers have heard of this. (It's also mentioned in Bare Naked Ladies song "Grade 9".)

Does anyone know of highschool dances from outside the area that have this tradition? (Please specify country and province/state, because we won't recognise most places unless they are in Southern Ontario like London or Paris or Cambridge or Hollywood).