{"id":435,"date":"2010-04-09T01:20:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T05:20:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-04T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:36:02","slug":"songs-you-play-in-music-stores-to-test-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-you-play-in-music-stores-to-test-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs You Play in Music Stores to Test Out Instruments (and, let\u2019s face it, impress other customers)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" width=\"425\" height=\"150\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s a personal favorite from a few years back. I&#8217;d never heard this song before it was mentioned by a Townsman. The resulting video that I uncovered is astounding on at least 25 levels. Plus I&#8217;m still fascinated &#8211; and intimidated &#8211; by the practice of playing a flashy song on an instrument in a music store. I&#8217;m way too clumsy and way too self-conscious to ever pull this off. I don&#8217;t even know what I&#8217;d play if I could play anything substantial and flashy. As it is I&#8217;m most likely to play the riff to The Kinks&#8217; &#8220;Gotta Get the First Plane Home.&#8221; That&#8217;s easy, and it&#8217;s a good test of the low strings, which I favor.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><code>This post initially appeared 3\/29\/07.<\/code><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w0YNehAz7FY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><em>Very simple set up:<\/em> Yesterday <strong>General Slocum<\/strong> mentioned a <strong>Stanley Clarke<\/strong> tune called &#8220;School Days&#8221; and the <strong>theme from Barney Miller<\/strong> than any bassist of a certain age felt compelled to play when testing out a bass in a music store. He likened this to guitarists playing the intro to &#8220;Stairway to Heaven&#8221;. <em><strong>What songs to you play on your instrument of choice when giving an instrument a test run in a music store?<\/strong><\/em> What do you play in hopes of turning on the other customers?<\/p>\n<p>And while you&#8217;re at it, please see if you can&#8217;t help me list <strong>25 things that are <em>so wrong<\/em> they&#8217;re <em>right<\/em><\/strong> in this video.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a personal favorite from a few years back. I&#8217;d never heard this song before it was mentioned by a Townsman. The resulting video that I uncovered is astounding on at least 25 levels. Plus I&#8217;m still fascinated &#8211; and intimidated &#8211; by the practice of playing a flashy song on an instrument in a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-you-play-in-music-stores-to-test-o\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}