Useless trivia: I saw “Wayne’s World” in the theatre and he actually did play the proper first few notes to “Stairway”. I always suspected the change was due to a licensing issue for home video/broadcast. It was way funnier, obviously 😀

@TheArtofGuitar

Жыл бұрын

I saw a clip where it did sound like it but I wasn’t sure what the true version was. Mandela Effect or something. Either way it turned out to be an issue since they eventually changed it I guess.

@chrisleriche

Жыл бұрын

Nailed it! - "The "Stairway to Heaven" guitar riff was changed for the international, cable, and videotape releases to a generic riff because of disputes in obtaining rights to the first five notes of the song, which appear only in the U.S. theatrical release. " You were part of history.

@j_freed

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember it was originally the unplugged guitar you see him playing, which is a mock up of a real 1962. And I even bought the made in Japan Wayne’s World Fender! Excellent!

@HalfDuck

Жыл бұрын

@@TheArtofGuitar The original version is lost media, a bunch of people made KZread videos overdubbing it to show what it would have sounded like though

@deanaf

Жыл бұрын

Here it is. kzread.info/dash/bejne/mImrvI-GcrWqhJM.html

Very interesting! I never noticed the difference between the live and the studio-version at that point. The B instead of C is a very musical choice of Page, because it adds even more tension to the underlying Fmaj7 chord. So in this way it creates the most tension at the bar right before the vocals and resolves somehow into the first note of Plant, who starts with an A above Am.

Thats so insightful and just another example of why music is so awesome cause you can always be learning something new. Cool lil video MIke !

🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻Congrats on 783k Subscribers! I loved the live performance by Heart when they played this song at the Kennedy center.

Mike your videos have been highly educational as well as entertaining and ive been watching you for a while so thanks for everything you do! seeing you break stuff down so even absolute beginners understand whats going on is great! keep it up.

I wish you could make a video about thin lizzy. They are really underrated yet so important.

@jakewhitmore6046

Жыл бұрын

One of cliff Burton’s favourite bands

Love your videos man... keep em coming.

Good stuff amigo, that kind of insight lends itself to improv, and live vs studio, and how more than one thing can be true. It is about sound, and if it sounds good, it is good, it doesn't matter how you make it.....

This was great! I love this stuff

You're welcome! Thanks for the video Mike!!!

What a cool observation! Nothing gets past you!

@somethingbl

Жыл бұрын

Well he says he got it from a comment on the last video, so kinda!

The proper riff to the beginning of Stairway has been restored on the latest 4k blu ray release of WW. Excellent.

Cool video - I've watched The Song Remains the Same a thousand times and I always wondered why he didn't do that ending bit. Now we know. Excellent channel - I just subscribed. What year is your EDS 1275 ? It's pretty sweet !

oohhh...!!! after all these years.. .. thanks for the video..

I had no idea, now it makes sense!!

Awesome. You should do more videos like this

i had flash back watching you with that White Gibson double neck, Alex Lifeson playing Xanadu!

Yes, I also heard that Jimmy played a telecaster in the studio, but he also claimed that live... it was only based on the themes and that it was mostly improvised, if you start to listen to the other live versions besides "The Song Remains The Same" version, you can hear even more improvising, and ... his ES-1375 has much longer strings because his tail pieces are a full 3" further down the body. I learned Stairway, on a bus going to L.A. We were going on a trip to Disneyland, and I heard someone in the back practicing, so I got up and sat beside him, and asked him to show me the song, well, we had 4 hours, so he showed me the intro, and the verses, and the bridges... and the end, so we started to try and figure out the themes to the end solo... I later took guitar lessons from his teacher, and he was very surprised that I had mastered almost the entire song, and when It came to the solo, I would play the themes from Page's SRTS version, and that really surprised the teacher... The SRTS is my favorite version, because we would go and see it every Friday night, for a good 10 months, and later got the DVD. Now, of course, I play guitars at Guitar Center - a LOT. and cover a lot of Led Zeppelin... and every once in a while break into Stairway... and once the manager came by... and I asked him "You don't mind if I play stairway?" and while he was walking away, He said "You have sold 3 high end Les Paul's today, so you can play anything you like... anything." They have never ever said anything since, and I get to play everything. ( except for the SRV strat, because it is a 3M guitar. The other solo, which I warm up with is Howard Leese's solo from Alone... and I heard you play it, and I like your version better. You have mastered it, and added to it in a good way, but not as much a difference that Page made for the stairway solo from LZ-IV to SRTS. But like anything, there used to be only a handful of players that could do a decent job, and now room fulls of guitarists have mastered all aspects. If you ever do a video of Heart's "Steel Wheels," I would love to see it, and learn it.

I owned the Epiphone version of that guitar for several years, the premium version with glued in set necks like the Gibson. About the only difference I saw was a third toggle switch so that each necks pickup selection was independent. What made me want to eventually sell it was that it was way to easy to pull the necks sharp and out of tune with the least amount of backward pressure on the necks. Sitting down you couldn’t rest your right forearm on the body because you were too likely to cause your left had grip to pull the neck back imperceptibly but enough to hear notes go sharp. Between that and the short necks, I vowed that if I ever have another electric 12 string again, it will be a single neck. The way I was using that guitar was just as easily recreated by playing my acoustic 12 string with pick up. I did one gig with the Epiphone where I played it on stage through a moderately loud amp and 4x12 cab that did sound pretty cool

That's very interesting...

That "little nerdy detail" is more interesting than a lot of other topics talked about imo

I always just assumed it was a cross Page not really remembering the piece note for note as well as being hopped up on some drugs so he'd just pull off whatever was in key. Never considered it to be a fret issue

I honestly don't remember, but I do remember the first time I heard the outro to Achilles last stand. The riff that started it all.

Cool stuff.

Loved that beautiful Tele with the shimmering top. 👍🏻

Great looking fretboard on that Fender!

hey mike whered u get that guitar??!! that fretboards absolutely insane i need one 😂😂

Cool content. The OCD in me has me thinking, 🤔hmmm, time to break out the plunge router and see if I can open up that bottom cutaway, miss the bottom switch and wiring path and get my fingers to that 20th fret. Too bad it’s not a late model Epi-☎️

@OAlem

Жыл бұрын

Or a fingertip extension implant? You only need one. Whatever's less invasive.

I was 14 on the way home from summer camp at Forestburg. This was 1981.I was a little late in discovering Zep.

That's a sweet tele! What kind of wood is that fretboard?

Cool facts

That fretboard looks amazing. What wood is it?

I always thought he messed the big moment up on that live version. That’s really interesting.

Love the nerdy stuff!

Starting off as a fan just started to play guitar watching the movie would have never noticed it was a little off sounded way cool to me the novice. But it makes sense the way you put it . Another guy put out a video about the difficulty in playing the 12 string . How much did your new guitar cost . ? Great video

How did I know this was going to be your next video? 🙂

Same problem Don Felder playing his 2nd lick after the chorus where he reaches the 22nd fret on the E and B string on the original recording.

could you put a link for the Rambo shirt you're wearing? Thanks..

I used to really want a double neck guitar, but now I don't think I would even use it most of the time. That tele fretboard really messed with me! Those two lines kinda look like thick strings, and I thought that your low E was bent for a second. I was wondering how you were gonna play that thing 🤣

You done good bro

That Telecaster is a thing of beauty

Page even talks about it in one of his books. Many of their songs needed large modifications from studio to live. It's not unusual to hear a live version and like it more than the studio or the other way around. Great example is immigrant song which has a few variations and honestly show cases JPJ contribution

@DB-os6on

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, and the album version has no guitar solo. The live version always does....

Unwrap your thumb so you can move your whole hand over the fingerboard for the whole lick. It's "improper form," I know, but it works for me.

I play mostly my dc carvins and kiesels. Once was on the lp and had a bit of surprise when i did that look.

They added Stairway to Heaven back into Wayne's World in the 4k release. It was there initially in the first movie release and removed with subsequent releases.

I've never liked the song before the solo, but after the solo I think it's one of the best pieces of music going..

@lyndoncmp5751

Жыл бұрын

WTF? The first half is gorgeous.

@DesertRat332

Жыл бұрын

It took me 3+ years to get into Stairway to Heaven. For the longest time I only enjoyed the solo and the bit after that. Then sometime in 1975 I was hearing it on the ship I was on and suddenly started enjoying the whole song. It took me a while to get into the rest of Led Zeppelin's catalog, but when I fell, I fell HARD!

If I'm not mistaken, Stairway to Heaven doesn't span over two tracks. Free Bird by Skynyrd on 8-track did, though. Look at your pic of the Zeppelin 8 track. Stairway to Heaven is all on Track 2.

@TheArtofGuitar

Жыл бұрын

I thought you may be right but I did some research just now and found some versions where it’s split over programs 2 and 3. www.ebay.com/itm/174808883115

@skeeter197140

Жыл бұрын

@@TheArtofGuitar I stand corrected. And I just watched the video about when you admitted you were wrong, too. I guess I should have researched it myself, before I went off my (increasingly) faulty memory. I just assumed there was only the one version of 8 track. And you know what happens when one assumes....

8 Track tapes are the only musical medium that never made a nostalgic comeback because they suck and no one remembers them fondly.

😎 dude come on don't be apologetic about being nerdy it's what everyone loves about you buddy I'm old use to live in St Paul I just appreciate you as the most talented teacher and the coolest closet nerd 🤓👍 oh and by the way man can you Rock bravo there is nothing to apologize about except maybe volume to your family and neighbor's

That is a beautiful guitar

That double neck is so cool

That telecaster is beautiful i cant get over the wood on that fretboard

that fretboard is so nice

Those guitars neck dive really hard. I wonder if they made the guitar heavier but pushed the saddle to the up a bit. we could have a fully accessible 22 fret 6 string side. Heck they could pull in the 12 string a bit to balance it out if need be

@TheArtofGuitar

Жыл бұрын

Mine doesn't dive at all. It's heavy as hell, but no dive. hehe

@ericknutson8310

11 ай бұрын

@@TheArtofGuitar you musta been lucky. The epiphone one was worse, my Gibson does it but slowly. Enough for a good strap to stop

I have a question regarding the live version: Why, in later years, did the band played two extra measures before the solo?

@thecroft6070

Жыл бұрын

My guess is to allow time to switch between the guitar necks

@j_freed

Жыл бұрын

It's Pagey's adaptation to having only one guitar playing live, it sets up the chords you should be imagining under Jimmy's solo.

Another lick Jimmy never plays live is the sliding note after each chorus in Whole Lotta Love "Wanna whole lotta love" waaaaaoh. It sounds backmasked and that is why live he just plays a little jangle "da da dada" which is cool but not as cool. Thoughts?

Can you bend the strings on a 12 string guitar

Best RnR concert movie ever. 10th grade. Midnight movies. Tripping movie for sure.

That tele surprised me for a second there lol, I guess im not used to seeing Mike with a tele

Coheeds Sanchez played one of those double necks. Very expensive. Very cool. Sounds like a pain to change strings

@onusgumboot5565

Жыл бұрын

I have an Epiphone version with bolt on necks. Very cheap. But it still rocks. It fortunately stays in tune amazingly well. The six string side is the best sounding guitar I have, and the twelve string side with distortion is positively epic. Since I only use it for a half dozen or so songs a night, I don't need to change strings often. But when I do, I open a beer and settle in for the long stretch. I always call it my 18 string.

Good minutia

He sometimes played in an octave lower live

If Page plays it at Guitar Center will they beat him up?

The double neck is also why they play Rain Song in A instead of G because it requires retuning fewer strings in the double neck.

The Tele is absolutely gorgeous

Not really related to the vido but thats one GORGEUS Tele. If it had a double humbucker/HSS configuration it couldve been a really good guitar for me heh

Marty5150 did a video on this last year, really interesting.

🔥

This is the first time I've heard him play it this way, sounds very weird! Anything to be said about just playing it an octave lower?

@penttikoivuniemi2146

Жыл бұрын

That's what I would have done. Well, that or tapped the lick, but tapping wasn't really a thing back then.

@kkarx

Жыл бұрын

You want to end your solo on a "high note". 😁

I always figured he needed an extra fraction of a second to switch from the 6 to 12 string neck.

I find it odd that they had to change the notes in Wayne's World. The first three notes of Stairway is just an A minor triad. Surely you can't copyright that?

That grain on your fretboard is going to bust my mind.

I don't get it. Why they just didn't make the frets more accessible?

Usually it faded out, switched, then faded in...

because not enough frets?

I never learned Stairway to heaven......but i Knew a cople of Villa lobos' pieces and Sultans of swing

Page should have put his foot up on the monitor wedge to lift the guitar up for easier access to the famous solo ending. But I guess TSRTS was performed and recorded back before that big guitar-god move became a thing. Sadly, it was short-lived, nowadays we IEMs, no more stage monitors, no more big guitar gods. 😂

I’ve got the same pale moon tele. I hated so much about it. I was honestly disappointed in it despite being so beautiful. I modded the 💩 out of it n now it’s one of my best axes. Put a 4 way pre-wired angled toggle setup and a babicz bridge; huge improvement on sound and looks. The neck was a total disappointment. The frets would almost cut your hands. I had to do a bit of filing. It always had some serious popping too. Had to sand the inside of the pick guard to solve it. You should see it

Kinda ironic since they were taken to court by taurus and won.. So in other words you cant copyright the first 3 notes of an A minor chord.

I actually saw the live version before i heard the studio version and hence the studio version always feels a little not up to mark for me.. whereas the live version feels like one of the best things ive ever seen..

Bohemian Rhapsody did the same thing. I can still hear in my mind where it changes tracks!

Not nerdy - fascinating! A solution might have been an Octavia, which was around at the time. But for one small lick that's maybe overkill and would have changed the tone too much. I get the feeling Jimmy was happy enough using his musical guile

No that was very interesting man..!! Damn I guess I’m a guitar nerd…going to rethink my life…lol

That neck!!! Whistles cat-call*

Love these nerdy guitar/song facts and how the artist played the parts!

Me starting the video: "Not a big Zep fan, but will hear this out and I like the streamwe and OMG THAT FRETBOARD ON THAT TELE!!!!!"

I wish you offered a "lifetime" plan--for say $500.00--I bought the year plan and only used it intermittently before the "year" was up....

I always thought that when Jimmy Page played the solo live..at least a majority of the time, I thought he was playing the two solos on top of one another by switching back and forth instead, by that I mean, I thought he was playing the main solo and going in and out of the overdubed guitar solo that harmonizes softly in the background during the dominant solo... I swear there's another melody behind that main solo. I know Jimmy was really big on overdubing and all that jazz.... or is this, like, one of the few songs that isn't overdubbed with 3 or 4 different harmonizing arrangements....

Thanks Mike. That is a bad ass EDS-1275.

I sold my double neck because its range sucks, it was never fun to play and became a wall hanger until I finally let it go...

Why not just play the lick lower down on the neck so you would still be playing the same notes as the studio version.

Not the point of this video, but I love that Tele fretboard. That's not Pale Moon Ebony is it?

@TheArtofGuitar

Жыл бұрын

It is indeed! :)

And I always thought that was just another one of those moments JP would make a great sound by hitting the wrong notes.

He could have just played the same lick on another coupla strings that were reachable. I guess he needed the treble tone of those high strings.

Funny that Led Zepplin is quick with the copyright button when they themselves were guilty of plagiarizing numerous songs early on including Stairway!

Dude, don’t leave us hanging with “My dad’s classic muscle car” without telling us what the car is.

you should cut off the bottom curved bit off that gets in the way

He should have used a Harley Benton DC-Custom 612 with 22 frets...😀

@ericbitzer5247

Жыл бұрын

I thought about getting one of those. I don't have 11grand to spend on the Gibson.

@mikebaird6788

Жыл бұрын

​@@ericbitzer5247the Harley benton version usually runs around $500,00

I always wondered how Jimmy Page could sling his guitar strap so low. Turns out his arms are so long he can almost drag his knuckles.

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!!! THAT DOUBLE SG ONLY HAS 20 FRETS!!!!!!????????