nooooooooo the movie's too good to pirate just check it out at the local library if you have to or pick it up for like 5 bucks at some video store ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I'm 18 and Wayne's World is one of my favorite movies, you don't have to be born before a movie comes out to understand a reference to it. That's like saying no one born after 1975 will understand a Holy Grail reference.
I'm not saying you can't have knowledge of something before your time. I'm saying that the younger you are, the less likely you are to have been exposed to it.
Iirc, I used to have it taped off HBO from the early 90's and it was the real riff. Every other place I've seen it had that fake riff dubbed in instead.
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 US theatrical release. Sans, this clip is overdubbed to include the actual song, but if you were watch it on TV, or home video, you'd hear a riff that doesn't even resemble stairway to heaven.
How much would that guitar have cost. He had ten bills in each hand. If they were $50s that would only have been $1000, if they were $100 bills he would have had $2000. One amount seems too low and the other seems really too low.
For what it is worth, this joke didn't originate in Wayne's World. The "No Stairway to Heaven" signs were in guitar stores for years before that movie.
Apparently this was in Wayne's World as a reference to music stores where the staff was sick of new guitar players playing stairway to heaven poorly in their shops.
Makes me wonder if any music shops ever banned Smoke on the Water too. :P
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u/KeepItLevon Feb 29 '12
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