Let's spread some musical misinformation

[zontar]

Cough Syrup makes a wonderful fingerboard conditioner.

 

[Jay2U]

Roundwounds produce a rich and round sound. Half rounds produce a less round sound, as the name suggests. Flat wounds vibrate one semitone lower, as they are flat. Ground wounds are grounded to eliminate hum.

 

[Feral Feline]

Jaco never used cough syrup.

 

[pklima]

Many people think the full name of new wave is short for "the new wave of punk rock" but it turns out that is actually short for "the new wave of punk rock and/or roll music".

 

[FretNoMore]

Jaco never used cough syrup.

Jaco only needed cough lozenges.

 

[PilbaraBass]

Most bass players are just failed guitarists.

 

[Ritchie_Darling]

Jaco is actually a picturesque little town on the West coast of Costa Rica.

Oh wait, that's true. Sorry.....

Back to the program!

 

[FretNoMore]

That's were all the best bass players come from actually, it's something about genes and also a unique outgassing from the bedrock in that region. Affects the music centre of the brain and the size of your hands. Jaco took his name from his home town, as a tribute to his heritage.

 

[flameworker]

A Bass fish gets its name because it is actually an oversized trout.

 

[FretNoMore]

A Bass fish gets its name because it is actually an oversized trout.

Little know fact: most trout have six fins, bass trout have four fins. However, scientists have recently discovered mutations with anything from a single fin up to eighteen fins.

 

[flameworker]

Of course they both have major and minor scales.

 

[FretNoMore]

Well played.

 

[flameworker]

also they require less bait because the bass will always find the hook.

 

[flameworker]

Neither are any good if full of heavy metal.

 

[Jay2U]

Neither are any good if full of heavy metal.

... but if full of heavy metal they can serve as thermometer.

 

[Feral Feline]

You guys sure are finny.

Sorry, I was angling for salmon a bait batter when the chips are down, halibut if I know. I'm just floundering around. Cod-not sink of anything descent.

Whose line was it anyway? Gill on with it, I'll tuna in tomorrow, can't perch here all night or I'll go walleye.

Jaco, West Costa Rica, must be something in the water.

Jaco never needed hip-waders...

 

[zontar]

Playing through an amplifier in a flooded basement is how Benjamin Franklin really discovered electricity.

 

[Jay2U]

On expensive basses strings last longer.

 

[flameworker]

Watts are all the same.

 

[Jay2U]

Watts are all the same.

They all listen to the name James...