Fred Flintstone was the first bass player 500 BC
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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Notice, it is a fretless.
but this was simply because frets hadn't been invented yet.
True fretless playing didn't happen until 1977.
Beat only by USA, former Sovjet state of Azerbaijan has the second highest number of Fender Twin amps per capita. 7.13 per 1000 inhabitants. USA has 9.2.
No president was elegated more than Kennedy. (That's why Maralyn Monroe had to go)
It was fretless, but not Fredless. Because Fred Flintstone was the first bass player, frets were named after him. Misspelling was no exception in those days, as only few could read and write.
the word "Bass" was actually a typo it was supposed to be spelled "Base" like the base of the foundation in the musical composition. Ahh those party animals ha, ha, ha!
This explains the latest metal sub-sub-sub-genre: Base Metal.
the Seinfeld bass part was actually a birds mating call
This is actually true, which I recently learned when a friend and I decided to play dueling basses (similar to dueling banjos, only on basses). If you play through identical amps and identical cabs, facing each other and your pickups are wired 180 degrees out of phase with the other bass, you can cancel out each other's sound, thereby creating silence. This works regardless of how high your volume is turned up.
The reason the thumb rest was originally on the bottom of Fender basses was because Leo Fender was left-handed. Although a master craftsman, Leo never had the foresight to build the entire guitar lefty until years later.
You didn't mention that the installed strings have to be wound in opposite directions.
You didn't mention that the installed strings have to be wound in opposite directions.
I didn't want to post anything that was common knowledge.
The original Fender prototype electric bass guitar had two nuts at the top of the fretboard, one on the right that supported the G and D strings and one on the left that supported the A and E strings. The small A and E string nut made it very difficult to get a good sound and sustain out of the lower strings.
Leo Fender overheard a conversation back stage at a concert in the 50's, where the bass player trying out the new Fender prototype complained, "I'd give my left nut for a better sound". The rest is history!
Leo Fender overheard a conversation back stage at a concert in the 50's, where the bass player trying out the new Fender prototype complained, "I'd give my left nut for a better sound". The rest is history!
