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Let's spread some musical misinformation

In the 1970s, funk was officially a wanted criminal in the UK. Although criminals on want lists are generally supposed to be people, funk was made a wanted criminal by a special act of Parliament. The debate nearly tore the roof off.
The draft version of this special act included a paragraph to prohibit playing of any electric guitar or alike in public. When they saw the amount of tax generated by The Beatles, The Who and The Stones, this paragraph was rapidly deleted.
 
Neanderthals some 130,000 years ago made the first kaazoos out of rodent ribs and the wings of a giant dragon fly tied together with vines

here is UG rocking the cave
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That time back in late 2010 when Mexico's President Felipe Calderon made a somewhat surprise visit to the Ensenada Fender factory, but the Christmas ordering rush had left all the shelves looking rather empty. So they overnight air freighted 2000 guitars south (in various stages of manufacture) from the Corona factory, including 800 American P-Basses, just to dress up the shop floor. The Christmas break came and went and once back to work, and due to some New Year's confusion, all 800 MIA Ps were stamped MX, boxed up with the wrong PC stickers, and sent out to various distributors worldwide

And they are still out there.
 
That time back in late 2010 when Mexico's President Felipe Calderon made a somewhat surprise visit to the Ensenada Fender factory, but the Christmas ordering rush had left all the shelves looking rather empty. So they overnight air freighted 2000 guitars south (in various stages of manufacture) from the Corona factory, including 800 American P-Basses, just to dress up the shop floor. The Christmas break came and went and once back to work, and due to some New Year's confusion, all 800 MIA Ps were stamped MX, boxed up with the wrong PC stickers, and sent out to various distributors worldwide

And they are still out there.
I have 25 of them for sale, at bargain prices...