Let's spread some musical misinformation

[rtslinger]

Queen "E" II was secretly a huge fan of Johnny Rotten and co-wrote the Sex Pistols hit God Save the Queen in 1977 as a tongue and cheek song. The rest is Punk Rock History

 

[rtslinger]

Your worst nightmare has come true!
Breaking News CNN.
The bass world was shaken to it's core today when the Fender factory was raided on a insider tip.
The law enforcement agents discovered a fake wall which behind it they found a large area containing many bass amps of brands not belonging to Fender this is the list
Ampeg
Acoustic Control Corporation
Aguilar Amplification
Ashdown Engineering
Barefaced Audio
Behringer
Carvin A&I
Crate Amplifiers
EBS Sweden AB
Eden Electronics
ESP Guitars
Epifani Custom Sound Systems, Inc.
Euphonic Audio
Gallien-Krueger
Genz-Benz
Hartke
Hevos
HOT
Laney Amplification
Mariola
Markbass
Marshall Amplification
Mesa/Boogie
Orange Amplification
Peavey Electronics
Phil Jones Bass
Roland Corporation
SP Amplifier
SWR Sound Corporation
TC Electronic
Tech 21
Teisco
Trace Elliot
Traynor (Yorkville Sound)
Warwick
Yamaha

Through further investigation it was determined that all of these amps internal parts were in fact Fender! When all of these companies on the list were question, they said Fender had the rights to amp internal workings and only they could have a different outer casing, but must use Fender parts! So everyone who swears by other brands and has spent a lot more money then they needed to, are all playing Fender Rumble designed amps! Leo Say it isn't so!

 

[Jay2U]

Finally the Higgs boson has been found! It was not the Large Hadron Collider where it was detected. It was trapped between the magnetic pole pieces of a Fender humbucker. Scientists think it's caused by a combination of pickup placement, tuning and string construction. Top luthiers have been added to the team of scientists, in order to construct a large Higgs boson trap, litterally based on bass guitar technology.

 

[zontar]

Queen "E" II was secretly a huge fan of Johnny Rotten and co-wrote the Sex Pistols hit God Save the Queen in 1977 as a tongue and cheek song. The rest is Punk Rock History

And Prince Charles wrote this classic...

 

[rtslinger]

Margaritaville was the name of one of Christopher Columbus’s ships that sunk as soon as the Champagne bottle hit the hull, so it never made it into the history books

 

[zontar]

If you can't use your pinky to fret on bass, then you are never going to amount to anything...

(Not misinformation:--I do use it but not often--although I use it a lot on guitar)

 

[GBassNorth]

If you can't use your pinky to fret on bass, then you are never going to amount to anything...

(Not misinformation:--I do use it but not often--although I use it a lot on guitar)

On a related note...
Of course we all know that Ringo was not the original drummer in the Beatles band. When the band first formed he was the Bass player. At rehearsal the rest of the band realized that Ringo (thats his stage name, his real name is Ludwig Zildjian ) constantly slid his fret hand position down one fret so he could depress the strings with his ring finger instead of his pinky. When he really got in the groove they would say, "Go Ring, Go!". Hence the name "Ringo" stuck.

It wasn't until a few months after the band formed that a right handed bloke with the name Paul showed up and said, "Heck, I can play that bass better backwards". The band said prove it, and that's exactly what he did. The rest of the band was so impressed they asked Paul to be their new bassist and moved Ringo to drums. The rest is history.

 

[zontar]

Keith Moon actually wrote Tommy.

 

[rtslinger]

I was 42 when the Beatles released Meet the BEATLES

 

[ScarfFace]

Next year, Fender Japan is releasing a Lil Wayne signature strat

 

[Jay2U]

The Beatles actually started as a Rolling Stones cover band. As the Stones did not yet exist in 1960, the Beatles killed time doing some original songs.

 

[ak56]

Tune your bass and then put loctite on your tuners and it will never go out of tune.

 

[Deleted member 264575]

Noise canceling headphones will also stop you from going out of tune.

 

[Jay2U]

Fender announced two radical basses: the stringless and the useless bass. Insiders say that both designs share many parts as well as technology.

 

[Bent77]

Noise canceling headphones will also stop you from going out of tune.

Nothing can help me!

 

[zontar]

Ray Charles was actually a virtuoso banjo player, but What'd I Say just didn't ring right with the banjo--so he learned piano overnight.

 

[Jay2U]

The bass was a Roman invention, used to scare the horses of the enemy.

 

[zontar]

The Romans borrowed flat wound strings from the Egyptians after they developed them as an experiment in a new way to wrap mummies--it failed with the mummies--but some of the centurions loved them.

 

[DreadyDiggs]

The origins of the Steinberger name may come from Germany, but it is the French who are responsible for the radical designs that we so love.

In addition to having a love of musical instruments and a gift of being able to create them, Ned Steinberger was also an avid collector of replica guillotines. Ned's first attempt at creating an electric bass resulted in an appalling piece of useless junk not even worthy of being called kindling.

Ned wanted there to be zero possibility of anyone ever seeing this failure in it's full form, so he planned dice it up into tiny pieces using one of his guillotines and scatter the pieces all over the world using helium ballons.

First he cut off the headstock, and upon repositioning the instrument his eyes lit up...and the rest my friends, is history.

 

[zontar]

headless basses require headless bass players.