Let's spread some musical misinformation

[pklima]

From a parallel thread on another forum:

"Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were actually both pretty satisfied with heroin for a while."

 

[zontar]

The Ramones actually got their start as a string quartet, but their leather jackets ruined the finish on their expensive instruments.

 

[rust_preacher]

I haven't really followed this thread, but correct me if this has been posted already:

The Queen's Brian May guitar solo on "Big Bottom Girls" is in callipygian mode. Tell that to your guitard.

 

[pklima]

It was originally "Flat Bottomed Girls", but then they removed one flat from the key signature, which put it in callipygian mode.

 

[rust_preacher]

My bad. "F# at Bottom Girls" became "Fat Bottom Girls" (...I knew there was more misinformation there than I Intended...)

 

[Funk³]

Vintage Fenders are worth the money.

 

[zontar]

Vintage means my bass is older than yours...

 

[-Asdfgh-]

A flying V shaped bass can't produce mid-range tones

Since the body is modelled after supersonic jet shapes the sound from it travels faster than the speed of sound and the audience hears the notes before the rest of the music and so flying V basses cannot be played in time with the band.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

The song, "Linus & Lucy" from the Charlie Brown Christmas special, is not about the characters, Linus & Lucy Van Pelt--but is about Linus Pauling & Lucille Ball.

Indeed. After Einstein was pictured with Marilyn Monroe, Pauling felt he had to compete. Hence other pairings such as Neils Bohr and Winona Ryder, Carl Sagan and Jennifer Aniston.

 

[Jay2U]

Alice Cooper never touched a single drop of alcohol in his life.

That's true, single drops didn't meet his requirements.

 

[AlexanderB]

It is not widely known that all weekend nights were about 40-50 minutes longer (each) from 1975 through 1981. Many scientists say that the extra long evenings and nights paved the way for the success of disco music. Suddenly there was plenty of time in the clubs to play those extended song versions and to run long, seamless mixes of half the top 20 list without people start heading home.

 

[zontar]

That's true, single drops didn't meet his requirements.

I knew someone would post that eventually...

 

[zontar]

Simon & Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence was originally going to be a cover of John Cage's 4:33

 

[Jay2U]

"Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel was originally titled "Troubled Bridge Over Water", but renamed because of copyright issues.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

For darker types of modern heavy metal it is required to use neodymium speaker magnets and alinico pickups. Using ceramics the pull on the strings is such that it is impossible to tune to the satanic intonation required to produce the correct dissonances.

 

[zontar]

Beethoven's compostion known as the Turkish March was composed while eating copious amounts of Turkish Delight, and led to the invention of the Big Turk chocolate bar.

 

[pklima]

For darker types of modern heavy metal it is required to use neodymium speaker magnets and alinico pickups. Using ceramics the pull on the strings is such that it is impossible to tune to the satanic intonation required to produce the correct dissonances.

Neodymium for modern heavy metal, retrodymium for old-school.

 

[Jay2U]

With dilithium crystals the pickups are prepared for warp 9 speed metal.

 

[I Need a six...]

Eating a big sandwich an hour before playing will simulate dampening. It will absorb the sound of the bass as it is digested.

 

[zontar]

All the horn players you hear on old TV theme songs are actually one horn player who did over dub after over dub after overdub.

His name?

Jack Webb.