Let's spread some musical misinformation

[rtslinger]

The Bubonic Plague is now being blamed on bass players! A sudden lack of cats led to the spread of disease because infected rats ran free. Why are bass players being blamed for the most devastating diseases, killed 100 million people. Because back then you needed cat gut to make bass strings

 

[rtslinger]

1818
Beethoven's hearing had deteriorated so badly that he no longer can hear the piano and must switch to double bass in order to continue his successful writing.

 

[rtslinger]

this was said to be the reason for the Baritone vocal we now know and love

1565
In Italian music, castration emerges as a way of preserving high male singing voices. St. Paul's dictum prohibited women from singing on stage and in churches. The practice becomes commonplace by 1574.

 

[rtslinger]

Oscar Zimmerman, the double bassist with the Rochester Philharmonic was Bob Dylan's father

 

[zontar]

Oscar Zimmerman, the double bassist with the Rochester Philharmonic was Bob Dylan's father

And the Rochester Philharmonic was started by Jack benny

 

[rtslinger]

My mother and father never played guitar, and my brothers weren't ever drummers

 

[rtslinger]

Man got the idea to play guitar with his teeth from
Orangutans!

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

And the Rochester Philharmonic was started by Jack benny

subtle, very subtle. I doubt anyone under 50 gets it.

 

[ak56]

subtle, very subtle. I doubt anyone under 50 gets it.

But those of us over 50 really appreciated the subtle humor!

 

[rtslinger]

If you take any set of roundwound strings and you boil them in Blackberry Brandy for 30 minutes, then pull them out and submerse them into tub of vodka and ice for 20 minutes, then hang them up to dry overnight in the refrigerator in the morning you will have a set of brand new Labella Flatwounds! How did you think they did it?

 

[rtslinger]

" Genetic Analyzer For Further Collection" which when coded out using only the first letter of each word is what the real message was! Look for yourself
G A F F C play it on your bass G A F played on the D string F played on the E string and C played on the A string. Yeah now your eyes are opened

 

[rtslinger]

Double bass bridges were hand carved by the first builders in the shape of Sasquatch to protect the builder and his family from the beast

this tradition continues on to this day

 

[rtslinger]

It is illegal to play bass guitar in your socks in the rain on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney NSW, Australia, if there is a boat load of surgeons from America traveling at 23 knots heading do west into a school of Eastern Blue Devil fish. Nope you'll get arrested

 

[pklima]

It is illegal to play bass guitar in your socks in the rain on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney NSW, Australia, if there is a boat load of surgeons from America traveling at 23 knots heading do west into a school of Eastern Blue Devil fish. Nope you'll get arrested

Can I do it in socks if they're not my socks and I borrowed them from somebody else?

 

[rtslinger]

Can I do it in socks if they're not my socks and I borrowed them from somebody else?

try it and I'll report you ha ha ha

 

[Deleted member 264575]

You just know he's on his way to the Sydney harbor Bridge......

Criminals.

 

[zontar]

subtle, very subtle. I doubt anyone under 50 gets it.

Actually there is a local radio station that plays old radio shows--from way before my time--and they play Jack Benny...
(Sorry that this is not misinformation--it is true--so I'll post some misinformation right away.)

 

[zontar]

In Montreal Quebec, only baristas are allowed to play the mandolin in public--no matter what they are, or are not, wearing.

 

[GBassNorth]

A little know fact -

The Fab Four (John, Paul, George and Ringo) originally met while working at a pest control company. It was there that they came up with the Beatles name years before they ever got together as a band. In fact their first product launch had nothing to do with music, instead it was this...

...the rest is history!

 

[rtslinger]

The original short scale bass was created by accident by a helper hired to make necks to get the job he claimed he knew how to read a ruler