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Let's spread some musical misinformation

Nikola Tesla, created the first guitar amp
The result:

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Little Known Fact
The Greatful Dead's "Live at the Fillmore" had a stand-in bass player they found from the local musician's union, because Phil Lesh refused to play the Fillmore, afraid that he and the venue's names would cancel each other out and both would be erased from the very fabric of time and space to become pure anti-matter.

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Look closely and you'll see it is NOT Phil Lesh on bass, but rather Local Union 802 member "Spunky Crueckshank"; the Dead's manager was willing to take any Union member, so it was simply fortuitous that Spunky so closely resembled Lesh more than the other Union Local members.
Spunky was also the bassist in Duke Fame's backing band in "This Is Spinal Tap", but the scene of Duke on stage did not make the final cut.
 
The Hydroponic Scale is still often used in the retro-hippie sound, not to mention other genres such as Shoe-Gazer, trip-hop, ambient, and others.

Oh wait, this is supposed to be misinformation.


If not handled with Kid Rock gloves, amps with toroidal transformers will give you hemorrhoids. If you do mishandle a Toroidal Amp and contract hemorrhoids, pack on an ICE 1000 and seek divine intervention at once.
 
This song music track was recently declassified by the FBI. It is the first song the Beatles ever wrote but was never released on any album.....

Brian Epstein was livid when he first saw it and demanded they turn over all ownership rights to him. It was locked in a safe for 15 years before spies got a hold of it.

Brian forced them to write " She Loves You ' in it's place.

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