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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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Basses will soon become dirt cheap.
There is an over-supply of bass guitars in the world.
There are already 12 million too many Squiers and 43 million too many Fender P-s.
If you currently laid all the basses end to end they would go the moon and back four times.
There is a worldwide wood shortage because all the wood was used to make bass guitar bodies and amp cabinets.
There is also an oversupply of amps. But more importantly, amp speaker magnets.
There are 323 million amp speaker magnets on the planet.
Nostradamus predicted that in 2018 there would be a cataclysmic event when too many speaker magnets are too near each other and suddenly all stick together in one big explosion.
There is an over-supply of bass guitars in the world.
There are already 12 million too many Squiers and 43 million too many Fender P-s.
If you currently laid all the basses end to end they would go the moon and back four times.
There is a worldwide wood shortage because all the wood was used to make bass guitar bodies and amp cabinets.
There is also an oversupply of amps. But more importantly, amp speaker magnets.
There are 323 million amp speaker magnets on the planet.
Nostradamus predicted that in 2018 there would be a cataclysmic event when too many speaker magnets are too near each other and suddenly all stick together in one big explosion.
The US Army is working on a project to militarize bass instruments--yes--the military bass.
That made me giggle out loud and almost woke up my wife!
I know a drummer who locked with the vocalist, made things awkward whenever her husband was around ... they were all in the same band!
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When rolling tubes, use the best rolling papers you can afford, otherwise the paper rips and the tube falls and breaks.
Can't smoke 'em if you broke 'em.
Tube amps have that specific "tube sound", because electrons, forced to travel from cathode to anode, don't arrive simultaneously. Some young, unexperienced electrons don't know the exact location of the anode, so it takes them a little longer.
Hear hear...
Another problem with young inexperienced electrons is when they get over-excited about their first ever thermionic E-Mission and jump the gun. Like a large horde of fledgling lemmings, this usually occurs in large groups, and the novice group rushes across the heater gap before the more experienced electrons can show them the proper technique of tickling the anodes; thus the young'n's block the heater channel preventing the experienced electrons from getting across, and the group overstimulates the plate causing grid-lock.
This type of green (as in amateurish) electron discharge is known as premature electrodulation.
That's all we have time for today. For next class, read pages 242 to 257, and we'll discuss dilode tubes used in AC
DC rectumfires.
Another problem with young inexperienced electrons is when they get over-excited about their first ever thermionic E-Mission and jump the gun. Like a large horde of fledgling lemmings, this usually occurs in large groups, and the novice group rushes across the heater gap before the more experienced electrons can show them the proper technique of tickling the anodes; thus the young'n's block the heater channel preventing the experienced electrons from getting across, and the group overstimulates the plate causing grid-lock.
This type of green (as in amateurish) electron discharge is known as premature electrodulation.
That's all we have time for today. For next class, read pages 242 to 257, and we'll discuss dilode tubes used in AC
DC rectumfires.If you have three first names you will be an automatic success in the world of Pop music.
When buying your first bass cab be sure to let the salesman know that you aren't interested in a cab with voice coils unless you sing while you play.
A good way to get an outstanding deal is to walk into Guitar Center, take down a bass, whack it against a post, then tell the sales guy you want a discount on it cuz this one is dinged.
If you have any of the names "Snap" "Crackle" or "Pop", you will be a slap muthafunka gawd ... and a cereal killer.
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If you play with too many mids for too long you'll personally develop what's called a "middle 8" in musicians' circles, otherwise colloquially known to the layperson as a "spare tire".
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If you play with too many mids for too long you'll personally develop what's called a "middle 8" in musicians' circles, otherwise colloquially known to the layperson as a "spare tire".
The reason Robert Trujillo holds his bass low like that is because he knows from years of experience that people like to hurl things onstage.......it's body armor.
Guys who wear their basses low are compensating for something...
