Let's spread some musical misinformation

[El Güero]

Long before bowling shirts and DUI's a man was locked up for being drunk in public, and while in his cell wrote the first 12-bar blues song. He even named it "Twelve Bar Blues" after the 12 bars in his cell door. Here's the good part...since then historians have retraced the events and found the exact cell, only to count 10, not 12, bars in the door. They speculated that the man was so faced he couldn't count to ten, and they promptly applied for another government grant to fund further research.

 

[zontar]

they promptly applied for another government grant to fund further research.

Well that last part isn't misinformation...

 

[Thor]

Mick Taylor never got fired by the Stones, he fired them.

 

[ZenG]

The Stones at first were going to call themselves The Volcanic Igneous Metamorphics...but Brian Jones didn't like it so they went with the more generic "Rolling Stones".

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

The Stones at first were going to call themselves The Volcanic Igneous Metamorphics...but Brian Jones didn't like it so they went with the more generic "Rolling Stones".

I thought it was the Tibubating Volcanic Igneous Metamprhoics.

 

[ZenG]

Well... Mick did walk around for awhile saying "They call me Mr.Tibs!"...

But Sidney Poitier told him to knock it off......

 

[ZenG]

When trying to make a bar gig set list use the Parent Synopsis. Play everything in front of them first.

If your dad likes a song...discard it.
If your mother likes it.....it will work.

 

[Matt Bowen]

Ray Charles never learned to read music.

That's not necessarily false....

 

[Jay2U]

This is the true story about the invention of music.

 

[zontar]

Muddy Waters got his name from when he put a mudbucker pickup in a Tele.

 

[Jay2U]

The secret of super bassists is the exact scale length of their basses. They only play basses with a scale length equal to the distance measured from the left hand middle fingertip to the left nipple.

 

[shadowtippy]

The secret of super bassists is the exact scale length of their basses. They only play basses with a scale length equal to the distance measured from the left hand middle fingertip to the left nipple.

Show of hands, please... How many people measured?

 

[jamro217]

Long before bowling shirts and DUI's a man was locked up for being drunk in public, and while in his cell wrote the first 12-bar blues song. He even named it "Twelve Bar Blues" after the 12 bars in his cell door. Here's the good part...since then historians have retraced the events and found the exact cell, only to count 10, not 12, bars in the door. They speculated that the man was so faced he couldn't count to ten, and they promptly applied for another government grant to fund further research.

Further investigation revealed that on his deathbed, his cellmate vividly remembered the man giving a detailed description and personal ratings of the twelve bars he was thrown out of just prior to being arrested.

 

[ZenG]

Show of hands, please... How many people measured?

I did......

 

[ZenG]

The term "mudbucker" is an adaptation from early blues-musician slang.

In those days every time they plugged their bass in , they could be heard saying "I can't get this muddapucker to sound right....."

 

[ZenG]

If you get the hiccups while playing bass and it causes you to miss notes, try to time it so the hiccups land on the counterbeat.

 

[ZenG]

If you get the hiccups while singing....just tell your audience you're doing a Michael Jackson tribute.

 

[ZenG]

Your 110volt bass amp will sound twice as powerful if you plug it into a 220volt circuit. Better tone too.

 

[Jay2U]

Your 110volt bass amp will sound twice as powerful if you plug it into a 220volt circuit. Better tone too.

That's how Cliff Williams played "High Voltage Rock and Roll".

 

[ZenG]

If you practise every day for 10 years straight you will be really good at practising....