Flats wound strings are better for playing flat notes. Sharp notes are better for metal (before anyone asks).
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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That's why Cactus was never a huge success. After they disbanded, they tried to revive it with The New Cactus Band, but it never really made it, either.
I find this particularlty disturbing because I went to the doctor yesterday about some pain. He says I have an inflamed nut. I'm on some meds and in 3 weeks he will do a sonogram.
I feel sorry for you, friend.
Positive, doctors don't use nut axes anymore.
After Gretsch asked Fender to stop making "Broadcaster" guitars, Fender switched to producing "Nocasters" - but not before finishing up a few transitional "Maybecasters".
The entire line was originally x-castor, rather than x-caster. Castor, of course is latin for beaver and the line was so named for the beaver pelts that lined the cases. The P in P bass, everyone assumed stood for Precision but in reality was for the Pelts in the case.
Sellers of instruments don't want you to know this.
Which is why they conspired over a hundred years ago to make the notes on published sheet music round.
Employees at the old Fender factory were required to drink Castor oil at the end of every shift, so that when they came in to work the next day they were bright, chipper and ready to go with no production delays.
Not many know about the Fender "Ham Radio".....late 50's 6-string shortscale bass. Produced for 11 months. Weighed 32 pounds.
If you played bass for years and never made any money or received recognition, there is still hope.
Open a cafe.
If your name is Fred , call it Fred's Bass Cafe. If your name is Jim, call it Jim's Bass Cafe. Etc etc.
Don't sell your basses . Use them as wallhanger decor. Get everybody that comes in to sign them with a sharpie so you'll appear to be famous.
Come up with a specialty burger ( with names such as "The 4 Stringer", "The Neck Diver", for example..) and you're good to go.
You will need to charge $28.95 for the burger. This puts you on the map.
People have little respect for a run-of-the-mill $3.00 burger.
Have some background music playing at all times. Far and away, the most popular genre everywhere is Death Metal.
A simple test for the right sound level:- have someone stand three feet in front of you and
keep turning up the volume dial until you can see their lips moving but can't understand a word they're saying.
Because of this the waitresses will learn to take customer orders by simply getting them to
point to the item on the menu and raising the right number of fingers for quantity.
Open a cafe.
If your name is Fred , call it Fred's Bass Cafe. If your name is Jim, call it Jim's Bass Cafe. Etc etc.
Don't sell your basses . Use them as wallhanger decor. Get everybody that comes in to sign them with a sharpie so you'll appear to be famous.
Come up with a specialty burger ( with names such as "The 4 Stringer", "The Neck Diver", for example..) and you're good to go.
You will need to charge $28.95 for the burger. This puts you on the map.
People have little respect for a run-of-the-mill $3.00 burger.
Have some background music playing at all times. Far and away, the most popular genre everywhere is Death Metal.
A simple test for the right sound level:- have someone stand three feet in front of you and
keep turning up the volume dial until you can see their lips moving but can't understand a word they're saying.
Because of this the waitresses will learn to take customer orders by simply getting them to
point to the item on the menu and raising the right number of fingers for quantity.
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I have been there. I was disappointed that there was no fish...
The term for a bunch of musicians is a band. This came from the dark ages in England in which musicians were thought to be witches. Thus they were banned from town. Over the ages, the term was shortened to band.
The term "solo" was coined at the time when he was usually ask to play "so low" that we can't hear you.
