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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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The General Conference on Weights and Measures tried to decimalize music. The proposal, lead by the Swiss delegation, would have reduced the number of notes to ten, each called a tonal unit (or Tu for short). Each Tu (pronounced tew) would be subdivided into 10 decitus, 100 centitus, and 1000 mellitus. Octaves would be replaced by Dekatus. The US and British delegations lead a revolt against as it would likely lead to a Swiss invasion in popular music and that just sounded wrong.
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In his day, people would often ask Mozart why he didn't write any rock songs.
His answer was always the same:- " I just can't find a decent drummer and bass player"
People would then say "But don't you need a guitar player as well?" to which he would reply "I will remind you that I'm a keys player, thank you very much!"
His answer was always the same:- " I just can't find a decent drummer and bass player"
People would then say "But don't you need a guitar player as well?" to which he would reply "I will remind you that I'm a keys player, thank you very much!"
It is interesting however that Beethoven did write rock songs. It would take some time before they were performed on electric guitar as intended as they had not been invented at the time. It is not known how Beethoven knew that electric guitars would be invented.
George Beauchamp was a direct descendant of Beethoven.
Beethoven once attended a seance for another family member and during the proceedings a mystical voice kept repeating "Rickenbacker" to him.
Beethoven asked the spirit to identify himself. The spirit replied " I am George Beauchamp...from the future..I will form a company called Ro-Pat-In ...there will be a guitar called Rickenbacker..it will be electrified...get your mojo workin' bud because things are gonna get hot out there...I'm going to download a couple of Beatle tracks into your mind just to give you an idea where the the whole shmo will end up.."
Beethoven immediately pulled out quill,paper,ink and wrote "Shake Rattle and Roll"...but the song would languish undiscovered in a wooden chest for generations.
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They also wanted the frets to be equidistantly placed on the fretboard. This, of course would involve strings to be tapered over the full length. A Swiss company already produced 100,000 sets of tapered strings. No surprise that their manager is chairman of said Swiss delegation.
The problem with the Swiss proposal was that it was full of holes.
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Unless you string it with flatwounds, in which case you lose all the sharps.
Except cheddar, which will always be sharp.
I've been indoctrinated, brainwashed and held captive by the Blue Oyster Cult.
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The Eddie Floyd song "Big Bird" is about the Sesame St. character. The Rufus Thomas song "The Funky Bird" is also about Big Bird. All this can be attributed to Donald "Duck" Dunn's obsession with the character. In fact his nickname came about because of his belief that Big Bird was an oversized duck.
The Rock Opera Tommy was composed by Richard Strauss.
The opera was so complicated that they commemorated a stamp showing Richard Strauss holding up the ninth-in-a row stripped truss rod on Entwistle's bass.
Strauss had insisted that intonation be 100% spot on with as low a string action as possible to get the ambient tone he desired.
In the picture you can see Daltrey about to tell Entwistle for the umpteenth time that it doesn't sound right.
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The Rock Opera Tommy was composed by Richard Strauss.
Note the flamboyant clothing chosen by Elton John. Other funk acts not only emulated his sound, but also his sense of style.
You will also notice that Pete Townsend is pointing rearward to Entwistle, essentially the "not me, it was him" gesture. And of course Bonham is having a good laugh at it all.
