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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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Everybody knows, or should do, that GaliLEO and LEOnardo were best buds, and formed a partnership called G&L, making wooden helicopters and tanks. It was in their spare time, using a few cast off Bits and pieces in their workshop in Padova that they made the first Padova bass, later shortened to simply P bass.
Galileo is often remembered for formulating the theory that the Sun, and not the Earth was the centre of the solar system.
Obviously, when people laughed at him and the Inquisition threatened him, GaliLEO renounced his ideas, but they were later proved to be correct, therefore inspiring the expression...
"(Gali)Leo got it right first time!"
Galileo is often remembered for formulating the theory that the Sun, and not the Earth was the centre of the solar system.
Obviously, when people laughed at him and the Inquisition threatened him, GaliLEO renounced his ideas, but they were later proved to be correct, therefore inspiring the expression...
"(Gali)Leo got it right first time!"
A while ago I wrote that the second trussrod of a Rickenbacker bass is a spare trussrod. I was wrong. The first trussrod appears to be the spare one.
Now I'm confused about which post is misinformation. Perhaps because both trussrods are spares as they are technically not necessary on Rickenbachers. In which case both posts are only half wrong.
I thought left handed 8 string basses only have 7 strings, but right handed ones do have 8 strings for the same reason that the circle of fifths is fifths in one direction and fourths in the other. Similarly, left-handed 5 string basses only have 4 strings.
Absolutely true! Which IS the reason for the two truss rods in the Ric! Every every other second string can be safely tuned up one octave while just the others can be tuned down one octave. This results in concavo-convex neck perfection that makes sax players better than Jaco the first time they pick up a bass.
Jaco originally was a reggae player. He went by the name of Jah Ko.
The real name of the Red Hot Chili Peppers bass player is Geddy F. Lee. To avoid confusion, he dropped his first name and just goes by F. Lee, which was misspelled on the first and subsequent albums as Flea.
I play bagpipes in the bath. The three drone pipes keep the bubble level high.
Fender has long produced the Bass Breaker amp for guitars. The company has now announced two new additions to the line. There will be the Tuna Thumper for bass and the Sardine Snapper for mandolin.
