Let's spread some musical misinformation

[Jay2U]

Can't wait for the happy meal toys.

Can't wait to happily toy the meals.

 

[tzdroik]

There 2 kinds of music. Country and Western. I like em both.

 

[sub-commandante]

His new address is: Beverly Hillside Retirement Home, 6th floor, unit 7.

Stellar investigative work on your part.

 

[sub-commandante]

There are many families in rock.

The Partridge Family,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Blues Brothers,
The Righteous Brothers,
Big Brother and the Holding Company,
Sly and the Family Stone,
Sister Sledge...

Andrew Doobie , the only non-musical Doobie brother opened a chain of successful bakeries.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

In the UK musical instruments are heavily taxed. To get around said tax, Gibson came up with a cunning plan. From now on their guitars are called String Conditioners™.

It's also the origin of the term 'coffee table bass' as coffee tables are less heavily taxed. Fodera ultimately branched out and offers a full dining set and some nice sideboards

 

[-Asdfgh-]

There 2 kinds of music. Country and Western. I like em both.

Come on, that's not true, there's Southern music, and stuff from Japan is eastern. I've never heard of any music from the north, though, apart from Rush and Abba.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Talking of tables, The Carpenters were not related, but were actually carpenters in a theatre originally, and got signed when they were caught playing some compositions during a break from making scenery for a production of The Wizard of Oz.

 

[pklima]

Here's some more northern music.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Mumford and Sons is, like many companies with a similar naming convention, a going concern, and has been in business since 1878. Since 1900 three new songs have been introduced to the set list. A fourth is scheduled for the 150th anniversary in 2028.

 

[sub-commandante]

Come on, that's not true, there's Southern music, and stuff from Japan is eastern. I've never heard of any music from the north, though, apart from Rush and Abba.

Manufacturing costs for music in the North are prohibitively high so very little is produced , and usually only for export. The raw materials grow slowly due to extreme temperatures and environmental conditions.

 

[prowla]

Can't wait for the happy meal toys.

Maccy D's once did a little wind up E-Bow as a happy meal toy.

 

[Jay2U]

There 2 kinds of music. Country and Western. I like em both.

Some people say there are more types of music

Come on, that's not true, there's Southern music, and stuff from Japan is eastern. I've never heard of any music from the north, though, apart from Rush and Abba.

...and there are Rock and Roll of course.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Some people say there are more types of music

...and there are Rock and Roll of course.

That's rock and/or roll. I had great fun in my youth playing in a roll band. The Rolling Stones is of course a crossover band as it played (in the early days) roll as well as rock (Stones ...). Rocks that could also roll. Then they discovered the blues.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

UK bands often have humour in the name. The Rolling Stones. The Moody Blues (all prog), The Pretty Things (ugly as sin), The Small Faces (tall blokes), The Nice, Bad Manners (well behaved), Madness (all mental health case workers), Ultravox (only did instrumentals, but Pete Waterman later added vocals to make them hits), and so on.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Maccy D's once did a little wind up E-Bow as a happy meal toy.

If it was wind up it must have been a version of Godley and Creme's "Gizmo". Incidentally, as a play on words, that came with a voucher for a free cream tea at one of the many Lyons tea shops that existed until the 1980s.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

It's also the origin of the term 'coffee table bass' as coffee tables are less heavily taxed. Fodera ultimately branched out and offers a full dining set and some nice sideboards

To explain, this was to label basses as coffee tables and avoid instrument taxes. The dining sets have recently been extended to a seven person set, with the seventh chair being really big. The eight seat dining set didn't catch on as it was just a four person set but with four love seats rather than standard chairs. No elbow room.

 

[Pops OB]

Mark-Almond was really one person who had a split personality when he founded The Almond Brothers Band. Roadies Duane and Greg Allman jumped in when Mark-Almond suddenly left the group. They thought the group was already named after themselves.

 

[Tom Bomb]

Remember that lady of phrase and fable, who was convinced that all that glittered was some kind of precious metal, and who forked out the big bikkies for a hoity-toity stepladder, and who climbed that ladder knowing that one word was all she really needed? That word was Yatzy.

 

[prowla]

Mark-Almond was really one person who had a split personality when he founded The Almond Brothers Band. Roadies Duane and Greg Allman jumped in when Mark-Almond suddenly left the group. They thought the group was already named after themselves.

Ah, the Almond Brothers - their fans went nuts.

 

[Pops OB]

Ah, the Almond Brothers - their fans went nuts.

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't...