Let's spread some musical misinformation

[Tom Bomb]

Neil Young really did sing Horse With No Name.

Technically, he did but he was crazy hoarse at the time so no sound came out except an almost inaudible, raspy whisper. Many didn't even notice but the official diagnosis was laryngitis. Young was benched and Axl Rose was called in to ghost for him.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

The band 'America' comprised entirely Canadians, including Mr. Young initially, and also Alex Lifeson's uncle and Celine Dion's father. Leonard Cohen ghost wrote all their hits. (You have to remember there are only actually 17 musical families in Canada, so it's natural that they are all related).

 

[prowla]

Often viola players bid on those Hofners and then why their orchestra leader asks them not to use it.

There was recently a theft of some classical stringed instruments; the equipment was recovered and the perpetrators were charged with robbery with violins.

 

[prowla]

Roman drum class

You can't beat a good drum!

 

[Jay2U]

You can't beat a good drum!

...but I can drum a good beat.

 

[ZenG]

Technically, he did but he was crazy hoarse at the time so no sound came out except an almost inaudible, raspy whisper. Many didn't even notice but the official diagnosis was laryngitis. Young was benched and Axl Rose was called in to ghost for him.

That's why the original version of the song was titled " Hoarse With No Aim".

 

[Tom Bomb]

That's why the original version of the song was titled " Hoarse With No Aim".

Yeah. But, they was floggin' a dead hearse (went by the name o' Mort )

 

[prowla]

Yeah. But, they was floggin' a dead hearse (went by the name o' Mort )

Apparently it took them a while to recover the car's bonnet mascot, but Neil had a strange smile for weeks!

 

[Tom Bomb]

And he was hittin' the high notes like nobody's business. What a trooper.

 

[Jay2U]

If your band doesn't have a cool van, then forget it. You won't be noticed at all.

 

[prowla]

If your band doesn't have a cool van, then forget it. You won't be noticed at all.

Apparently Iron Maiden were originally going to call themselves The Spinellis, but the band with the van sued them.

They also considered naming themselves after Trooper beer and did a trial run of the name Iron Railing, before finally settling on Iron Maiden.

 

[Jay2U]

Apparently Iron Maiden were originally going to call themselves The Spinellis, but the band with the van sued them.

They also considered naming themselves after Trooper beer and did a trial run of the name Iron Railing, before finally settling on Iron Maiden.

Ahhh! I always thought Iron Maiden were a Spinellis tribute band.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

You know you've finally arrived as a musician when you are in a tribute band of the band you used to be in.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Many people have heard how the USA employed Native Americans to relay coded messages in WW2, but few people remember how the French resistance used to use jazz scat singers, trained in the clubs of Paris, to achieve the same. "Do be do ski-dadally do be do wha be bop ba-ding " was the code for "The English Airmen must be moved from Renee's cafe tonight" And even fewer remember how the British PsyOps units in WW2 used to bombard German lines with endless recordings of George Formby, which probably shortened the war by at least half an hour.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

The Small Faces were asked, in the 1970s, to reform to remake Ogden's Nut Gone Flake as Cadbury's Flake Gone Nut to launch a new type of chocolate confectionery which married the crumbliest, flakiest chocolate with, er, nuts. In the end the product was abandoned due to the chocolate being too flaky to bind the nuts together and sadly the album was never made and songs such as "Afterglow of your Lunch" and "Roloing Over" were never made.

 

[prowla]

You know you've finally arrived as a musician when you are in a tribute band of the band you used to be in.

Joking aside, I did see Steve Hackett in a Genesis tribute band.

 

[Jay2U]

Joking aside, I did see Steve Hackett in a Genesis tribute band.

Of course you did. He played the kazoo.

 

[Jay2U]

Plywood from Arctic plytrees is most suitable for bass bodies.

 

[buldog5151bass]

There actually is money above the 7th fret, but only between 14-16.

 

[Pops OB]

Due to customer pressure, Fodera has dropped Mike Pope FlexCore preamps and is now installing Belcat EQ-B2T 2 band preamps in all but it's low-end basses. The low-ends have no preamp.