Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
- Start date
Very few people know that Syd Barret actually wrote "Shine on You Crazy Diamond" about his precocious hamster Stewy that he claimed could talk and play board games, several years before Roger Waters changed a few of the lyrics to make it fit the WYWH album they were working on.
I had previously laboured under the misapprehension that my father's sister had invented AntiMusic. She later changed her name to Adam, and in the spirit of many folk songs, dressed as a male pirate to perform.
Ah yes - the first single "Stand On Yer Liver!" had to be renamed due to contractual complexities with the medical profession.
Surf rock evolved from pirate rock. It is all in the genre of "Sea Shanty"
The Naval tradition in rebellious music is strong. Pogo dancing (as done to punk rock) evolved from the Naval Horn Pike, a dance originating in the British Navy as a means of maintaining fitness on board ship. Slam dancing (Punk Rock) and Moshing (Heavy Metal) evolved from doing the Horn Pike in rough seas.
The Hz micro switch wires terminate under the bridge and do nothing. Anybody who thinks they can actually hear any difference is delusional. Manufacturers installed the do-nothing switches when a production accident caused too many holes to be drilled in the body.
Basses only actually need three strings. Four string basses were an early product of overproduction of the coal and steel union (which later became the EU) which led to research for ways to use up steel. After the steel mountain of the 1970s the five string bass was invented, which was also useful in the context of the Europop lake.
THE MAKING OF PINK FLOYD'S 9th STUDIO ALBUM
Upon entering the studio for Pink Floyd's 9th such recording, the band were still burnt out from making Dark Slice of the Mooncake, and creatively bankrupt. They had run out of ideas and were slogging away, trying out dead-end musings. Parched after being in the studio too long without a break and without any sort of refreshments, Roger Waters lost his voice and was unable to even sing anymore.
Delirious from lack sustenance of any kind and wanting to chuck it all in and hit the pub, Waters and David Gilmour were then finally inspired to pen the hit:
"Wish You Were Beer". They recorded it immediately, Gilmour having to sing it due to the drought in Waters throat. After wrapping up the day's session Waters went across the street and was finally able to slake his thirst with a pint. One pint lead to another until he was wasted and wrote:
"Craving & Drooling" on the back of a coaster just before getting kicked out of the pub. He proceeded to another pub further down the road and continued drinking himself into a stupor. It was here that Waters ordered a Shepherd's Pie just before passing out, and when he awoke the pie was eaten and all that remained was a stained napkin on which he'd apparently penned another song for the album:
"Welcome to the Munching".
To sober up a bit and review what he'd written in his alcoholic haze, he ordered a tea and the waitress asked if he wanted a packet of sugar with it to which he replied:
'"Halve A Sugar", please' — and he immediately penned that as the next song on the back of the same napkin with "Munching" on it. Waters wanted some hair-of-the-dog to counteract the hangover that was coming on and yet still rehydrate so he next imbibed a shandy, and whilst sipping it he crafted:
"Stein of Grainy Limon", which Gilmour and Wright later contributed more lyrics and music in the studio.
The recording of the album then went swiftly thereafter.
Upon entering the studio for Pink Floyd's 9th such recording, the band were still burnt out from making Dark Slice of the Mooncake, and creatively bankrupt. They had run out of ideas and were slogging away, trying out dead-end musings. Parched after being in the studio too long without a break and without any sort of refreshments, Roger Waters lost his voice and was unable to even sing anymore.
Delirious from lack sustenance of any kind and wanting to chuck it all in and hit the pub, Waters and David Gilmour were then finally inspired to pen the hit:
"Wish You Were Beer". They recorded it immediately, Gilmour having to sing it due to the drought in Waters throat. After wrapping up the day's session Waters went across the street and was finally able to slake his thirst with a pint. One pint lead to another until he was wasted and wrote:
"Craving & Drooling" on the back of a coaster just before getting kicked out of the pub. He proceeded to another pub further down the road and continued drinking himself into a stupor. It was here that Waters ordered a Shepherd's Pie just before passing out, and when he awoke the pie was eaten and all that remained was a stained napkin on which he'd apparently penned another song for the album:
"Welcome to the Munching".
To sober up a bit and review what he'd written in his alcoholic haze, he ordered a tea and the waitress asked if he wanted a packet of sugar with it to which he replied:
'"Halve A Sugar", please' — and he immediately penned that as the next song on the back of the same napkin with "Munching" on it. Waters wanted some hair-of-the-dog to counteract the hangover that was coming on and yet still rehydrate so he next imbibed a shandy, and whilst sipping it he crafted:
"Stein of Grainy Limon", which Gilmour and Wright later contributed more lyrics and music in the studio.
The recording of the album then went swiftly thereafter.
It creates the interesting situation in which the musician owns the instrument, but it is the musician's LLC that plays the instrument. The musician's LLC can't own the instrument as musical instruments, not being machines, aren't capital assets and can't be depreciated under Virginia tax law. The musical instruments also never appreciate, however, the audience will often signal their appreciation of the LLC through applause.
In Texas it is illegal to blow anyone's trumpet; yours or someone else's.
