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Let's spread some musical misinformation

#7,541
GBassNorth said:
The entire fried chicken/musical band connection goes way, way back. The "drum stick" isn't called that by coincidence. Neither is the term "wing it". We owe much of our common musical vocabulary to fried chicken. Let's just all be glad haggis wasn't a popular band food, or who knows what kind of demented things we'd be saying.
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...Look at those haggis out there shaking their booty. :banghead:
 
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GBassNorth said:
The entire fried chicken/musical band connection goes way, way back. The "drum stick" isn't called that by coincidence. Neither is the term "wing it". We owe much of our common musical vocabulary to fried chicken. Let's just all be glad haggis wasn't a popular band food, or who knows what kind of demented things we'd be saying.
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I was out at a stomach lining the other day. Well, didn't the guitar player go all lung and heart on us... But the drummer got us back in kilts.

Yes, Haggis talk doesn't work.
 
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GBassNorth said:
The entire fried chicken/musical band connection goes way, way back. The "drum stick" isn't called that by coincidence. Neither is the term "wing it". We owe much of our common musical vocabulary to fried chicken. Let's just all be glad haggis wasn't a popular band food, or who knows what kind of demented things we'd be saying.
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You mean you've never had to endure listening to a bad band? Yes, you had to stomach that crap... Haggis has been there all along!
 
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Well with chicken terms out there like...
Use your "Drum Sticks"
Let's "Wing It"
I like a slightly "Greasy" tone circuit
"Pluck" those strings
"Chicken Head" knobs
"Roasted" necks
"PLEK'd" (a clever play on the word pluck)
"Down" beat
All "Cocked" up
I could go on, but I think it's safe to say the whole "Chicken culture" is fairly well entrenched in the modern music scene. Although I did hear that Bass (originally spelled Base) players tried to mount a "Fish counter culture" with limited success.
 
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GBassNorth said:
Well with chicken terms out there like...
Use your "Drum Sticks"
Let's "Wing It"
I like a slightly "Greasy" tone circuit
"Pluck" those strings
"Chicken Head" knobs
"Roasted" necks
"PLEK'd" (a clever play on the word pluck)
"Down" beat
All "Cocked" up
I could go on, but I think it's safe to say the whole "Chicken culture" is fairly well entrenched in the modern music scene. Although I did hear that Bass (originally spelled Base) players tried to mount a "Fish counter culture" with limited success.
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The fish counter culture managed to convince an up-and-coming Scottish singer to blatantly change his name!

Of course the Meat Marketing Board managed it with one from the USA, and the Society of Apiarists with a bassist from Newcastle.
 
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Overwhelming evidence proves that tone is all in the ears.

Many older players will return a bass for refund because it didn't sound right. Way too trebly and no bottom end.

However this is because they didn't EQ their hearing aids correctly before playing.

Should you buy Ampeg hearing aids or Fender or MesaBoogie?

There are many choices. Combo hearing aids are good for small venues and practising at home.

If you're playing large venues , then a hearing aid with a separate micro tube amplifier head is better.

Be careful though. The heat from the tubes can burn your ear hairs.

You can match a 6mm hearing-aid cab with a 4mm..although two 5mm cabs are best.
 
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ZenG said:
Overwhelming evidence proves that tone is all in the ears.

Many older players will return a bass for refund because it didn't sound right. Way too trebly and no bottom end.

However this is because they didn't EQ their hearing aids correctly before playing.

Should you buy Ampeg hearing aids or Fender or MesaBoogie?

There are many choices. Combo hearing aids are good for small venues and practising at home.

If you're playing large venues , then a hearing aid with a separate micro tube amplifier head is better.

Be careful though. The heat from the tubes can burn your ear hairs.

You can match a 6mm hearing-aid cab with a 4mm..although two 5mm cabs are best.
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Surely Marshall hearing aids. They probably go up to 11
 
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kcole4001 said:
That's a good one!
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The first synthesizer was invented by Richard Wright in 1824 when he was partially successful in his attempt to create a time machine.

It only worked as a time displacement device once propelling him to the year 1962, where the machine suffered a slight malfunction rendering it only effective at making squeeky noises thereafter.
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This isn't strictly true, as it did still allow time to be reversed very locally for three or four minutes at a time, which is how the members of Kiss managed to dub backwards guitar parts on Beatles records.
 
#7,558
SamanthaCay said:
I own a very rare bass guitar built by Leo Fender when he traveled back in time to the middle ages in order to "get back to basics" as he put it.

I don't have any pictures as it is currently stuck in a worm hole where cameras don't seem to function.
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That's where the term flame maple comes from as The Spanish Inquisition had it burned after he demonstrated it at the Temple of Syrinx
 

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