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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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Sure is, it happened one afternoon when he met Nancy Sinatra and showed her what she could really do with boots made for walkin'.
Da da Dant, Da da Dant, Da Da Dant.
Yes, in fact, remaining very vigilant in regards to the disco threat has created an entire family of intelligence disseminating networks - the Disco-very Channels!
Piano players always pick the key that is best for the bass players & guitar players.
Next time your band is out on a gig be sure and ask your keyboard player to tune his instrument for drop D, they love playing in that key.
Area 54 is also the place where the first kazoo was found. As no instruction manual was found, we still don't know its purpose and how to use it.
Although rumours persist it was used to snort alien drugs aka Stardust the use of which was the origin of Ziggy Stardust who was actually an alien.
A Kazoo is a gateway instrument...do you really want to go down that road?
We are not even sure if it's a musical instrument.
Von Daniken speculated that the bagpipes were a gift from aliens to be used as a communication method with them, on the basis that you can hear them from a great distance and it is definitely not music. Other more rational voices suggest that since they appear to have originated in the middle east where the first villages and first bakeries emerged that bagpipes were introduced as a form of community alarm clock or to mark the passing of hours before the development of metallurgy for bells.
Most likely the kazoo was used by aliens to fend off earthlings.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the kazoo was invented in the early 1900's by a group of suffragette women that tired of frequently being caught by surprise when a man would quietly pass gas in their presence. The idea was to have men insert these devices in their anal orifice and leave them there when in public. Then if the offending male made any attempt to pass gas a loud Brrrraapt sound could be heard, thereby shaming the offending male in public.
The idea backfired when a few belligerent men decided to pocket the devices instead of inserting them. Then when one of their buddy's flatulance would sound the kazoo the other men would pull their pocketed kazoos out and blow through them causing total confusion and making it impossible to find the gaseous offender.
The suffragettes finally abandoned the kazoo idea and in retaliation set their sights on banning alcohol.
The idea backfired when a few belligerent men decided to pocket the devices instead of inserting them. Then when one of their buddy's flatulance would sound the kazoo the other men would pull their pocketed kazoos out and blow through them causing total confusion and making it impossible to find the gaseous offender.
The suffragettes finally abandoned the kazoo idea and in retaliation set their sights on banning alcohol.
It's how beans got the moniker "the musical fruit", as the first Mr. Methane used a kazoo in the music halls and could render all the popular songs and airs of the day.
Banning beans would have been more effective.
I'd heard that women also put a pin between their lips to avoid men kissing them on the train when in tunnels. A banjo was also found to be effective, not between the lips, just to frighten anyone off sharing the carriage.
Bagpipes are a very effective means of birth-control everywhere except Scotland
The population density in Scotland is much lower than england which points to them being effective in Scotland too. The population density is very low in northern Canada too, so it must be full of bagpipes. They need to release some haggis there to control numbers.
