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^ Six? That's only half the number of necks of this ancient Chinese "Guitar of the Gods". A proper setup takes a mortal soul a full week. The guitar tech depicted below does the job in half an hour.
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Jay2U said:
^ Six? That's only half the number of necks of this ancient Chinese "Guitar of the Gods". A proper setup takes a mortal soul a full week. The guitar tech depicted below does the job in half an hour.
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It's tuned such that each neck has one of the major chords. For those wanting to do advanced music, 7 major chords, 4 minor, and a dominant seventh chord. For modern jazz it's tuned to twelve things that don't even sound like music.

To be fair, the tuning can be such that every chord sounds massive.
 
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-Asdfgh- said:
It's tuned such that each neck has one of the major chords. For those wanting to do advanced music, 7 major chords, 4 minor, and a dominant seventh chord. For modern jazz it's tuned to twelve things that don't even sound of music.
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Which was later made into a movie, although to keep the setting period, the instrument had to be played out of shot. They weren't able to hire the gods to play due to a contract dispute, but fortunately the cast had lots of children to lend extra hands.

Most of the hands were returned to the correct children after the score was finished...
 
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Scoops said:
This is without a doubt the tackiest thing I've every heard
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I notice the backing group has the wonderfully descriptive name "The Singers". Many other bands have had descriptive names, such as "The Shadows" (so ugly it required that it only play on unlit stages), and " The Nice", as they were such decent chaps, and "We've got a fuzzbox and we're going to use it, and if you hadn't realised from our accents we're from Birmingham and very proud of it thank you". A few bands did change their names from the originally more descriptive ones when they got more successful, such as "Couldn't even get arrested by the police" to "The Police", although " The Beat" had to change its name to "The English Beat" but didn't feel the need to also explain it was from Birmingham.
 
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In the UK you can get away with nonsensical band names such as "The The", but in France band names have to be approved by its top language bodies to ensure correctness and no foreign words in names, or even lyrics. This is why French pop has been so internationally successful. In The Netherlands no one cares and you can get away with yodelling on hit records.
 
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Although it is well known that Paul McCartney died at the height of Beatles popularity and replaced by a doppelganger, what is not well known is that the replacement Paul was right handed. It took much longer than normal for him to get up to speed as he had to learn to play left handed. For several months, he played off stage right-handed and a mirror was placed on stage to make it appear that he was on stage playing in the 'correct' left-handed way. Because the doppelganger had such difficulties learning to play left, he too was killed and replaced by a left-handed doppelganger. Indeed, the Paul McCartney we know today is not the replacement, but a replacement for the replacement.
 
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Although it is well known that Paul McCartney died at the height of Beatles popularity and replaced by a doppelganger, what is not well known is that the replacement Paul was right handed. It took much longer than normal for him to get up to speed as he had to learn to play left handed. For several months, he played off stage right-handed and a mirror was placed on stage to make it appear that he was on stage playing in the 'correct' left-handed way. Because the doppelganger had such difficulties learning to play left, he too was killed and replaced by a left-handed doppelganger. Indeed, the Paul McCartney we know today is not the replacement, but a replacement for the replacement.
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It's why the Beatles essentially stopped touring.

But the current McCartney is a tripleganger.

Ganger is from the German gehen, and doppleganger means "goes both ways"
 
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-Asdfgh- said:
McCartney died after crossing a voodoo priestess. The Bond film Live and Let Die hints at this.
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Live and let die hinted at more. It is less known, but early in the Beatles career, Ringo died in a gardening accident (from which came the Spinal Tap joke). He was replaced with a look-alike, but they did not invest in drumming lessons in that case.
 
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George Harrison is the least talked about and most overlooked member of the Fab Four for a very good reason, he was supposed to be the bass player. As fate would have it, Paul ended up playing bass because George had signed a contract with Rickenbacker and the rest of the band really wanted more of a dub dub Hofner sound in the bass line up vs the clarity of the Ric. Paul agreed to the bass position under the condition that he would continue to be spotlighted as a guitar player and not pushed to the back of the stage by the drummer like a typical bassist. George was ok with that as long as he got an occasional solo.
So there you have it - in nearly every Beatles video Paul is right up front with John playing and singing while Ringo is on an elevated throne and George is buried in the background by the drum stand with no mic.


Here's a clip of the band after George broke his contract with Ric and picked up Gibson. George was hoping to eventually slip back into the bass playing position with a Gibson EB2 (the bass version of the ES335 seen in this video) but by this time Paul was too set in his ways and refused to relinquish the position.
 
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GBassNorth said:
George Harrison is the least talked about and most overlooked member of the Fab Four for a very good reason, he was supposed to be the bass player. As fate would have it, Paul ended up playing bass because George had signed a contract with Rickenbacker and the rest of the band really wanted more of a dub dub Hofner sound in the bass line up vs the clarity of the Ric. Paul agreed to the bass position under the condition that he would continue to be spotlighted as a guitar player and not pushed to the back of the stage by the drummer like a typical bassist. George was ok with that as long as he got an occasional solo.
So there you have it - in nearly every Beatles video Paul is right up front with John playing and singing while Ringo is on an elevated throne and George is buried in the background by the drum stand with no mic.


Here's a clip of the band after George broke his contract with Ric and picked up Gibson. George was hoping to eventually slip back into the bass playing position with a Gibson EB2 (the bass version of the ES335 seen in this video) but by this time Paul was too set in his ways and refused to relinquish the position.
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All quite correct, but it was also because George Harrison was really Jorje Iglesias. The Spanish accent would have been out of place in a "Liverpool" band.
 
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