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"Quit when you're a head" — Noah Moore


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Lawrence welk played music whose measures were six count. He started up the Opus one & a two & a three. Add it up and it's a six.

I always thought it was because he had trouble counting, and that he was actually saying, "One and, uh, two and, uh, three". A little known fact - counting to start the music was invented by Count Basie.
 
Paul Tutmarc:
In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, who was manufacturing lap steel guitars, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be played horizontally.
 
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Paul Tutmarc:
In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, who was manufacturing lap steel guitars, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be played horizontally.
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Then Leo came along and quickly changed the design. He removed the frets and adapted the body for upright playing.
 
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The Post about Tutmarc was incomplete, that's all.

Tutmarc was trying to develop the ultimate lap-steel, 'cause he was constantly being drowned out by the rest of his band. In his blind rage-quest for vengeance, revenge, and re-vengenance against his bandmates, he failed to realise he got his lap-steel stem-cell growth serum mixed up with his wife's plant-food formula which she'd been using to tend to the lab's plants (trying to give the lair a more homey touch). The Steel Growth Serum and Cellulose Food Formula DNA streams crossed, and we all know what happens when you cross the streams...




It was likely the total protonic reversal that actually created the fretted bass monster, nobody could've predicted the results of a bass so bad, so evil that it would take over the world of music and beyond.

Or ... wait, no! Could it be? He knew ... maybe ... ALL ALOn—AIAIAIAAIIAIAEEEUUGGHHH — NO?! PLEASE STOP! I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS SAYING! NOBODY ON THE FORUM WOULD BELIEVE ME! YOU DON'T HAVE TO KILL ME I HAVE A WIFE AND CAT PLEEEE:dead:
 
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Shhhh Keep a lid on it. I thought it was top-shelf stuff, but... Sorry, in retrospect, I know, I crossed the Mason Line... I'm in a pickle what to do about it, might contact the Vatican...

Yeah, I can see how you'd be in a jam there. At least you're on the Ball, right? It's kinda spooky, though - paraffinormal? OK, the last one was weak, saints preserve us from any more! I was gonna use funny jokes but these got pectin stead.