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#9,462
P-Basses are a 'little' older than we thought.
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Bad azz tone said:
So,if you have a 0051,serial# 1,rosewood fb,in heavenly white p-bass this my friends is the true HOLY GRAIL.
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I went out on a time trip with my modded DeLorean to find out. I couldn't find any P-Bass older than the 0051, so I think your post doesn't contain any misinformation. Please remember that any real information may get this thread closed.
 
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Justinvs said:
Little known fact, Henry VIII was a renowned musician, especially adept at the various flutes, pipes and whistles at use in his time. So expert was he as a flutist, he often gave private lessons to members of his court.

That's right, he was a Tudor tooter tutor.
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Also during Henry VII's reign, court jesters abounded. Spinning yarns of thee olde daze and regaling royal audiences with romantic poems set to musical accompaniment.

If a jester-in-training could not read chord charts or was not able to chime in by ear, he was directed to other pursuits.

This is how the phrase "he doesn't get the jest of things" came about.

Side note: There were no female jesters. Jestering was considered beneath a woman's dignatorial position in the communitarial subordination of the fairer sex.
 
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Stumbo said:
Also during Henry VII's reign, court jesters abound. Spinning yarns of thee olde daze and regaling royal audiences with romantic poems set to musical accompaniment.

If a jester-in-training could not read chord charts or was not able to chime in by ear, he was directed to other pursuits.

This us how the phrase "he doesn't get the jest of things" came about.

Side note: There were no female jesters. Jesting was considered beneath a woman's dignatorial position in the communitarial subordination of the fairer sex.
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Also, because boys were expected to follow in their father's profession, whenever the wife of such an entertainer became pregnant there was much anticipation awaiting the baby's birth. Hence, this time was known as the jestation period.
 
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Justinvs said:
Also, because boys were expected to follow in their father's profession, whenever the wife of such an entertainer became pregnant there was much anticipation awaiting the baby's birth. Hence, this time was known as the jestation period.
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And sometimes, when traveling from one kingdom to another to entertain arriving dignitaries, the jesters would be set upon by cannibalistic vampirish from the low lands of Ireland.

After a time, this practice was given up because baking soda was not mined yet to soothe the side effects of indijestyun
 
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The Complete History Of NODES

Once upon a time a musicologist studying the back-and-forth vibrating path of a string discovered that strings acted like waves and that there were distinct points along a string's vibrating path where the string wasn't actually vibrating, but at rest before continuing its vibrational arc in the opposite direction — null points.
To honour her mentor, a music theorist who discovered each music key has modes starting on a different scale degree of the major scale (Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian), she called these null points "string modes".

Unfortunately she had a very bad head cold at the time she proclaimed these findings to her research assistant.
The transcription is as follows:


"Schtacy! Yoo wooben beleeb whad I'b jus dishcobbered! Schrtings donut vibayt inna shingle arc, theh heb mullible arksh. Ahm cahlem dem 'nodes'!"


She fired Stacy over the mislabelling of "string modes", but it was too late as the music community at large had already adopted the term "nodes".
 
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#9,478
Guitar Center has a “secret” menu like In-N-Out Burger.

Plus there is a secret showroom in EVERY GC you can trigger.

First you need to get to the showroom so grab a ladder by yourself (don’t worry the staff won’t notice you as it is so they’ll assume you’re the new guy) and then seek the most expensive bass on the top peg.

Promptly fling it over your shoulder with all your might and then hang from the peg yourself which will make the lever come down and open the door to where the good stuff is.

I’m talking handmade stuff. Right here in the USA by a kindly elderly man who maybe endures a few beatings but nothing that prevents him from making your gear.

GC staff will try to stop you and threaten with police but this is to weed the rubes from the real players so shout that you post on TalkBass and it gets handled.

If you don’t get in the room?

It’s possible you aren’t good enough yet and don’t take it so hard but understand you’ll need to level up.

The secret menu is something to really dig into later and one they’ll all deny but let’s just whet your appetite with the fact all Ampeg gear gets placed in a warehouse and you get 14 minutes to race around with your forklift and whatever you can grab and keep on the forklift as you drive out is yours for $100 no questions asked.

I have a guy named Tony who works in the warehouse so you pay him the $100 and take his ID and hop on a forklift and start shopping.

I’ll teach you more hacks later but figure I owe it to pals like you to share.
 
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