Let's spread some musical misinformation

[Pops OB]

Sanders no longer serves Ratt.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Sanders served in the 117th mobile cavalry catering regiment, and feeding troops quickly was imperative. Buckets proved ideal for food transport on horses. Colonel Kenneth Sanders became known as "Tucky" for provided tuck, or food.

Parker was in charge of a PsyOps battalion which would use music to send negative waves to enemy troops early in the morning. Mechanised from 1942, the documentary "Kelly's Heroes" references this. Post war, he continued to upset people with loud, disturbing music.

P.S. Rock-and-roll was of course a reference to wartime automatic gunfire, coined when Parker managed Bill Haley and The Comets. The Comets were named after the British WW2 tank, as neither Bill Haley and the Shermans, nor Bill Haley and the Panzer IVs really worked.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

They served horse meat? I thought he was famous for serving rats...

You're thinking of the short-lived French cavalry. The French accordion-based PsyOps operation was formidable, although bested by the Scottish. Certainly horse-mounted accordions worked better than the gramophones Parker used before mechanisation. He had wanted to use banjos, but this is forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

P.S. Rock-and-roll was of course a reference to wartime automatic gunfire, coined when Parker managed Bill Haley and The Comets. The Comets were named after the British WW2 tank, as neither Bill Haley and the Shermans, nor Bill Haley and the Panzer IVs really worked.

The Panzer IV was a short-lived quartet spin off of Einstandarte Neubaten, entirely consisting of rhythms bashed out on parts of old WW2 armoured vehicles. Very niche, but Frank Sinatra was a big fan.

 

[Jay2U]

In 1975 Neil and Alex made Geddy sign a document, stating that he'd never play fretless basses, as those offer an infinite number of notes.

 

[mrjim123]

After the war the French attempted to make bass piccolos using the gun barrels from the Panzers that the Germans left behind when they fled to the Motherland. The French soon gave up (as they are very wont to do) because the one piccolo they did manage to fabricate produced tones that were not only inaudible to humans but resulted in a lot of broken windows.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

The French expression for getting above yourself translates literally as "farting above your own *******", which is the technique Mr. Methane uses to produce music.

 

[Paulabass]

With fretless bass you are not limited to these binary choices.

Dern right. Sometimes on fretless I play the whole show 1/4 tone flat.

 

[mrjim123]

Dern right. Sometimes on fretless I play the whole show 1/4 tone flat.

Kinda like playing behind the beat, right?

 

[pklima]

Better to play behind the beet than behind the beans.

 

[nitrobrother]

The Tom Tom Club, was originally the Tomato/Tomato Club, Tina Weymouth's horticultural group which she ran in 1980 to get over touring stress. An outgrowth was the band that had such hits as "Wormy Rappinghood (Compost Heap mix)" and "Under the Boardwalk Is No Place to Grow Roses".

Originally they were supposed to pronounce it Tow-MAY-to/Tow-MAH-to Club, but no one really got it, so they dropped the whole thing and had another Hennessy.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Dern right. Sometimes on fretless I play the whole show 1/4 tone flat.

You play modern jazz?

 

[zontar]

Better to play behind the beet than behind the beans.

But that isn't misinformation...

 

[Bad azz tone]

In 1975 Neil and Alex made Geddy sign a document, stating that he'd never play fretless basses, as those offer an infinite number of notes.

Neil and Alex also realized that fretless players can suffer from "SHARP-FLAT SYNDROME " CAUSING them to slide around, searching for notes. While there is no cure,some doctors have found that 3 Long Island Ice Teas can be very helpful,if taken before each set or performance,not for the bass player,but for his bandmates. It doesn't fix the problem,just makes it easier to deal with.

 

[mrjim123]

A lot of fretless players that are often referred to derisively as "pitch hunters" are actually employing a technique that was originally named by the inventor as "random trilling". The technique has since been renamed, after the inventor, as the "Parkinson's Technique".

 

[Jay2U]

Neil is so badass that he

Neil and Alex also realized that fretless players can suffer from "SHARP-FLAT SYNDROME " CAUSING them to slide around, searching for notes. While there is no cure,some doctors have found that 3 Long Island Ice Teas can be very helpful,if taken before each set or performance,not for the bass player,but for his bandmates. It doesn't fix the problem,just makes it easier to deal with.

Neil is so badass that he also realized that 999 out of 1000 drummers are suffering from an inferiority complex.
Note: One out of 1000 drummers is living in a cave and never heard of Rush.

 

[PillO]

Neil is so badass that he

Neil is so badass that he also realized that 999 out of 1000 drummers are suffering from an inferiority complex.
Note: One out of 1000 drummers is living in a cave and never heard of Rush.

Actually, 999,999 of 1,000,000 suffer from inferiority complexes (yes plural). The other three drummers are Neil Peart, Mike Portnoy, and Mike Mangini.

 

[Pops OB]

Neil is so badass that he

Neil is so badass that he also realized that 999 out of 1000 drummers are suffering from an inferiority complex.
Note: One out of 1000 drummers is living in a cave and never heard of Rush.

It’s not an inferiority complex. Drummers ARE inferior!

Damn, more non-misinformation!

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Actually, 999,999 of 1,000,000 suffer from inferiority complexes (yes plural). The other three drummers are Neil Peart, Mike Portnoy, and Mike Mangini.

Plus the drum teacher Neil took his swing lessons from. Unless that was Portnoy

 

[-Asdfgh-]

It’s not an inferiority complex. Drummers ARE inferior!

Damn, more non-misinformation!

How can you tell when Neil's stage is level? His books on Plato are perfectly stable.