Let's spread some musical misinformation

[Shannon]

Most people don't believe in ghost notes, they say it's just a figment of your imagination.

That's the spirit.
Unless you use a Spector bass...

 

[RedJag]

God made wood brown so that every note from a wooden instrument would be a brown note.

 

[Karl Kaminski]

a "natural" sign is played on an open string

 

[-Asdfgh-]

BADGE was indeed the tuning used by Jack Bruce when he borrowed one of the early 5 string Fenders from John Paul Jones. He stuck a fat string on from one of his DBs, and just tuned up the C of the original EADGC to an E. JPJ was not impressed by how warped the neck was afterwards.

 

[GBassNorth]

BADGE was indeed the tuning used by Jack Bruce when he borrowed one of the early 5 string Fenders from John Paul Jones. He stuck a fat string on from one of his DBs, and just tuned up the C of the original EADGC to an E. JPJ was not impressed by how warped the neck was afterwards.

John Paul Jones' little brother Davey wanted to join a band and play bass just like his big brother. Unfortunately he was so small he couldn't reach first position on a standard P bass so instead he took up playing the tambourine in a band called The Monkees.

 

[Willy-D]

I always wondered how famed Korean bassist Kim Chee got his distinctively pungent sound.

That was a crock that he came up with it. Kim Chee actually cabbaged onto someone elses ideas, and allowed his conceptual sound to ferment for many months before he dug it up for a concert in Seoul later.

 

[Karl Kaminski]

Geddy Lee's foot controller actually controls the drum beat.

 

[Feral Feline]

The Sex Pistols were a pretty high caliber band. Definitely a lot of bang for the buck at their concerts. Unfortunately, they were banned in most locations once they were classified as an assault band.

Now this banned on the run are barely able to get by, which has triggered some desperate actions by these now desperados. They're just some stick-up-gun kids, setting their sights on wayward tourists and weaving drunks — whether half-cocked or completely hammered and fully loaded, they've gone off mugging their hapless prey, putting them over a barrel and rifling through their victims' pockets. 'Twould seem nobody can muzzle the Sex Pistols now, they're well beyond shooting range now though many have bitten the bullet and given it a shot: "Gun 'em down, that's our aim," the NRA says, emerging like hot lead from their smoking chamber to issue allegations and legal casings, "these Pistols are bad for business, they oughta be whipped." Ahhh, but what of it, asks this report, 'twould be but a hollow point for a banned of lunatics given a full metal straight-jacket...

Shortly after his wife left him, Lejo moved to Mexico and opened up a factory there to compete with CBS instruments built in the USA. CBS hit him with a cease and desist order. But being the rebel that he was he kept on pumping out MIM Fender instruments. When the Feds came after him he managed to slip away and CBS confiscated the factory and all the inventory, which they continue to sell to this day.

Lejo now an international fugitive escaped to Japan and set up shop there making Fender instruments to compete with the USA and MIM instruments but CBS caught on quickly and moved in again to have him arrested and his factory confiscated. Once again Lejo escaped the law and slipped into China and CBS took over operations of his Japan factory, which made outstanding instruments for many years.

By now Lejo, now residing in China, realized it was easy for CBS and the Feds to find him because he was still going by the same name. He smartly changed his name again to something that would blend in with the local Chinese culture. He was now known as Lee Ho and again opened a factory to compete with Fender USA, MIM and now MIJ instruments. This strategy worked well for many years.

CBS had squandered a fortune hunting down and trying to arrest Lee Ho (aka Lejo or Leo) and confiscating factories in Mexico and Japan proved to be too costly. They eventually sold off Fender and focused on TV and broadcast business.

Lee Ho, realising that he had beat the big guys and all their corporate lawyers decided to come back home to the USA and start up an entirely new company. He couldn't use his Fender name or it would rekindle the trademark war with the new owners. It was then that it dawned on him, he wasn't really Leo or Lejo or even Lee Ho. Those were just names. Above all else, he was a Music Man.

And now you know the rest of the story.

G&Litzy and G&Lamorous! Mind-BogG&Ling so, Lee Ho moving around to all these exotic locations and hanging out his shinG&Le, wranG&Ling fine janG&Ly instruments all the while to G&Lowing reviews. I've oG&Led a few G&Lossy G&Littery Fender instruments, makes me all tinG&Ly just thinking about them, but Lejo! Why no G&Lockenspiels?

What was his anG&Le? Was it for fame and G&Lory? G&Loating rights? Anyway, history uh, his story shows that nothing good comes from selling off to conG&Lomerates.

Leeho must've felt like he was walking on broken G&Lass at times at a G&Lacial pace, probably longinG&Ly would've G&Ladly traded the chase for some respite to retire and minG&Le nay snugG&Le with the blue-hairs in the Florida G&Lades. A real pain in the G&Lutes, to be stuck to like G&Lue and hagG&Led around the G&Lobe all those years as though a common burG&Ler yet still they couldn't G&Lom onto him. It's not like there was a G&Lut in the market. Very fuG&Ly and tiring business indeed — apt to make one feel G&Lum and G&Loomy, cast a G&Laze over one's eyes (like having to go on a G&Luten free diet takes the G&Lint and G&Limmer out of the ol' orbs — it's due to the lack of G&Lycol, or maybe it's G&Landular... I think). At any rate, nothing to shout with G&Lee nor gigG&Le about.

Ahh well, there's always some G&Litch in life, isn't there? Recorded throughout history, from the G&Lyphs of ancient eaG&Le-eyed Mayans and ganG&Ly Egyptians alike, to G&Lobules of ink on parchment, nobody has G&Lided effortlessly through life. Can't wagG&Le a pointy finger at a sinG&Le big problem, stop G&Lugging that pint, take off the beer gogG&Les and you'll see — not to be G&Lib, but 'tis the nigG&Ly ragG&Le-tagG&Le details that get you in the end, makes one want to scream like a stuck piG&Let. AnnoyinG&Ly so, it's the doG&Like minutiae — like a throat-tickle no amount of garG&Ling and gurG&Ling can help. Somehow we bunG&Le along, like there's a carrot danG&Ling from a stick wigG&Ling and jigG&Ling before us, jugG&ling life's petty problems in the process before that final buG&Le call. The G&Loves come off, we fight our way through. How does that jinG&Le go? I GooG&Led it: "Always look on the bright side...".

Well my fellow 42-troG&Lodytes, don't forget your towels — Welcome to the junG&Le...

 

[Jay2U]

The secret of the Geddy Lee signature J-Bass is in the inlays. Material, placement and color shape the tone in a unique way.

 

[StereoPlayer]

Stanley Clarke invented the Clarke Bar candy and eventually changed name to Clark Bar. It was easier to print on the wrapper.
He still gets an unlimited supply of them for life.

 

[PillO]

The secret of the Geddy Lee signature J-Bass is in the inlays. Material, placement and color shape the tone in a unique way.

The real secret to Geddy's tone is that he has been playing the same Rogue Beetle bass since the beginning. It has always been carefully disguised as some other bass. The Rickenfaker garb was particularly successful.

 

[Jay2U]

Before naming the band "Metallica", they experimented with a variety of band names, like "Metal Can", "Metal Icon", "Mental Scare" and "Mental Sickness".

 

[PillO]

Before naming the band "Metallica", they experimented with a variety of band names, like "Metal Can", "Metal Icon", "Mental Scare" and "Mental Sickness".

They also tried Bronzica, Stainless Steelica, Brassica, Aluminumica, and Potassiumica.

 

[Shannon]

They also tried Bronzica, Stainless Steelica, Brassica, Aluminumica, and Potassiumica.

Recycle-ya was their temporary cover band name.

 

[Feral Feline]

Metallica was NOTHING before they Formica'd

 

[mikeoso]

A well known usage here on TB was created in the film Casablanca when Bogey said, "We'll always have carrots."

 

[pie_man_25]

If you say "Sid Vicious" while looking into a mirror during a full moon at midnight....


...you'll lose all your musical ability onstage.

Sid vicious was an octopus. He preferred to be called squid vicious.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

A well known usage here on TB was created in the film Casablanca when Bogey said, "We'll always have carrots."

Also "You'll regret it, maybe not today, not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life if you don't buy that Precision with the tort pickguard"

 

[-Asdfgh-]

They also tried Bronzica, Stainless Steelica, Brassica, Aluminumica, and Potassiumica.

They also considered using the symbols too, such as Naca, Cuca, Auca, and Caca. Along the way they also managed to make a nugget of the purest Green.

 

[mikeoso]

Also "You'll regret, maybe not today, not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life if you don't buy that Precision with the tort pickguard"

"Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful band."

"Round up the usual drummers."

"I'm shocked, shocked to find that acoustic bass guitars are being played here."