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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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in 1989 Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts along with Axl Rose and Duff Mckagan were going to form a new band called 'Stoned Roses', but when they realised there was a band with a similar name they scrapped the idea...
Before releasing the Fender single coil Precision Bass Leo experimented with many different tail pieces and bridges. One of the very first used a 4-string Bigsby tremolo, and only two were made. Leo also had Bigsby replace the B in the Bigsby logo with the (soon to be) iconic Fender F on the tail piece. One of the two Figsby P Basses is in John Entwhistle's collection, and the other hasn't been seen since the early 1950s.
Later on, Fender used Bigsby trelolos on guitars, but with just the Fender F instead of "Figsby."
Later on, Fender used Bigsby trelolos on guitars, but with just the Fender F instead of "Figsby."
Brian Eno might sue as that is what his deck of Oblique Strategy cards are also used for. You are supposed to create your own group of cards for your set list and then play bridge using that and the Oblique Strategy cards. At the end of a rubber each band member is thus furnished with a set list of their own and a series of other options such as 'play whilst standing on your head' and 'eat your instrument half way through' and so on, the ones from the standard Oblique Strategy set. The traditional partnerships are bassist and drummer versus guitarist and singer. Keyboard players don't get to take part and just get told what to play unless required to make up a four.
The Korg mini synthesizers with the octave feature will make heavy, cumbersome bass guitars obsolete.
Before they got into rock'n'roll, Bachman-Turner Overdrive originally formed as a dirt-track racing team. Aside from a handful of wins on the local circuits around Manitoba, they didn't have much success. Eventually, when repairing and maintaining race cars became too expensive a pursuit to sustain, they sold the cars, bought some "second-hand guitars" (later referred to in one of their hit songs), and formed a band. They liked their name well enough that they kept it as a nod to their origins. 
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Cleveland Ohio is building the worlds largest Bass Guitar, Detroit is building the amp... once built the song ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST will be sent out into space in hopes of finding a good alien drummer ....
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Def Lepard didn't start out with that name ... they needed a shorter name to fit the theater Marquee.
Many people think that the musical term "bass" derives from the fish. This is incorrect. In music, the word "bass" comes from the ancient Greek word "brass". (In Ancient Greek, the "r" was silent.) This is because the first bass instrument was invented by Leonidas Sousaphus , somewhere around 300 BC. In the Ancient World, lining your dining hall with Sousaphone players was a sign of great prestige. Greece started the Brass Wars for this very reason, and ancient tablets to this day are inscribed with the Greek proverb, "I'm all about that brass."
The viola was invented around the same time, but you'd post viola players outside your house if you were out of town as the cacophony (Greek word meaning 'sound made by viola players' from the words caca (poop) and phony (sound)) would deter burglars. However, if you didn't pay your viola players well (and let's face it, they were unlikely to get employment as musicians) they'd steal all your stuff anyway.
The famous photo on The Beatles' "Abbey Road" was actually the first attempt at photoshop. It was discovered too late that the photo in question had too many obvious mistakes to print (Paul was wearing shoes, John was clean shaven, there was a double decker bus broken down a block away, and there was a discarded fish and chips container in the crosswalk), but the label put it out anyway. Ringo was so upset he wrote "No No Song", but had to change the lyrics to avoid being sued.
Of course it was called Photo Boutique back then.
Maybe in the UK, here in the States it was called PhotoShoppe. They wanted to call it "YeOldePhotoShoppe" but that was too many letters for the internet to handle at the time.
The Beatles were a hit making machine, having produced more than 200 hit singles. Most were written by Lennon McCartney and that has misled people to believe that John Lennon and Paul McCartney were great song writers. However, as a joke, Ringo Star wrote songs under the pen name Lennon McCartney and was the true hit maker of the Beatles.
George Harrison wanted to play guitar more than produce (which he excelled at) so he hired a janitor to pose in the photos as "Martin the producer". This was sort of an inside joke, as "My Favorite Martian" was George's favorite TV show. He couldn't call the producer "Martian" so he dropped the "A". When he introduced the janitor/actor to the band, he said: "Paul, Martin; Martin, Paul. John, Martin; Martin, John, Ringo, …" you can guess the rest.
Many dont realize that Sid was actually a very mellow gentle person...the name was a result of of a mondegreen (look it up). He began his dareer as Sid Viscous, because of his heavily greased DA hairdo.
