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#12,443
Jay2U said:
Fender's 2020 instruments will feature Lockin'Frets™. These smart frets won't just replace the capo, but will enable the musician to dynamically place a 'capo' wherever and whenever required.
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I hear by 2023 this will be expanded to be fully dynamic such that you can input MIDI over, Bluetooth via your phone and it will automatically fret every note for you. This will be called PhoningItIn (tm) and be available for all leading brands of iPhone. Via the magic of a tie in with Siri you will be able to select the tune 'Siri, play Mustang Sally' 'Did you mean Fanfare for the Common Man?' 'No' 'OK playing Fanfare for the Common Man'. If you play originals it will play Mustang Sally every time.
 
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#12,445
zontar said:
Rush actually never stayed still--they just moved so fast it looked like they sometimes stood or sat still
All photos of the band are actually blurry, but are corrected with years ahead of its time digital technology (& time travel to get the early photos clear)
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I'm tempted to start a band doing Rush covers in a lounge style (and singing in the Vic Reeves club style) from nice comfy armchairs on stage and call it Still based on this post.
 
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the City mus be setting up a free guitar repair station ... they just put up this sign near my house
 
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Going through some of the older posts trying to catch up, I found the word "Mondegreen".

I'm always keen to learn a new word and being a fan of etymology I looked it up.

Very interesting etymology! It borrows from both French and English, more so English but I'll get to that in a moment.
"Monde" for World and green because when Queen (at the time the band was known simply as "GREEN") was playing a concert in France "on the greens" of a Chateau, they played so loud that the Green Matamp backline (from whence they got their name, May started using Vox after the band had to ditch the name, and the Matamps)...

so where was I? Oh yeah... the Green Matamps deafened the audience (later, the source of the deafening was quoted as Mondegreen and not Green Matamp (it was a concert for lysdexics, after all) — ) to such an extent that when Frieda Marie-Currie announced its name and new album "Noise Of The Wild" the audience misheard that all as "Hi, I'm Freddy Mercury; We're Queen and we're going to play some songs from our upcoming album 'News of the World'."

Thus in one fell swoop, the term Mondegreen was coined and a new upcoming album was named as was a band and its energetic frontman...

The rest is Raw Can Roe List story...
 
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Wikipedia: "Planet Nine is a hypothetical planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the unusual clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (eTNOs), bodies beyond Neptune that orbit the Sun at distances averaging more than 250 times that of the Earth...". It's not hypothetical! Ask Geddy, he was born there.
 
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Jay2U said:
Fender's 2020 instruments will feature Lockin'Frets™. These smart frets won't just replace the capo, but will enable the musician to dynamically place a 'capo' wherever and whenever required.
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Gibson holds the patent on that idea...or at least, they're pretty sure someone there thought of it a long time ago...you'll be getting mail from their legal team soon.
 
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mrjim123 said:
Most 12 string manufacturers have decided that rather than raise their prices in the future they will instead start making 11 string guitars.
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There's a lot of posts I'd like to comment on whilst catching up, but I let most of them go; but this one I was surprised nobody picked up on it...

John Butler.

All the manufacturers of 11-string guitars owe a great debt to Australian John Butler, brother of Richard Butler.

The Butler Brothers Band disbanded after Richard couldn't come to terms with John's insistence on playing an 11-string; thus Richard went on to form the Psychedelic Furs and John went on to become Australia's most famous busker ever.


Now that the royalty cheques are coming in from the 11-string guitar manufacturers, John was able to retire from busking. He does however have a booming street-corner hawker business selling the unused high-octave G-strings that he removed from string-sets whilst busking his 11-string guitar, several decades worth of unused G-strings. John's G-strings are particularly popular with mandolin players.
 
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