Let's spread some musical misinformation

[PillO]

T. Rex was initially going to be called Stegosaurus - until they realised there was a death metal band in Finland with the same name

Funny detail: this Finnish band changed their name to Tyrannosaurus R.

Stegosaurus was really a place holder name. It seemed better than "unnamed project of Stego Larrssen and Gustav Saurus". It was an odd project not because Stego insisted that his last name be pronounced Larrrrr-sssssen, but because Larrssen is a vocalist/drummer and Saurus is a singer/percussionist. Eventually, they fired each other.

 

[Ooba Tooba]

80 million dead. That is the legacy of history’s greatest and most terrible misunderstanding. The year was 1937. One Adolph Hitler was finishing his touches on his latest endeavor. The Rickenbacker bass. The very first electric guitar. Because there was no patent office in Germany yet, the instrument maker feared someone would steal his catchy name he had for the mighty 4 string. Rickenbacker means “hold it steady” in German. Compelled to tell all of his buddy’s about his great invention, but still wanting to keep its moniker under wraps, the Fuhrer started calling it “the master bass”. Some dumkoff translator at the ‘38 Olympic Games misquote the great craftsman, and said the old man was going on about the master race! Well, there was quite the furor over this, and you can say we’ve paid an enormous price to have the Ric around now. Never Forget. May God bless you all.

 

[PillO]

80 million dead. That is the legacy of history’s greatest and most terrible misunderstanding. The year was 1937. One Adolph Hitler was finishing his touches on his latest endeavor. The Rickenbacker bass. The very first electric guitar. Because there was no patent office in Germany yet, the instrument maker feared someone would steal his catchy name he had for the mighty 4 string. Rickenbacker means “hold it steady” in German. Compelled to tell all of his buddy’s about his great invention, but still wanting to keep its moniker under wraps, the Fuhrer started calling it “the master bass”. Some dumkoff translator at the ‘38 Olympic Games misquote the great craftsman, and said the old man was going on about the master race! Well, there was quite the furor over this, and you can say we’ve paid an enormous price to have the Ric around now. Never Forget. May God bless you all.

Thanks for clearing that up. I thought Rickenbacker was German for sequined jumpsuit and that was why Rick James chose to wear one when he started playing bass.

 

[Ooba Tooba]

Thanks for clearing that up. I thought Rickenbacker was German for sequined jumpsuit and that was why Rick James chose to wear one when he started playing bass.

That might be an old dialect. It was a very confusing time. In Polish it meant “shake your money maker” and in Austria it meant (and still means) “get up offa that thang”. I’m surprised the casualties were as low as they were.

 

[Iristone]

Doesn't Rickenbcker mean "someone who no longer makes anything but is still happy to sue everyone else because he thinks they copied his design"? Synonym: GC Acoustic.

 

[Jay2U]

Doesn't Rickenbcker mean "someone who no longer makes anything but is still happy to sue everyone else because he thinks they copied his design"? Synonym: GC Acoustic.

No, Rickenbacker is short for "Where has our quality control gone?"

 

[Tom Bomb]

Bassless allegations. There's no basses for all that jazz. Ricky Gervais was the original backer — blatantly obvious, when you think about it. He thought it up initially, as a joke. It's his design. All that followed was entirely accidental but it made him a tidy sum. So who's complaining?

 

[PillO]

Jazz chords never include a 5th. It is seen a metal note and so is never used. This makes music confusing for aficionados of jazz metal.

 

[Feral Feline]

Rickenbacker had the chance to back a new venture with his cousin Orville, but he declined thinking he could surf The Wave to continued success.

The popcorn business flourished nee POPPED! whilst the Toaster-Pickup'd Tone-sticks got pummelled into obscurity but for a devout few, and ever thereafter Meinherr Rickybocker war ein verbittert mann...

 

[jamro217]

Rickenbacker had the chance to back a new venture with his cousin Orville, but he declined thinking he could surf The Wave to continued success.

The popcorn business flourished nee POPPED! whilst the Toaster-Pickup'd Tone-sticks got pummelled into obscurity but for a devout few, and ever thereafter Meinherr Rickybocker war ein verbittert mann...

I hoyd o' dat guy. Orville Leo Rickenbragger.

 

[zontar]

Jimmy Page only played Steinberger guitars--he just had covers for them so it looked like he was playing a Les Paul or a Dano or a Tele or a Strat, etc.
Even the acoustics were the Steinberger.

 

[Ooba Tooba]

Jimmy Page only played Steinberger guitars--he just had covers for them so it looked like he was playing a Les Paul or a Dano or a Tele or a Strat, etc.
Even the acoustics were the Steinberger.

Joe Satriani gifted Page his first Steinberger (the rare poplar model) when Page was still playing with Rory Gallagher and Beck in the Byrds. Immediately after recording Train Kept a Rolling on it, young Pagey stripped the paint off and framed his poor mum’s new kitchen window with it. Tourists can pay a schilling to open and close the iconic window on the Rock And Roll Tours package in London.
(Ending with a nap in the same bed Pete Best had his lobotomy in at the Manchester Asylum for the Royally Screwed back in ‘62)

 

[Shannon]

Jazz chords never include a 5th. It is seen a metal note and so is never used. This makes music confusing for aficionados of jazz metal.

Jazz musicians, on the other hand require a fifth to keep playing, and since this fifth is a liquid that isn't metal, all musicians are identical in this requirement.

 

[chea-pass]

I have condensed all music "theory" into the key of ME.
In the key of ME all musical elements including modes, scales, chords, rhythms, articulation, dynamics, inverted novertrunnions, ambefacient delta tunings and sine wave modulation harmonics are generally useless until a state of unilateral groove has been established.

 

[jamro217]

Glockenspiel is what firearms salesmen use to convince you to purchase their wares. The musical instrument known as the glockenspiel was so named because most percussionists only agree to play one if there is a gun to their head.

 

[jamro217]

T. Rex was initially going to be called Stegosaurus - until they realised there was a death metal band in Finland with the same name

They were considering being managed by Stan Polley at which point they would have changed their name in his honor to Megasoreass.

 

[Iristone]

Queen's Jazz album is a jazz album. Similarly, The Game is a game soundtrack album, but they didn't specify which game it was. Confusing.

 

[Shannon]

LP versions of The Beatles White Album that were pressed on black vinyl in 1968 triggered social justice warriors in 2019 for being pressed in blackface.

 

[pklima]

Similarly, The Game is a game soundtrack album, but they didn't specify which game it was. Confusing.

Oh, it was all rejected HHH entrance music.

 

[Jay2U]

It was only after their first album, that Steve Harris was told that his extra long scale, 4-string guitar actually was a bass.