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Most metal drummers have side gigs as disco drummers. Most disco drummers have side gigs as metal drummers. Other drummers have side gigs delivering pizzas.
This bulletin hot off the wire from Vogue...
FRET WEAR
From the above (click to see the fretwear close up)...
...to the following:
No longer the sole domain of bass-players, guitarists, mandolin-players, ukuleleists et al fretted instrument players...
Fret wear is all the rage on the Spring 2020 haute couture catwalks (stream-telecast to maintain socialite distancing).
The sartorial trend has taken the luthiers' world by storm, too, as clothing designers have all but exhausted the supply of frets pulled from instruments being refretted to sate the seemingly insatiable fretty-to-wear demands of fashionistas, everywear.
Where was once a market surfeit of worn-out frets and frets yanked from bass fretless conversions, there is now a dearth of used frets — so much so that unscrupulous luthiers and shady repair-people have resorted to pulling frets from new instruments to sell on the New Black Market.
These new frets, however, do not have the same cachet in the world of frilly Fret Wear, as the light doesn't sparkle off the new frets with the diamond-like brilliance of multi-faceted worn frets. Beware of cheap knock-off frocks already appearing on street corners.
B&Es on musicians' homes have trebled, as even less scrupulous ways of obtaining used frets are being found.
Fret not, musicians, for your instruments may yet be safe — fashion pundits say the current trend is leading designers to consider it already passé and shift their focus to flatware-wear for the fall season. Lock up your kitchen drawers! By mid-summer, the Fret Wear trend won't be worth the nickel its based on.
And yet, for now at least...
The NEW BLACK is: shiny chrome/nickel.
FRET WEAR
From the above (click to see the fretwear close up)...
...to the following:
No longer the sole domain of bass-players, guitarists, mandolin-players, ukuleleists et al fretted instrument players...
Fret wear is all the rage on the Spring 2020 haute couture catwalks (stream-telecast to maintain socialite distancing).
The sartorial trend has taken the luthiers' world by storm, too, as clothing designers have all but exhausted the supply of frets pulled from instruments being refretted to sate the seemingly insatiable fretty-to-wear demands of fashionistas, everywear.
Where was once a market surfeit of worn-out frets and frets yanked from bass fretless conversions, there is now a dearth of used frets — so much so that unscrupulous luthiers and shady repair-people have resorted to pulling frets from new instruments to sell on the New Black Market.
These new frets, however, do not have the same cachet in the world of frilly Fret Wear, as the light doesn't sparkle off the new frets with the diamond-like brilliance of multi-faceted worn frets. Beware of cheap knock-off frocks already appearing on street corners.
B&Es on musicians' homes have trebled, as even less scrupulous ways of obtaining used frets are being found.
Fret not, musicians, for your instruments may yet be safe — fashion pundits say the current trend is leading designers to consider it already passé and shift their focus to flatware-wear for the fall season. Lock up your kitchen drawers! By mid-summer, the Fret Wear trend won't be worth the nickel its based on.
And yet, for now at least...
The NEW BLACK is: shiny chrome/nickel.
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When the bass player plays a fretless bass, violinists tend to choose a fretted violin.
The double dots on the above violin indicate it to be a 3-octave instrument.
Marching Bands used to be skipping bands, but that made it hard to play, and the tuba players kept getting black eyes
I thought most Pizza delivery drivers had a side gig playing in a band?
Know your EQ...
Bass Band:
Some bands have 2 bass players, and occasionally several bass players get together and jam, but...
The truth is, you really only need one bass player, but having only a sole-bass band makes that a bass soloist (not to be confused with a bass soul-awist, a topic for another time). Seems the general public hates bass solos, so the Bass Band isn't very popular and should probably be avoided. Unless you're a bass player, in which case you should still seek out others to play with rather than being a soloist because playing with others always seems much more fun than just playing with yours...
Conclusion: Best avoided.
Band Pass:
Also known as MIDS, Band Pass is the card/ticket/voucher (whatever) venues give mediocre (hence MIDS, as in mid-level) musicians to indicate said musicians are in the band performing at the venue — in other words a "Backstage Pass", not to be confused with a "backstage pass" (note, case sensitive), the latter being when the drummer tries to pick up a groupie only to find it's the guitarist's groupie aka girlfriend that she/he has just made a pass at, arguements ensue and the band breaks up either on stage or even before that...
Conclusion: Best avoided.
Treble Band:
Most bands. Wayyy too much treble for what they're worth. Prima-donna guitarists, self-idolising vocalists, knuckle-dragging drummers (no wonder they drag the beat!)...
The Treble band therefore... well...
Conclusion: Best avoided.
Future episodes of "KNOW YOUR EQ", we'll explore such EQ curves as:
simple open cowboy-chord curves,
complex closed compound curves of keys,
full moon ellipse of a drummer's bottom end (aka 100-hurts),
"frontman" pair of Parabola balls,
hyperbole hyperbola Hammond curves
ancient accordion algebraic curves aka the algorhythm method (curve or not a curve?),
transcendental meditation curves of the mandolin, and many more! The final EQ curve in the series will be the...
bizarre Bass-Bézier curve:
Bass Band:
Some bands have 2 bass players, and occasionally several bass players get together and jam, but...
The truth is, you really only need one bass player, but having only a sole-bass band makes that a bass soloist (not to be confused with a bass soul-awist, a topic for another time). Seems the general public hates bass solos, so the Bass Band isn't very popular and should probably be avoided. Unless you're a bass player, in which case you should still seek out others to play with rather than being a soloist because playing with others always seems much more fun than just playing with yours...
Conclusion: Best avoided.
Band Pass:
Also known as MIDS, Band Pass is the card/ticket/voucher (whatever) venues give mediocre (hence MIDS, as in mid-level) musicians to indicate said musicians are in the band performing at the venue — in other words a "Backstage Pass", not to be confused with a "backstage pass" (note, case sensitive), the latter being when the drummer tries to pick up a groupie only to find it's the guitarist's groupie aka girlfriend that she/he has just made a pass at, arguements ensue and the band breaks up either on stage or even before that...
Conclusion: Best avoided.
Treble Band:
Most bands. Wayyy too much treble for what they're worth. Prima-donna guitarists, self-idolising vocalists, knuckle-dragging drummers (no wonder they drag the beat!)...
The Treble band therefore... well...
Conclusion: Best avoided.
Future episodes of "KNOW YOUR EQ", we'll explore such EQ curves as:
simple open cowboy-chord curves,
complex closed compound curves of keys,
full moon ellipse of a drummer's bottom end (aka 100-hurts),
"frontman" pair of Parabola balls,
hyperbole hyperbola Hammond curves
ancient accordion algebraic curves aka the algorhythm method (curve or not a curve?),
transcendental meditation curves of the mandolin, and many more! The final EQ curve in the series will be the...
bizarre Bass-Bézier curve:
Why are you asking for help here? We can only tell you how to tune your air bass.
Yes, but what would he do if someone were to attack him with............a banana!
Bill Cosby was ELO's first cellist, but had to drop out when he committed to "I Spy" with Raquel Welch. He was quite put out when Bob Culp, former bassist with ? & the Mysterions, was slotted in instead. He's still pissed....
The Allman Brothers song "Jessica" was recorded at a tempo of 208 BPM. Why?
Because it was the highest stting available on the metronome.
Because it was the highest stting available on the metronome.
Gene Simmons was born Chaim Witz and was originally going to use the stage name Jean Genie
but then heard the David Bowie song of the same name and decided to change it....
but then heard the David Bowie song of the same name and decided to change it....
When Midge Ure wrote the big Ultravox hit "Vienna" his geography was so poor it really did mean nothing to him and he only knew it as the name of Miss Jones' cat in the UK sitcom "Rising Damp". The sitcom had already birthed the Beatles Song "Mr. Rigsby" which for copyright reasons got changed to "Eleanor Rigby".
