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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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1967 was a very good year for toys .... NOW WITH FREE LSD GOGGLES
I'd heard it was due to the type of herbal cigarettes being smoked by the designer of the body shape, which was supposed to be much more symmetrical.
I thought they just came across Picasso's painting of a P-bass... must be confusing with something else.
I thought Picasso designed the Bongo?
If you closely examine any picture of Lemmy playing
You see that he moved the strap button on all his basses from the upper horn to the neck heel. This was to combat the neck dive for which Rickenbackers are so famous.
You see that he moved the strap button on all his basses from the upper horn to the neck heel. This was to combat the neck dive for which Rickenbackers are so famous.
You can also see, around his neck, the Iron Cross his grandfather, Wolfgang von Lemmy won for creating a sonic weapon to disrupt the sleep of 'tommies' in the trenches of WW1. Von Lemmy later fell in love with his translator, Virginia Louden-Bass, during the investigation into the alleged war crime in 1919, married her and moved to Britain.
Neither were David Bowie's "Spiders" actually from Mars. One was occasional ivory tinkler Rick Wakeman who was more associated with Brentford Football Club and conned by Mick Ronson into chartering a flight over the Stadio Artemio Franchi in 1954 to watch his beloved Brentford FC play Fiorentina in the Champions League. Once he realised it was actually a domestic reserves game, the irate Wakeman removed his wizard hat and literally pulled his hair out. The stunned fans were convinced they had seen a Martian UFO but the Carabinieri hastily, and erroneously, explained it as migrating spider silk. The Spiders From Mars were born.
This is a scam ad. I wrote to Zontar asking for Sean Ryder, but got Bez instead. As my band (a) were in desperate need of a mumbling vocalist and (b) were up to the hilt in wild-eyed, silent, goofy dancers - you can imagine our disappointment.
You are. I believe the official designer is Midge Ure of Midge Ure and Associates, Vienna. Some also credit The Associates, but I had a shower, then phoned my brother up. Just as I started believing him, Brentford FC won The Cup again. They smashed it, apparently.
Midge Ure is a stage name composed of the name of Scotland's national insect and one of its rivers. His real name is John Elton and he is a cousin of comedian Ben Elton, but thought his real name would be confusing. Ure/Elton isn't even Scottish but thought that adopting a Scottish character when everyone in the New Romantic movement was wearing tartan would be a good move.
He toyed with some other ideas such as a Yorkshire character Gnat Ouse, and a Welsh one, Bee Aber, but the last one sounded like an admonition to be a Swedish pop group.
He toyed with some other ideas such as a Yorkshire character Gnat Ouse, and a Welsh one, Bee Aber, but the last one sounded like an admonition to be a Swedish pop group.
What most people call fretbuzz is almost every time a loose trussrod. Remove it and you have your clean buzzfree tone again
Sympathetic resonance is caused by mechanical coupling of strings. This can easily be eliminated by changing the string gauges multiplied by 1000, to prime numbers.
Sympathetic resonance is a result of coddling your bass. If you drop it a few times, spill beer on it, and use it to whack your guitar player, you will get unsympathetic resonance.
