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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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Yes, and even with exactly the same specs the lead ones are more expensive (because of more taxes). Some lead guitarists occasionally cheat by using a rhythm guitar or a bass (even less taxes), but those who get caught end up in real trouble, as it is illegal in many countries to play a solo on a rhythm guitar (it can be allowed on bass, but there's paperwork...).
Bass Players are stamped and numbered at birth... Many are numbered 666 .... this is just pure coincidence
If you rent a guitar, you will have to watch two video advertisements before you can play a song. it's the law !
There are very good reasons that guitars are rhythm or lead. Frets and pickups are completely different, but most important is the tuners. Playing a lead on a rhythm guitar can result in strings breaking and the tuner flying off. This is all for your and the audience's safety. Those that break these laws deserve the 20 years of playing accordion they are sentenced to!
It is 999. You are just looking at it upside down.
I tried leaning left handed. After I rented a lefty bass, I found out that every time you play a song you have to endure people saying "why don't you just learn to play the other way `round?"
Avoid the ones marked "lead" as they are much heavier.
It's a myth that Lemmy was marked 666. He was marked 999, but was upside down at the time.
They give you money back with drums on the basis that if you want to play drums there is something wrong with you and you probably need the money.
Jimi Hendrix was actually right-handed. He just played left-handed just to really annoy Eric Clapton. Paul McCartney was also right-handed and had killed Hendrix's father (in a bizarre gardening accident in Hamburg), but he and Hendrix never met.
Vladimir Lenin was John Lennon's uncle. And this fact probably lead to the break up of the Beatles as Ringo had spent years fighting communism as an MI6 agent.
Ringo's second cousin's uncle's mother's brother's son is none other than David Starkey.
David Starkey - Wikipedia
That's nothing. Over here in The Netherlands they are convicted to playing the kazoo while wearing clogs.
I'm sure that was the case back in the day but now you can get a switch so you won't damage anything.
Keith Richards bought one of these on Reverb and the Stones fired Brian Jones and the rest is history.
Again? I thought Thijs Van Leer from Focus did that during the live renditions of Hocus Pocus in 1973.
True but incomplete.
Originally bassists were numbered 123456789101112 from the beginning of the 19th century onwards.
Due to war efforts and material rationing bassist numbering was cut down to 15 in the 1940s.
Only classical URB players were still number traditionally, and some of these emerged as Jazz players.
The bassist numbering system slowely recovered in the mid-1950s to 145, sufficient for C&W as well as most European folk, Volks - and pop music.
In the beginning of the 1960, all kinds of numbers were issued.
Anyway, bassist numbered 666 are the best for death and black metal.
That's why My Generation was the first bass solo on a single. Apparently John Entwistle was the first bassist that had earned enough money to pay that tax.
There is a quota system, where after every thousand or so lead guitar solos, you must include either a drum or bass solo... and (fortunately) no one told drummers. Bassists on the other hand were mistaken for guitarists by sound guys who (at the time) couldn't see the difference...
