Stonehenge is actually named after the Rolling Stones.. as they are the only band old enough to have been around when Stonehenge was actually built
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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Stonehenge originally had a roof but they were so loud when they played the henge's opening night gig they litterally raised the roof and it fell off. Back then it was hard to get roofers for the replacement, especially when they tended to get trampled by dinosaurs and mammoths on a regular basis, and the first free slot they had was 2021. Ug and sons (now great x 193 grandsons) will be sorting it out in time for the next summer solstice.
The quota of drum solos for the next 839 years was used up between 1967 and 1975.
Note, there is no quota for keys solos: they are not allowed.
Scat singing was originally a form of speaking in tongues due to demonic possession caused by a jazz singer selling their soul to the devil. The style inexplicably caught on. Be careful and never play a scat vocal solo backwards!
There used to be lead-necked basses for that, but they had to stop building them because of lead poisoning. To protect the companies, the deaths were blamed on drugs.
By the way, for the same reasons, there is no lead anymore in the lead guitars. Somehow the name stayed...
Lemmy not only knew who DB Cooper was, but was also friends with him. DB Cooper was often backstage at Motorhead shows.
Strings used to be made of lead too. We all know what Hendrix really died of, but it was covered up at the time. I don't know where they got the vomit from to cover it up, but you can't dust for vomit.
Don't play a Thunderbird on a rainy day or you'll get electrocuted. I suppose the same precaution applies to aluminium Kramer basses, too.
There's no proof (obviously, they made sure there woudn't be any), but I've heard the vomit came from his manager who found him, and couldn't stand seing a dead body.
EDIT : Kurt Cobain also died of lead poisoning, but they found a much more ironical way of covering it up.
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Technically, Kurt Cobain did not die of lead pensioning. It was actually an acute lead overdose. But more germane, many suspect he did it to get away from Courtney Love.
I can totally see it. She was probably bouncing song ideas off him backstage. Like a methed out Jeanine.
It is disingenuous to narrow a person's personality down to a unidimensional description based on stereotypes of addicts to a single drug. It ignores the nuance of all the traits and quirks that make up a personality. For Courtney Love you need at least 3 drugs to describe her.*
* Apologies not really misinformation.
The Les Paul started out as a reasonably priced guitar until canny music shop assistants started displaying them in the window with the switch pointing to the direction that reading the small print allowed them to charge 3x what it was really worth.
Japanese manufacturers produced copies with "rhythm/lead" switches, resulting in a lawsuit from guitarists who thought they deserved 75% of the 4-piece's takings, on account of their importance to the band.
The long-running feud between Ringo and Paul over who was the bigger babe-magnet was violently settled when Paul was run down on a zebra crossing. Some claimed that Paul was so obviously in a hurry to get a bottle of milk that he'd forgotten to put his shoes on and hadn't remembered his Green Cross Code. However, the offending red car with a white stripe was recorded on CCTV, which in those days used 16mm film and the reel wasn't developed until 1979, when David Starkey's car was identified appearing in a cop show. Starkey escaped prison, but suffered the ignominy of his life being portrayed in film by Ben Stiller.
A main sequence bass, like your average Fender P-bass or J-bass, makes a balanced tone for a long time. A red giant bass, like a Thunderbird, makes a lot of tone with lots of low frequency, but only for a short time before it turns into a white dwarf bass (like a Gibson SG) which ceases to make its own tone and gradually becomes darker over time.
PS: this is why the mudbucker from an old EB-3 sounds darker than a TB-plus from a new SG bass.
PS: this is why the mudbucker from an old EB-3 sounds darker than a TB-plus from a new SG bass.
Due to the inability to get together to rehearse in the real world during the plague, many rock bands now rehearse in Fortnite or Animal Crossing.
did you know it takes over 9 months for a guitar and a bass to produce a baby ukulele?
Gibson is really Barry Gibb's son. Robin narrowly survived the uterus transplant, whew.
The comedy trio 'The Goodies' big hit 'The Funky Gibbon' was originally going to be 'The Funky Gibson' about the use of Les Paul guitars in the emerging music form of which Bill Oddie was and is a huge fan, but Gibson threatened legal action as it wanted to keep its association purely with rock and metal. Since the record was mostly recorded and a release date set the lyrics had to be quickly reworked. The first 200 pressings are very valuable as the label still references the original title.
But the real joke is that gibbons are not at all funky. Only bonobos and humans are funky.
Well, lutefisk is sometimes funky, but for other reasons.
