Let's spread some musical misinformation

[1bassleft]

 

[Killing Floor]

Speaking of the "2"s, Ricky Wilson actually played a little bass. Ricky faked his own demise to become Burgomaster of Lancaster, a lifelong title. The place, not an old airplane.

 

[Killing Floor]

You would think that with B-52's you could just bomb Idaho into submission. Take 'em for all their spuds.

Hit Wisconsin too, make it rain cheese fries.

 

[PillO]

Speaking of the "2"s, Ricky Wilson actually played a little bass. Ricky faked his own demise to become Burgomaster of Lancaster, a lifelong title. The place, not an old airplane.

It was Ricky Ricardo, and he became a burger-flipper at LA's Ncaster drive-thru restaurant.

 

[Killing Floor]

Yes, that's the place. Is he the guy who puts the 1 sesame seed on the bottom of the plain buns?

 

[felonious69]

So was I, and I wasn't in Idaho either so we should have been to school together but I don't remember a felonious69 on the school register, let alone in my classroom. Are you sure you existed then, or now?

btw, everyone, pardon my history nerdism. When the B52s were the B17s, they were the glamour band (I admit, I had a poster of Memphis Belle on my wall) but they weren't the first band to complete a 25-gig European tour. The dumpier, less glamorous B24s did that with their ironically-titled Hot Stuff tour. Their record contract stipulated that they would earn enough to retire on the proceeds, but their manager, Homer J Simpson, was right about "don't trust people in the music business". They didn't make enough to buy Idaho, or even New Jersey, but they could just about afford to buy Lancaster. They had to keep gigging, but only at night.

I went to the school of Hard Knocks, which was ironic because there weren't really a lot of "hard knocker" type people that went there.

 

[felonious69]

Hit Wisconsin too, make it rain cheese fries.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....Cheese fries...I'm in!

 

[1bassleft]

Ricky Wilson? Ricky Ricardo? Sure you're not all thinking of Eddie Rickenbacker? Pre-dating even the B17s, Eddie fronted the French pioneers Spad XIII before designing a bass guitar that some people quite like.

 

[Jay2U]

The chance bassists get infected by the Corona virus is only 50% of normal, because girls and women keep them at substantial distance.

 

[Scooter Johnson]

When you are old, overweight and you look like something the cat wouldn't drag in.... You can still get sexy women all the time once you learn how to play bass guitar,,, unless you call your self a drummer first...

 

[Iristone]

Humbuckers are a misspell of "humbuckets". They work by collecting the hum while playing, and secretly pouring it away when unplugged. A mudbucker, or mudbucket, cllects mud ehen unplugged and pour it down while playing, covers the speaker cones with mud, and so sounds muddy . A Chinabucker (non-misinformationally, it's a vintage reproduction Thunderbird pickup made in China) is such a bucket made of porcelain.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Red Rain by Peter Gabriel is about the time Kate and Cindy bombed the rooster potato fields of Idaho in a plane they stole from the USAF, having been piqued by not being able to afford to buy the state. As everyone knows, they are both highly qualified pilots, although flying helmets are an issue for Kate.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Humbuckers are a misspell of "humbuckets". They work by collecting the hum while playing, and secretly pouring it away when unplugged. A mudbucker, or mudbucket, cllects mud ehen unplugged and pour it down while playing, covers the speaker cones with mud, and so sounds muddy . A Chinabucker (non-misinformationally, it's a vintage reproduction Thunderbird pickup made in China) is such a bucket made of porcelain.

Harold Budd made the piece 'The Serpent in Quicksilver' out of all the hum collected by Keef Richards from the neck humbucker of his Telecaster. The mud collected by Andy Fraser of Free has been used at UK festivals for the last three decades.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Womad is an acronym for "WOah! MAD" as you'd have to be mad to go due to all the UK festival season mud and overpriced fallafel.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

The correct pronounciation of the brand name Music Man is "Music, Maaaan" as it was the 1970s.

 

[felonious69]

I bought some blank staff paper off of Amazon. It was really cheap at 2 pounds for six reems (That's 3000 pages!)
Sure it would take a while to get here from UK but WHAT A DEAL!
Turns out, it's metric.
Tried to write down my 16ths, quarters and halves...but it wants millimeters. Frustrating!
I'm gonna just tap out and give it a rest for now until I figure out the conversion.

 

[1bassleft]

You're overthinking it, felo; conversion is often unnecessary. For example, in the UK, a temperature of -4 (25F) is considered far too cold to unload the gear just for a lousy gig whereas, in Wisconsin, a temperature of -4 (-20C) is considered a bit nippy for unloading gear before the outdoor stage event. Different systems:similar conclusions.

 

[PillO]

The correct pronounciation of the brand name Music Man is "Music, Maaaan" as it was the 1970s.

I am tired of the ongoing mispronunciation of "music" as mews-ik. Everyone knows that it derives from the Greek letter Mu.

I expect all on this thread to start saying the word properly. Pronounce it moo-zik

 

[-Asdfgh-]

I am tired of the ongoing mispronunciation of "music" as mews-ik. Everyone knows that it derives from the Greek letter Mu.

I expect all on this thread to start saying the word properly. Pronounce it moo-zik

Moo-zik is what cattle listen to!

(That joke is brought to you directly from 1969)

 

[-Asdfgh-]

You're overthinking it, felo; conversion is often unnecessary. For example, in the UK, a temperature of -4 (25F) is considered far too cold to unload the gear just for a lousy gig whereas, in Wisconsin, a temperature of -4 (-20C) is considered a bit nippy for unloading gear before the outdoor stage event. Different systems:similar conclusions.

In the UK it's more about the rain, not the temperature: more than 200mm in an afternoon no gig unless you are doing it from a boat and the audience has canoes; 50mm to 200mm is normal summer weather, gig is on, try to scrape some of the mud off before going on stage; less than 50mm is essentially a drought and is probably too hot to have a gig. Double these figures in Wales.