Difficult to make anything of yourself after bankrupting a casino (ahem). MC Hammer tried to get back in the charts with a cover of Baggy Trousers but that was just madness.
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
- Thread starter pklima
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Yes, a bit careless of MC Hammer, he said with a careful eye on the moderators.
To overcome metal fatigue of the trussrod, over-tighten the strings by at least 120% regularly.
I use a drill... ain't getting no tighter than that!
Radiohead swear by this tip and dedicated their 2nd album, The Bends, to it.
If you force a #8 coarse thread drywall screw through your strings between the nut and first fret, into the fretboard your guitar will never go out of tune.
Speaking of Madness; Suggs and co have not only been around since the dawn of time, their early manager Frank Heart (in the days when Madness were dismissed as peddling cod-ska and a comic book Rude Boy image - not like the seminal respected artistes they are today) has never received either a penny or word of thanks in return from them. In fact, despite him treating them like his own children, they falsely denied all knowledge of him. Or, as Shakespeare summed it up in the now defunct music mag King Lear:
Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all—
O, that way madness lies
Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all—
O, that way madness lies
MC Hammer was briefly a member of The Parachute Club.
He quit in frustration as he wanted to call the band the Parachute Pants.
plus it took forever to build as he insisted on putting every nail in personally
This is one of the problems with playing common brands of strings - your E string may have become quantumly entangled with another E string on the production line, thus some of your wrong notes are actually caused by the bassist playing an F# on their string when you are trying to play a G, and you get the F# instead. It was even worse when catgut was used as the string might go dead at any moment if you observed it.
The entanglement problem really becomes significant if said E strings are tuned differently, say E and D#.
From this it may be concluded that all famous bassists were lucky to always have had non-entangled strings.
Those early Romans lived in hard times. Archaeologist have reported that there was never any high powered electric lines inside the old Colosseum. So, how on earth could that many people hear the sound of the bands playing with only small battery-powered amps? You would think playing the Colosseum would be the really BIG TIME, NO!
I did hear that they tried wiring the place once, for Nero's fiddle concert unfortunately some electric sparks set a large fire! They never tried high power again! luckily, Nero was able to finish the concert while the fire was still small enough!
I did hear that they tried wiring the place once, for Nero's fiddle concert unfortunately some electric sparks set a large fire! They never tried high power again! luckily, Nero was able to finish the concert while the fire was still small enough!
If you listen to hip hop using noise cancelling headphones it will be silent.
Oh wait.... you said MIS-information.
Oh wait.... you said MIS-information.
Add in the fact that to him, literally everything looks like a nail, and you have massive construction delays.
And hammer time seems to involve a lot of dancing before any nail (or screw) is driven home
It should also be mentioned that Rick James laid all the foundations for Hammer's project, but had to go to court to have this recognized. Whereas Hammer was made penniless and unsuccessfully attempted suicide by jumping out of an aeroplane only to gently descend head first, trousers last into the Bank of America Stadium in time for the Carolina Panthers' second half of their Salute to Service game, Rick James died with a net worth of $35mill - $1 more than his legal team's bill for the court case, coincidentally.
