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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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So a six-string bassist is Bassically Aspiring (to be) Someone Slick?
Sorry...had to
George Tobin, Tiffany's producer and manager, initially had the gravelly-voiced hellraiser record a cover of Motörhead's Ace of Spades with the maverick promotional idea of her performing the song at MMA events while gouging the eyeballs out of opponents who underestimated her ferocious fighting ability. During a 1987 UFC bout/concert, though, her mother was tidying her room, discovered her stash of Sobranie Black Russian cigarette cartons and burned them in the yard. Within a week, Tiffany's rasping voice was gone, as was her trademark ability to hawk thick, brown phlegm into the empty sockets of her defeated adversaries.
Thinking fast, Tobin arranged for Tiffany to record I Think We're Alone Now and a tour of shopping malls frequented by middle aged mums and teens who'd buy any old pap. Tiffany's image and future was sealed. She still performs live to this day, "finishing" on I Think We're Alone Now but, after the regular crowd leaves, the door is locked and she sprays her tonsils with carb cleaner to perform Ace of Spades for her loyal early fans.
Thinking fast, Tobin arranged for Tiffany to record I Think We're Alone Now and a tour of shopping malls frequented by middle aged mums and teens who'd buy any old pap. Tiffany's image and future was sealed. She still performs live to this day, "finishing" on I Think We're Alone Now but, after the regular crowd leaves, the door is locked and she sprays her tonsils with carb cleaner to perform Ace of Spades for her loyal early fans.
Legend has it that King Auther once pulled a sword out of a stone, but what really happened was .. A guy named Auther once pulled a guitar out from under a stoned bass player.... over time the story just got confused.
It was Arthur Brown wasn't it. The Lady of the Lake with a firey head didn't she.
Cuz that bass player just kept on telling it. You can tell it was fabricated because a hot chick was involved.
Some fifteen years later, Bryan Ferry tried taking up the bass - unsuccessfully - and was so annoyed his instrument turned out to be ex-demo calibre that he chucked it in the nearest lake. Kim Deal's arm rising up to grab it was a surprise, but the stagnant water splashes on his white tuxedo were even more annoying. Writing Avalon got some of it off his chest, but even dry cleaning didn't get it off his sleeve.
I always clean my carburettors in the dishwasher, along with the cylinder heads.
The internet, being a series of tubes, provides a warm tone to downloaded music.
archaeologists have found a giant round wound E string but as of yet, they still don't know what the instrument really looked like !
I used to have a set of those water cooled Earth Harp strings. When them suckers snap...WATCH OUT!
Geddy Lee started the Electric Light Orchestra but Ray Daniels had him fired before the first gig.
It was a homage to the Whale Oil Lamp Orchestra of 100 years earlier.
In turn, inspiring Richard Hall to take up electronic music, switch from an almost total blubber diet to veganism, and call himself Moby.
Bill Wyman turns 84 tomorrow (24th Oct) but will not be rejoining his old band as he spends his autumn years an avid collector of moss. His country estates in England and France contain arguably the world's largest private collection of lawn scarifiers. Jagger and Richards are adamant he cannot be considered a Rolling Stone while he exhibits such behaviour.
