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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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The flat earth theory has supporters in every corner of the globe.
This is true .... Both Big Foot and the Lock Ness monster have said so ....
In every coordinate on the plane.The flat earth theory has supporters in every corner of the globe.
Basses are so heavy that they create tiny black holes. That's why bassists often can't be caught by cameras.
It's why Peavey's classic T series are so hard to find - they negative wedgie themselves out of spacetime.
Is the the only real and true, cube earth movement taking over? I hear it is in Australia where they string their bases gdae.
The original album pressings of Dave Clark’s Time musical were cubes.
They didn’t sell well.
Sometimes, to please a dictator, and so save your neck, you may be required to play an impromptu command performance. Tough titty, if you left your kazoo on the bus.
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I laughed quite hard for a long while at this.
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The evolution of amp coverings explained...
In the beginning, their were no amp coverings. Wear and tear caused gouges, cracks and splits in the wood, causing splinters in musicians' hands, the very hands that were needed to earn their keep. So various coverings came into play. Leather was quickly adopted, due to its robustness, and almost as quickly dropped, due to its expense. If only there was a cloth strong enough to withstand wear & tear — Tweed was discovered to be the ideal material.
However, the rise in popularity of gentlemen & lady racers in the UK in the '50s, and in turn Brits obsession for Tweed coats with leather elbow patches as de riguer accoutrements for driving their sports cars with pipe in mouth (men and ladies), is what led to the Great Tweed Shortage which lasted into the 60s.
Tweed's replacement was found in '59, the lowly Tolex. Though thought to be too thin-skinned, the Tolex hides were plentiful and cheap to come by, but as rock n roll became more popular throughout the '60s, the Tolex was hunted to near extinction and so a new alternative was both needed developed in the early '70s, Rat Fur.
The advantage of Rat-Fur Farming was quickly realised, as the rats' fur grew back after shaving them and as the rats themselves weren't harmed in the process, a constant supply of rat-fur was very profitable! So the proliferation of rats and their fur made rat-fur covering pervasive throughout the music industry.
Alas, careless cross-breeding with naked mole-rats brought most rat-fur farms to foreclosure, causing the Great Rat Fur Shortage at the turn of the Millennium, leading amp and cabinet manufacturers on a quest to source an altogether new type of covering, that covering was the "truck-bed liner".
The rubbery liner now painted on to many amps and cabinets actually started out as an accident-turned-fortuitive-happenstance intended for music-makers and migrated to use in trucks and other vehicles — not from truck-beds to the music industry, which is what is widely, but mistakenly, believed.
The liner material was derived from a hot summer's festival stage. The caterers supplied Cheeze-Whiz sandwiches to band members and one of the musicians brought her al-fresco feast on stage and left the Cheeze-Whiz sandwich on her amp in the sun. By the end of the set the plate of Cheeze-Whiz sandwiches had melted over the entire amp and cabinet. The amp still worked, and the show must go on so it did. At end of day, the backline company retrieved the equipment and the amp covered in Cheeze-Whiz was knocked about loading it back to the warehouse. One of the employees noted the dried Cheeze-Whiz covering was more akin to plastic and had robustly protected the amp. Krafty individual that he was, he found out the source of the orange hardened-sauce and began experimenting at home with it.
He soon developed a way to colour it black, the only suitable colour for backline equipment and started recovering equipment at work. The logistics people hauling the musical backlines noted the tough covers and enquired about using it to cover up their scratched truck-beds. The process and material caught on like wildfire in trucking circles and so to this day, most people think the rubbery-plastic-liner, popularised somewhat recently, comes from the automotive industry.
Though it seems implausible that we will run out of its source material any time soon, given the historical cycle of amp-coverings, it's not a matter of if but when Cheeze-Whiz based liner will run out. It begs the question "What materials may come to cover our musical equipment in future?" Time is running out, now is the time for the music industry to rally and explore new covering materials.
As widely reported, Radiohead released a downloadable album and invited people to pay what they felt like. Now I know why Radiohead employ so many odd time signatures: thanks Asdfgh.
I did something like that but forgot to set 0 as the lowest amount.
Correct. Bon Jovi's breakout album was originally intended to be in 3/4; an elegant dance-oriented concept album based on the dangers of trying to pick up the soap bar from the communal shower floor, but the bottom fell out of that market. Changes to the time signature, genre and also the concept (the virtues of females working in diners when males are temporarily suspended from masculine dockworking) resulted in the working title Slippery Minuet being altered.
