Let's spread some musical misinformation

[-Asdfgh-]

Tremolo is derived from "Tremble Low," which is what Leo Fender named it on his 50s open back Bassman amps. He thought the added throbbing and rumbling effect would take his electric bass guitar to another level.

Leo didn't always get it right the first time, and the early Bassman 4x10 combo amps with Tremble Low would shake and tremble so much that they fell apart. NONE survived. So Leo omitted Tremble Low on subsequent Bassman combos.

I'd heard it was removed because law enforcement wanted to use Tremble-Low (tm) to produce the brown note for crowd control. Fender had to leave Fender to get out of that contract as he was hip with the revolting hippies and not square, man. Tremble-Low on a Fender Twin never got down to those brown note frequencies, so the government let Fender keep putting those out.

But just you wait until hear how the Tube Screamer was really designed by the CIA as a mind control system, though...

 

[PillO]

I'd heard it was removed because law enforcement wanted to use Tremble-Low (tm) to produce the brown note for crowd control. Fender had to leave Fender to get out of that contract as he was hip with the revolting hippies and not square, man. Tremble-Low on a Fender Twin never got down to those brown note frequencies, so the government let Fender keep putting those out.

But just you wait to hear how the Tube Screamer was really designed by the CIA as a mind control system, though...

What a terrible name. There are absolutely no tubes that scream. Some of them hum, but that is only because they don't know the words.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

What a terrible name. There are absolutely no tubes that scream. Some of them hum, but that is only because they don't know the words.

You scream when you drop a box of 1960s vintage ones (not misinformation).

 

[PillO]

You scream when you drop a box of 1960s vintage ones (not misinformation).

But the tubes do not scream.

 

[1bassleft]

G string too tight? Tune down!

Or adjust your truss.

(I've been away. It really didn't take me this long to be this lame, but apologies anyway)

 

[-Asdfgh-]

But the tubes do not scream.

I believe the song "I love the sound of breaking glass" was written about such an occurrence. The use of the words tube or valve was avoided to give it a transatlantic appeal.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Or adjust your truss.

(I've been away. It really didn't take me this long to be this lame, but apologies anyway)

Welcome back. When are you going away again?

 

[PillO]

Cheap Trick was originally called Inexpensive Prostitutes

 

[1bassleft]

Gladys Knight and The Pips got the name after a Heimlich Maneuver carried out on a diner who was choking on the melon starter. Gladys didn't perform the life-saving procedure; she was sat at the table opposite.

Welcome back. When are you going away again?

The good news is probably the end of this month, the bad news being that I shall have restored my fibre network by then.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

People often make the assumption that Swedish superstar hit factory Abba was named as a sort of acronym of their names. But it is entirely untrue, and they originally started as Sweden's premier Captain Beefheart tribute act that Abba Zaba as the centrepiece of the live set, leading to the name. But when Trout Mask Replica came out even Moonlight On Vermont wasn't really catchy enough to sustain even a Swedish audience, so they started adding in their own creations such as Mama Mia to the set. Of course, they kept in the lesser-known Vliet tune Waterloo for Eurovision.

 

[PDW30]

The good news is probably the end of this month, the bad news being that I shall have restored my fibre network by then.

Hope the fibre keeps your presence regular.

 

[PDW30]

People often make the assumption that Swedish superstar hit factory Abba was named as a sort of acronym of their names. But it is entirely untrue, and they originally started as Sweden's premier Captain Beefheart tribute act that Abba Zaba as the centrepiece of the live set, leading to the name. But when Trout Mask Replica came out even Moonlight On Vermont wasn't really catchy enough to sustain even a Swedish audience, so they started adding in their own creations such as Mama Mia to the set. Of course, they kept in the lesser-known Vliet tune Waterloo for Eurovision.

Actually Abba was named for the Yiddish word for 'father'. The main reason for the break-up was over which of the four was the father-figure.

 

[Jay2U]

Actually Abba was named for the Yiddish word for 'father'. The main reason for the break-up was over which of the four was the father-figure.

Abba is just the mirrored version of the well known Swedish word abba.

 

[PillO]

Abba is just the mirrored version of the well known Swedish word abba.

Abba started the trend of bands choosing palindromic names. Some notable examples include Tacocat, Reviver, Tool, BananaRama, and Rage Against the Machine.

 

[Scooter Johnson]

We should start using these notes to make reading music a little easier to understand

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Abba started the trend of bands choosing palindromic names. Some notable examples include Tacocat, Reviver, Tool, BananaRama, and Rage Against the Machine.

And then there were dromendromic names, such as Camel.

 

[PDW30]

Abba is just the mirrored version of the well known Swedish word abba.

Actually it's the palindrome of abbA, but not even Swedes would commit an act like that against English grammar.

 

[Jay2U]

Actually it's the palindrome of abbA, but not even Swedes would commit an act like that against English grammar.

Swedish democracy required a referendum, resulting in this,

inspired by this.

 

[PillO]

The Abba song Dancing Queen is a thinly veiled criticism of Swedish King Carl XVI Gustav as presenter of the Nobel Prizes.

 

[Jay2U]

Swedish death metal bands have been trying to copy the Abba vibe for over four decades.