Let's spread some musical misinformation

[PDW30]

Question remains, have they ever been playable?

I don't want to ask what tambourine players say about bassists ...

 

[bassdude51]

Elvis originally started out in music on the bass.

 

[PillO]

Because earth's magnetic field slowly weakens, pickups will have to be redesigned eventually.

When (not if) the magnetic poles reverse, humbuckers will no longer buck hum; there will have to be another term for them. I'm hoping that we get hummers.

 

[PillO]

Elvis originally started out in music on the bass.

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He was told that it is just a really big ukulele.

 

[NZBassman]

He was told that it is just a really big ukulele.

no - it's a Giant Violin as below

 

[PillO]

no - it's a Giant Violin as below

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Yes, but he was told that it is a giant ukulele

 

[zontar]

Steve Vai used dental floss for strings, Billy Sheehan used Kite strings on his bass when they both played for David Lee Roth...

 

[PillO]

Billy Sheehan always wears a hat. And it is always at an odd angle.

It is to cover the embarrassing tattoo of L Ron Hubbard he has on his head.

 

[PDW30]

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And no, it's isn't a wide-angle lens shot, his bass really is that big.

 

[OnePunchMan]

Whenever I accidentally type “talk ass” on my phone’s browser instead of talkbass I’m reminded of this thread.

 

[zontar]

Bob Dylan learned to play harmonica from Curly Howard.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Bob Dylan learned to play harmonica from Curly Howard.

Nonsense. He went to Julliard to learn it properly.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

no - it's a Giant Violin as below

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It's violin, violin for those wanting to be poor, big violin, violin for those with big cars.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

I don't want to ask what tambourine players say about bassists ...

Don't worry, they haven't been allowed to talk since that edict in 1640.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Steve Vai used dental floss for strings, Billy Sheehan used Kite strings on his bass when they both played for David Lee Roth...

I am pretty sure Sheehan played for the money, not specifically for Roth. Damn, that's probably not misinformation.

 

[PillO]

I am pretty sure Sheehan played for the money, not specifically for Roth. Damn, that's probably not misinformation.

Billy Sheehan doesn't play for money. He plays to exorcise his Thetans.

 

[PDW30]

I am pretty sure Sheehan played for the money, not specifically for Roth. Damn, that's probably not misinformation.

Actually he's retired from playing, and he's a coach at Luton Town (Alan Sheehan - Wikipedia)

 

[Jay2U]

Nonsense. He went to Julliard to learn it properly.

No! He went to Berklee College of Music.

 

[wallawallabob]

No! He went to Berklee College of Music.

Berklee College of Music actually started in Berkeley CA, but the hippies couldn't spell it right and wound up somewhere else - Boston.

 

[PillO]

Berklee College of Music actually started in Berkeley CA, but the hippies couldn't spell it right and wound up somewhere else - Boston.

It started as the Berklee Institute of Transcendental Meditation, Sloth, and Idleness. But they decided to teach something easier to boost enrollment.