Let's spread some musical misinformation

[wallawallabob]

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

And the Agriculture department was required to offer classes on Hemp production.

 

[Jay2U]

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

Rumor has it that it actually started on another planet in another galaxy, far, far away.

 

[1bassleft]

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.

Because the Earth's poles flip, it's reckoned that people will stop talking about the unique tone of Hendrix's Strat around the year 202,022 AD.

Bob Dylan learned to play harmonica from Curly Howard.

Back in the late 60s USA, tambourines were wisely never considered for musical purposes. They were a type of frisbee that cashed in on the UFO craze at the time. Bob had saved all the money from his first three tours to buy one and support acts The Byrds and Manfred Mann's Earth Band would relax outside the VW Dormobile practising trick throws. Unfortunately, Manfred's coordination was poor and he tipped the catch into the campfire. Bob's anguished cry, "Hey, missed the tambourine, Mann" was misheard by fey Morris-dancing fans The Byrds who later wrote a syrupy ode to the jingle-jangle that so irritates all right-thinking musicians.

 

[1bassleft]

Because the Earth's poles flip, it's reckoned that people will stop talking about the unique tone of Hendrix's Strat around the year 202,022 AD.

To comply with misinformation rules, I should replace "people" with "guitarists". Because we all know guitarists won't have stopped talking about Hendrix's tone by as early as 202,022 AD.

 

[PillO]

Tone wood makes all the difference.

 

[PDW30]

Tone wood makes all the difference.

But he was never as good a musician as his brother Roy.

 

[PillO]

Tony Toni Tone was on a double bill with Ronnie Wood's side project Wood Would Woot

 

[PDW30]

Tony Toni Tone was on a double bill with Ronnie Wood's side project Wood Would Woot

And there was a special appearance from Edward Woodward.

 

[PDW30]

A man has been arrested on Mauritius after prowling near one of the island's protected giant tortoises. He was later identified as a bass guitar player when he start drooling and muttering 'pickguard'.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

And there was a special appearance from Edward Woodward.

Yes, Edward Woodward would with Wood Would Woot. But only under his pseudonym Peter Piper.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Yes, Edward Woodward would with Wood Would Woot. But only under his pseudonym Peter Piper.

Would've, I suppose. Peter piped...

 

[1bassleft]

In a multiple choice Best Albums of All Time poll, Peter Piper picked (a) Sergeant Pepper's

 

[PillO]

In a multiple choice Best Albums of All Time poll, Peter Piper picked (a) Sergeant Pepper's

Sgt. Pepper eventually retired from the army and chose to attend medical school. He then became known as Dr. Pepper. The soft drink however, was not named for him, but rather for his brother who pursued a PhD in chemistry and developed the drink.

 

[Jay2U]

Sgt. Pepper eventually retired from the army and chose to attend medical school. He then became known as Dr. Pepper. The soft drink however, was not named for him, but rather for his brother who pursued a PhD in chemistry and developed the drink.

They have a sister, but her activities aren't regarded appropriate for TalkBassists.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

'Dr. Hook' was originally a band patterned on 'Johnny Kidd and the Pirates', but with a J. M. Barrie twist as 'Captain Hook'. The stage show included alligators rather crocodiles, being more easily available in the USA, or at least until one ate the first drummer. The alligators were dropped (from the show and literally, into a swamp) and the name changed to 'Dr. Hook' to allow repeat bookings.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Everyone remembers the erroneous 'Jethro Toe' pressing of Ian Anderson's band's first single, but little is talked about the scurrilous first pressings labelled 'Jethro Dull' of the album 'A'. Very rare, very collectible.

It is rumoured that any last tour is to be called 'Deathroes Tull'.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

And the Agriculture department was required to offer classes on Hemp production.

Ah yes 'grow your own guitar'.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Rumor has it that it actually started on another planet in another galaxy, far, far away.

Is that the same one Robert Fripp is from?

 

[Jay2U]

Is that the same one Robert Fripp is from?

No, that's on the other side of the universe.

 

[PillO]

Everyone remembers the erroneous 'Jethro Toe' pressing of Ian Anderson's band's first single, but little is talked about the scurrilous first pressings labelled 'Jethro Dull' of the album 'A'. Very rare, very collectible.

It is rumoured that any last tour is to be called 'Deathroes Tull'.

Jethro Tull of course was named for the famous agronomist Joseph Fleury, inventor of the ploughman's lunch.