Let's spread some musical misinformation

[Leigh Semmens]

You leave my G string out of it!

 

[-Asdfgh-]

On expensive pianos like Steinway the black keys are painted on

If you want to play the blues on the piano you have to repaint them. Keep that tin of green paint handy for when someone invents the greens.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

What utter BS. Everyone knows he was named for Dwight Eisenhower...duh!

That's actually Elton's real father. I mean, both went bald when relatively young.

 

[Chris cook]

You leave my G string out of it!

lol. :?D

 

[Chris cook]

You leave my G string out of it!

:?)
lol

 

[biguglyman]

Strippers originally wore E strings but they found the windings chafed.

 

[Drredplate]

Strippers originally wore E strings but they found the windings chafed.

This is why flat wound strings were invented

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Strippers originally wore E strings but they found the windings chafed.

Then when acoustic guitars moved from gut strings in WW2 (people needed lots of guts for all the fighting so there was a shortage for instruments) they wanted nylons

Oh, and no silks on bass strings in WW2 as that was needed for parachutes.

 

[PDW30]

Then when acoustic guitars moved from gut strings in WW2 (people needed lots of guts for all the fighting so there was a shortage for instruments) they wanted nylons

Oh, and no silks on bass strings in WW2 as that was needed for parachutes.

All of which explains why although Leo Fender invented the electric bass guitar in 1941 the US government suppressed it until the necessary materials were no longer needed for the war effort.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

All of which explains why although Leo Fender invented the electric bass guitar in 1941 the US government suppressed it until the necessary materials were no longer needed for the war effort.

It's not commonly known, but given Fender's of old car paint, his first attempts at guitars 1948-53 were offered in either olive drab or battleship grey. The latter had the advantage that your boat anchor Precision could actually be used as one without danger of collecting any barnacles. Any sunburst or other colour instruments offered for sale from those years are refinished.

Gold top Les Pauls are all illegal as they were how the 1957 Fort Knox robbery gold was laundered

 

[Chris cook]

There are no bassholes on this site

Strippers originally wore E strings but they found the windings chafed.

lol

 

[fokof]

The TV series "Glee" has been named that way because it was written by Geddy LEE

 

[dougjwray]

You can eliminate single coil hum by using a two-prong adapter on your amp's power cord. This works especially well on big stages when you're standing in a bucket of water.

 

[dougjwray]

The great disco/R&B band led by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards was originally named "Chick." At an early gig at the Anchorage, Alaska Holiday Inn lounge, it was misspelled on the marquee, but Nile and Bernard thought that was funny, so they kept it.

 

[dougjwray]

The ancient Romans used to count off songs like this: "I, II, I, II, III, IV!!"

 

[pklima]

Pronounced "Ee, eee, ee, eee, eeee, eev!"

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Pronounced "Ee, eee, ee, eee, eeee, eev!"

In Scotland it's counted off "och, aye, och, aye, the, noo"

 

[-Asdfgh-]

The great disco/R&B band led by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards was originally named "Chick." At an early gig at the Anchorage, Alaska Holiday Inn lounge, it was misspelled on the marquee, but Nile and Bernard thought that was funny, so they kept it.

It's like ELP. It was originally to be called HELP and be a Beatles cover band but the H fell off the outside of the venue and dropped on Hendrix and knocked him out. Faced with no guitarist they had to improvise a set based on stuff Keith Emerson knew from The Nice. The stuff about Hendrix choking to death was caused by him passing out weeks later due to the injury he sustained. That then required that ELP remain a three piece covering old Nice tunes and stuff by Copland et al.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Most pickups are made with wires and magnets but lipstick pickups really do contain lipstick, which is handy if you need some.

 

[-Asdfgh-]

Don't be fooled, though, never try to insert a pop tart into the bridge pickup of your Rickenbacker as it won't toast it. You can tuck one down the back of your Ampeg head for a tasty snack during that long Neil Peart-style drum solo, though.