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Post by PistolPete on Jul 5, 2021 15:11:35 GMT
Go on, use this thread to share something interesting, unexpected or just downright geeky about a piece of music or a recording.
One of my favourite little-known music facts is that the cowbell on Booker T. & The MGs "Soul Limbo" (much imitated on flasks at cricket matches owing to its use as the Test Match Special music) was actually played by a pre-fame Isaac Hayes
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Post by oustudent on Jul 5, 2021 15:24:45 GMT
The female vocalist on Pink Floyd The Great Gig in the Sky got paid £30.00, I think she later claimed more and won
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Post by PistolPete on Jul 5, 2021 16:41:46 GMT
The female vocalist on Pink Floyd The Great Gig in the Sky got paid £30.00, I think she later claimed more and won Clare Torry j Coincidentally I'm just working through the audiobook of David Hepworth's history of the LP A Fabulous Creation and that story is mentioned
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Post by Akquarius on Jul 5, 2021 17:16:34 GMT
a few guys of Linda Ronstadt's band reformed later and are now well known as the Eagles.
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Post by papadon on Jul 9, 2021 15:00:53 GMT
There is no money above the 5th. fret.
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Post by ocarolan on Jul 9, 2021 17:51:19 GMT
Something of a paraphrase, as I have seen this reported several times, always in slightly different words, but -
After playing a solo guitar piece at a small gig, Chet Atkins was complimented by an audience member - "That old guitar sounds great!" Chet rportedly then put the guitar on a stand and replied, "Don't sound too good now, huh?"
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Post by Martin on Jul 9, 2021 18:40:28 GMT
The sax solo on Baker Street was performed by Bob Hoskins, who was in Ghostbusters.
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Post by lavaman on Jul 9, 2021 23:24:58 GMT
Mannfred Mann's Mike d'Abo wrote Cadbury's jingle "a finger of fudge"
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Post by dreadnought28 on Jul 10, 2021 1:23:38 GMT
The percussion on Everyday was provided by Jerry Allison slapping his thighs.
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Post by dreadnought28 on Jul 10, 2021 1:24:49 GMT
The sax player playing real good for free was Lol Coxhill.
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Post by Gregg Hermetech on Jul 10, 2021 10:02:40 GMT
If you plot the open guitar strings on the Note Circle you get a pentagram. This guitar kills demons.
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Post by bellyshere on Jul 12, 2021 12:56:40 GMT
Leo Fender couldn’t play the guitar.
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Post by andyhowell on Jul 12, 2021 14:28:42 GMT
Leo Fender couldn’t play the guitar. He was clearly ahead of his time. He'd have done OK ith heavy metal.
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Post by leoroberts on Jul 12, 2021 16:00:51 GMT
I was going to write something banal like "There are 7 notes in an octave" in what I hoped would be accepted as a jovial manner but I thought I'd just check before I posted and now I understand music even less than I did half an hour ago. For example: andrewgdotcom.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/how-many-notes-in-an-octave/So I'm going to stick to songs with 3 chords and occasional rhymes. You lot carry on
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Post by bellyshere on Jul 12, 2021 20:16:13 GMT
Barry Manilow didn’t write the song “I write the songs”.
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