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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:20 am
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I thought I would start a thread, on little known facts. Share you're snippets of wisdom with the guys and gals here :D

I'll kick off..... Did you know Dave Gilmour recorded the solo on Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 with a Gibson Les Paul Goldtop? I didn't :oops: (no laughing at the back) Anymore folks?


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'Am in. Good thread.

"Even though The Ventures' Nokie Edwards was not a small man and had fairly big (albeit incredibly talented) hands, he fell in love with the super-skinny-shallow neck of Semie Mosley's Mosrite Mk I guitar in '64-65."


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The only one I can think of ist that Jimmy Page apparently used a Tele for the majority of the early Led Zeppelin recordings. Hendrix also recorded songs such as Hey Joe and Wind Cries Mary with a Tele.

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--After the death of Jim Morrison, the remaining Doors had some rehearsals with Iggy Pop (from Iggy & the Stooges) who they were thought might be a good replacement.

--Blue Cheer was one of the very first, if not the very first, band to use a wall of Marshall stacks as a backdrop on stage.

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Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining

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Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks. That is 14 years.

Not half bad.


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The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 100,000 pounds of jelly beans a day. this amounts to about 1,250,000 jelly beans an hour

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"Mosquitoes, which mate in the air, perform a sex act that lasts only 2 seconds."

Talk about a two-pump-chump


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dgonz wrote:
"Mosquitoes, which mate in the air, perform a sex act that lasts only 2 seconds."

Talk about a two-pump-chump


I hope my wife doesn't read that - she'll be jelous!

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dgonz wrote:
"Mosquitoes, which mate in the air, perform a sex act that lasts only 2 seconds."

Talk about a two-pump-chump

I wonder how long it takes them to finish the cigarette.

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Kerry King used to believe that Dave Mustang was one of the best guitarist. He was asked to join Megadeth after forming Slayer and was a member of Megadeth for a short time, where he learned a lot from Dave Mustang. During his time in Megadeth, he grew to dislike Dave. He left Megadeth to re-form Slayer because of his fueds with Mustang. Kerry still dislikes him to this day.

King met drummer Dave Lombardo when the drummer delivered a pizza to Kings house.

Drummer Keith Moon of The Who said Jimmy Page's "New Yardbirds" would go over like a "Lead Zeppelin". Jimmy's yet unnamed band released their first album "Led Zeppelin" and the band ended up adopting it later as their band name.

Guitarist Les Paul constructed the first solid body guitar using a railroad tie

Leo Fenders early tube pre-amp design for Fender amps was almost an exact replica of the radio circuits he built while working for a major tube radio company...he stole the circuit design

Mesa/Boogie owner started as a repair and modification guy for Fender amps. He modified a fender amp to get more gain and let Carlos Santana try one out. Santana responded by saying "this little amp really boogies".

In the 1970's Gibson, getting tired of losing business to companies making copies of Gibson guitars, began a legal campaign to stop this from occuring. They were unsuccessful is their pursuits in claiming the body style of the popular Les Paul model was theirs, as many companies over the years had used the single cut-away design. However, they were finally successful in suing Ibanez because of the headstock design, specifically the open book/mustache at the top of the headstock. This occurred around 1977 and subsequently Ibanez, as well as many other clone guitar companies, changed the headstock design. Ibanez ultimately decided to start building their own designs because of this and eventually got out of the clone guitar business.

disclaimer: These are based on my memory of these events, so I don't claim these stories are completely accurate...correct if you feel the need

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Albatross the fleetwood mac hit was recorded using a strat, not greenies les paul, which he later sold to gary moore.

Gary moore recorded the solo for parisienne walkways using a cheap as chips rubbish ibanez that was just hanging around the studio.

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Don't know for sure whether it's true or not but I was once told that Pete Townsend invented the 8/12 cab. The roadies complained it was too heavy and bulky, so they cut it in half and it became the two 4/12 stack.


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In the Rolling Stone review of Deep Purple's Machine Head album, the author liked the metallic-looking cover because "this is real heavy-metal music." This was the first use of this term.

Another Rolling Stone review of a Queen album referred to the group as "the old cutting crew." An 80s band looking for a name liked that, and named themselves the Cutting Crew.

A progressive blues-rock band in the late 60s found itself unable to get a repeat gig in any of the clubs in London. The obvious answer: Change the band's name every week! Thus, they went through such names as Navy Blue, Ian Henderson's Bag O' Blues, and the John Evan Smash. One week, they named themselves after the author of an 18th-century botanical manual owned by a friend. That weekend, they were invited back for a second engagement at the same club, and they decided to stick with that name: Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson, Tull's frontman, has always hated the name.

In other Jethro Tull trivia news, the band's first single, "Aeroplane," was erroneously attributed to "Jethro Toe" on the label.

The pop group Heaven 17 named itself after a fictitious group in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange.

The group Toad the Wet Sprocket was named after a Monty Python music-review sketch in which Eric Idle deliberately made up the stupidest possible band names. When he happened to hear an actual song by Toad the Wet Sprocket on his car radio several years later, he nearly had a wreck!

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i love this thread!!


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