Things you were shockingly old when you learned

You've always been like this!?

I also called up when an announcer played something off dubnobasswithmyheadman and said "Nothing to do with the group that had a #1 single with Underneath The Radar! Completely different band."

Lol, GD.

there are no hummingbirds in europe or uk

I was quite delighted when after living in Vancouver for a year or so - having lived in Scotland all my life - I spotted a hummingbird out my window while doing the dishes. my ex-wife was very amused at how delighted I was as she'd seen them hundreds of times

we just minutes ago had our second visitor of the season. they don't always sing, but when they do around here, it is a very very high-pitched, non-directional trilling combined with the wing buzzing and it is _magical sounding_. it sounds very much like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROT6cM3wY0E
at seconds 0-20. that is how i even knew to look at the feeder this evening-- i heard the sound in the house.

if you go into a field with multiple hummingbirds sounding it is wonderful. because they are so very very tiny it just looking for needles in a haystack.

John McLaughlin taught Jimmy Page as a teenager.

Dr Dre has never written lyrics

Well, I feel like this is my new entry for this thread. Like, that's something I should have known, right?

It's possible he wrote some of his lines circa 1984 when they were things like

I'm the physician who's gonna start dishin'
All them things that you've been missin'
If it's for answers that you have been fishin'
Take a bite of this for your nutrition
I'm the real doctor, that is final
All you other suckers are made of vinyl

and

I'm Doctor Dre, that's who i am
Come with me and your body I'll exam
Don't try to fight it, you can't resist
I'll hypnotize you with just one kiss

there are no hummingbirds in europe or uk

This and Dr. Dre tbh.

Always Something There to Remind Me by Naked Eyes was a cover song

John McLaughlin taught Jimmy Page as a teenager.

― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Saturday, May 9, 2020 1:57 AM (sixteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Bathed in Lightning the biography that came out a couple of years ago was an interesting read.
turned up a lot of stuff i hadn't know about him before

sarahell is a 6th generation Californian!

"Funeral Blues" AKA "Stop all the clocks" by W.H. Auden was originally written as "a satiric poem of mourning for a political leader, written for the verse play The Ascent of F6, by Auden and Christopher Isherwood"

That Jerry Stiller was Ben Stiller's dad.

The once-popular saying "real men don't eat quiche" was originally meant satirically and was the title of a bestselling book.

Always struck me as odd - quiche lorraine is eggs, cheese, bacon and pastry, if it didn't have a French name it would be a greggs staple.

Yeah, it came to mind after having quiche for breakfast this morning and remarking that it was actually pretty hearty.

I am dimmer for having skimmed through this 'article':

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/14-manliest-foods-ever_n_55e5d720e4b0b7a9633a56d2

I remember that book. There was also a sequel called "Real Women Don't Pump Gas".

All these years later, I didn't realize it was satire!

That not only was Roman Polanski born in France and not Poland, but his birth name was Raymond Thierry Liebling.

ONly discovering on watching a bit of the 1970 Roberta Flack video I d/lded last week that it was an episode of Boboquivari. I'd only come across the title in relation to a nearly 1/2 hour performance by Tim Buckley and teh Starsailor band taht I wish would be released in full somewhere instead of being excerpted for My Fleeting House. It is a continuoyus performance with the horns picking up at the end of each song so it becomes more of a medley than a sequence of songs taht start and stop.
So hadn't realised it was a series of performances. Haven't found a list of what the individual ones are yet.
seems from what is popping up on the screen as text mid perfomrmance that somebody retransmitted at least this Roberta flack edition so wonder if there are any others being shown. Flack may have been more significant since her first Take lpjust got a 50th anniversary edition released. BUt great to hear shows like this still exist and can be reshown.

How to play pinch harmonics

How?

Always Something There to Remind Me by Naked Eyes was a cover song

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Saturday, May 9, 2020 9:58 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

naked eyes, though they're a British group, were only successful in North America (I never heard "always something there to remind me" by naked eyes until I moved to Canada)

isn't that where you play the string with partially your pick and partially your thumb

huh, I wasn't aware of that in guitar playing but ran across the violin equivalent back in the day, although it's not incredibly common in annotated music

just checked out the naked eyes song, I did not realise that quiet riot weren't the only group covering old UK pop hits for americans who hadn't heard them before, are there any more examples?

isn't that where you play the string with partially your pick and partially your thumb

Yeah, it turns out that i) they're just artificial harmonics but plucked with a pick instead of the ring finger and ii) it's all in the angle of the picking hand.

xp 'tainted love'

It took me 20+ years of casual playing to get good at them. Not great at them by any means but louder amplification helps with them too.

I finally got the chorus riff of "How the Gods Kill" to sound like Jon Christ and I giggled a little, ngl

xp nah, don't think that fits, original wasn't a hit in uk and Soft Cell version was

just checked out the naked eyes song, I did not realise that quiet riot weren't the only group covering old UK pop hits for americans who hadn't heard them before, are there any more examples?

Burt Bacharach & Hal David are Americans FYI

(well, David was, Bacharach is)

was surprised to learn that the Flamingos' "I Only Have Eyes For You" was originally a 1930s show tune

(xp) Yes, but the song was a no. 1 hit for Sandie Shaw in the 60s in the UK, and that's undoubtedly the version Naked Eyes would have been familiar with.

The fact that they were American wasn’t enough to make the song a top 40 hit in the US initially, unlike the UK, continental Europe and many Commonwealth nations, where it was a big hit in ‘64 and ‘65.

xp

and that's undoubtedly the version Naked Eyes would have been familiar with.

the Sandie Shaw version was #1 in Canada too! that's in America

I also didn't realise it was a Bacharach / David song

Yeah I only learned it myself sometime over the last couple years. Probably as documented itt.

his birthday today btw

burt's

just checked out the naked eyes song, I did not realise that quiet riot weren't the only group covering old UK pop hits for americans who hadn't heard them before, are there any more examples?

Joan Jett, with "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" and "Do You Wanna Touch Me"

I wonder whether Taco's version of "Puttin' on the Ritz" can be shoehorned into this conversation

xp knew about "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" of course, but big eek at bringing "Do You Wanna Touch Me" to a wider audience

I was today years old when I found out screwdriver handles are designed to put a wrench on it to help loosen tight screws. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/ITQuJPgwy5

— You Have One Job, Stay Indoors (@_youhadonejob1) May 12, 2020

:O

Holy shit

o_O

I've discovered the fittings on my screwdriver socket set work fine in my drill

dunno if this is a universal thing though

that tweet has a handful of comments saying that doing this could shatter the plastic handle, and that the thing to do is grip the wider part of the metal shaft, just below the handle...? though i'm not sure any screwdriver i own has that feature.