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How many bluegrass musicians does it take to change a light bulb?

by cringeyjokesman February 28, 2023, 9:01 pm

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TIL A musician’s 50lb contrabassoon in its case worth $36,000 disappeared from a hallway in 2016. It mysteriously reappeared in 2022 after a young man phoned, saying he found the instrument in a snowbank in perfect condition. However it now belongs to an insurance company rather than original owner

by whatilearned February 20, 2023, 10:03 am

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TIL In 1964, the iconic worldwide hit “Downtown” was being written in a bathroom while 40 musicians (including a 20-year-old Jimmy Page) were waiting in the studio with Petula Clark to record it. The needed only the second of three takes to finalize it..

by whatilearned January 24, 2023, 3:30 am

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TIL parasocial relationships are one-sided relationships that person has with a celebrity such actors musicians, and social media influencers. Relationships range from mild- entertainment to pathological obsessive.

by whatilearned January 16, 2023, 3:59 am

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In 1930s, Music Defense League launched a campaign against recorded sound in movie and live theaters, claiming that numerous musicians would lose their jobs if “canned music” was preferred over live recordings.

by HistoryBuff January 2, 2023, 8:33 am

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TIL The “Semolina Pilchard” mentioned in “I Am the Walrus” is a reference to Scotland Yard drug squad detective Norman “Nobby” Pilcher, who led a midnight drug raid on John Lennon’s London flat in October 1968. He’d targeted musicians Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Eric Clapton and Donovan prior to that.

by whatilearned December 28, 2022, 10:48 pm

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TIL Western music traveled to China in the 80s through these cracked cassette tapes. Once discarded as trash, and shipped to China’s black market from abroad, they were purposefully destroyed by labels to prevent resales. And these tapes influenced a generation of musicians in China.

by whatilearned December 13, 2022, 10:14 am

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TIL three of the child actors who played the Artful Dodger in the stage musical Oliver! in the 1960s went on to become famous rock musicians: Steve Marriott (Small Faces and Humble Pie), Davey Jones (The Monkees), and Phil Collins (Genesis and solo).

by whatilearned December 10, 2022, 12:41 am

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Music lovers of reddit, who do you think is the best of the best musicians of all the human history?

by QuestionGuy December 3, 2022, 2:12 pm

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TIL one of the world’s most-played musicians is Minoru Mukaiya, who wrote unique jingles for over 110 train stations across Japan.

by whatilearned November 12, 2022, 5:39 am

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What famous musicians can’t play their instruments?

by QuestionGuy November 9, 2022, 5:30 pm

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We still talk about Motzart, Bach, etc. What modern musicians will people still be talking about in 200 years?

by QuestionGuy October 26, 2022, 10:36 pm

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